DUBAI/MOSCOW, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Iran threatened on Saturday to block a corridor planned in the Caucasus under a regional deal ...

Weakened by war and diplomatic deadlock, Iran’s clerical elite stands at a crossroads: defy pressure to halt its nuclear ...

Two were seized after Israel and the United States attacked Iranian targets in June, and two others have been held since 2024 ...

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

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

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

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It is hard even to digest the incredible train of events of the last few days in the Middle East. Iran was reduced to an anemic, performance-art missile attack on our base in Qatar — the last ...

President Trump’s decision to strike Iran’s main nuclear facilities – and the beating Tehran took during its 12-day war with Israel – open the door to fundamental changes in the Middle East.

In the Middle East, however, the United States has had to intervene repeatedly in internal and regional conflicts that undercut stability and containment—even after the Soviet Union passed from the ...

Nevertheless, with Iran defanged, and the benefits of ties with Israel and the U.S. looking increasingly attractive to moderate Arab countries, peace and prosperity in the Middle East appears close… ...

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.