Middle East

FILE PHOTO: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan speaks during an interview with Reuters in Istanbul, Turkey, September 13, 2019. REUTERS/Umit Bektas/File PhotoANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey has ordered the arrest of 223 serving military…

Beirut: The Iran-backed Hezbollah movement said Monday it had downed and seized an Israeli drone as it flew across the Lebanese border, a week after a flash confrontation between the arch-foes. Israel’s army said a drone it was…

AKCAKALE, Turkey/TAL ABYAD, Syria (Reuters) - Armed Turkish military vehicles crossed into war-stricken Syria on Sunday to begin joint patrols with U.S. counterparts to establish a high-stakes “safe zone” along a border region controlled…

BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Syrian army said on Saturday its air defences foiled a drone attack by “terrorist” groups on a main military base in northwestern Syria, where a Russian-brokered ceasefire has stopped months of fighting. The three…

A look at US military bases across the Persian Gulf region As new U.S.-led naval patrols in the Persian Gulf raise the stakes with Iran and Tehran's nuclear deal…

The Iranian military is building a new military base in Syria, Fox News reported on Tuesday, citing multiple Western intelligence sources.…

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel’s military said on Saturday it had ordered extra forces to deploy to its northern command and postponed a training exercise as tensions remained high with Lebanon’s heavily armed Shi’ite movement Hezbollah.…

FDD lost its 2015 battle with Barack Obama’s White House; Iran and world powers including the United States reached a deal that summer. Dubowitz wrote in Foreign Policy then that the deal “was a ticking time bomb,” that “its key…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on two networks it says evaded sanctions to benefit Iran’s government and military organizations, the Treasury Department said. One of the networks used a Hong…

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Israeli air strikes hit a military position belonging to a Palestinian group in Lebanon, near the Syrian border, early on Monday, a security source and Lebanon’s An-Nahar news said. The position belonged to the Popular…