Middle East

Mark T. Kimmitt is a retired U.S. Army brigadier general and has also served as the U.S. assistant secretary of state for political-military affairs. After six months of debate, the...

Israeli tanks entered the Gazan city of Rafah on Tuesday morning — despite months of warnings by allies and aid groups that a full-scale attack would be a humanitarian catastrophe....

Frances Robinson is a freelance journalist based in London. She writes a newsletter about children’s television called Square Eyes. You may have heard political advisers whispering, spotted some outlandish music...

Experts from the United Nations released a joint statement Monday condemning what they described as systemic violence against Palestinians in Gaza, mostly against women and children. The statement, co-written by...

A delegation of the militant group Hamas was in Cairo on Saturday in ongoing cease-fire talks with Israel, while an Israeli official downplayed the prospects for a full end to...

A delegation of the militant group Hamas was in Cairo on Saturday as Egyptian state media reported “noticeable progress” in ongoing cease-fire talks with Israel while an Israeli official downplayed...

The U.S. military is shifting its Iraq and Yemen airstrike operations out of the UAE and over to Qatar, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday. That means moving surveillance planes,...

Police forced out a pro-Palestinian group which staged an occupation overnight at Sciences Po in Paris, a top university known as a breeding ground for France’s political elite. The occupation...

The U.S. says Russia is using chemical weapons in Ukraine. The allegation was made public in February when Ukrainian officials flagged Russia’s use of the World War I-era chemical weapon...

The darling of France’s center-left, Raphaël Glucksmann, got a frosty reception at Wednesday’s May Day demonstrations. Glucksmann — the lead candidate of the French Socialists for the June EU election...