The fight between two well-armed regional powers has their neighbors worried about the conflict spreading, a concern worsened ...

Over the next three decades, Khamenei turned Iran around into as assertive power wielding influence across the Middle East.

President Trump, who weeks ago rebuked America’s misadventures in the Middle East, appears to be on the cusp of his own ...

Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, crushed internal threats during more than three decades in power ...

While Tehran has spent decades building up militias in Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq and Syria, most of the groups have found themselves battered in recent years, making them unable and unwilling to ...

Over three decades, the hard-liners who control Iran’s regime had built up what seemed like a formidable system of deterrence. They stockpiled ballistic missiles. They developed and advanced a nuclear ...

The Houthis are mindful of maintaining their alliance with Iran while avoiding military overextension that threatens their ...

No one knows what awaits Israel or Iran, whether there’s an off-ramp or if the US will join the war. Still, these dynamics ...

Thomas L. Friedman is the foreign affairs Opinion columnist. He joined the paper in 1981 and has won three Pulitzer Prizes.

Israel is the main destabilizing force in the Middle East, and its attacks on Iran are being made possible by U.S. support.

The neoconservatives who orchestrated the disastrous wars with Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya — and who were never held ...

The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah was long considered Iran’s first line of defense in case of a war with Israel.