After the Hamas-led attack on Israel in 2023, Israel cut off most economic ties with the West Bank. Permits for Palestinians ...

Ongoing conflict, particularly in a three-month period in late 2024, caused widespread environmental destruction and the ...

The brother and uncle of Syrian tyrants, he commanded a unit that killed up to 40,000 civilians in a 1982 uprising against ...

Terrorist activity across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East in 2025 underscored the persistence and geographic expansion of jihadist violence beyond Western countries. Despite sustained ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Sunday that the U.S.’s recent action in Venezuela was not similar to American actions in the Middle East, despite some recent comparisons. “I still think that a lot ...

“In the Middle East,” the Israeli general and politician Ehud Barak once said, “a pessimist is simply an optimist with experience.” Barak would know. He was Israel’s prime minister in 2000, a year ...

For more than a decade, war has ravaged the Middle East. From Syria to Lebanon, Israel to Gaza, hundreds of thousands have been killed or wounded. After so much bloodletting, the region now stands at ...

Christmas started in Bethlehem more than 2,000 years ago, and now the celebration is bringing some much-needed holiday cheer right where it was born. After years in which the horrors of the war in ...

Shut down the Middle Eastern studies departments in our universities. I was a student in one of these programs, and I say it plainly: shut them down. A majority are corrupted and compromised. Through ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Dec. 19 (UPI) --The conflict-ridden Middle East will stand at a critical juncture in 2026 after power shifts and unresolved wars, teetering between an uneasy status quo, the risk of ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A few months after the attack on Pearl Harbor thrust the United ...

Students at Columbia University have little access to academic expertise on the Middle East that does not come from an “explicitly anti-Zionist” perspective, the school’s antisemitism task force found ...