Middle East

BRUSSELS — As Volodymyr Zelenskyy walked into the NATO restaurant Thursday to dine with alliance boss Mark Rutte, there was one thing the Ukrainian president wouldn’t order: cold water. He...

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) likely killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar during a strike in Gaza, two Israeli officials told POLITICO on Thursday. Sinwar led Hamas operations in Gaza since...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — U.S. long-range B-2 stealth bombers launched airstrikes early Thursday morning targeting underground bunkers used by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, officials said. It wasn’t immediately clear what...

Defense giant Raytheon will pay the U.S government more than $950 million for defrauding the Pentagon and allegedly bribing a Qatari official, the Justice Department announced today.  RTX admitted to...

All things Army: The U.S. Army will expand its new-tech effort, cut some arms programs, and overhaul its acquisition approach, Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George said Tuesday at the...

Israeli forces grind on in Lebanon: Nearly two dozen people were killed and at least 130 others wounded in an overnight attack by Israeli forces in Beirut. According to Reuters,...

Gaza could be rebuilt “better than Monaco,” the Mediterranean haven for the super-rich, former U.S. President Donald Trump suggested Monday. The Republican presidential candidate made the comments in an interview...

CIA Director William Burns warned Monday of the potential for simmering clashes in the Middle East to spread across the region even as, he said, the U.S. intelligence community had...

More than 40,000 people have died in the fighting in the Middle East triggered by the Hamas-organized attack on Israel one year ago on Oct. 7. That conflict has since...

The war in Gaza is set to wrap up during the coming year and a new governing authority will be put in place to run the war-ravaged enclave, Israel’s ambassador...