"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 ...

A decade after Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates led a joint military campaign to curb Iran’s influence in Yemen, the two allies now find themselves pitted against each other there.

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 ...

The surprise attack that Israel launched against Iran in the early hours of June 13 initiated one of history’s most ingenious, complex, and successful campaigns. A tiny country, its population barely ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

America cannot afford another endless war in the Middle East. Ad Policy A veiled Iranian art student waves a country flag while standing on symbolic debris of a destroyed building as she performs in ...