With funding for preserving the historic site in jeopardy, local officials are wondering what will come next for the 800-year ...

The Independent presents the first in an exclusive series from Socotra, an island paradise under threat from a neo-colonial takeover, the vagaries of Yemen’s war and the spectre of climate change ...

Nowhere is the Schadenfreude stronger than in Syria, which has just emerged from a decade-long civil war against Bashar ...

Hubris and miscalculation blew apart Tehran’s decades-old deterrence doctrine as Israel’s appetite for risk grew ...

There’s a throughline between President Donald Trump’s enabling of Israel’s increasingly bloody, risky offensive against Iran ...

As President Donald Trump floats "regime change" in Tehran, previous U.S. attempts to remake the Middle East by force in ...

As Israeli military strikes rocked cities across Iran, Reza Pahlavi — the son of the country’s former shah — embarked upon a ...

As President Donald Trump floats “regime change” in Tehran, previous U.S. attempts to remake the Middle East by force in ...

After openly threatening to bomb Iran, Trump now seems willing to give diplomacy some more time. Here’s the latest.

This brings us back to Syria. Which will gain nothing from normalizing ties with Israel but will sacrifice the nation’s very ...