Middle East

U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets are being transferred to Ukraine today, State Secretary Antony Blinken announced Wednesday during NATO’s 75th annual summit hosted this year in Washington. Catch a livestream of...

The sudden death of conservative President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash in May has led to a surprising shift in Iran’s political landscape. Masoud Pezeshkian, a reformist, has been...

Johan Floderus and his now-fiancé Johnathan von Fürstenmühl kept their relationship under wraps during the time Floderus, a Swedish diplomat and European Union official, was imprisoned in Iran — in order to keep...

The tracking systems merchant vessels rely on to navigate their routes are the same ones Houthi groups use to target them. But turning off the systems isn’t a simple solution. ...

The U.S. Air Force is getting closer to realizing its vision of low-cost surveillance drones with an autonomous drone that can fly for more than three straight days. And it’s...

More than six months after the Houthi insurgent group in Yemen started seriously disrupting maritime traffic in the Red Sea, global shipping has had to come to terms with a...

Egypt is prime real estate in a bad neighborhood. On its eastern border, it has the Gaza war, and is struggling to contain the combat while dealing with popular opinion which...

Iran’s presidential election, scheduled for June 28, has effectively narrowed to a three-way contest among reformist Masoud Pezeshkian and the two leading conservative candidates, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Saeed Jalili....

The United Nations accused Israel of carrying out “systematic attacks” on hospitals as a British charity decried the killing of 500 health care workers since the war in Gaza began....

A high risk of famine persists in the whole Gaza Strip — home to over 2 million people — if Israel’s ongoing military offensive continues, according to an international early...