The Kremlin warned on Friday that the Middle East was plunging into "an abyss of instability and war" and said Moscow was ...

“If the Middle East is unstable, the world will not be at peace,” Chinese President Xi Jinping said Thursday. “If the ...

European foreign ministers will meet their Iranian counterpart in Geneva to try to de-escalate the crisis between Iran and ...

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"The fact remains that Russia was unable to prevent a mass strike by Israel on a country with which five months ago [Russia] ...

Decades of nurturing proxies has alienated the region. Tehran now faces a conflict with Israel alone, writes Lina Khatib.

Iran is a strategic partner to Russia, but Moscow isn't rushing to Tehran's aid in the face of Israeli strikes.

A president is being driven – by events, fear of proliferating weapons of mass destruction and the need to back up his own ...

The spiraling Israel-Iran conflict has conjured painful memories of oil shocks from past Middle East wars and boosted global ...

A decade after a landmark U.N. report concluded North Korea committed crimes against humanity, a U.N. official investigating ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump have held a lengthy phone call to discuss the escalating ...