The only way to end the possibility that the Iranians will decide to go nuclear—which could set off a very unstable chain reaction of nuclear proliferation in the region, with Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and ...

The group sank just two ships in all of 2024, and none since last June. Now they have sunk two in less than a week. Yet the ...

China, unlike the U.S. with Israel, made no indication that it would step in to militarily assist its longtime friend Iran. Instead, the Asian nation, which has in recent years tried to position ...

The West no longer needs tanks or UN resolutions to demonise and dismantle nations in the name of 'global security' ...

But that is what happened in the middle of the night on June 23rd, the 12th day of a war between Israel and Iran. Donald ...

President Trump exerted “maximum pressure" to “deliver peace" between Israel and Iran after his historic and decisive strikes decimated the Islamic Republic’s nuclear facilities.

DANA STROUL is Director of Research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and served as U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East from February 2021 to February 2024.

U.S. intel agencies say Iran's nuclear program is in tatters. Israel killed 30 Iranian military commanders. But Iran's supreme leader has a different take on the 12-day war.

Following American airstrikes against Iranian nuclear facilities last week, and then the imposition of a ceasefire, it’s time to step back and assess what has changed in the Middle East, and the ...

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A video clip circulating on social media in recent months shows Syria’s new president, Ahmed al-Shara, astride a handsome ...

When they met on Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu basked in the glow of their triumph over Iran. But the show of unity masked a divergence over their ...