Israeli settlement building, a point of contention at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, has come back into focus ...

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Former Iranian president Hassan Rouhani criticized his government's Middle East strategy on Thursday in comments published by ...

Social media users are vowing to never refer to the Middle East again after heaving activist Nawal El Saadawi refer to the phrase as 'colonial language.' ...

The complaints centered on whether they had created a hostile learning environment because of public statements on the ...

A photo of President Donald Trump's daughter-in-law with an Egyptian artist, taken at a music charity event, has gone viral.

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Could Washington have foreseen the shah’s downfall in Iran in 1979 — and the rise of Ayatollah Khomeini’s Islamic Republic?

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Reliance Industries is likely to shift back to its traditional Middle Eastern sources for oil if India yields to pressure ...

In the Middle East, however, the United States has had to intervene repeatedly in internal and regional conflicts that undercut stability and containment—even after the Soviet Union passed from the ...