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, ...

A peace plan between Armenia and Azerbaijan brokered by Donald Trump calls for a US-backed transit corridor in the South ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

But the makings of a deal are already in place. Trump wants to keep both Israel and the Gulf states happy, and the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and others have made clear what they ...

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 ...

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

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