Uncertainty surrounds the issue of restricting weapons to the state in Iraq, as Iran-aligned militias announce a reversal of their long-standing opposition to surrendering their arms. The militias ...

As it has done at similar junctures, Omani diplomacy moved to extinguish the flames of disputes that have recently flared between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, following an airstrike ...

In recent years, the world’s attention has drifted away from Somalia as major global crises consumed the military capacities of many countries and dominated their diplomatic focus. That ...

Between images of escalating security incidents on screens and social media platforms on one hand, and an unrelenting longing for her “first home” on the other, Rana faced a difficult decision: ...

Alan Eyre, a diplomatic fellow at the Middle East Institute, told Alhurra that Iran’s internal situation is deteriorating rapidly. “The past year has brought severe water stress to major urban centers ...

Rapid developments in Yemen over the past several hours are shaping what appears to be a new phase in the country and could pave the way for a potential shift in the map of alliances among Yemeni ...

Iranian opposition figures told Alhurra that Iran is building a security wall inside Iraq’s Kurdistan Region, running parallel to the Iranian border. Khalil Kani Sinani, a senior figure in the ...

Commercial shipping in the Red Sea no longer resembles what it was in past decades. The waterway has been militarized, with warships and naval fleets from distant powers flowing into it. As the ...

Israel’s Defense Ministry announcement that it had delivered the “Or Eitan” system was not framed as a routine technical update. The language of the statement, the timing of the announcement and ...

Protests began last Sunday as merchants in major commercial and electronics centers in Tehran—including the Alaeddin and Charsou complexes downtown—closed their shops and took to the streets ...

U.S. President Donald Trump made a series of significant remarks Monday while hosting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, including a threat against ...

In the Middle East, political and security conditions rarely serve the economic ambitions of its countries. The region, where armed conflicts stretch across vast areas, has long curbed — and at ...