When your forearm muscles contract, the tendons pull the fingers into a fist. The tendons run through a thin tube called the flexor tendon sheath. This goes from the middle of the palm to the tip of ...

SINGAPORE - Developments in the Middle East have thrown up several hard lessons for Asian countries, including the point that the use of force to settle scores seems to be an acceptable course of ...

PITTSBURGH -- Scheduled to pitch one inning and then rest until the start of the postseason on Friday, Cardinals closer Ryan Helsley jammed the middle finger on his right hand following his fifth ...

Over several decades, the Middle East has experienced many large-scale, cross-border displacements for myriad reasons. The original forced displacement of Palestinians surrounding the creation of ...

WASHINGTON—As Israel prepares a retaliatory strike against Iran, the Biden administration increasingly resembles a spectator, with limited insight into what its closest Middle East ally is ...

The US has strengthened its military posture consistently in the Middle East over the last year following the breakout of the war between Israel and Hamas, with tensions increasing further ...

IRAN: A CAUTIOUS ADVERSARY Any wider Middle Eastern conflict is unlikely to resemble the grinding ground wars of past decades between opposing armies. Only two sovereign states, Israel and Iran ...

But quality journalism must still be paid for. The Middle East is “closer than ever before” to an all-out war after Iran’s ballistic missile attack on Israel, experts have said. Iran fired ...

With the war in Gaza still ongoing, fears of an all-out regional conflict in the Middle East remain high. How big a danger is this threat of further escalation? For BBC InDepth, we asked a range ...

But so far those efforts have failed - and the Middle East stands closer than ever to all-out war. Here’s how the last week played out. Friday evening: Nasrallah is assassinated. As the sun set ...