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US currently maintains 19 facilities across the region, with at least 8 reported to be permanent, across Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq ...

Viewing Turkey–Israel dynamics through a zero-sum lens risks fuelling strategic miscalculations and regional instability.

Turkish President Erdogan has made it clear that the agreement between Ankara and the Kurdish Workers Party was motivated by ...

See satellite images of the Iran strikes, a detailed timeline of the operation and the location of the Strait of Hormuz.

The only way to end the possibility that the Iranians will decide to go nuclear—which could set off a very unstable chain reaction of nuclear proliferation in the region, with Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and ...

Will the Middle East emerge from its disastrous post-Ottoman century? With Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon all weak, the region s reconstruction in ways that permit peace, stability, and human ...

Iran’s internal weakness has encouraged attacks before. Some 45 years ago, amid its post-revolutionary disarray, Saddam Hussein, Iraq’s president, started the Iran-Iraq war. It lasted eight years and ...

Iran has launched missile strikes on US bases in Iraq and Qatar after it vowed to retaliate against Washington for bombing its nuclear facilities on Sunday.

The U.S. bombed Iran overnight, raising tensions across the region as attention shifts to how Tehran may retaliate and location of U.S. military in the region.

The latest war in the Middle East was, both in terms of the course it took and its outcomes, resembles an earthquake. This is the latest of the earthquakes to hit the region: the 1967 war, the 1973 ...

Iran says it does not want its conflict with Israel to expand to neighbouring countries but accuses the US and its allies of greenlighting Israel in its attacks against Tehran ...