Toby Dodge, director of the LSE's Middle East Centre, has written for the International Institute for Strategic Studies criticising the tendency of politicians and commentators to talk about the ...

It’s time to renegotiate the contract that put the Middle East together. The “contract” is the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, which divided up most of the Arab lands that had been under the rule of the ...

English-language footage was released on June 29 by a media account associated with the Islamic State (IS), formerly the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/ISIS), calling for further ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday called for stronger solidarity among Islamic nations to counter Israeli actions in the Middle East, accusing Israel of causing regional and global ...

Five centuries ago, the contours of the modern Middle East were shaped through a series of Ottoman battles. The outcomes of these battles—which shaped the region’s politics, demographics and religious ...

Why didn't the Israelis go for the less controversial option of sending their assassination squads (Kidon, in Mossad operational parlance) as they have done on several occasions in the past, to take ...