The two-year war that Hamas began on Oct. 7, 2023, is over. As with the 12-day war between Israel and Iran in June 2025, the United States backed its ally, called time on the fighting, and shaped a ...

LONDON, Oct 7 (Reuters) - The World Bank has lifted its growth outlook for the region encompassing the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistan for 2025, though trimmed its forecast for ...

Human rights group Amnesty International said Wednesday that the United States may have committed a war crime with a ...

WASHINGTON, October 7, 2025 – The latest World Bank economic report on the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan (MENAAP) points to an improved economic outlook for the region, with ...

Iranian-backed Houthi rebels detained two dozen UN employees Sunday, a day after they raided another UN facility in the capital Sanaa, a UN official said. Jean Alam, a spokesman for the UN resident ...

President Donald Trump celebrated "peace in the Middle East" after he signed the historic peace agreement that ended two years of fighting in Gaza. "At long last, we have peace in the Middle East, and ...

Simon Mabon receives funding from Carnegie Corporation of New York and The Henry Luce Foundation. The morning of October 7 2023 set in process a series of events which have profoundly changed the ...

Russia's influence in the Middle East has declined significantly since its 2015 intervention in Syria to support Bashar al-Assad. Moscow was excluded from a major October 13 summit in Egypt, ...

President Donald Trump said Wednesday he might make a trip to the Middle East as Gaza peace negotiations continue. "I may go there, sometime toward the end of the week. Maybe on Sunday, actually, and ...

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 ...

Over a decade into Yemen’s civil war, one expert explains why neither side can win—and how China, the US, and Gulf rivals are shaping the conflict. The war in Yemen is now over a decade old, with no ...

WASHINGTON ‒ President Donald Trump said he may visit the Middle East this weekend as he looks to finalize a peace deal between Israel and Hamas to end the war in the region. Trump on Oct. 8 said he ...