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 ...

Organizers of the Eurovision Song Contest are discussing whether Israel should be allowed to participate next year.

Israel’s recovery from the October 7 Hamas attack reshaped the Middle East battlefield. Yet the war exposed a deeper ...

A ceasefire can be a strange thing.  The assumption, generally speaking, is that the parties to it restrain themselves for a period of time, ordering ...