By Urva tul WusqaEver since its discovery this region has become a powerful point on the geopolitical map of the world owing to its rich resource base and its political instability. Current politi ...

In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...

As rebels in Syria make new advances against government forces, Newsweek has mapped the political stances of the rest of the region ... and outside of the Middle East, such as Russia and Iran.

Who will run Gaza after the war remains one of the great unanswered questions in the negotiations, which have focused on an immediate ceasefire and exchanging hostages. Information ...

A source close to the ongoing Gaza ceasefire talks in Qatar told ABC News that Israel is waiting for Hamas to approve moving ...

Anticipation is growing as Israel and Hamas appear to be at the closest point yet to sealing a deal to end 15 months of war.

Powell, the former U.S. secretary of state who brokered the “road map” to a two-state peace ... to step back from the intensive Middle East peace brokering that had characterized the Clinton ...

The war in Yemen began in 2014, when Houthi fighters swept into the capital, Sanaa, and took over government institutions. Information ...