Yahya Sinwar’s ability to evade capture or death has denied Israel a military success in a war that began…
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An explosive device hidden in a heavily guarded complex where Ismail Haniyeh was known to stay in Iran was…
A Times investigation uncovered new details showing a pattern of rape, mutilation and extreme brutality against women in the attacks…
A heaving mass of flesh and energy has brought life to the host nation’s matches at the World Cup. They…
After a series of damaging failures, a senior Iranian intelligence official lost his job and a Revolutionary Guards general was…
(French military equipment is unloaded from a freight airplane at Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base in Romania last Thursday.) The United…
سيف الإسلام القذافي في “الزنتان” في شهر مايو. تصوير جهاد نجا لصحيفة النيويورك تايمز في أول مقابلة له مع صحفي،…
Mohammad Javad Zarif, the Iranian foreign minister, described a rivalry with a powerful and widely revered military leader, Qassim Suleimani.…
For nearly a decade, Russia and Qatar have been suspected of buying votes to win hosting rights for the 2018…
Russia on Friday rejected an agreement with OPEC on cuts in oil supplies to bolster prices. Saudi Arabia slashed…
A prayer ceremony led by a missionary at a church in Santa Rosa, Brazil. In remote Amazon communities, villagers can…
A mural for the 40th anniversary of the Islamic revolution in Iran was installed in Valiasr Square in Tehran last…
By Adam Goldman, Michael S. Schmidt and Nicholas Fandos WASHINGTON — In the days after President Trump fired James B. Comey as F.B.I. director, law enforcement…
By Mark Mazzetti, Ronen Bergman and David D. Kirkpatrick WASHINGTON — Top Saudi intelligence officials close to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman asked a…
By Ben Hubbard and David D. Kirkpatrick BEIRUT, Lebanon — Jamal Khashoggi landed in Washington last fall, leaving behind a long list of…
By Hannah Beech and Ronen Bergman KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Fadi al-Batsh, a well-liked electrical engineering lecturer and devout family man, always had…
By MARK MAZZETTI, DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and MAGGIE HABERMAN WASHINGTON — George Nader, a Lebanese-American businessman, has hovered on the fringes of international diplomacy…
A turning point: In 2015, Islamist militants brought down a Russian passenger jet in Sinai. Soon after, Israel began a…
Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore., was chosen to host the 2021 world track and field championships. There was no bidding…
By THOMAS ERDBRINK, DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and NILO TABRIZYJAN. TEHRAN — At 25 percent, the interest rate paid on a savings account at the Caspian…
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK LONDON — Saudi Arabia announced the arrest on Saturday night of the prominent billionaire investor Prince Alwaleed…
Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-Sabah of Kuwait, the head of the influential umbrella organization for the world’s 205 national Olympic federations,…
By DAVID ZUCCHINOSEPT ERBIL, Iraq — In a region where few people concur on anything, adversaries and enemies in the…
How the Kremlin built one of the most powerful information weapons of the 21st century — and why it may…
By BEN HUBBARD, MARK MAZZETTI and ERIC SCHMITTJULY AMMAN, Jordan — As next in line to be king of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Nayef was…
By TIM ARANGO BAGHDAD — Walk into almost any market in Iraq and the shelves are filled with goods from Iran — milk, yogurt,…
By BEN HUBBARD, ERIC SCHMITT and MARK MAZZETTIJUNE BEIRUT, Lebanon — The recently deposed crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Nayef, has been barred…
By MATTHEW ROSENBERG, ADAM GOLDMAN and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT President Obama in December. Some in his administration feared that…
BY REBECCA R. RUIZ MOSCOW — Russia is for the first time conceding that its officials carried out one of…
By ANDREW HIGGINS PARIS — The golden main dome of a new Russian Orthodox cathedralnow under construction on the banks…
Critics see Saudi Arabia’s export of a rigid strain of Islam as contributing to terrorism, but the kingdom’s influence depends greatly on…
DAVID E. SANGER WASHINGTON — A year after President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran, the worst predictions of what would happen…
By REBECCA R. RUIZ, JULIET MACUR and IAN AUSTEN When Darya Pishchalnikova, above, a discus thrower, told the World Anti-Doping…
The director of Russia’s antidoping laboratory at the time of the Sochi Games said urine samples were surreptitiously replaced by…
How Ben Rhodes rewrote the rules of diplomacy for the digital age. By DAVID SAMUELS Ben Rhodes, deputy national security adviser for…
By MOHAMMED ALAA GHANEMFEB. 3, 2016 AS the fraught Syria peace talks inch forward in Geneva, the United States finds…
Imam Moussa al-Sadr, an Iranian-born cleric, in the 1970s. Mr. Sadr, who lived in Lebanon and became an ardent…
By SAM BORDEN Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini, two of the most powerful figures in global soccer, were barred from…
By EMILY B. HAGER and MARK MAZZETTI WASHINGTON — The United Arab Emirates has secretly dispatched hundreds of Colombian mercenaries…
By REBECCA R. RUIZ, MATT APUZZO, SAM BORDEN and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM The investigation into corruption and bribery in…
By ADAM NOSSITER and AURELIEN BREEDENNOV. 14, 2015 SLIDE SHOW|10 Photos PARIS — President François Hollande called the…
By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI and ERIC SCHMITT President Hassan Rouhani, by a picture of the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The…
By MICHAEL R. GORDON and ERIC SCHMITT WASHINGTON — Russia has sent a military advance team to Syria and is…
http://edge.media.cfr.org/content/publications/media/meetings/2015/20150604Saudi_Arabia_and_Israel.mp4 By DAVID E. SANGERJUNE WASHINGTON — A new merging of strategic interests between Saudi Arabia and Israel was on…