Middle East

Trump selects TV personality for SecDef President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday evening that he intends to nominate Pete Hegseth, 44, to be defense secretary at the start of his second...

Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe.  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is hoping Iran’s ayatollahs will live to regret their murder-for-hire plots against United States President-elect Donald Trump. The...

Qatar has suspended its efforts as a mediator in negotiations for a cease-fire and hostage release between Israel and Hamas, the Qatari foreign ministry said late Saturday. The Gulf country...

“I’m not going to start wars, I’m going to stop wars,” Donald Trump pledged in his victory speech. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and his right-wing coalition partners, are hoping...

PARIS — European nations will have to make up for the United States’ potential disengagement from Europe’s security after NATO-skeptic Donald Trump’s election win — but the Continent’s capitals have already...

PARIS  —  French President Emmanuel Macron and United States President-elect Donald Trump discussed the war in Ukraine and the crisis in the Middle East in a call on Wednesday, the...

Keir Starmer was already finding life tough as a center-left leader in a world of populist anger. Now enter Donald Trump — Starmer’s worst nightmare writ large. The British prime...

BRUSSELS — We’ll survive.  That’s the general feeling among the European Union’s green businesses as they prepare for Donald Trump’s potential return to power — despite the former president vowing...

The Pentagon ordered more ships, fighter jets, and B-52 bombers to the Middle East this weekend, Press Secretary Air Force Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder announced Friday evening. The bombers arrived...

WASHINGTON — The United States is on the cusp of a historic presidential election that will shape world politics for years to come. More than 160 million voters are expected...