By Vimal Patel Two of the leaders of Harvard University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the director and associate director, will be leaving their positions, according to two professors ...

The Middle East is rapidly becoming a focal point in the global artificial intelligence (AI) landscape. With ambitious national strategies, significant investments, and a growing tech-savvy ...

It has become a familiar refrain: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that he is “changing the face of the Middle East.” It is, he says, “a war of rebirth.” It is, in a sense ...

Some call it the end of the post-war order. Others, a grand realignment. Regardless of how it's defined, the Middle East faces a new paradigm: what happens when the US stops viewing Russia as a ...

(MENAFN- TRACCS) Dubai, UAE – 24 March 2025: Gulf Mercantile Exchange (GME), the leading international energy futures and commodities exchange in the Middle East, announced the first trade on ...

Israel launched an attack on the Lebanese capital Beirut on Friday for the first time since a ceasefire ended fighting between Israeli forces and the Hezbollah militant group in November.

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 ...

With the Middle East still in the throes of major upheaval over the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip, a dangerous rivalry is escalating between U.S. allies Israel and Turkey in Syria, where ...

Image: DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP/Getty Images Kurds in the Middle East have been in a state of limbo since Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, gave his ...

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 ...

March 28, 2025 • The Muslim holy month of Ramadan is coming to an end. It is a holiday marked with fasting during the day and feasts with family in the evening. In Gaza, the month began with the ...

Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, denied on Tuesday that he had ever worn a Make America Great Again hat ...