The Pentagon says the U.S. military remains "well postured" to defend Israel and American forces in the region.

Former Iranian president Hassan Rouhani criticized his government's Middle East strategy on Thursday in comments published by ...

If Israel lacks the demographic weight to impose its own hegemonic order on the Middle East, it has instead constructed a ...

Iranian police arrested as many as 21,000 "suspects" during the country's 12-day war with Israel in June, a law enforcement ...

HASAN T. ALHASAN is Senior Fellow for Middle East Policy at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. EMILE HOKAYEM ...

"Strengthening air defense capabilities is clearly an urgent priority for Iran at the moment," expert Hongda Fan told Newsweek.

The wave of drones and missiles that flew towards Israel overnight on Sunday brought with it a new phase of tension, uncertainty and confrontation in the Middle East. Iran launched the ...

UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT Since the collapse of ISIS, Iran has been the Middle East’s primary generator of regional instability. Its proxy groups have unleashed attacks on Israel, U.S. forces, Arab Gulf ...

Hezbollah and Iran have emerged bruised from separate conflicts with Israel in November and June, respectively. Now, Beirut’s ...

Dan Perry led Associated Press coverage in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, including the Israel and Iran bureaus. He publishes Ask Questions Later on Substack.

Yet, despite these strategic imperatives, China continues to pursue a deliberately ambivalent and multidimensional approach ...

By the 1990s, Israeli intelligence was growing increasingly concerned that Iran was escalating and trying to develop a nuclear bomb—a red line for Israel, the only nuclear power in the Middle East.