Foreign correspondent Sarah Coates discusses a “new era” in the Middle East war. Tensions have continued to escalate in the ...

Israel launched one of its most intense bombardments against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon this year Thursday, hours after the ...

America in the Middle East During the Cold War is a book that grapples with the question of how the United States managed to succeed in the Middle East during the time of the superpower struggle.

The US has maintained a heightened military presence in the Middle East, with around 50,000 troops, more than 10 warships, ...

This book examines the careers of 53 area experts in the US State Department's Middle East bureau during the Cold War. Known as Arabists or Middle East hands, they were very different in background, ...

New details are coming out about two coordinated attacks across Lebanon that turned communication devices into deadly weapons ...

The Cold War saw deepening Soviet–American rivalry in the Middle East from the mid-1950s to the late 1970s on three levels – a geopolitical struggle to recruit allies and secure access to strategic ...

Using guest speakers, this video clip examines how the Suez Crisis of 1956 changed international relationships and the landscape of power in the Middle East ... The Six-Day War and the Palestinian ...

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. has kept an increased military presence in the Middle East throughout much of the past year, with about 40,000 forces, at least a dozen warships and four Air Force fighter jet ...

In the Middle East and Africa the Cold War was waged by proxies of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. with no direct military confrontation between the two superpowers. But in Asia, the U.S. was a direct ...

The Cold War was a global event ... United States to create a holistic image of the Cold War World. These collections draw from a wide range of documents written in/about North America, Asia, the ...