The UAE and Saudi Arabia rivalry also matters for Trump’s plans to transform the region.

Mr Sharaa makes such history hard to forget. He once waged jihad against American occupiers in Iraq and spent five years in Iraqi prisons. In Shia-majority Iraq, where Iran, the Middle East’s leading ...

Threats of a wider US military confrontation with Iran are no longer an abstract scenario for Pakistan’s leaders. Any large-scale American attack on Iranian territory would not only redraw the ...

Israeli politicians often paint themselves as allies of Kurdish freedom against Arab dictators. Yet today Israel is dropping ...

The Middle East's persistent conflicts stem beyond oil, power struggles, and Shia-Sunni divides, tracing back to the Ottoman ...

Sweida security chief Sheikh Suleiman Abdul Baqi told Newsweek Israel's role may "result in more escalation." ...

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Iran’s missile and defence capabilities “will never be subject to negotiation”, Tehran’s foreign minister said.

US President Donald Trump renewed threats to strike Iran if it does not agree to negotiate a new nuclear deal, as US forces conduct a multi-day air exercise in the Middle East, bolstering Washington’s ...

The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group has crossed into the area of responsibility of the U.S. military's Central Command, the Middle East region that includes Iran, CENTCOM confirmed ...

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The USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group is now in the Indian Ocean, putting it closer to assist in any potential US operations targeting Iran, two sources told CNN. The group is within the area ...