CAIRO: Will 2018 dampen the fires that rage across the Middle East? Although skepticism is understandable, there is a glimmer of change. The fight against...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Directly addressing his nationalist base, a beleaguered leader accuses the news media of obsessively promoting a liberal agenda,...
JERUSALEM: President Donald Trump showered his Middle Eastern hosts with praise and declared a breakthrough regional peace within reach. No one contradicted...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: The Trump administration appears to be easing away from longstanding U.S. support for Palestinian statehood as the preferred outcome of...
CAIRO: Donald Trump’s all-but-dismissal of human rights as a foreign policy principle could hit like an earthquake across a Middle East landscape beset...
BEIRUT: The Syrian government’s expected recapture of Aleppo after a prolonged and punishing air assault is a defining moment in the country’s devastating...
BEIRUT: Five years of failed efforts to quell the fighting in Syria have persuaded many observers that the war, inconclusive and catastrophic on a historic...
CAIRO: For five years fighting has raged in Syria – a humanitarian disaster destabilizing the region and the world. The aim of Bashar Assad’s opponents always...
A new-old idea is rattling around the Middle East five years after the Arab Spring stirred democratic ambition: that restoring stability, especially if...
BEIRUT: After five years of carnage, the Syrian civil war can seem poised to go on indefinitely. But the “cessation of hostilities” engineered by the U.S. and...
BEIRUT: Syria has already been shattered by more than four years of civil war, and with no solution in sight, some players on the ground and observers outside...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: In recent months, many in the Middle East had assumed – some in hope, others with concern – that once the Iranian nuclear issue was...
CAIRO: On a basic level, the framework deal between world powers and Tehran will be judged by whether it prevents an Iranian bomb, but that will take years to...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Benjamin Netanyahu’s apparent re-election puts Israel on a course toward ever deeper confrontation with the world. To govern, his Likud...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: The population of Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank has surged during Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s years in office, growing...
JERUSALEM: The population of Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank has continued to surge during Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's years in office,...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: The coming Israeli election amounts to a referendum on Benjamin Netanyahu – hard-headed defender of Israel to some, the man who buried...
TEL AVIV, Israel: The third Gaza War in six years appears to have ended in another sort of tie, with both Israel and Hamas claiming the upper hand. Their...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: As indirect negotiations proceed in Egypt between Israel and Hamas following the war in Gaza, here is an assessment of the outcome so far...
TEL AVIV, Israel: The savage fighting between Israel and Hamas is escalating in Gaza, cease-fire efforts take on elements of farce, and bravado rules the...
DAVOS, Switzerland: Syria's bombardment of its citizens should be declared a war crime and aid groups must be given greater access to the millions...
TEL AVIV, Israel: An apocalyptic tone has crept into Israel's hitherto muted election season, with opposition leaders and others sounding increasingly...
CERNOBBIO, Italy: U.S. Senators John McCain, Joe Lieberman and Lindsay Graham on Friday urged Washington to help arm Syria's rebels with weapons and...
JERUSALEM: Now backed by a parliamentary supermajority, Benjamin Netanyahu has tremendous room to maneuver on Israel's most pressing issues: peace with...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: In a political development with global implications, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has signaled he soon might call early elections - a...