DANA STROUL is Director of Research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and served as U.S. Deputy Assistant ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is establishing a new security corridor across the Gaza Strip to pressure Hamas.

Additionally, Hegseth has directed the USS Carl Vinson, currently operating in the Pacific, to begin transiting to the Middle East. This move will extend its deployment by approximately three months.

"This acquisition marks a continuation of Google’s brazen support for the Israeli apartheid system," a spokesperson told Middle East Eye. "Instead of heeding workers’ calls to divest ...

Beyond Israel and Iran, Trump has focused his interests outside the Middle East. At the same time, however, some of the recent shifts could usher in significant changes. The fall of the Assad ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Palestinians mourn over the bodies of their relatives killed by an Israeli airstrike in the Netzarim ...

Image: DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP/Getty Images Kurds in the Middle East have been in a state of limbo since Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, gave his ...

In a seemingly unprecedented fashion, the incoming administration deployed its negotiators, with Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff at the helm, to work alongside Biden's team in a move viewed by ...