India watches Iran's protests with unease, fearing a weakened state would disrupt its strategic environment. Iran serves as ...

Is Saudi Arabia quietly playing both sides as tensions with Iran spiral toward a possible U.S. military strike? While Riyadh ...

The demands of Iran’s ethnic minorities differ from many of those in Tehran, and they have reason to fear the return of the ...

The renewed activity of Al Qaeda–affiliated groups in Syria has revived an old but unresolved question in Middle Eastern ...

The Trump administration has designated the Lebanese, Jordanian and Egyptian chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist ...

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 ...

It has become conventional wisdom that the strikes launched on Iran this year by Israel and the United States, and the shattering of Tehran’s allies and proxy militias in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria, ...

The demonstrations followed unrest over the weekend in Homs, Syria’s third-largest city, which set off reprisal attacks on Alawites, a community once favored by the ousted Assad regime. By Euan Ward ...

Iraq’s main Sunni political blocs moved on Sunday to tighten their ranks, forming a new National Political Council in Baghdad to coordinate strategy in the next parliament as Shiite parties push ahead ...

Iraq, which has long been a fertile land for proxy wars, has only recently regained a sense of stability, as it tries to move past decades of war — Hussein FALEH Iraqis voted for a new parliament ...

An interfaith group created a Youth Mock Parliament to imagine a nonsectarian government. This is the second part of a three-part series about the problem of sectarianism in the Middle East and how ...