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 …