vii, 186 pages : 25 cm With this major revision of his classic The Middle East and the West (1964), a leading Middle East historian of our time offers a definitive and now more-timely-than-ever ...

Set in London’s East End in 1880, “Peaky Blinders” creator Steven ... an alternative origin story for the web-slinger and opens with 15-year-old Peter (Hudson Thames reprising his role from “What If…?

Opinion The Iran strike shows we don’t need bases in the Middle East Our massive gulf footprint is more liability than asset.

The normally risk-averse Israeli leader struck Iran without the promise of U.S. aid but with a shrewd sense of Trump’s likely reaction.

Only Washington and Beijing have the global clout to achieve a bold package deal, cleansing the Middle East of terrorism, securing the release of the hostages, and ending the Israel-Iran showdown.

President: Joseph Aoun. One of the Middle East’s democracies, Lebanon is economically poor and militarily weak, and has a higher number of refugees per capita than any country in the world.

After weeks of armed conflict between Israel and Iran, and in the aftermath of America’s direct attack on Iran’s nuclear weapons program, a fragile ceasefire appears to be taking hold. US President ...

On What Really Matters, Walter Russell Mead discusses why China, Russia, and North Korea haven’t come to Iran’s aid; what Zohran Mamdani’s primary victory in New York could mean for national politics; ...

America, obliged to support Israel even if it did not fight alongside it, would find that the Middle East sucked in military resources and political focus that it wanted to direct towards Asia.

Iran launched missiles at a U.S. military base in Qatar on Monday, threatening to stoke a wider conflict in the Middle East, a region that supplies the world with about a third of the oil used ...

As wars rage from Gaza to Iran, European diplomats are struggling to get heard.

Escalating tensions between Iran and Israel have reignited concerns about global energy and input flows through the Middle East, placing renewed geopolitical stress on one of the world’s most ...