The United States maintains a vast military presence in the Middle East, with forces in more than a dozen countries and on ships throughout the region's waters, and fears have been heightened after an ...

Area: 22,000 sq km. Population: 9.5m. Prime minister: Binyamin Netanyahu.

Iran-backed militias in Yemen injected themselves into the Gaza conflict early on, attacking international shipping in the Red Sea with drones and missiles in support of Palestinians in the strip.

A map of U.S. State Department travel warnings for the Middle East shows Americans being advised to steer clear of many of the region's countries or to show extra caution, with Iran and Israel at ...

In 2008, Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert urged the Palestinian leader to agree to a two-state solution. The map he drew has never been revealed to media - until now.

The U.S. Seventh Fleet's mission is to provide operational control and planning for its forces in the Pacific and Indian Oceans.

Uncredited/Associated Press If you have a mental map of the Middle East, rip it up. The overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria by a coalition of Islamist fighters changes everything.

Trump's Gulf tour sidelines Netanyahu, marks new Middle East order Netanyahu's stance on Gaza, US-Iran talks creates rift with US Massive arms and financial deals signal US pivot to wealthy Gulf ...

President Trump signed deals with Saudi Arabia and Qatar and reached out to Syria and Iran. But Palestinians got nothing, and Trump repeated his call for the U.S. to take over Gaza.

Mapped: Where Israel has fired missiles around the Middle East as IDF begin ground invasion in Lebanon More than a thousand people have been killed in Israeli strikes across Lebanon, Syria, Yemen ...

The US has, in turn, seized upon this warning by the Houthis to renew its assault on Yemen as part of a military escalation throughout the wider Middle East.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Yemen risks being dragged further into the military escalation in the Middle East that keeps intensifying and could spiral out of control, the U.N. special envoy for the ...