The Syrian government is seeking to avoid becoming a theatre for conflict between Israel and Iran, as the pair continued trading blows this week…

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran who ruled over the Islamic Republic for more than three decades as it faced off with the West, was…

**Update: On 22 June, the US struck three Iranian nuclear sites, making it the first direct American attack since Israel's unprecedented strike a…

On global financial markets, the reaction to escalating tensions in the Middle East and the direct military confrontation between Israel and Iran has…

The argument that the war between Iran and Israel comes down to the fate of Fordow is lazy and even misleading. Let’s assume for a moment that US…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has portrayed Iran as posing an existential threat to his country, invoking a powerful form of political…

The revelation that US President Donald Trump has given his private authorisation for the US military to attack Iran raises the alarming prospect of…

A new book by the former Arab Israeli politician Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi raises complex, painful, and enduring questions both for Palestinians, Arabs,…

Israel's unprecedented attack on Iran is hardly surprising. It follows decades of animosity, proxy battles and covert intelligence operations. But…

Former Iranian Economy Minister Ehsan Khandouzi has said that tankers and LNG cargoes should only transit the Strait of Hormuz with Iranian…