The risk is that the anti-Israel “axis of resistance” from Iran could be replaced by a new pro-Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood alliance led by Turkey’s president.

This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “Of Mecca and Mammon” ...

Some background behind the historical ties between the people of Gaza, the West Bank, British Mandate Palestine and the wider Muslim world.

I have stood at the Israeli-Gaza border and met Palestinians entering Israel for work, medical treatment, travel abroad, and ...

Turkey’s deepening ties with Syria could shift regional power dynamics, impacting Israel, Iran, and NATO while strengthening ...

A car bomb on Monday killed 15 people in the northern Syrian city of Manbij where Kurdish forces are battling Turkey-backed ...

Greek Defense Minister Nikos Dendias said NATO needs to take seriously Turkey's expansionist ambitions and President ...

Hayan Hadid was 18 when soldiers arrested him in his pyjamas and took him for execution in Syria's Hama in 1982, during one ...

In the face of Hamas threat, President Trump proposes Egypt and Jordan take in Gazan refugees while Gaza undergoes cleansing ...

Israel, which is already facing the looming threat of an Iran-Israel, must now deal with the emerging challenge from Turkey ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A search and rescue operation was underway in central Turkey on Friday after a four ...

Two months ago, then-President-Elect Donald Trump, with his special envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff by his side, ...