Modern wars show how easily leaders meet rhetorical burden of justification and avoid strategic burden of ending them.

The conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people is one of the longest-running and most violent disputes in the world. Its origins go back more than a century. There have been a series of wars ...

In many ways, the conflict between Iran and the U.S. and Israel has been decades in the making. Ramtin Arablouei, host of NPR's podcast "Throughline," explains how.

The current war in the Middle East is just about a week old, but the history of US intervention in Iran dates back to the ...

The Oslo Accords of 1993 resulted in Israel turning over Gaza to the Palestinian National Authority to govern. In 1994, Israel withdrew from Gaza and Jericho and allowed the PNA authority to govern.

Amid rising regional security concerns, the United States has withdrawn some diplomatic personnel and military families from its embassy in Baghdad, Iran. This decision occurs during a period of ...

Israel’s current genocide in Gaza and recently announced plans to occupy Gaza City are both part of a long and tortured history of Israeli military occupations of the tiny strip. Whenever we imagine ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, entered Syrian territory Tuesday and said Israeli troops would remain in the area indefinitely, blurring the border with its northern ...