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An HSC-7 helicopter lands on the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer Laboon in the Red Sea, June 12, 2024. (Bernat Armangue/AP) The U.S. has kept an increased military presence in the Middle ...

The Middle East is undergoing a dramatic realignment—just not the one U.S. and regional leaders envisioned less than two years ago. Before the Hamas-led attacks of Oct. 7, 2023, years of painstaking ...

Israel is carrying out strikes as it loses patience with Hezbollah and Hamas’s resistance to disarming.

Hamas unleashed its early morning rampage in southern Israel six months ago this Sunday, igniting the deadliest war ever between Israelis and Palestinians. To look at how the war is reshaping the ...

The main questions now are how much the conflict will escalate and whether the United States will get more directly involved in the defense of Israel. By David E. Sanger The long-feared “wider war” in ...

Jerusalem — When Hamas spokesman Abu Ubaida began a speech marking the 100th day of the war in Gaza, one confounding yet eye-opening proclamation escaped the headlines. Listing the motives for the ...

One way of understanding the ongoing bloodbath pitting Israel against Hamas is to see it as just the latest chapter in an existential struggle dating back to the founding of the Jewish state in 1948.

LONDON, June 23 (Reuters) - U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran and Tehran's reprisals have doubled the price of insuring shipments to the Middle East and the Gulf in the last week, insurance sources ...

This brief was originally published by the Council on Foreign Relations on Dec. 5, 2024. The surprise rebel offensive that has seized Aleppo and threatens other regime-held territories could mark a ...