The Middle East that U.S. President Donald Trump faces today features dangers and opportunities that were not present when he first took office, eight years ago. The greatest dangers are Iran’s ...

Israel’s strategic successes over the past 15 months have come at the cost of major challenges, writes Tarek Osman ...

A showdown is building between Communist China and the West.From rising tensions over Taiwan, trade, TikTok, fentanyl, artificial intelligence, the future of Greenland and the Arctic Circle, and the ...

There was much head shaking in editorials and elsewhere that the jobs created by firms relocating their operations or supply lines to the US to avoid the tariffs would be fewer than the jobs destroyed ...

Hezbollah, a powerful Iran-backed militia, has long been the country’s dominant political force and has formed part of the ...

Lebanon's Prime Minister Nawaf Salam on Saturday formed a new cabinet made up of specialized and clean-handed ministers, ending past dominance by Hezbollah and its allies, with the mission of ...

BEIRUT -- Lebanon’s new prime minister on Saturday formed the country’s first full-fledged government since 2022. President Joseph Aoun announced in a statement that he had accepted the resignation of ...

That prevents Hezbollah and its allies from wielding a "blocking third" in the government, where a two-thirds vote is needed to pass some decisions. The U.S. embassy in Lebanon welcomed the ...

Lebanon formed a new government on Saturday, following unusually direct U.S. intervention in the process and in a step intended to bring the country closer to accessing reconstruction funds ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s new prime minister on Saturday ... He was also a candidate not endorsed by Hezbollah and key allies. Aoun has shared similar sentiments to Salam, also vowing to ...