Middle East

The Trump Administration’s extraordinary security breach has elicited shock, amusement, and anger. An eyewitness in Yemen describes what happened when the bombs started to fall.

The Islamic Republic is weaker—on multiple fronts—than it’s been in nearly half a century.

In the wake of President Bashar al-Assad’s remarkable abdication of power, jubilation and fear collide as the country—and the region—faces an uncertain future.

“No Other Land” and “Union” are films that Hollywood and corporate America don’t want you to see.

“The impulse to be antiwar is a very understandable one,” the New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz says. “It does not cut easily within our political spectrum.”

How the war between Israel and Hamas has reshaped the region, and where the conflict goes from here.

The death of Hassan Nasrallah, who led Hezbollah for more than three decades, will be a political earthquake for the movement.

Millions of Palestinians live in Jordan, where rage about the suffering in Gaza has reached a boiling point. Can the country’s leaders, who have a long-standing peace agreement with Israel, keep things under control?

As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu oversees an increasingly fraught regional confrontation, the families of Hamas captives work to free their loved ones.

Strikes against weapons depots and operations centers in Iraq and Syria will not diminish Iran’s determination to expel the U.S. from the Middle East.

They started out as a family enterprise but have burgeoned into a movement with tens of thousands of fighters and become a formidable geopolitical force.

The U.S. is enmeshed in wars among disparate players in Israel, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen.

The war in Gaza has the feel of history sliding backward.

There’s a sense of history repeating itself along the border, where tens of thousands have been displaced and the civilian death toll is climbing.

As the war in Gaza escalates, so, too, has the forcible displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank. Is Israel’s approach to the two regions linked?

Visiting Israel, the President will express support for a traumatized nation, but he must also try to steer it from the blindness of rage.

It is not a simple matter for the Biden Administration to be, on the one hand, the backstop for Israel’s looming actions in Gaza and, on the other, a voice for strategic caution and the initiator of a diplomatic track.

One of the group’s senior political leaders explains its strategy.

October 7, 2023, will be a date etched in Jewish history.

King Abdullah allegedly imprisoned four of his daughters. After his death, the princesses’ supporters say, they disappeared.