Egyptian and Chinese flags have proliferated along roads in Cairo and Giza, around Cairo International Airport and near the Grand Egyptian Museum in anticipation of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s ...

Israel and Greece unveiled their “Achilles Shield” defense deal Monday as Tel Aviv’s relations with Turkey are sharply deteriorating, raising questions over whether the multibillion-dollar ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping is scheduled to arrive in Cairo on Tuesday for a three-day state visit, his first to Egypt since 2016. The visit comes as Egypt considers a proposal from Chinese tech ...

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U.S. sanctions imposed this month have shed light on the role Turkey plays in moving money from Iran to Hezbollah. Where once the Assad government in Syria provided a dependable link between the ...

Earlier this month, the U.S. did something that would have been unimaginable a few years earlier: It removed Syria from the State Sponsor of Terrorism list. Paired with earlier moves to lift ...

It’s not just the process of disarming Hezbollah that is proving harder for Lebanon than anticipated. Last year, before that fraught effort was initiated as part of negotiations to end the U.S.

The Trump administration says Syria’s new government has done enough in opposing ISIS, Iran and Hezbollah to justify ending the country’s 47-year terrorism designation, as Washington tries to ...

From his home in Mashdad, a city in the northeast corner of Iran, Jalil roused himself from bed at 4 in the morning to head to his local gas station. In a country with the fourth largest oil ...

As the Houthis’ escalate their campaign in Yemen, Tareq Saleh, commander of the National Resistance Forces, has re-emerged after rumors of his death and declared himself ready to wage a “decisive ...

Issam Ghamira wants only one thing: for those responsible for the death of his nephew, Mohammad, to be identified and held accountable. Mohammad’s death sparked outrage in Syria and revived ...

Israeli strikes on Abu al-Duhur air base in northwest Syria appear to mark an escalation of tension with Turkey, as Washington scrambled to prevent a full-blown clash between two of its most ...