ExxonMobil, in partnership with Qatar Energy, has commenced exploratory drilling for natural gas off the coast of Cyprus, ...

Paramilitary forces in the Middle East are some of the largest in the world. They work in a region where traditional military ...

One of the Israeli hostages freed on the first day of the Gaza ceasefire said Monday in her first comments since being released that she has “returned to life.” ...

Israeli forces have killed two Palestinian militants who carried out a deadly attack on a bus in the West Bank earlier this month. The Israeli military said Thursday that the two men barricaded ...

Qatar’s success in helping to broker the long-awaited Gaza ceasefire has enhanced its reputation as an international mediator ...

Syria’s interim rulers are trying to form a united national army after the fall of Bashar Assad late last year ...

Armed factions who led the final charge on Damascus that toppled Assad are hesitating to take part in a new system led by ...

For the Islamist militant group, armed struggle now looks like a dead end. Its future in Gaza depends on the civilian ...

Suppose the United States, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and other moderate states are on the same page, acting in concert to lessen the influence of jihadists that ...

Geopolitics abhors a power vacuum. One country’s loss is another’s gain, and the space left by Iran is being occupied, for ...