The US wants Israel to remain secure, but it also wants Israel to be able to take responsibility for its own policies. That means the US cannot always step in to help Israel deal with Lebanon, Gaza, ...

Israel launched its preemptive attack on Iran in June under the pretense of thwarting the imminent fruition of Tehran’s ...

Critics once called it isolationist. But national security experts now say Donald Trump’s "America First" strategy is proving to be something else entirely — a hard-nosed policy of deterrence built on ...

President Donald Trump told Fox News in an exclusive interview Monday that he credits the U.S. strikes on key Iranian nuclear sites for making the Israel-Hamas peace deal possible. Trump made the ...

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamanei attends an event in Tehran, Iran, on May 10, 2025. Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamanei attends an event in Tehran, Iran, on May 10, 2025.

With no negotiations, no oversight and no clarity about Iran’s stock of nuclear material, many in the region fear another war with Israel is inevitable. By Steven Erlanger Steven Erlanger has written ...

The events of October 7, 2023, shook Israel to its core. Hamas’s brutal attack—which left some 1,200 dead and hundreds more held captive—made clear to Israel’s leaders and citizens alike that the ...

If Israel lacks the demographic weight to impose its own hegemonic order on the Middle East, it has instead constructed a system to prevent anyone else from doing so. Since the Hamas-led assaults of ...

A man sits on the remains of an Iranian missile that fell at the settlement of Neria near Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, on 29 June 2025, in the aftermath of the 12-day war between Israel and ...

The Iranian authorities said Monday they had hanged a man they accused of spying for Israel, the latest in what is believed to be the largest wave of executions by Tehran in decades, according to ...