Some minorities may see benefits in allying with Israel today. Syria is now ruled by a former al-Qaeda leader. A recent ...

But backing Israel is expensive and Mr Trump hates spending lavishly to defend America’s allies. On top of $18bn in military ...

The leaders of France, Cyprus, Greece, Lebanon and Syria met via video conference for a presidential summit organized by ...

Israel has been fighting wars on several fronts in the Middle East since the Palestinian militant group Hamas attacked ...

The U.S. Navy is engaged in gunboat diplomacy, a second Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer had been sent to the ...

The roots of Western relations with the Middle East trace back to the colonial era, when European powers sought to control ...

The ramped-up U.S. attacks against the Yemen-based Houthis are possible in part due to an extensive military footprint in the ...

Lebanon’s border with Syria has been a tense scene ... continue to pose significant challenges. Middle East Eye delivers independent and unrivalled coverage and analysis of the Middle East ...

Rebuilding the Middle East, shattered by more than 15 years of devastating wars, requires urgent, massive funding that could ...

Just hours after Islamist rebels ousted longtime Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in December, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ...

Recent events in the Middle East may mean that the region, after years of conflict, could be heading towards a period of persistent crises. Most of what is likely to happen to the region is because of ...

One of the Middle East’s most intractable conflicts may ... claimed more than 40,000 lives and has rippled beyond Turkey’s borders into Iran, Iraq, and Syria. On Thursday, Abdullah Ocalan ...