Donald Trump picked up the phone and dialed his first foreign leader. The honor didn't go to the leader of a formal U.S. treaty ally like Canada or the United Kingdom, but rather to Saudi Crown Prince ...

Mr. Trump’s advocacy also risks sparking widespread protests across the Middle East and the Muslim world that potentially ...

I’ve been following closely every utterance of the new Trump administration regarding the situation in the Middle East. In ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested Friday that his county’s military might not withdraw all of its forces ...

Saudi Arabia. In Lebanon, the Saudis have primarily focused on economic development and countering the influence of Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah, particularly since the 2005 assassination of Hariri.

An array of domestic and foreign powers are vying for influence in Lebanon, including the Lebanese Armed Forces, Hezbollah, ...

Leiter, who officially began his role on Friday, described normalization with Saudi Arabia as part of a broader realignment ...

Will the peace in Gaza hold? What’s next for that region? And how will Trump use his unique position to press for broader ...

Under the terms of the fragile Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal , fighting will be halted in Gaza for at least six weeks. Dozens ...

With its proxies effectively neutralized and its own credibility and security impaired, Iran now has every temptation to ...