Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza—and the assassinations, tanker wars, and drone attacks it has provoked throughout the broader Middle East—means the Gulf states are on edge. As the U.S. ...
Transformations in life—and in politics—are very rare. And yet there’s a persistent and perhaps understandable temptation to turn breathless headlines into potentially transformative trend lines. There’s no better example than ...
Israel has always had a thorny relationship with the United Nations. In recent weeks, it has become even thornier, after the U.N. accused Israeli armed forces of having fired on ...
Iran’s second strike on Israeli soil with a barrage of missiles on October 1 marked a significant escalation in the ongoing conflict between the two regional powers. After Israel’s assassination ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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