US Senator Ashley Moody (R-Florida) was in Mayport on Friday afternoon, meeting with sailors on the USS The Sullivans, which just returned home from deployment in the Middle East earlier this month.

He specializes in Middle East security issues. Research Fellow, Zineb Riboua is a research fellow with Hudson Institute’s Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East.

Israel's stock market does better than other Middle East countries, even with wars taking place on multiple fronts.

President Trump’s special envoy said that “we will now consider alternative options to bring the hostages home,” though it was not clear that negotiations had halted.

The United States has brokered a ceasefire in Syria after Israel intervened in support of Druze communities who came under attack

President Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, was heading to the Middle East as the U.S. tries once again to reach a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, a breakthrough that has eluded the administration for months as conditions worsen in Gaza.

Several major news organizations have called on Israel to allow media into and out of the Gaza Strip as conditions in the Palestinian territory worsen. Follow DW for this and the latest updates.

Moscow’s failures will resound beyond the Middle East. Whether the result of Putin’s conscious decision not to intervene or of the Kremlin’s inability to do so, Russia’s abandonment of partners in the region should be a sobering lesson for Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party: that in times of crisis, Russia will not be a reliable ally.

Some of Israel’s closest allies have stepped up criticism of its restrictions on aid to Gaza, where doctors and aid organizations say people are dying of starvation.