Rebalancing Power in the Middle East

A strong response by Tehran would prompt an even tougher Israeli counterstrike, and could cause a deadly escalation.

Germany, France and the United Kingdom will be the primary backers of the trade channel with Iran known as INSTEX. The United States, however, has already threatened to sanction it.

With Syria's current government staying put, the rest of the Arab world is realizing it might be better to work with Bashar al Assad rather than against him.

The traditionally hard-line Islamist kingdom has been encouraging citizens to identify more strongly with their geographic location, and it has even shown signs of increasing tolerance for other religious faiths.

An unconfirmed report suggests Kurdish forces will return to Kirkuk, indicating a potential improvement in relations between Baghdad and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

Following two years of tumult on the world stage, the desert kingdom isn't altering its foreign policy goals -- just the way it goes about attaining them.

Yemen's bloody civil war is by no means done, but recent talks between the Houthis and the internationally recognized government have left the door open to reduced hostilities.

Rising protest movements from nationalists and the economically aggrieved are pressuring Jordanian King Abdullah II to adopt policies that his foreign benefactors are sure to oppose.

The Israel Defense Forces have launched Operation Northern Shield to destroy Hezbollah-built tunnels running beneath Israel's border with Lebanon, risking a potential escalation with the country's Iranian-backed northern neighbor.