The Houthis’ ability to strike shipping in the Red Sea in the event of an expansion of the Israel-Hamas war makes them a factor in global geopolitics. “The hands of all parties in the region are on the trigger,” warned Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian last week, amid reports that …

On the centennial of the Turkish Republic, its citizens are debating the country’s evolution and how it measures up to the vision of modern Turkey’s deeply secular founder. Turkey will mark its 100th year as a republic on Oct. 29 with Recep Tayyip Erdogan, an Islamist leader seen as the …

The Biden administration thought painstaking diplomacy could contain Iran and, by extension, its proxies in Yemen, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon. But by papering over the Palestinian question, Washington handed its adversary a strategic opportunity. Short of a nuclear-armed standoff, the stakes arguably couldn’t be higher across the Middle East right …