Middle East

Israel is in serious trouble. Its citizens are deeply divided, and this situation is unlikely to improve. It is bogged down in an unwinnable war in Gaza, its military is...

OMAHA, Nebraska—The U.S. government needs to be quicker about rolling out new integrated deterrence efforts, the Pentagon’s top military officer says, as global tensions have risen since the Biden administration...

A fresh round of cease-fire talks among the United States, Israel and Middle East mediators began on Thursday afternoon, as Gaza’s health authority said the number of people killed in...

With the Middle East on the brink of full-scale war, the international community, led by the United States and its allies, faces a critical choice in addressing the conflict in...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is reportedly postponing a high-stakes trip to the Middle East amid “uncertainty” as Iran considers launching an attack against Israel.  Blinken, 62, had been slated...

The U.S. has approved $20 billion in arms sales to Israel, including scores of fighter jets and advanced air-to-air missiles, the State Department announced Tuesday, two days before scheduled cease-fire...

The U.S. State Department said it is eyeing measures to clamp down on Iran’s oil exports amid rising worries about Tehran’s vow to take revenge against Israel for the killing...

Dispatch from occupied Kursk, Russia: “On Monday, about a dozen Ukrainian soldiers, their faces covered with surgical masks, were grunting and cursing as they pulled dead Russian soldiers from a...

Fears are growing of an imminent Iranian attack on Israel in retaliation for the assassination of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran late last month. In a joint statement...

Daniel Kochis is a senior fellow at the Center on Europe and Eurasia at Hudson Institute. Last week, while Secretary of Russia’s Security Council and former Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu...