As rebels in Syria make new advances against government forces, Newsweek has mapped the political stances of the rest of the region. Russia in particular has been a strong military force in favor of ...

What happens next will reverberate not only through the Gulf, but across energy markets, global trade and the fragile web of normalisation efforts linking Israel and its neighbours ...

A professor from Pakistan's Quaid-i-Azam University warned against the US efforts to change the map of the Middle East.

Three Middle East conflicts have reignited, threatening the wider region. Israel is bombing Gaza, the U.S. launched strikes against the Houthis in Yemen, and Syria's civil war is boiling again. Over ...

A leading expert in politics and defense studies at Quaid-e-Azam University, has warned that the United States is trying to ...

The United States boasts a significant military presence in the Middle East, with an array of naval assets and permanent bases scattered across the region. The superpower's footprint spans over a ...

L-R: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Russian President Vladimir Putin at a trilateral summit in Moscow As we speak, Iran and Russia are vying for influence ...

A map of U.S. State Department travel warnings for the Middle East shows Americans being advised to steer clear of many of the region's countries or to show extra caution, with Iran and Israel at war ...

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 ...

Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Oman — all nations in the thick of the unrest that has pervaded the Middle East — confronted the crisis in the region at the annual U.N.