Military build-ups, airstrikes, sanctions and more are pushing U.S.-Iran tensions to breaking point, heightening the potential for war.

Bron and Winocour, as well as the series’ cast, Stevenson, Fenella Woolgar and Marandi, composer Amine Bouhafa and Julien ...

As of now, we remain at a simmer, just shy of reaching a boiling point. It is reasonable to fear that the U.S. is spiraling ...

Here’s a look at Kurdish people. Kurds do not have an official homeland or country. Most reside within countries in the Middle East including northern Iraq, eastern Turkey, western Iran and small ...

Here’s a look at ongoing civil war in Syria. Facts Bashar al-Assad ruled Syria as president from July 2000-December 2024. His father, Hafez al-Assad, ruled Syria from 1970-2000. The ongoing violence ...

The Lebanon ceasefire is also interconnected with many of the Trump administration's other Middle East policy priorities.

Thanks to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey is no longer a reliable U.S. ally. There is no future for Turkish-American relations ...

But maybe not. Trump is very much under the influence of Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who really does want the ...

To hammer home the message, three European envoys made clear in a March 11 meeting with Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani in ...

The US halted aid to Jordan in 2025 as Trump urged it to accept Palestinian refugees. Despite tensions, alternatives like ...

The one thing holding Syria together now is Ahmed al-Sharaa, who has taken on the near-impossible job of teaching his people ...

On CloseUp, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen said, " I think [President Donald Trump] is being manipulated by Vladimir Putin because he's ...