Former Iranian president Hassan Rouhani criticized his government's Middle East strategy on Thursday in comments published by ...

Weakened by war and diplomatic deadlock, Iran’s clerical elite stands at a crossroads: defy pressure to halt its nuclear ...

His deals are informed by hyper-transactional dealmaking.

Israel had long planned an attack on Iran but delayed it until several factors aligned: Donald Trump’s election in the US, ...

For Trump, brokering peace between Azerbaijan and Armenia — both now estranged from Moscow — offers a safer stage on which to cast himself as a global peacemaker than his efforts to end the war in ...

A peace plan between Armenia and Azerbaijan brokered by Donald Trump calls for a US-backed transit corridor in the South Caucuses. Tehran's response has been surprisingly mixed.

Trump views alliances and diplomacy through a business and trade lens, but now he is more overtly pursuing transactional goals, be it trade benefits, security deals, or foreign policy influence. This ...

Ukraine sidelined; risk of forced territorial swaps without its consent. Could legitimise aggression and enable delays for Russia to reinforce. US-brokered infrastructure projects like the "Trump ...

This proclivity still guides Iran under the gerontocracy of Khamenei and his inner circle. Fifth, the war with Iraq gave the ...

A White House tilt in favour of Pakistan—with Field Marshal Asim Munir being feted—hints of the country being deployed by the ...