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The Middle East’s top challenges in 2026

The collapse of Iran’s regional influence in 2025 has opened up a new spectrum of potential conflicts in Syria, Yemen, and ...
A decade after Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates led a joint military campaign to curb Iran’s influence in Yemen, the two allies now find themselves pitted against each other there.
The profitability of international aviation is being structurally weakened by forced rerouting, asset exposure and ...
The ongoing turmoil in the Middle East has highlighted the complexities of successful anti-money-laundering compliance in a conflict zone. U.S. banks need to step up their game in order to stay safe, ...
Protesters chant slogans as one of them holds up a poster of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a protest following the U.S. attacks on nuclear sites in Iran, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday ...
Terrorist activity across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East in 2025 underscored the persistence and geographic expansion of ...
Iran has threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz in response to the U.S. bombings of its nuclear facilities over the weekend. The narrow waterway is a vital pathway for world energy supplies. Iran's ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Iran launched missiles at a U.S. military base in Qatar on Monday, threatening to stoke a wider conflict in the Middle East, a region that supplies the world with about a third of ...
The average analyst's stock-price target implies Palantir's stock is well overpriced, even though the company stands to benefit from defense and intelligence offerings The conflict in the Middle East ...
SOUTH PITTSBURG, Tenn. – Some U.S. manufacturers have raised concerns that conflict in the Middle East could dry up their business in the region. Recent missile attacks and the breach of a ceasefire ...
The conflict in the Middle East increases the risk that businesses and households in the U.K. will expect the rate of inflation to remain high, and raise their prices and wage demands, a policymaker ...