Saudi Arabia's opposition to a U.S. strike on Iran stems from concerns over regional stability, governance, and shifting ...
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Iran and the New Middle East

The Middle East is on the brink of a geopolitical earthquake. For close to half a century, since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, clerical Iran has been the organizing principle of the Middle East.
Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Youssef Rajji met on Wednesday with Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Waleed Bukhari to discuss ...
With cameras rolling, President Trump met with more than 40 international leaders in his first year back in office.
No one relishes the power to keep everyone guessing more than Donald Trump. Until and unless America’s laser-guided bombs ...
If the decades-long animosity with Iran has taught the US anything, it is that interference in the Islamic Republic’s ...
Ahmed al-Sharaa has proven to be an adept player of geopolitical chess. Now he will be tested on his ability to win the peace ...
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The New Axis Rewriting the Middle East—Without Washington

Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan have quietly formed a political and military alliance—and are likely to be far more influential in the Middle East’s future than the United States.
Onetime allies, the United States and Iran have seen tensions escalate repeatedly in the four decades since the Islamic ...
Almost from the day Donald Trump entered the political arena, the legacy media have been committed to depicting him as a ...
There can be little doubt that if the killings continue, Trump will make good on his threats to intervene in the Iranian ...
The regime may have been able to crush the latest wave of protests using its tried-and-tested playbook of repression. But the ...