Mediators struggle to balance Hamas’ rejection of wide buffer zones with Israeli hardliners’ opposition to compromise, says ...

In the first few hours of the attacks, Israel incapacitated a regime dedicated to its destruction. The Mossad intelligence ...

The United States maintains a vast military presence in the Middle East, with forces in more than a dozen countries and on ships throughout the region's waters, and fears have been heightened after an ...

It also has access to the US-run Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar. The American presence in the Middle East is considerably larger. It operates a broad network of sites across at least 19 locations in the ...

Area: 22,000 sq km. Population: 9.5m. Prime minister: Binyamin Netanyahu.

The skyline of Doha, the capital of Qatar -- whose endless resources and geographic location have made it one of the most influential political players in the Middle East. Getty Images On a global ...

Qatar, the tiny energy-rich Gulf Arab country that was picked on Thursday to host the 2022 World Cup, has placed Middle East football "on the world map," the head of its Olympic Committee said.

Trump's Gulf tour sidelines Netanyahu, marks new Middle East order Netanyahu's stance on Gaza, US-Iran talks creates rift with US Massive arms and financial deals signal US pivot to wealthy Gulf ...

Just as recent political dynamics have rendered the old map of the Middle East obsolete, so have large-scale social changes. From the 1950s through the 1980s, the mass migration of laborers from ...