The Sunni rebels view Iran as their enemy and, of course, will not cooperate with it. As a result, the Shia crescent has been ...

Middle East Highlights: Israel’s Cease-Fire Deal With Hamas to Take Effect Sunday The truce will begin at 8:30 a.m., according to the Foreign Ministry of Qatar, a mediator in the talks. U.S. and ...

An Israeli army APC moves in the Gaza Strip as seen from southern Israel on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) ...

The push comes with a backdrop of seismic shifts in the Middle East that have seen ... power in Damascus were among the Sunni Muslim militants that entered Shia-majority Iraq from Syria after ...

TEL AVIV, Israel — The Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, which may now be drawing to a close, has dramatically reshaped much of the Middle East and is still delivering aftershocks. When Hamas launched ...

And President-elect Trump had warned that “all hell will break out in the Middle East” if Hamas does not release the hostages before he assumes office on Jan. 20. Qatari mediators worked on ...

Even before the ceasefire in Gaza Donald Trump had begun to reshape the Middle East. He was influential in ... as his ticket to a Nobel peace prize. Map: The Economist The agenda of right-wing ...

The push comes with a backdrop of seismic shifts in the Middle East that have seen Iran's armed allies in Gaza and Lebanon heavily degraded and Syria's government overthrown by rebels. The incoming ...

With an active American role, both might be achieved, in turn transforming the Middle East. President-elect Donald Trump will enter office with that outcome as a real possibility. But he also ...

We asked Scott Lucas, an expert in the Middle East conflict at University College Dublin, to explain the key issues that have led to the agreement and what it means for the future of the region.

While questions abound on what his foreign policy choices will be on key issues, he has made some remarkable statements on the Middle East, where Qatari, Egyptian ... Naturally, with Tehran and Riyadh ...