The Big Threat in the Middle East Is Israel, Not Iraq: It Could Play the Nuclear Card to Blackmail the AmericansAs George Bush escalates the new cold war begun by his father, the attention of his planners is moving to the Middle East. Stories about the threat of Iraq's "weapons of ...
The collapse ofAssad’s regimemarks the start of a new and volatile chapter. Whether this upheaval leads to a more stable order or plunges the Middle East into further discord depends on the strategic choices that regional and international actors make now. For Israel and its neighbors, the c...
The Israel Hamas-war has killed more than 46,000 Palestinians in Gaza, according to health authorities there. The Health Ministry does not distinguish between fighters and civilians, but says women and children make up more than half the fatalities. Israel’s war against Hamas...
The U.S. State Department has had a"Do Not Travel" advisoryin effect for Lebanon for weeks, urging Americans not to visit the country in light of the Israel-Hezbollah violence. Tucker Realscontributed to this report. Crisis in the Middle East ...
decade, which is questionable in itself. It might be true that the US played a positive role in the Middle East in the 1990s. The US led multinational forces to drive Saddam Hussein from Kuwait back to Iraq; the US tried to make efforts to promote peace process between Israel and ...
When Russia first began its involvement in Syria four years ago, the West predicted that Vladimir Putin would find himself sinking in the mud of Syria's civil war, while in Israel they hoped that Moscow would reduce Tehran's influence in its northern neighbor. ...
“Today, our people and their resistance imposed an honorable agreement to stop the aggression,” Palestinian Islamic Jihad said in a statement. The group said the deal between Israel and Hamas includes the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza as well as an “honorable” pris...
“Today, our people and their resistance imposed an honorable agreement to stop the aggression,” Palestinian Islamic Jihad said in a statement. The group said the deal between Israel and Hamas includes the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza as well as an...
Hamas leaders are asking mediators of the cease-fire negotiations with Israel to present a plan based upon previous talks instead of engaging in new ones, according to a statement Sunday. Hamas also appeared to decline to discu...
Syrian state media says Israeli airstrikes have killed at least eight Syrian soldiers. Israel says the attacks were retaliation for earlier rockets apparently fired from Syria. Andrew J. Tabler, a Martin J. Gross senior fellow with the Washington Institu