It no longer bears the president’s name but the iconic Waldorf Astoria is back on the map as the hotspot for Trump world in Washington. Over inauguration weekend, the hotel’s soaring beaux arts atrium ...

First is to stop acting like an absentee hegemon. When Hamas attacked Israel on October 7th, no one was particularly interested in how Russia, China or the European Union would respond. Like it or not ...

On the campaign trail, Donald Trump, now U.S. president-elect, promised that “the Middle East is going to get solved” but offered few details on how he might achieve such an outcome. When he returns ...

Lebanese military units completed their deployment at several points in the town of Kfar Shuba, Hasbaya, in the eastern sector after the withdrawal of the Israeli troops. The United Nations ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, is considering a visit to the war-torn Gaza Strip as part of his efforts to keep a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas ...

To put Trump’s start in perspective, the Office of the Federal Register lists just two presidents in recent years besides ...

‘WHO will need conditions on the ground that allow systematic access to the population across Gaza, enabling the influx of aid via all possible borders and routes,’ the agency said in a ...

By contrast, a Gaza at peace and an international reconstruction program there funded by Persian Gulf oil money would be a fitting centerpiece for Mr. Trump’s Middle East project. That would ...

Inside a lavish clubhouse on Doha's waterfront, tensions strained by months of fruitless back-and-forth weighed on negotiators as the hour neared 3 a.m. On the first floor, a Hamas delegation whose ...

The conflict between Israel and Palestinians — and other groups in the Middle East — goes back decades. These stories provide context for current developments and the history that led up to them.

Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Wednesday released the crew of the Galaxy Leader, a commercial ship the militants hijacked in November 2023. The Israeli military launched a large raid in the city of ...

a research associate professor at the Gulf Studies Center of Qatar University and a non-resident scholar with the Middle East Institute's Program on Economics and Energy. "The OPEC+ keeps on counting ...