US moves Air Force and naval assets to the Middle East amid rising tensions with Iran, while regional allies remain largely silent and take a cautious, wait-and-see approach.

Foreign agents paid handsomely by Middle Eastern autocrats to represent their interests before Congress have fielded dozens of in-person meetings, phone calls, and emails in Washington in recent months, hoping to win concessions for their benefactors as ...

Like all allies they have had their troubles. Their interests in Yemen began to diverge in 2018; a dispute over oil-production quotas paralysed opec for several months in 2021. But their leaders saw their partnership as the bedrock of Gulf security and tried to limit disagreements.

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An Israeli strike on a Hamas delegation in Qatar strained U.S. guarantees to Gulf allies. The recent attack raised questions about Washington’s reliability and prompted calls for strategic diversification of partnerships. Gulf states are looking beyond ...

President Donald Trump hailed on Monday what he described as the beginning of peace in the Middle East in a speech to the Israeli parliament. “This is not only the end of a war,” Trump told the Knesset in comments about the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

The military escalation is aimed at stopping and possibly reversing the momentum of the IS forces, which are based in the north-eastern Syrian city of Raqqa and have occupied about one-third of Iraqi territory in recent months. The extremists have vowed to ...

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The US military is continuing a significant buildup of air and naval assets in the Middle East as negotiations over a deal with Iran continued with talks in Geneva on Tuesday. The pieces are being moved into place both to pressure Tehran as terms of a deal are discussed and to have options to strike inside the country should negotiations over its nuclear program fail,