The Persian Gulf states did not want this war, nor involvement in it. In the weeks leading up to the U.S. and Israeli, Gulf leaders worked urgently to prevent esca ...

Most U.S. citizens were not warned to leave the region before the United States and Israel launched the war on Iran.

Why the country’s vaunted network of regional militias has mostly stayed quiet.

Energy markets are bracing for disruption after the start of major combat operations by Israel and the United States against ...

Following U.S. President Donald Trump’s early Saturday morning announcement that the United States and Israel had launched ...

“We didn’t start this war, but under President [Donald] Trump, we’re finishing it,” Hegseth said, accusing Iran of waging a “savage, one-sided war against America” for 47 years.

After the Supreme Court deemed it unlawful for the president to use a national emergency sanctions law as the basis for most ...

Now is the time for Democratic leaders to stand firm against the risk of a catastrophic conflict.

But as the United States ramps up its military presence in the Middle East, some analysts believe that failure to secure a ...

Four of the five nominated pictures are pretty damn depressing, and the fifth one is “life affirming,” which is marketing code for “still very sad.” It’s not out of the ordinary for this category to ...

U.S. and Iranian officials held a third round of indirect nuclear talks in Geneva on Thursday. “We’ve been exchanging creative and positive ideas,” Oma ...

Iran’s proxies in Iraq and the Lebanese Hezbollah, among others, sat the war out rather than risk further devastation at U.S. or Israeli hands. Russia and China, part of a vaunted “ axis of upheaval , ...