Meanwhile, Netanyahu retains the authority as caretaker prime minister to join any U.S. strikes on Iran — a conflict analysts say he could use to pressure rivals into his coalition. Trump has pledged ...

During those consultations, lawmakers are expected to recommend a candidate to be tasked with forming the next government. Qasim added that Yair Golan, leader of the left-wing Democrats Party, had ...

IRGC veteran Mehrdad Ketabchi has long experience in ballistic missiles systems and solid-fuel rockets, Tehran’s likely priorities in rebuilding its battered military.

Court rulings fuel concerns that tensions with Iran could spill over into Kuwait’s delicate relations between Shiite and Sunni nationals.

Israelis are voting in historic elections that will decide the future of their longest-serving prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.

China Holds Back “China has its own calculations and a different strategic reading,” Mohammed Alsudairi, a lecturer in the politics and international relations of the Arabic-speaking world at the ...

Can the state enforce its decisions? Are armed factions and their weapons coming under a unified command? Or are they just building power within state institutions? The answers to these questions ...

China’s criticism of Israel’s military action in Gaza and against Iran has put a breach in an economic relationship Netanyahu once hailed as a “marriage made in heaven.” ...

The United Nations is withering away. It remains a major humanitarian actor and a forum for international debate, but its capacity to manage conflicts, let alone prevent them, has diminished ...

Israel’s political parties differ on whether Jewish settlements should be fostered or discouraged in the West Bank, and on how a post-Hamas Gaza should be administered.

As Israel votes and U.S. midterms near, Dennis Ross tells MBN ‘the timing is dictated more by the president’s political calendar’ than the Israeli prime minister’s.

From Arab voter turnout to the prospect of smaller parties clearing the electoral threshold, five factors could determine whether it is Benjamin Netanyahu or his opponents who form the next government ...