A recreational hunting trip in a remote desert area between Karbala and Najaf in southern Iraq ended, according to Iraqi security and intelligence sources, with the discovery of a foreign force ...

For decades, the Strait of Hormuz has been associated in the global imagination with oil — and with the recurring question of whether Iran could threaten energy flows through one of the world’s ...

The latest round of U.S. sanctions on Lebanon has gone beyond targeting politicians and financial networks linked to Hezbollah, reaching instead into the heart of the country’s official security ...

At home, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has cast himself as a leader determined to break with Islam. He has focused ...

The new Iraqi government of Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi is facing an early test in relations with Gulf states after Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates said they had come under drone attacks ...

The U.S. almost attacked Iran again on Tuesday. Details have emerged of a plan to install a virulently anti-American politician as leader of Iran when Israel and America attacked on Feb. 28. Read ...

The guns have largely fallen silent in Iran after the forty-day war, but the crackdown inside the country is only intensifying. Rights groups and activists say Iranian authorities have launched a ...

The Trump administration has moved beyond ideological debate in its approach to the Muslim Brotherhood, placing the issue at the center of its 2026 counterterrorism and national security strategy.

The fractures within Iraq’s Shiite-led Coordination Framework are beginning to spill into public view following the parliamentary vote on Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi’s government, in a development ...

Iraq’s parliament voted Thursday to approve the government of Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi, passing 14 ministries out of a proposed 23, with the remaining cabinet posts to be voted on at a later ...

President Donald Trump arrives in Beijing this week for the first state visit of his second term, without a ceasefire, a nuclear framework, or a Hormuz agreement in hand. He comes having just ...

Since the outbreak of military confrontation between the United States and Israel on one side and Iran on the other in late February, Gulf economies have faced mounting strain from turmoil in ...