I once asked a man who had worked in Saddam Hussein’s palace whether he had ever heard him swear. “No, he did not have a habit of swearing. He would fall silent when he became angry, but sparks would ...

The Egyptian head of a network of interfaith centers relates how early Arab Christians taught him to engage Islam.

Analysis of the 12-day Israel-Iran war, its impact on Iran's strategic choices, and the future of regional security.

Trump has overseen nearly as many US airstrikes (529) as were recorded across the entire four years of the previous ...

While they are impossible to measure, emotions such as liking or hatred, admiration or contempt—the quotidian stuff of human ...

For much of the modern era, the Middle East has occupied centre stage in global geopolitics, owing to its strategic geography ...

Donald Trump has overseen nearly as many air strikes in the first five months of his second term as Joe Biden launched in his ...

The region has been paying a horrifying price for its conflict with Israel for the past half century. We were told that Israel was a fragile polity propped up more by foreign support with limited ...

Exercise Talisman Sabre 2025, a massive military drill involving over 40,000 personnel from 19 nations, concluded in ...

Following a U.S.-brokered ceasefire, experts say Iran’s missile program has suffered major damage — but thousands of short-range weapons and cyber tools remain in play.

Mere months into his second term, Trump’s airstrike tally is already just shy of the total his predecessor logged over his entire presidency.

In the wake of the recent conflict between Israel and Iran, the question of military strength in the Middle East has been at ...