For now, Iran is focusing on immediate survival over longer-term political strategy. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more ...

This weekend, US Vice President JD Vance and UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy convened at the idyllic Chevening House in Kent ...

The US approach to the Gaza—unconditional support for Israel and public pressure for humanitarian restraint—is neither ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - European powers on Wednesday called on Iran to cooperate in talks over its nuclear program, stressing that Tehran cannot have a nuclear weapon and that imposing the ...

HASAN T. ALHASAN is Senior Fellow for Middle East Policy at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. EMILE HOKAYEM ...

France, Germany and the UK have told the UN they are prepared to trigger the reimposition of sanctions on Iran unless it ...

Syrian and Israeli officials agreed to meet again after no final accord was reached in U.S.-mediated talks in Paris on ...

U.S. Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff has said talks between Washington and Tehran were "promising" and that Washington was hopeful for a long-term peace deal.

Middle East situation ‘perilous’, says Lammy amid calls for more talks - David Lammy flew from Washington to Geneva on Friday to meet Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi.

Middle East, Ukraine: first Putin-Macron phone talk in three years The leaders emphasized the need for a political and diplomatic resolution to all contentious issues and agreed to maintain ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep asks former president of Ireland, Mary Robinson, who now works with human rights group The Elders, about her upcoming visit to Egypt's border with Gaza.