As the U.S. and Israel push the region into deeper crisis, the possibility of massive displacement—and the authoritarian backlash that comes with it—is on the rise.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was reportedly shocked by Trump’s warning.

President Trump ignored Israel’s ethnic cleansing in Lebanon after the war on Iran began. Now he wants to claim victory.

Donald Trump suddenly adopted a new line after the increasingly fragile ceasefire was declared.

President Trump doesn’t seem to be fully grasping that his ceasefire is on the verge of collapse.

Donald Trump reportedly begged for a ceasefire. Less than 48 hours later, he already seems over it.

Iran is pressuring Trump to decide between his support for Israel and his desire to see a ceasefire.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is destroying Trump’s ceasefire deal—and he’s proud of it.

The senator is stuck between his obsequiousness to Donald Trump and his hatred of Iran.

Israel has continued to fire strikes at Lebanon.

Israel doesn’t seem to be totally on board with this ceasefire deal.

Lebanese are aghast at what Israel is doing in the south. But more than ever, they are also enraged at Hezbollah. Can the government finally rein Hezbollah in?

Donald Trump’s anti-immigration crusade is sweeping up everyone.

Ivy League doctor and legal visa holder Rasha Alawieh was deported—despite a court order.

The pager attacks and three high-profile assassinations are intelligence and military coups. But there’s little sign they’ve weakened or divided the opposition.

Olaf Scholz, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, and Joe Biden have chosen: They stand against thuggish authoritarianism. Will the world and the GOP join them?

The former Hillary Clinton cheerleader is now one of Bernie Sanders’s biggest online boosters. Critics smell a grift—but maybe Daou is just being Daou.

35 years later, United States foreign policy is still dangerously indecisive in the Middle East.

Sixty years later, a classic Middle Eastern intervention under Eisenhower now looks like a symbol of a dysfunctional relationship.

A look back at what the administration has accomplished in the region in the past year