Ever since U.S. President Donald Trump’s return to the White House in January, the term the “new Middle East” has resurfaced ...

Most Americans are unaware that today’s Middle East is an artificial construct created by British and French diplomats (Sykes and Picot) after World War I to advance their empires’ economic and ...

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The overthrow of other dictators in the region has led not to democracy but to terror and upheaval. Will Syria be different? If you have a mental map of the Middle ...

California’s Department of Education found that Oakland schools discriminated against "Jewish persons" by publishing maps ...

DUBAI (Reuters) -Nothing captured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's isolation more starkly this week than the image of U.S. President Donald Trump shaking hands with Syria's Islamist leader ...

President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands at The Israel Museum in Jerusalem, May 23, 2017. [AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ...

The assassination of Hassan Nasrallah, who led the powerful militant group, Hezbollah, for over 30 years, has been a shocking development in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. The killing decimates the ...