Establishment Republicans have backed Israel鈥檚 strikes on Iran, but the crisis is forcing president Donald Trump to walk a political tightrope between the hawks in his base and the isolationists who helped sweep him to power.
Global airlines cancelled flights to Tel Aviv, Tehran and other Middle East destinations, or rerouted planes, on Friday after countries shut airspaces following Israeli strikes on Iran.
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump鈥檚 latest diplomatic foray into the Middle East 鈥� spanning Riyadh, Doha and Abu Dhabi 鈥� unveiled a foreign policy philosophy that is neither grounded in idealism nor constrained by traditional strategic alliances. Instead, it champions a form of calculated pragmatism that is transactional to its core. The abandonment of long-cherished...
France鈥檚 foreign minister said on Wednesday that Iraq should not be pulled into conflicts in a turbulent Middle East during his first visit to the country, which has suffered from decades of instability...
IN RECENT months, the Israeli Defence Forces have been much taken by a term that augurs poorly for peaceful accord in the Middle East. 鈥楽ecurity zones鈥� are being seized in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria. Land is, for claimed reasons of self-defence, being appropriated with brazen assuredness. It is hard, however, to see this latest turn as anything other than a de...
Bangladesh will focus on strengthening economic and energy cooperation with Qatar during the visit of chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus in the oil-rich Middle Eastern country, said chief adviser鈥檚 press secretary Shafiqul Alam in Dhaka on Monday.
THE Middle East has long served as a critical employment destination for migrant workers, especially those from South Asia. The region remains indispensable for Bangladesh, whose economy relies heavily on overseas labour markets. About 70 per cent of Bangladesh鈥檚 more than 15 million overseas workers are employed in Middle Eastern countries, contributing over..
IN ALL negotiations between Arab countries and Israel, 鈥榣and for peace鈥� was never a preferred option to the Zionist movement. Zionist extremist killed Yitzhak Rabin on November 4, 1995 for...
World oil prices jumped Monday on fresh moves by China to boost its聽economy聽and as traders tracked an uncertain future for Syria and the wider crude-rich Middle East...
THE collapse of the Baathist government of Syria in the north of the country, as the al-Qaeda affiliate HTS (Hay鈥檃t Tahrir al-Sham or the Levant Liberation Council) advanced into Aleppo and Hama, could reconfigure the Middle East. The rapidity of the advance and the Muslim fundamentalist leadership of the fighters remind me of the fall of the government of Ashraf Ghani before the Taliban advance...
IT IS too early to draw an outline of the Middle East policy of the incoming Trump administration. The cabinet and other senior positions are shaping up, while Democrats are doing their best to badger Arab-Americans for their vote against the Democratic Party...
G20 leaders on Tuesday were holding the final day of a summit that offered some impetus to stalled UN climate talks, diverged on wars in Ukraine and the Middle East 鈥� and foresaw global turbulence as Donald Trump readies to take over the US presidency...
THE recent escalation in the Middle East, associated with intensified Israeli military operations in Gaza, has drawn constant global attention. The war has made ripple effects on Lebanon, Yemen and Iran. The ongoing conflict has provoked responses from Iran, striking missiles directly on Israel, which is unprecedented, in response to the death of many...
Saudi Arabia鈥檚 de facto ruler on Monday called on Israel to respect Iran鈥檚 sovereignty and refrain from attacking Iranian soil, highlighting warming ties between the Middle East rivals.
The United States announced Friday the deployment of additional military assets to the Middle East, including ballistic missile defense destroyers and long-range B-52 bomber aircraft, serving as...
THE ongoing violence in Gaza has reached an alarming peak, with 93 more lives lost in the latest Israeli airstrikes on October 30. This brings the death toll past 43,000, a tragic number mostly comprising civilians and children, making it one of the deadliest periods in the region鈥檚 history. Each day, Gaza witnesses unimaginable destruction, and the...
Global goods trade is on course for modest growth throughout 2024 and 2025, despite risks emanating from the conflict in the Middle East, the World Trade Organisation forecast Thursday...
OVER the past year, mindful that I have been blessed to live under Oregon鈥檚 tranquil skies, I reflect upon the Palestinians and Lebanese who begin and end theirs days under skies fraught with drones and bombers...
Oil prices rose and major stock markets mostly retreated Thursday as investors reacted to fears of widening conflict in the Middle East and awaited a key US jobs report...
Stock markets wavered while oil prices extended a rally Wednesday as Iran鈥檚 missile attack on Israel fanned fears of a Middle East-wide conflict...
US vice presidential contenders JD Vance and Tim Walz faced off in a surprisingly civil debate Tuesday, despite tense moments on the hot topics of migration, abortion and the threat of war in the Middle East...
President Joe Biden ordered US forces in the Middle East to be adjusted 鈥榓s necessary,鈥� the White House said Friday, after Israel launched a wave of strikes on Lebanon鈥檚 capital...
The United States is sending a 鈥榮mall number鈥� of additional troops to the Middle East in response to rising tensions in the region, the Pentagon said on Monday, giving few further details.
A second wave of device explosions killed nine people and wounded more than 300 in Hezbollah strongholds of Lebanon in the Middle East on Wednesday, officials said, stoking fears of an all-out war in the region.
Iran and Iraq on Wednesday signed more than a dozen agreements to deepen already strong ties as Masoud Pezeshkian visited Baghdad on his first foreign trip as president of the Islamic republic...
A broader regional war in the Middle East where conflict already rages between Hamas and Israel remains a 鈥榮ignificant risk鈥�, the head of the UN peacekeeping force warned on Friday.
THE push towards an all-out war in the Middle East is moving out of its sleepwalking phase to that of conscious eschatological reckoning. A blood filled, fiery Armageddon will reveal the forces of virtue, linking the evangelicals of the United States with the right-wing Jewish nationalists in Israel. That appalling prospect is certainly not one to discount:..
WITH the targeted assassination of Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran on July 30 and a Hezbollah commander in Beirut a day before, the Middle East is once again overcast by the dark clouds of a possible war. Israeli officials are gloating that the head of Hamas, which had carried out the October 7, 2023, strike on Israel, has been killed...
The United States will bolster its military presence in the Middle East, deploying additional warships and fighter jets to protect US personnel and defend Israel amid...
Iran鈥檚 supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday gave his official endorsement of reformist Masoud Pezeshkian as the Islamic republic鈥檚 ninth president.