Middle Orient

A flurry of diplomacy is laying the groundwork for a U.S.-Iran agreement on a mutual return to the 2015 multilateral Iran nuclear deal. The core of the regional discussions focuses on rapprochement between Iran and Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Iraqi leaders are seeking to assume the …

The Trump administration’s signature foreign policy achievement was supposed to unify the Middle East behind a common goal of peace. Some say they paved the way for violence instead. When President Donald Trump sought to tout the benefits of new agreements that normalized Arab countries’ relationships with Israel, the first …

Fighting between Israelis and Palestinians continued to escalate, with Hamas militants firing rockets into Israel, and the Israelis launching airstrikes in Gaza. Protests have grown over the pending expulsion of Palestinian families by Israeli settlers from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem. The political situation is fraught, with the …

Dr. Akram Kewidar, an assistant professor at the Israa University, Gaza, has sent me videos of the Zionist carnage occurring in the Palestinian enclave. Israeli bombs are reducing entire residential buildings to dust and rubble; bodies lie mangled in pulverized cars; corpses are strewn on the streets like the remains …

Leaders in whose hands great trust is placed by their people must have an equally great sense of responsibility of not misusing this trust and of using their position and accompanying power very carefully. Israel is obviously a very important country which has elected Benjamin Netanyahu five times to the …

Women and children account for nearly half of the more than 120 Palestinians killed in Gaza since Monday, according to Al-Mezan, a human rights group in the territory. This contradicts Israel’s claims that it is targeting Hamas infrastructure and making great efforts to avoid harming civilians. The death toll will …

Israel has bombed the building that houses media offices including AP, Al Jazeera , AJEnglish and other international news organisations. It was not immediately clear if there were casualties in Saturday’s attack. Live Al Jazeera video showed the 11-storey Al-Jalaa building, which also houses a number of residences and other …

11 Palestinians were killed and 150 injured out of some 5,000 Palestinians who demonstrated to show solidarity with Hamas and the Gaza Strip. Thousands of people gathered in the northern Israeli town of Sakhnin on Saturday afternoon to hold a demonstration commemorating “Nakba Day.” Nakba Day is the term used …

Three rockets were fired from Syria as anger continues to boil in the Arab world A Hezbollah member was killed by IDF fire on Friday when protesters tried to storm the border with Lebanon and Israel as anger boils in the Arab world over the latest violence between Israel and …

Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas coordinated messaging on Quds Day on May 8, claiming Israel could be defeated in one large tactical operation; a week later, it seemed to be working. Lebanese protesters, likely urged on by Hezbollah, tried to breach an area of a border fence in northern Israel on …