He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...

Trump’s approach suggests that he believes maximum pressure can force adversaries to negotiate on terms favorable to the ...

Iraq’s National Security Agency says it has arrested a former high-level security official for his involvement in the 1980 ...

The Middle East needs U.S. foreign policy to address two key threats: a weakened but unpredictable Iran and the resurgence of Sunni extremism in Syria. As President Trump begins his second term, he ...

Many in Iraq fear that IS could take advantage of the security vacuum to stage a comeback while Syria’s new leaders are still ...

The fall of Bashar Assad in Syria has led Iran-allied factions in neighboring Iraq to reconsider their push for U.S. forces to exit the country, multiple Iraqi and American officials told The ...

NICOLE GRAJEWSKI is a Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and an Associate ...

The fall of Bashar Assad in Syria has led Iran-allied factions in neighboring Iraq to reconsider their push for U.S. forces ...

Amid historical changes in the balance of power in the Middle East, at least one thing remains constant: the strategic ...

The Islamic Republic is closer to a bomb than ever before, as our interview with the world’s nuclear watchdog explains. Since President Donald Trump in 2018 pulled America out of a multilateral ...

Friedman’s dreamscape for the Middle East makes no sense on any level.  Even former secretary of state Antony Blinken ...

In 2016, moments after speaking on a TV interview about the dangers of Taliban rule in Afghanistan, Zia Danesh's car was bombed on his way home. The explosion, a targeted suicide attack, killed his ...