The head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed in Iraq in an operation by members of the Iraqi national ...

Iran faces a critical juncture where decision-makers must weigh the economic distress from sanctions against potential ...

Fourteen years after Syria's civil war began, the nation's new Islamist government faces sectarian conflict on four fronts.

The American disaster in Vietnam was supposed to have put to rest the folly of US military interventions to shore up tottering regimes abroad. The ...

Ever since its revolution in 1979, Iran has cultivated a network of proxies and friends throughout the Middle East. For years ...

Syria saw its worst violence since the end of the dictatorship — along with significant social media disinformation. AI fakes and manipulated historical images online inflamed the real-life fighting.

Israel's war on Gaza and the fall of Assad have rattled the region, but as history shows, there is often more continuity than ...

Trump wrote to Iran's Supreme Leader in an attempt to jump-start talks over Tehran's rapidly advancing nuclear program.

Iraq is exploring alternatives to Iranian gas imports, including options in the Gulf, a government official said, as it seeks ...

Assad’s brutal regime was ousted on Dec. 8. But a Turkish-dominated Syria unsettles some of Ankara’s rivals in the Middle East ...

Iran is using their Fajr-5 Multiple Launch Rocket System to place naval mines in the Persian Gulf. This mine deployment has only been tested during naval exercises. If used in an actual conflict the ...

The past week has seen horrific images going viral online of the 6th country on General Wesley Clarke’s memo, Syria, ...