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For weeks, people on Persian-language social media have been asking about the fate of Mohammad-Bagher Kharrazi, a senior cleric with close ties to the leadership of the regime. Early last month, ...

The Trump administration says the Strait of Hormuz is now fully open to shipping and that the U.S. Navy controls the waterway after clearing Iranian mines and securing the passage of vessels not ...

For much of the summer, the Trump administration has sought to keep its war with Iran from activating the Middle East’s other fault lines. The Saudi-Houthi front in Yemen, largely quiet since a ...

Satellite imagery showed a black smoke plume at Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline after being attacked on Thursday, prompting the kingdom to shut the line down. A senior Saudi official said ...

Mohammed Ali was 20 years old when he sat in front of his television in Baghdad on Sept. 11, 2001, watching the news unfold from half a world away. He had little interest in what was happening in ...

For nearly four years, Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has seemed to be one crisis away from collapse. It has weathered a bitter fight over the judiciary, the shock of the Oct. 7 attack, a ...

Twenty-five years ago, the attacks of Sept. 11 exposed the depth of the ties between some citizens of the Gulf states and jihadist movements that had begun taking shape years earlier in the fight ...

A quarter-century after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington killed nearly 3,000 people, a single kingpin of the international jihadist movement is difficult to identify. More ...

The Mecca Defense Alliance took a significant step toward becoming a formal regional security bloc this week, as Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan agreed to establish a permanent secretariat in ...

On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Laura Rockefeller went to the 106th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center for a temporary job. She was 41, an actress and singer trying to build a ...