Trump has said he is dispatching a second aircraft carrier to the Middle East that could be used for military strikes against ...

“If the Middle East is unstable, the world will not be at peace,” Chinese President Xi Jinping said June 19. “If the conflict escalates further, not only will the conflicting parties suffer greater ...

KUALA LUMPUR — Previously we discussed Iran’s latest internal dynamics in this column. It is now perhaps worth turning to the longstanding and intensifying tension between the United States and Iran.

For more than 48 hours, two merchant ships in the Red Sea tried to fight off repeated attacks by Houthi fighters who used rocket-propelled grenades, missiles and drones to sink them both, kill at ...

For more than a decade, war has ravaged the Middle East. From Syria to Lebanon, Israel to Gaza, hundreds of thousands have been killed or wounded. After so much bloodletting, the region now stands at ...

China deepened its Middle East ties in March with new air routes, fintech, and nuclear deals in the Gulf, joint naval drills with Iran and Russia, and energy investments across Saudi Arabia, Qatar, ...

The Middle East is a place that most American presidents want to avoid. Yet inevitably, they find themselves mired in its quarrels. Despite periodic calls for a pivot toward other geostrategic ...

Just a few years ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin seemed to have reasserted Moscow’s influence in the Middle East after decades in which it had waned. As Putin deepened ties with long-standing ...

Examine the role of the Middle East in China-U.S. strategic competition. The aim of the book is to push back against the dominant narrative of ongoing U.S.-China competition in the Middle East. The ...