Just hours after Islamist rebels ousted longtime Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in December, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood at edge of the occupied Golan Heights and looked out over ...

The ramped-up U.S. attacks against the Yemen-based Houthis are possible in part due to an extensive military footprint in the ...

"A confrontation, possibly even a small-scale military one, may occur between Israel and Turkey," one expert told Newsweek.

Sectarian-driven killings of civilians this month displayed the government’s weak control over both its own forces and ...

Her focus is reporting on politics and society in the Middle East. She has in depth knowledge ... Israel has pushed troops further into parts of southern Syria, citing the need to secure its ...

“There is a real danger that eventually that will kick in to create a spiral of escalation,” Charles Lister, a senior fellow and head of the Syria Initiative at the Middle East Institute in ...