To those who know the Middle East, such thoughts make little sense. They are hogwash.

JAMES JEFFREY served as a Foreign Service Officer in seven U.S. administrations, including, during the first Trump ...

The people of Syria never forgot, either. We may never know how many hundreds of thousands of men, women and children died. The United Nations Human Rights Office estimated in June 2022 that the ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu likes to remind people that in the disorienting first days after Hamas’ Oct_ 7, ...

The conflict has expanded to southern Lebanon, reverberated in Yemen and Iraq, and reached Iran. The Future of the Middle East series seeks to explore these challenges through interviewing prominent ...

If you're looking to better understand the headlines and the centuries of context behind them these books are an excellent ...

Yet recent history offers only bitter lessons for Israeli leaders — and others — who entertain grand ambitions for tectonic changes in Lebanon, and in the Middle East in general.

As President Donald Trump tours the Middle East, the United States and Saudi Arabia signed a historic $142 billion arms deal that according to the White House was the largest defense sales ...