DANA STROUL is Director of Research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and served as U.S. Deputy Assistant ...

But backing Israel is expensive and Mr Trump hates spending lavishly to defend America’s allies. On top of $18bn in military ...

Additionally, Hegseth has directed the USS Carl Vinson, currently operating in the Pacific, to begin transiting to the Middle East. This move will extend its deployment by approximately three months.

The European Council has been following the situation in the Middle East very closely since Hamas' terrorist attacks against Israel of 7 October 2023. The European Council is deeply alarmed by the ...

Critics of the field have long alleged that it teaches students a one-sided history of the Middle East, flattening the region’s complexities into an overly simplistic story in which Israel is the ...

The Middle East faces deep economic crises, with high unemployment, inflation, debt, and food shortages exacerbated by conflict and poor governance. The World Bank warns the region lags behind, ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Palestinians mourn over the bodies of their relatives killed by an Israeli airstrike in the Netzarim ...

Syria plunges into renewed violence after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, with over 1,000 deaths in two days due to sectarian clashes. The insurgent leader Ahmad al-Sharaa's forces are accused of ...

If the primary goal of the Trump administration is to quickly address issues in the Middle East and prevent further wars and instability, placing additional pressure on Arab countries might ...

The Middle East has battled water insecurity for centuries. But today, recent foreign aid cuts, combined with terrorism designations, sanctions, and conflict-induced fragility, have put the region on ...

Steven Cook, the Eni Enrico Mattei Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies at CFR, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how the Israel-Hamas cease-fire over Gaza came together ...

A new order is emerging in the Middle East. For decades, Iran wielded influence across the region by cultivating a network of proxies that created instability in several Arab countries, from Lebanon ...