Middle East

Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s SitRep, where we’re taking a sip of coffee every time we write the phrase “escalating tensions.”  Since you last heard from us, Hezbollah leader Hassan...

Protestors threw a bag of tomatoes and red onions at Sweden’s foreign minister during a debate on Stockholm’s position on Israeli settlements in the West Bank on Thursday, local media...

As the first anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack and the ensuing Israel-Hamas war approaches, the prospects of peace between Israelis and Palestinians seem less likely than ever. Despite repeated...

Someday, probably later rather than sooner, Israel and Hamas will stop shooting at each other. Relieved U.S. officials could claim there is a cease-fire and the worst is behind us,...

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair called for Gaza to be governed by a third party as a means of ending the conflict there, while expressing support for Israel’s war...

In the year since Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack, Israel has gone from looking more vulnerable than it has for half a century—when it almost lost the 1973 Arab-Israeli War—to dramatically...

On May 1, 2003, U.S. President George W. Bush donned a cool-looking flight suit, climbed into an S-3 Viking aircraft, and landed aboard the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln. Standing beneath...

Shortly after U.S. officials predicted it publicly, Iran launched more than 200 ballistic missiles at Israel on Tuesday, with dozens flying over Jerusalem’s Old City, a holy site for Muslims,...

Israel declared the United Nations chief “undesirable” Wednesday, prohibiting him from entering the country. “I decided today to declare U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres an undesirable personality in Israel and to...

The Israeli assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah last week made a lot of Israelis happy—but probably no one quite as much as Benjamin Netanyahu. His joy marks a sudden...