Middle East

The Turkish air force hit Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) targets in northern Syria and Iraq late Wednesday night, its defense ministry announced, in retaliation for a deadly attack on the...

He died building a ship for the U.S. government. His family got nothing. ProPublica reports on the death of a shipbuilder at Thoma-Sea, among Louisiana’s largest shipyards. Elmer De León...

A growing number of Silicon Valley AI companies want to do business with the military, making the case that the time and effort they’ve put into training large neural networks...

Hezbollah launched a wave of rockets at Israel as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived Tuesday in Tel Aviv for his latest attempt to broker a cease-fire in Gaza....

Elisabeth Braw is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, the author of the award-winning “Goodbye Globalization” and a regular columnist for POLITICO. A nondescript suite of rooms in an office building...

A leak of two classified U.S. intelligence documents assessing Israel’s plans to attack Iran is being investigated by officials in Washington, according to several media reports. The documents, which are...

As G7 defense ministers held talks on Saturday amid rising tensions in the Middle East, a drone was launched toward Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s home in the northern Israeli town...

Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. In his final minutes, sitting slumped and wounded in a chair, Yahya Sinwar — the man who masterminded the worst mass slaughter...

BERLIN — U.S. President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz vowed to maintain support for Ukraine during a highly-symbolic meeting in Berlin on Friday as European leaders face the...

BRUSSELS — French President Emmanuel Macron accused his own ministers and journalists of “a lack of professionalism” for leaking controversial remarks he made about Israel at a closed-door Cabinet meeting....