Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and others in the region have sought closer relations with Iran over recent years in ...

Israel is interested in establishing formal diplomatic relations with long-standing adversaries Syria and Lebanon, but the ...

Iran spent decades expanding its reach in the Middle East by building a network of partners. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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The gap between the reality on the ground and the so-called “two-state solution” is now too wide and deep, unless the balance of power dramatically changes - which does not seem ... relations with ...

Israel’s war on Iran has underscored the Arab view of Israel as an aggressive source of instability in the region ...

Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said the Iranian program suffered "enormous damage" but could ...

Once seen as the region’s chief guarantor against the Iranian nuclear threat, Israel is now increasingly viewed as its most ...

Roxana Saberi felt like she was back behind bars in Tehran. As she watched Israel’s bombing of Evin prison, the notorious ...

F’-bombers can’t get peace at any prize A Nobel gesture: Pak’s army chief recently backed Trump as peace prize candidate, for supposedly preventing Indo-Pak ‘nuclear war’. Little did he know the Dove ...

In April 1980, President Jimmy Carter authorized Operation Eagle Claw, an ill-fated military operation to rescue the American ...

At least 150,000 people have been killed. More than 14 million have been displaced, with over 3 million fleeing to ...