Middle east peace talks

Iran is betting that regional escalation will improve its deal with Trump - opinion

Iran’s latest barrages are not just retaliation, they are a warning that any agreement ignoring Tehran’s interests will carry a price.

|ByUZI RABI
An Iranian woman walk past anti-US mural depicting Iran and US negotiation table, painted on the outer walls of the former US embassy, in Tehran on February 6, 2026. Iran and the United States began talks in Oman on February 6, with Washington refusing to rule out military action against Iran
IRANIAN PRESIDENT Masoud Pezeshkian meets with Pakistan army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir in Tehran last week.

When refusal becomes a strategy - opinion

The Islamic Republic isn’t serious when it says it won’t participate in the US talks in Pakistan. Rather, it is leveraging refusal as a strategy

|ByERFAN FARD
Lebanon's President Joseph Aoun addresses the 80th United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York, US, September 23, 2025.

Lebanon's President Aoun says country ready for agreement to end Israeli strikes - AP

Aoun added that talks would also involve the IDF withdrawing from the five outposts in Lebanese territory, where the military said in they would each be manned by a company of troops.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Loay Alshareef is an Arab Muslim peace advocate, historian, and social media influencer

Abraham Accords are no longer Arab–Israeli accords - opinion

The accords are the blueprint for a new world order where nations define themselves not by who they fight, but by what they build together

|ByLOAY ALSHAREEF

Unyielding reality: why an Islamic Middle East rejects Israel - opinion

In the Islamic Middle East, doctrinal antisemites have remained faithful to their most primal hatreds.

JUNE 24, 2024ByLOUIS RENÉ BERES
IRAN’S LATE SUPREME LEADER Ayatollah Ali Khamenei meets with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, last month. It doesn’t matter at all to Iran and Hamas if Israel agrees to political and territorial concessions, says the writer.

Winds of change in the Middle East: Will the focus shift to West Bank, Gaza? - analysis

If peace breaks out in the Middle East, is it plausible that the focus may shift towards the Israel-Palestinian conflict?

APRIL 16, 2023BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
Palestinian and Israeli flags overlook Dome of Rock and Western Wall

Israel is ready for escalation with Hezbollah but doubts Nasrallah's threats

Experts say any large operation against Israel would require a green light from Tehran, which is unlikely to be given for now.

AUGUST 21, 2022ByDEBBIE MOHNBLATT/THE MEDIA LINE
Supporters of Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, gather as they carry flags, marking the commemoration of Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000, in Adaisseh village near the border with Israel, southern Lebanon, May 25, 2022.

Armenia says it agrees Karabakh peace talks with Azerbaijan, will discuss border

In 2020, Azeri troops drove ethnic Armenian forces out of swathes of territory they had controlled since the 1990s in and around Nagorno-Karabakh before Russia brokered a ceasefire.

APRIL 7, 2022ByREUTERS
RUSSIAN PEACEKEEPING troops patrol near the border with Armenia, following a deal to end the military conflict between Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces in Nagorno-Karabakh, in 2020.

Some 49% of Israelis want Biden to relaunch talks with the PA

When asked if Biden should advance talks with the Palestinians, 49% said “yes,” 36% said “no,” and 15% had no opinion.

NOVEMBER 23, 2020ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
Then US Vice-President Joe Biden (L) meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah March 9, 2016

Israel, Bahrain to sign document launching formal ties

Mnuchin to fly in with US delegation for today’s ceremony

OCTOBER 18, 2020ByCELIA JEAN, CODY LEVINE, TOVAH LAZAROFF
The flags of the U.S., United Arab Emirates, Israel and Bahrain flutter along a road in Netanya

Taliban, Afghan forces clash despite talk of breakthrough in peace deal

"As result of a targeted air strike by Afghan air forces, Mawlavi Sardar Mohammad, a key member of the Taliban military commission was killed along with eight others,"

FEBRUARY 14, 2020ByREUTERS
A member of the Taliban holds a flag in Kabul, Afghanistan June 16, 2018. The writing on the flag reads: 'There is no god but Allah, Muhammad is the messenger of Allah'

Peace Deal Nears as US-Taliban Talks Resume

Ninth round of negotiations begin in Doha amid lingering concerns over ISIS and Al-Qa'ida threats

AUGUST 27, 2019ByARSHAD MEHMOOD / THE MEDIA LINE
Afghan security forces keep watch at a check point close to the compound of Afghanistan's national intelligence agency in Kabul, Afghanistan.

In Warsaw, Kushner to begin discussing his vision for Middle East peace

Jared Kushner has spoken little on his vision for a lasting peace agreement, but plans to be a public face of the coming effort.

FEBRUARY 5, 2019ByMICHAEL WILNER
Mahmoud Abbas (L), Jared Kushner (C) and Benjamin Netanyahu (R)

Palestinian leadership has ‘no vision,’ Greenblatt charges

“I have an overloaded wagon of complexities,” Chief Negotiator Saeb Erekat said. “I’m doing my best. I’m under occupation.”

DECEMBER 3, 2018ByMICHAEL WILNER
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas meets with Jason Greenblatt, U.S. President Donald Trump's Middle East envoy, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, March 14, 2017