On July 26, 1956, 100,000 Egyptians gathered at Liberation Square ... to launch a war and seize control of the Suez Canal. As ...

Israeli decision makers are hard-headed realists who know that taking on Iran on own steam is way beyond their country’s ...

The encouraging news is that Israel, in cooperation with Britain, the United States and – rather surprisingly – Jordan, did ...

Israel’s victory was a watershed moment, both for the tiny nation and for the wider Middle East. It was also key to forging a ...

Not only has the United States failed to be a reliable and consistent friend to its allies, but in trying to curry the favor of dictators, we have encouraged their exploits and expansionism. President ...

The UK is not a major international player in the Gaza war. Despite calls for London to halt arms sales to Israel, it ...

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the symbolic end of the Cold War. But it was an economic not a military victory – ...

Shipping traffic through the vital Suez Canal artery in Egypt has plunged by 66% since cargo was forced to divert due to attacks on vessels, according to official figures. The data, from the UK's ...

In contrast to the Palestinians who have lived in their land for thousands of years and share a single language and stable identity, Israel gathered its disparate peoples and tribes from across the ...

Iran’s leaders have in other circumstances shown restraint in use of force. In 1988, near the end of the long Iran-Iraq war, ...

I once heard Benjamin Netanyahu say in a speech on television that he would prefer “bad press to a good obituary.” Now with ...