Iran continues to export oil despite U.S. sanctions and a naval blockade, relying on a network of vessels and intermediaries as well as tactics designed to conceal identities and manipulate ...

Anand Gopal is cautiously optimistic. Much has happened in Syria since he completed the research for Days of Love and Rage, a sprawling non-fiction narrative about a city’s remarkable efforts to ...

The Trump administration is casting its new Venezuela oil agreement as a long-term effort to secure U.S. energy supplies against disruptions from the Iran war in the Strait of Hormuz, though ...

As the G20 gathers in North Carolina this week, the presidents of China, Russia and Iran are headlining a counter-summit of sorts in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, where the Shanghai Cooperation ...

On Aug. 28, Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei’s published a message to the Iranian people. The most striking thing about the text was not his calls for investment, domestic production or ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping is scheduled to arrive in Cairo on Tuesday for a three-day state visit, his first to Egypt since 2016. The visit comes as Egypt considers a proposal from Chinese tech ...

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Egyptian and Chinese flags have proliferated along roads in Cairo and Giza, around Cairo International Airport and near the Grand Egyptian Museum in anticipation of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s ...

Israel and Greece unveiled their “Achilles Shield” defense deal Monday as Tel Aviv’s relations with Turkey are sharply deteriorating, raising questions over whether the multibillion-dollar ...

U.S. sanctions imposed this month have shed light on the role Turkey plays in moving money from Iran to Hezbollah. Where once the Assad government in Syria provided a dependable link between the ...

Earlier this month, the U.S. did something that would have been unimaginable a few years earlier: It removed Syria from the State Sponsor of Terrorism list. Paired with earlier moves to lift ...