Tensions are rising in the Middle East. Iranians take part in a protest against the killing of Ismail Haniyeh, the political head of Hamas, in Palestine Square in Tehran, on July 31, 2024.

A pair of Japan-based U.S. destroyers has been operating in the Indian Ocean over the past month, as the Pentagon is enhancing its military presence in the nearby Middle East. A spokesperson for ...

It looks like the Israelis feel now is the opportunity to continue to take as much capability and leadership off the table as possible, remaking the Middle East map. So whether or not there's ...

Will Syria be different? If you have a mental map of the Middle East, rip it up. The overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria by a coalition of Islamist fighters changes everything.

They carved up the Middle East map with the stroke of a pen, and we have lived with the consequences ever since. The San Remo Conference in 1920 codified colonial interests out of the remains of ...

In September 2023, the Israeli prime minister presented a map titled “The New Middle East”, which seemed to erase Palestine by incorporating the West Bank and Gaza as part of Israel.