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Frank GardnerBBC |
The Houthis continue to confound some of the world's most powerful militaries. They are still firing missiles at any international shipping they...
Washington now finds itself facing a dilemma. President Joe Biden has promised a strong response to Sunday's deadly attack on a US military base in...
The mass attack by Yemen's Houthi rebels against vessels in the Red Sea on 9 January was their biggest yet and it signals two things. Firstly, the...
The past 12 months have seen a number of setbacks for the US, Europe and other major democracies on the international politics stage. None has been...
The disastrous incident in which Israel Defense Forces (IDF) troops shot dead three Israeli hostages in Gaza on Friday, mistaking them for Hamas...
Hypocrisy, double standards and a failure to understand the region. These are the charges being levelled at the West, primarily the US, by leaders of...
The abduction by Hamas of over 200 hostages seized from southern Israel on 7 October has propelled the small, gas-rich Arab Gulf state of Qatar into...
A speech made by Prince Turki al-Faisal of Saudi Arabia this week on the current violence in the Middle East is unusually frank for a senior member of...
As hundreds of thousands of Israeli troops, regular and reservist, gather on Gaza's borders, the Israeli government faces a near impossible situation....
"We have no idea how this could have happened." That is the reaction Israeli officials have been giving today when I ask them how, with all its vast...
Ukraine's generals say they have "broken through" Russia's first line of defence in the south. We've assessed how far Ukrainian forces have really...