The Middle East is a place that most American presidents want to avoid. Yet inevitably, they find themselves mired in its quarrels. Despite periodic calls for a pivot toward other geostrategic ...

America's failure to uphold its security commitments could damage its standing in the Middle East, writes Galip Dalay ...

Tuesday December 9th, 2025 Welcome back to MBN Agenda — your window into how Washington shapes the Middle East, and how the Middle East shapes Washington. This is a new offering from the Middle ...

President Donald Trump’s proposal last week to end the war in Gaza displayed the competing tensions in American Middle East policy. Trump campaigned for re-election on the platform of “America First,” ...

American and European airlines have begun pausing flights to destinations in the Persian Gulf as Israel’s conflict with Iran enters its second week and the United States mulls joining the attacks on ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... President Donald Trump promised a new beginning in foreign policy. In Europe he has taken an independent course, pushing Russia and Ukraine ...

It’s easy to be skeptical about the prospects for long-term peace in the Middle East, even after some recent developments: Iran’s nuclear capacity and Iranian allies Hamas and Hezbollah have been ...

Some U.S. presidents have the (mis)fortune of having their entire foreign policy defined by their handling of one part of the world. For Jimmy Carter, who died on Sunday, Dec. 29, 2024, aged 100, it ...

Without American dominance in the area, regional powers would quickly set at each other, making international commerce impossible and choking the world’s oil supply. As globalist guru Peter Zeihan ...

Fundamentally, Europe’s policymakers must acknowledge that the Middle East constitutes the continent’s primary security ...