DANA STROUL is Director of Research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and served as U.S. Deputy Assistant ...

Imagine the Mediterranean Sea dried up. Then imagine the Atlantic refilling it in less than two years. That seems to be what happened 5 million years ago.

Since the onset of Israel’s war in Gaza in late 2023, the Houthis have shifted focus toward maritime targets, using low-cost drones and ballistic missiles to disrupt Red Sea shipping lanes—an economic ...

The Middle East is no longer the epicenter of American ... the Houthis and militias in Iraq and Syria — but at growing cost. Its Red Sea campaign has triggered sustained Western military responses.

At least nine MPs from three South African political parties visited Israel on what seems to have been a very one-sided ‘fact-finding mission’. DA and Patriotic Alliance MPs were revealed on ...

A trio of researchers from Bocconi University, in Italy, the University of Cambridge, in the U.K., and Stanford University, in the U.S., has found that there was more economic inequality under the ...

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After the fall of the Assad regime in Syria and the threat of Israeli attacks against planes arriving from Iran, a Western source said the IRGC is now opting for a sea route to help Hezbollah ...

WASHINGTON, April 7 (Reuters) - U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Wednesday will launch a nearly two-week tour of three Middle East countries, including Saudi Arabia, marking his first visit ...

This time it was the U.S. Air Force and the British Royal Air Force, aiming to end the Houthi threat to international shipping through the Bab el-Mandeb strait, the southern gates of the Red Sea.

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Energy company Chevron will begin a survey of the east Mediterranean seabed early this summer to prepare for a pipeline connecting a sizable natural gas deposit in Cyprus ...