Middle East

For decades, the world’s energy-security establishment has worried about one nightmare scenario in the Middle East: the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. What received considerably less attention was what might happen

On Wednesday, the United Arab Emirates did something it had resisted doing for decades, even through years of American pressure and multiple rounds of UN sanctions: it shut the door on Iran

When Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif stood together in Mecca to sign a mutual defense pact, the world’s headline writers reached instinctively for

Since Hitler’s Nazi Germany, there has never been a regime more focused on attacking Jews as well as their own citizens opposed to the regime than the current government in Iran. They