Physical reconstruction has to go hand in hand with socio-political institution-building. Inevitably, the legacy of the past hostilities has created bitterness and mutual suspicions, complicating the ...

Russia ends its moratorium on the deployment of short-and medium-range missiles; the EU is unlikely to jointly purchase US weapons for Ukraine; and Iran forms a Defense Council as it rules out direct ...

Now, Voice of America has gone dark and funding to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has disappeared.

I believe in the necessity of the Jewish people to have their own safe, secure homeland. And while I have never thought ...

Crucially, Republicans wary of US backing for the war against Hamas don’t see this stance as being anti-Israel — but as being ...

The Lebanese militant group has lost much of its power since the recent war with Israel. But it is balking at demands to ...

U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran have pushed Uzbekistan to reconsider trade routes, potentially raising logistics costs by 30 ...

More than a million Afghans have returned from Iran this year, according to the U.N. — either forcibly deported or pressured ...

Iran's state media says the country has founded a new defense council after attacks in June by Israel and the U.S.

Ambs. Flake and O’Brien and Sen. John Curtis said America’s attack on Iran reestablished deterrence around the world ...

President Masoud Pezeshkian’s first year in office has been defined by Iran’s familiar political structural constraints, ...

A new council has been formed to oversee the development of defense strategies and to enhance the capabilities of the armed forces, the report said. The Israeli strikes in June killed several senior ...