Middle East

The tablets, which date to the early second millennium B.C., feature omens predicting various disasters.

Seventy-one years ago, a pair of energetic brothers carried out a plan to overthrow a pesky Middle Eastern government, setting in motion a chain of events that has the region on the cusp of all-out war.

The Russian president said his country has been watching the war in Gaza with "great pain and concern."

Tensions throughout the Middle East have remained high in recent weeks amid Israel's ongoing war with Hama militants in Gaza.

The Chinese aircraft carrier Shandong returned to the Philippine Sea as a U.S. Navy "flat-top" was ordered to leave the region.

All off-duty soldiers currently in Georgia or Azerbaijan must also return to Israel.

A U.S. nuclear-powered submarine armed with more than 150 missiles is heading to the Middle East.

If next-generation philanthropists do not step up for human rights, we will continue to leave communities to defend for themselves.

While it's clear what Iran's larger strategic goals are, Israel's are opaque, and without a broader vision, Israel cannot win.

The group maintains significant influence in the Middle Eastern country.

"Just working with one country will not really work," nephrologist Thomas Müller told Newsweek about a black market that preys on the desperate.

No policy choice is cost-free. Not even when the benefits are clear.

The U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force are sending fighter jets to the Middle East amid tensions between Iran and Israel.

For a long time, Finland's Middle East policy was notably balanced and occasionally pro-Israel.

President Joe Biden reaffirmed his country's commitment to protecting Israel in a conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday.

Lebanon has now been added to the do not travel list for Americans as tensions in the Middle East escalate.

USS Florida, armed with 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles, returned to home base after a round-the-world deployment.

Iranian officials said there will "special operations" conducted in response to the killing of Hamas' political chief in Tehran.

Israel and Hezbollah may be mortal enemies, but it's difficult to see how a full-blown conflict serves either of their interests.

Data complied by online tracker Rocket Alert, from IDF Home Front Command figures, reflects an increase in Hezbollah rockets, while rockets Hamas have declined.

The Neolithic woman was buried alongside a number of animal remains, including a cattle skull and a partridge bone.

The former president and Republican nominee for the 2024 election reacted to a rocket strike that killed 12 people.

The Israeli Cabinet official Eli Cohen vowed to "exact a heavy price" from Lebanon.

The scarlet dye that researchers detected on the 3,800-year-old textile fragments was highly valued in the ancient world.

The 3,500-year-old tablet contains an ancient language written in cuneiform—the world's earliest known writing system.

The plot involved the sabotage of Ahmadinejad's car, which his security team discovered just in time to prevent a potentially fatal outcome.

When it comes to U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, Democrats and Republicans often behave as two slightly different faces of the same single-party state.

The ancient structure appears to have been occupied between the mid-4th and mid-8th centuries, according to archaeologists.

Among the evidence used to construct the boat was an ancient clay tablet dating back to the 21st century B.C.

An Iranian home-built warship has completely sunk after a failed salvage operation.