Steven Cook, the Eni Enrico Mattei Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies at CFR, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how the Israel-Hamas cease-fire over Gaza came together ...

This commentary is an excerpt taken from a new CSIS Middle East Program report, The Thirst for Power: Overcoming the Politics of Water in the Middle East. The Middle East is no stranger to water ...

A new order is emerging in the Middle East. For decades, Iran wielded influence across the region by cultivating a network of proxies that created instability in several Arab countries, from Lebanon ...

sraeli military Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir visiting soldiers in a buffer zone along the Syrian border on March 9, 2025. The conflict in Syria took a gruesome turn as reports emerged on ...

Egypt may have the Pyramids of Giza, but Iraq has the Ziggurat of Ur – an incredibly well-preserved engineering achievement that towers over the ruins of an important ancient city. Along a ...

(WJET/WFXP)– Calling all graphic designers! The North East Wine Fest is in need of a logo for their 2025 festivities and is welcoming all submissions. The North East Wine Fest is holding a logo ...

The CNAS Middle East Security program will explore and recommend policy choices to advance U.S. national security objectives in the Middle East in the coming period in which the preponderance of U.S.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A convoy of vehicles carrying the bodies processed slowly through the streets, which were lined by thousands ...

Axios noted: President Trump shared what appeared to be an AI-generated video late Tuesday night depicting [a] vision of “the Riviera of the Middle East” if his plan to “take over the Gaza ...

Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s special envoy for the Middle East, may travel to the region on Sunday if indirect talks between Israel and Hamas on a second phase of a ceasefire deal show ...

Trump's Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, is expected to visit the region this week to push for the extension of stage one. Witkoff said he wants both sides to begin talks on the second phase.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. After being displaced for most of the 16-month-long war, Palestinians returned home in northern Gaza facing ...