Modern wars show how easily leaders meet rhetorical burden of justification and avoid strategic burden of ending them.

The Trump administration failed to plan for evacuating either its diplomats or its citizens and did not adequately warn ...

By Michael Karam in Beirut Thursday night saw Israel ramp up the bombing of Beirut’s southern suburbs that initially began around 02.30 on Monday. The attacks are, on paper at least, in response to a ...

BEIRUT (AP) — The Lebanese parliament extended its term by two years on Monday due to the U.S.-Israel war with Iran that has pushed the region into an escalating conflict and Israel stepping up its ...

Iran has named Mojtaba Khamenei as the country’s new supreme leader. Meanwhile, oil surged past $100 a barrel as the economic fallout deepens. Follow for live updates ...

Discover the 18 countries of West Asia. Learn about their capitals, current 2026 news, and the difference between West Asia and the Middle East in this article.

A Nepali political party led by an ex-rapper is set for a landslide victory in the country’s first parliamentary election since Gen Z protests ousted the old leadership that has ruled the Himalayan ...

The US-Israeli war on Iran, launched on Feb. 28, has set the Middle East alight, threatening millions of people’s lives and livelihoods as the violence spreads in widening arc stretching from central ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran named the hard-line Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his late father as supreme ...

This is a war of redemption that began on October 7,” Ophir Falk, foreign affairs adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin ...

At least two people were killed and 12 injured after a military projectile struck a residential area in Al-Kharj, Saudi ...

As part of the offensive against Iran, Israel has called up 100,000 soldiers. The impact is felt across society, but the country has grown used to these successive waves of mobilization.