After war with Israel weakened Iran-backed militias across the Middle East, including the Lebanese group Hezbollah, Lebanon’s government has moved to assert its authority over armed groups.

President Donald Trump’s speech in Riyadh was a drone strike on Western supremacism, “democracy-promotion,” and the “Arab ...

Amidst the rubble left by Israeli bombardment of south Lebanon, campaign posters urge support for Hezbollah in elections on ...

West warns Iran not to hit back as Israel launches revenge strikes - UK and US among nations seeking to keep Middle East from ...

At an international conference in Tehran, top Iranian officials said they were eager to make a deal with Trump but that they ...

“In the bloody arithmetic of Hamas’ leaders,” the Times reported in 2023, “the carnage is not the regrettable outcome of a ...

President Donald Trump announced while in Saudi Arabia on May 14, 2025, that the United States would lift sanctions on Syria. The turnaround was a huge victory for the government of Syrian President ...

Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions ...

President Donald Trump's decision to lift sanctions on Syria under the leadership of Ahmed al Sharaa was a smart maneuver, ...

Syria's new leadership has said it wants no trouble with Israel. President Trump has now hinted Syria is willing to go as far as normalizing relations with its once sworn enemy.

President Trump announced this week he will drop sanctions on Syria — surprising some senior U.S. sanctions officials, ...

NPR's Scott Simon asks Eurasia Group's Firas Maksad about President Trump's visit to the Middle East and his administration's shifting priorities in the region.