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

The U.S. will soon have two carrier strike groups in the region as Washington steps up its pressure on Tehran.

The U.S. is increasing its military presence in the Middle East as a war of words between Iran and President Donald Trump ...

Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip is expanding to seize “large areas,” the defense minister said, while officials at hospitals ...

President Trump said Monday that he will travel to the Middle East in the coming weeks for what is slated to be the first ...

President Trump said Monday that he will travel to the Middle East for the first overseas trip of his second term.

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, meanwhile, report finding it harder to find food amid bakery closures. Israel says enough ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that he is “changing the face of the Middle East.” It is, he says, “a war of ...

French President Emmanuel Macron wants to leverage close historic French-Egyptian ties to work towards a ceasefire in the ...

Ortagus will demand that Lebanese authorities establish a schedule for Hezbollah’s disarmament, push for talks between Israel and Lebanon.

Iran has rejected direct negotiations with the U.S. over its nuclear program and bolstered its military readiness following ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spoken with U.S. President Donald Trump about his new tariff policy, two senior ...