Middle East

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in Saudi Arabia on Monday, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy traveled to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) late Sunday, both against the backdrop...

The United States and Israel are aligned on how to handle the situation in the Gaza Strip, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday as U.S. President Donald Trump’s chief...

Hamas is due to release three more Israeli hostages on Saturday in exchange for more than 360 Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli prisons, as an impasse over the Gaza...

Brian Niccol, Starbucks’ CEO, said the coffee chain is eyeing a major expansion into the Middle East and Chinese markets. In a Friday interview with Bloomberg, Niccol said that the...

Washington — President Trump hosted Jordan’s King Abdullah II at the White House on Tuesday and renewed his suggestions that Gaza could be emptied of residents, controlled by the U.S....

Israel is withdrawing troops from the corridor that has cut northern Gaza from the southern part of the enclave as part of the cease-fire deal with Hamas, according to media...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to displace Palestinians from Gaza is illegal under international law and “amounts to ethnic cleansing,” the United Nations’ top investigator on human rights in Palestine...

National security adviser Mike Waltz said Wednesday that President Trump’s shocking announcement a day earlier that the United States should “take over” the Gaza Strip will push Israel’s Arab neighbors...

LONDON — Prime Minister Keir Starmer distanced the U.K. from U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to take over the Gaza Strip and turn it into the “the Riviera of the...

Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe.  U.S. President Donald Trump wants to take over Gaza and transform it into the “Riviera of the Middle East” where “the world’s...