Middle East

BRUSSELS — Two conflicts will compete for the attention of EU leaders meeting for a summit this week. There is one — Ukraine — where they can make a difference,...

LONDON — David Cameron was resurrected from the British political wilderness to act as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s surrogate on foreign policy. But five months into the job, Cameron has...

‘We just want Johan back’ Johan Floderus, an EU diplomat, has spent two years in an Iranian prison. Authoritarian governments have learned they can trade Western humanitarian workers and journalists...

The U.S. Navy is nearly $1 billion in the hole after defending Israel from Iranian missiles last weekend and fighting off Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping since October, the...

Iran’s attack on Israel over the weekend—with more than 300 munitions, including ballistic missiles and drones, launched directly from Iranian soil—was unprecedented in many ways. What was not unprecedented was...

Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Long before the Iron Dome and David’s Sling, over several weeks in January 1991, Iraq launched 42 Scud missiles at Israel, primarily...

You don’t speak for Germany and Austria on Gaza! That was the message the two European countries’ leaders told the EU’s chief diplomat during a heated exchange on the Israel-Hamas...

The Israeli military’s chief of staff Herzi Halevi told troops on Monday that Israel “will respond” to Iran’s drone and missile attack as the threat of open warfare between the...

Iran’s decision to retaliate against an Israeli attack on its consulate in Damascus, Syria, by launching drone and missile strikes reveals just how badly the Biden administration has mishandled the...

If the United States and its allies can rush to Israel’s defense in the skies, shooting down dozens of drones and missiles fired by Iran, why can’t they do the...