"These countries hate each other, they might strike at each other, but they know enough to pull back and I think that's what you're seeing here," said Dr. Justin P. Coffey, a history professor at ...

If at first you don't succeed, make more problems for yourself. That seems to be the mantra in Washington when it comes to the Middle East. Every few years, a U.S. president asks Americans to go along ...

Ultimately, the war has shredded more than a few assumptions about Israeli strategic and military limitations. Exactly twenty-four months after the October 7 massacre that ignited the October 7 War, ...

In these books, soldiers and experts weigh in on the disorder they’ve found in some of the most consequential war rooms in the world. By Thomas E. Ricks Thomas E. Ricks, the Book Review’s military ...

President Donald Trump is not like his predecessors. Confronting a hostile regime in Tehran that has played American presidents for 35 years, the commander in chief took decisive action on Saturday to ...

Editor’s Note: This story was updated to include coauthors. We regret the error. The “12-day war” between Iran and Israel, as coined by President Trump, may ...

On September 9, Israel shocked the world by bombing a villa in a residential neighborhood of Doha in an attempt to kill senior Hamas officials. It was the second time Qatar was struck this year. (In ...

President Donald Trump celebrated "peace in the Middle East" after he signed the historic peace agreement that ended two years of fighting in Gaza. "At long last, we have peace in the Middle East, and ...

The United States has attacked Iran. Just days after suggesting he might delay any American military action for weeks, U.S. President Donald Trump announced on June 21 that U.S. aircraft had struck ...

The Middle East has been a hotbed of conflict for decades, as such many nations within the region have built up their ...

A New York Public Library exhibition features nearly two centuries of cultural, social and political artifacts on Middle Easterners and North Africans in the city. A New York Public Library exhibition ...