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NPR's A Martínez asks Michael Ratney, former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, where the Saudis go from here now they're not getting the support they want from the United States.

One of the country's leading human rights organizations says Israel is dismantling all aspects of Palestinian life at a breakneck rate. The group has extensively documented what it says are the mechanisms Israel has used to "ethnically cleanse" the . ...

Iran's attacks forced the U.S. to pull back many troops stationed in the Gulf, leaving the future of these bases in question.

Iranian officials say a meeting with Gulf states to discuss the Strait of Hormuz has been postponed, dealing a blow to efforts to reopen the strait.

Iranian officials say a meeting with Gulf states to discuss the Strait of Hormuz has been postponed, dealing a blow to efforts to reopen the strait.

NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks with Dania Thafer the executive director of the Gulf International Forum, about the upcoming talks between Iran and Gulf states over the Strait of Hormuz.

Palestinian author Raja Shehadeh has secretly sent his archives from the Israeli-occupied West Bank to Scotland, worried they could be destroyed in an Israeli military raid.

Leading Palestinian writer Raja Shehadeh has documented Israel's occupation of the West Bank since day one. Fearing the occupation might consume his archive, he secretly moved it to Scotland ...

Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have captured a strategic island in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. The move threatens Saudi oil exports through a key commercial lane. And Saudi Arabia said it shut down a major oil pipeline as a precaution after it . ...

Yemen's Houthis have overrun Saudi-backed forces to consolidate control along a Red Sea shipping strait.