Most stock markets in the Gulf were subdued on Sunday after a report suggested Iran might be preparing a retaliatory strike on Israel from Iraqi territory in the coming
November 03, 2024
Israeli airstrikes killed at least 31 people in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, Palestinian medics said, with nearly half of the deaths in northern areas where the army
November 03, 2024
Palestinians were living under occupation for decades before the war. A Palestinian and an Israeli united to show the world their reality
November 03, 2024
Israel has long wanted to dismantle the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency. The consequences could be disastrous for all
November 03, 2024
An Iranian-American journalist who once worked for a U.S. government-funded broadcaster is believed to be detained by Iran for months now
November 03, 2024
The last three hospitals still partially functioning in northern Gaza have been encircled by Israeli troops and caught amid fighting for weeks
November 03, 2024
Israel's military announced updates to its Home Front Command's defensive guidelines on Saturday, raising the alert level in the Lower Galilee and southern Golan regions from "partial" to
November 02, 2024
An Israeli military official says Israeli naval forces have captured a senior Hezbollah operative in north Lebanon
November 02, 2024
An Israeli naval force mounted a "special operation" in the northern Lebanese coastal town of Batroun early on Friday and captured one person, a security source said.
November 02, 2024
Iran’s supreme leader vows ‘teeth-breaking’ response to Israel and US after strikes on military sites
November 02, 2024
An attack on a central Israeli town has injured 11 as Iran’s supreme leader vowed a punishing response to Israel’s attack last week
November 02, 2024
Iran’s supreme leader has threatened Israel and the U.S. with “a crushing response” over attacks on Iran and its allies
November 02, 2024
Satellite imagery and data collected by mapping experts show extensive destruction in 11 villages in southern Lebanon located immediately next to the border with Israel
November 02, 2024
Rockets fired from Lebanon wounded 11 people in central Israel on Saturday, Israeli emergency services said, after one of them hit a house, as prospects for a
November 01, 2024
The United States said on Friday it will deploy B-52 bombers, fighter jets, refueling aircraft and Navy destroyers to the Middle East, in a readjustment of military assets as
November 01, 2024
The Pentagon says Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is sending additional bomber aircraft and Navy warships to the Middle East to bolster the U.S. presence in the region
November 01, 2024
Basel Adra, a Palestinian, and Yuval Abraham, an Israeli, spent five years making a movie that depicts daily life in Adra’s village under Israeli occupation
November 01, 2024
American efforts to halt fighting between Israel and Hezbollah have failed after the U.S. drafted an "unrealistic" ceasefire proposal and Israel's insistence on being
November 01, 2024
The situation in the northern Gaza Strip is "apocalyptic" as Israel pursues a military offensive against Hamas militants in the area, top United Nations
November 01, 2024
Kamal Kharrazi, an adviser to Iran's supreme leader, said on Friday that Tehran is likely to increase the range of its ballistic missiles and possibly review its nuclear doctrine, amid
November 01, 2024
An Associated Press review shows that Israel is falling far short of U.S. demands to surge the level of humanitarian assistance allowed into Gaza or risk possible restrictions on U.S. military funding
November 01, 2024
The Israeli cabinet approved a long-delayed wartime budget package on Friday that includes a raft of tax increases and spending cuts to pay for a war that has entered its second
November 01, 2024
A U.S. official asked Lebanon to declare a unilateral ceasefire with Israel to revive stalled talks to end Israeli-Hezbollah hostilities, a senior
November 01, 2024
Lebanese health authorities say that Israel has launched dozens of intense airstrikes across Lebanon’s northeastern farming villages, killing at least 52 people and wounding 72 others
November 01, 2024
Prospects of a ceasefire between Israel and its foes Hamas and Hezbollah ran aground on Friday as Israeli airstrikes killed
November 01, 2024
Christians in many countries around the world are celebrating All Saints’ Day, a somber and spiritual day in the church’s liturgical calendar that shares pagan roots with Halloween
November 01, 2024
Nerjes Hassan was so worried her children would fall ill from bathing in the frigid water of a displacement shelter in northeast Lebanon that she
November 01, 2024
Forty seven Palestinians were killed and dozens injured, most of them children and women, in overnight Israeli bombardment of the the central Gaza Strip, the Palestinian news agency
November 01, 2024
Rescuers in northeast Lebanon were searching for survivors after Israeli airstrikes killed at least 52 people
November 01, 2024
More than a year into a war that has ricocheted across the Middle East, Israeli troops are still battling Hamas in the most heavily destroyed and isolated part of the Gaza Strip
November 01, 2024
Four Thai nationals were killed and one was injured by rocket fire near the town of Metula, close to the border between Lebanon and Israel, Thai Foreign Minister Maris Sangiampongsa
November 01, 2024
Israel's decision for a month's waiver extension on co-operation between Israeli and Palestinian banks covered a "very short term" and would create "another
November 01, 2024
Israel pounded Beirut's southern suburbs with a series of powerful airstrikes early on Friday morning after issuing evacuation orders to residents, in the first such strikes in days
November 01, 2024
Israeli bulldozers damaged the office of U.N. aid agency UNRWA in the West Bank's Nur Shams camp on Thursday, the agency's chief said, with Israel disputing his account in the latest
October 31, 2024
Nervously watching Israel's destructive campaigns in Gaza and Lebanon, Iraq is working to avoid being drawn into the growing regional conflict as
October 31, 2024
Iraq's parliament elected on Thursday Sunni lawmaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani as its speaker, lawmakers said, breaking a nearly year-long deadlock over the position that had remained
October 31, 2024
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy blasted what he called his allies' "zero" response to Russia's deployment of North Korean troops for the war in Ukraine,
October 31, 2024
The European Council President warned on Thursday that Israel's decision to ban the key U.N. aid agency for Gaza could result in the annulment of a deal establishing Israeli trade
October 31, 2024
At a recent naturalization ceremony, nine immigrants from countries spanning from Lebanon and Germany to Taiwan and Mexico took their oaths to become American citizens
October 31, 2024
A Lebanese judge has charged the country’s detained former central bank governor with illicit enrichment and issued an arrest warrant
October 31, 2024
Israeli Finance Minister Smotrich, under pressure from U.S.
October 31, 2024
Radiohead singer Thom Yorke took off his guitar and left the stage during his solo concert in Melbourne, Australia, after being heckled by a pro-Palestinian protester.
October 31, 2024
Radiohead’s Thom Yorke walks off stage after being heckled by pro-Palestinian protester
October 31, 2024
Germany has ordered the closure of all three Iranian Consulates in the country in response to the execution of Iranian German prisoner Jamshid Sharmahd, who lived in the United States and was kidnapped in Dubai in 2020 by Iranian security forces
October 31, 2024
Saudi Arabia denounced Israeli attacks in northern Gaza as genocide on Thursday, telling foreign investors that some bilateral agreements it has been negotiating with
October 31, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told U.S. envoys on Thursday that Israel's ability to counter threats to its security from
October 31, 2024
At least 46 Palestinians were killed in Israeli military strikes across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, mostly in the north where one attack hit a hospital, torching
October 31, 2024
Israeli security forces have broken up a suspected spy ring inside Israel that was working on behalf of Iranian intelligence - the latest such espionage group in
October 31, 2024
Israeli authorities say rocket barrages fired from Lebanon have killed four Thai agricultural workers and three Israelis in northern Israel in the deadliest cross-border strikes from the country since Israel launched its ground invasion
October 31, 2024
The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group could potentially restart peace talks with the Turkish government, after President Tayyip Erdogan's main ally last week revived
October 31, 2024
Israeli strikes on the West Bank's Nur Shams refugee camp on Thursday killed two Palestinians including a child, the Palestinian health ministry reported.
October 31, 2024
Most major stock markets in the Gulf rose in early trade on Thursday, buoyed by hopes for a potential ceasefire deal between Israel and Hezbollah.
October 31, 2024
Israeli medics say a series of rocket barrages from Lebanon have killed a total of seven people, including four Thai workers
October 31, 2024
Growth in the Middle East and North Africa region is expected to rebound to 4% next year, but will hinge on a phase out of oil production cuts and headwinds subsiding
October 31, 2024
A Palestinian ambulance worker in Gaza was devastated to realize he was carrying his own mother's body
October 30, 2024
A military contractor accused of contributing to the abuse of detainees at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison two decades ago is again on trial in a federal courtroom after a long-awaited civil case earlier this year ended with a hung jury
October 30, 2024
The United States on Wednesday urged Israel to protect civilian lives and cultural sites in Lebanon after Israel began heavy airstrikes on
October 30, 2024
President Joe Biden and Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides have discussed a new effort by the U.S. administration and mediators in the Middle East to forge cease-fires to end fighting in Lebanon and Gaza
October 30, 2024
Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday said he and President Joe Biden discussed U.S. efforts to halt hostilities between Israel and Lebanese armed group Hezbollah
October 30, 2024
Wrapped in gauze from her head to her tiny toes, toddler Ivana Skayki lies nearly motionless in a hospital bed much too big for her.
October 30, 2024
Up to 35 ISIS operatives killed in US strikes in Syria, US military says
October 30, 2024
Final results from this month’s vote for the regional parliament in Iraq’s semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region show the two dominant Kurdish parties maintaining their hold while an opposition party made inroads
October 30, 2024
U.S. Central Command says the U.S. military has struck a number of Islamic State group camps in central Syria, killing as many as 35 militants
October 30, 2024
The United States and other mediators are ramping up efforts to halt the wars in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip
October 30, 2024
Israel pummeled the Gaza Strip with new bombardments that killed at least 30 people on Wednesday, Palestinian medics said, a day after
October 30, 2024
The head of the U.N. agency caring for Palestinian refugees says that newly passed Israeli laws effectively banning its activities in Israel will leave a vacuum that will cost more lives and create further in Gaza and the West Bank
October 30, 2024
A Taliban government minister says Afghan women are forbidden from praying loudly or reciting the Quran in front of other women
October 30, 2024
The Israeli military issued a new evacuation warning on Wednesday for residents of a large area of the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbek and its 3,000-year-old Roman ruins.
October 30, 2024
Israeli airstrikes pounded the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbek
October 30, 2024
Stock markets in the Middle East ended mixed on Wednesday, while the Qatari index tumbled ahead of a constitutional amendment referendum.
October 30, 2024
Many American voters are concerned that the ongoing situation in the Middle East will escalate into an even broader conflict
October 30, 2024
The United Nations says that if Israel puts in place new laws cutting ties with the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, the Israeli government will have to meet their needs under international law
October 29, 2024
Israel's military confirmed on Tuesday that four soldiers were killed in combat in northern Gaza, with one officer severely injured.
October 29, 2024
Israeli legislation cutting ties with the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees has raised fears that the largest provider of aid to Gaza could be shut out of the war-ravaged territory, even as the implications of the new laws remain unclear
October 29, 2024
The United States has asked Israel to explain a "horrifying" strike in northern Gaza, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on
October 29, 2024
A senior Hamas official said on Tuesday the Palestinian militant group was studying new proposals from mediators to end the Gaza war but reiterated that these should entail a complete
October 29, 2024
Israel is not addressing the "catastrophic humanitarian crisis" in Gaza, the U.S. envoy to the United Nations said on Tuesday as a deadline imposed by
October 29, 2024
Eight Austrian soldiers belonging to the U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) sustained superficial injuries in a rocket strike on the force's headquarters in Naqoura,
October 29, 2024
After another of Israel's relentless airstrikes in its north Gaza offensive, Palestinians rushed to a bombed-out four-storey house of neighbours on Tuesday and
October 29, 2024
Millions of Palestinian refugees are set to suffer as a result of banning the UN agency, piling pressure on the US, which has warned of ‘consequences.’
October 29, 2024
Israel's decision to ban the U.N. relief agency UNRWA could result in the deaths of more children and represent a form of collective punishment for Gazans if fully
October 29, 2024
Germany has protested to Iran over the execution of Iranian German prisoner Jamshid Sharmahd, who was kidnapped in Dubai in 2020 by Iranian security forces
October 29, 2024
The head of the International Organization for Migration said on Tuesday that over 14 million people had fled their homes in Sudan, either inside the country or over its borders,
October 29, 2024
Lebanon’s Hezbollah has chosen Sheikh Naim Kassem to succeed longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike last month
October 29, 2024
Most stock markets in the Gulf ended higher on Tuesday as a slew of corporate earnings lifted investor sentiment, although regional tensions limited gains.
October 29, 2024
North Korean soldiers learning Russian commands and may be sent to Ukraine front lines, South Korean lawmakers say
October 29, 2024
Authorities say a boat carrying 13 Egyptian migrants to Europe has capsized off Libya’s coast, killing all on board except for one person
October 29, 2024
Gaza's Health Ministry says two Israeli strikes in the northern Gaza Strip killed at least 88 people
October 29, 2024
At least 93 Palestinians were killed or missing and dozens wounded in an Israeli strike on a residential building in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya on
October 29, 2024
Bernie Sanders makes the case for Kamala Harris to pro-Palestinian critics
October 29, 2024
CIA Director Bill Burns floated a deal for a 28-day Gaza ceasefire, the freeing of around eight hostages by Hamas and the release of dozens of Palestinian prisoners by Israel, Axios
October 28, 2024
German-Iranian national and longtime US resident executed in Iran
October 28, 2024
Israel has banned the UN agency for Palestinian refugees. That could be devastating for millions
October 28, 2024
Yemen's Houthis said on Monday that they carried out three operations targeting vessels in the Red Sea and Arabian Sea.
October 28, 2024
With the U.S. presidential election just a week away, the Biden administration is not giving up hope for short-term deals for cease-fires between Israel and Hamas in Gaza and Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon
October 28, 2024
The U.S.
October 28, 2024
Iran is at a disadvantage that can be exploited in the future after Israeli airstrikes over the weekend, Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said on Monday.
October 28, 2024
Global oil prices are falling sharply after a retaliatory strike by Israel over the weekend targeted Iranian military sites rather than its energy infrastructure as had been feared
October 28, 2024
Israel's parliament has passed bills banning the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees from operating in Israel and the Palestinian territories
October 28, 2024
As Gaza braces for a cold, wet winter, displaced Palestinians living in tents and makeshift shelters by the sea are sewing clothes from blankets in a
October 28, 2024
Israel's parliament passed a law on Monday to ban the UN relief agency UNRWA from operating inside the country, alarming some of Israel's
October 28, 2024
Israel’s parliament has passed two laws that severely restrict the U.N. agency responsible for distributing aid in Gaza
October 28, 2024
Israeli soldiers captured around 100 suspected Hamas militants during a raid in Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza, the military said on Monday.
October 28, 2024
The Kremlin said on Monday that Russia was doing everything it could to try to facilitate attempts to de-escalate tensions in the Middle East by urging restraint on all sides.
October 28, 2024
Tehran will "use all available tools" to respond to Israel's weekend attack on military targets in Iran, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said on Monday.
October 28, 2024
Most stock markets in the Gulf ended higher on Monday as tensions eased after Iran played down Israel's strikes on military targets over the weekend, saying the air attack
October 28, 2024
Israeli lawmakers have passed two laws that could threaten the work of the main United Nations agency providing aid to people in Gaza by barring it from operating on Israeli soil
October 28, 2024
Israeli MP behind bill to expel key UN agency accuses US of interfering with process
October 27, 2024
Oil prices tumbled 6% on Monday, or more than $4 a barrel, after Saturday's retaliatory strike by Israel against Iran's military bypassed oil and nuclear facilities,
October 27, 2024
A stream of refugees fleeing Lebanon to Syria have been crossing a narrow makeshift bridge in the Qusair area of Syria’s Homs province since the official border crossing was put out of commission by an Israeli strike two days earlier
October 27, 2024
Egypt has proposed a two-day ceasefire in Gaza which would entail an exchange of four Israeli hostages for some Palestinian prisoners, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Sunday.
October 27, 2024
Israel's airstrikes "hit hard" Iran's defences and missile production, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday, as Iranian
October 27, 2024
Most stock markets in the Gulf ended higher on Sunday as fears of an all-out conflagration in the region eased after Iran played down Israel's strikes on military targets,
October 27, 2024
One person was killed and dozens were injured on Sunday when a truck struck a bus stop at a major intersection near Tel Aviv in central Israel in what police said they suspected
October 27, 2024
Iranian officials should determine how best to demonstrate Iran's power to Israel after the Israeli attack on Iran two nights ago, Iran's official IRNA news agency cited the
October 27, 2024
Trump in Michigan makes play for Arab American and Muslim voters angry over war in Gaza
October 26, 2024
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October 26, 2024
Around 20 military sites across Iran, Iraq and Syria were hit in retaliatory strike. But Israel held back from targets that would have crippled Iran.
October 26, 2024
With worst-case scenario averted for now, White House and Harris campaign still face a serious risk in Middle East conflict
October 26, 2024
Israeli forces withdrew from a hospital complex in northern Gaza on Saturday, one day after storming it, and the Palestinian enclave's health ministry said the
October 26, 2024
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called on Iran to end the cycle of escalation following Israeli strikes on Iranian military sites early on Saturday, saying restraint could pave the
October 26, 2024
Israel delivered its long-expected response to Iranian missile attacks by carrying out a series of airstrikes against the Islamic Republic
October 26, 2024
An attack in Iran’s restive southeast killed 10 members of the country’s national police force
October 26, 2024
Israel has unleashed predawn airstrikes against military sites in Iran
October 26, 2024
Israel launched strikes on Iran in a retaliatory attack. Here’s what we know
October 26, 2024
Israel has attacked Iran with pre-dawn airstrikes in retaliation for the barrage of ballistic missiles the Islamic Republic fired on Israel earlier this month
October 26, 2024
Following are reactions from abroad to Israel's strikes against Iran on Saturday: SENIOR U.S.
October 26, 2024
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Saturday Iran should not respond to a wave of Israeli strikes, urging restraint on all sides.
October 26, 2024
Top U.N. officials say more than 600 million women and girls are now affected by war
October 25, 2024
Iran on Saturday played down Israel's overnight air attack against Iranian military targets, saying it caused only limited
October 25, 2024
Several loud explosions were heard in Iran's capital Tehran and the nearby city of Karaj early on Saturday, semi-official Iranian media said, adding that the cause was unknown.
October 25, 2024
Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s weeklong trip to the Middle East ended as expected without a cease-fire breakthrough for Gaza, but talks are being revived
October 25, 2024
Where next for the militant group that is weakened, alienated from Arab moderate governments and increasingly unpopular among Gazans?
October 25, 2024
Retired Israeli general Giora Eiland believes Israel faces months of fighting in Gaza unless Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu uses the chance
October 25, 2024
The presiding judge of an International Criminal Court panel considering a request to issue arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his defense minister and senior Hamas leaders has been replaced on medical grounds
October 25, 2024
The grandson of South Africa’s first Black president, Nelson Mandela, says the U.K. government denied him an entry visa because of his support for Hamas
October 25, 2024
An Israeli airstrike that hit a guesthouse in southeast Lebanon has killed three journalists who were covering the Israel-Hezbollah war
October 25, 2024
The banned Kurdistan Workers' Party has claimed responsibility for an attack on the headquarters of a key defense company in Ankara that killed at least five people
October 25, 2024
Israeli military strikes across the Gaza Strip have killed at least 72 people since Thursday night and Israeli forces launched a night-
October 25, 2024
Children in Gaza are dying in pain for want of emergency treatment as a result of Israeli authorities approving fewer and fewer of them for medical evacuation
October 25, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin said his Turkish counterpart, Tayyip Erdogan, had proposed reviving contacts on Black Sea shipping but
October 25, 2024
More than 130 Israeli reservists sign letter refusing to fight in Gaza and Lebanon
October 25, 2024
Gaza hostage and ceasefire talks are set to resume but hopes for a breakthrough before the US election are low
October 24, 2024
Questions about the direction of the United States and wars in Ukraine and the Middle East are making investors cautious, bank executives
October 24, 2024
An Egyptian security delegation met with a delegation of Hamas leaders in Cairo as part of efforts to resume the Gaza ceasefire negotiations, Egypt's state-affiliated Al Qahera News TV
October 24, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that he welcomed Egypt's willingness to advance a deal for the release of hostages in the Gaza Strip.
October 24, 2024
Israel's military chief said there was a possibility for a "sharp conclusion" to the conflict with Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon, the military said on Thursday.
October 24, 2024
In the West Bank city of Tubas, the Palestinian Authority has been rounding up militants who are spoiling for a fight with Israel and challenging its own
October 24, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin told BRICS leaders on Thursday that the Middle East was on the brink of a full-scale war after a
October 24, 2024
The Israeli military has used Palestinians as human shields in Gaza, soldier and former detainees say
October 24, 2024
The Israeli military is forcing civilians to enter potentially dangerous places instead of Israeli soldiers, according to an IDF soldier and five former Palestinian prisoners. CNN's Jeremy Diamond reports.
October 24, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that the Middle East was on the brink of a full-scale war as tensions rose sharply between Israel and Iran.
October 24, 2024
Most stock markets in the Gulf were lower on Thursday as simmering geopolitical tensions in the Middle East kept investors on the sidelines.
October 24, 2024
Turkey has struck suspected Kurdish militant targets in Syria and Iraq for a second day after a deadly attack on the premises of a key defense company
October 24, 2024
Palestinian militant group Hamas wants Russia to push Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to begin negotiations on a national unity government for post-war Gaza, a senior Hamas
October 24, 2024
Inside what was once one of Beirut’s oldest and best-known cinemas, dozens of Lebanese, Palestinians and Syrians displaced by the Israel-Hezbollah war now spend their time following the news on their phones, cooking, chatting or walking around to pass the time
October 24, 2024
A restaurateur has pleaded guilty to displaying a Nazi symbol during a pro-Palestinian rally in Sydney earlier in October
October 24, 2024
The Israeli army has accused six Al Jazeera journalists covering the war in Gaza of also being current or former paid fighters for Palestinian militant groups
October 23, 2024
The Israeli military named on Wednesday six Palestinian Al Jazeera reporters in Gaza it said were also members of the Hamas or Islamic Jihad militant groups, an allegation which
October 23, 2024
In all but the blink of an eye, an Associated Press photographer’s camera captured the moments that a battleship-gray Israeli bomb plummeted toward a Beirut building before detonating to bring the tower down
October 23, 2024
US and Israel warn of potential attack on tourist locations in Sri Lanka
October 23, 2024
The war between Israel and armed group Hezbollah is expected to wipe 9% off Lebanon's national wealth as measured by GDP, the United
October 23, 2024
The United States and the east Mediterranean island of Cyprus on Wednesday agreed to boost cooperation, amid a backdrop of increasing turmoil in the neighbouring Middle East.
October 23, 2024
Hashem Safieddine, the top Hezbollah official widely expected to succeed slain secretary general Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in an Israeli attack, the group said Wednesday.
October 23, 2024
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant told Air Force crews on Wednesday that after striking in Iran, the world will understand Israel's might and its enemies will learn a lesson,
October 23, 2024
Germany's foreign minister said on Wednesday Israel has the right to defend itself against Hezbollah attacks but supplying it with weapons
October 23, 2024
Israeli jets have struck multiple buildings in Lebanon’s southern coastal city of Tyre, sending large clouds of black smoke into the air
October 23, 2024
Israel’s war could set Gaza back 69 years, UN warns
October 23, 2024
The tiny Mideast nation of Kuwait has banned the release of the video game “Call of Duty: Black Ops 6,” which features the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and is set in part in the 1990s Gulf War
October 23, 2024
Most stock markets in the Gulf ended lower on Wednesday as geopolitical tensions in the region depressed sentiment, while corporate earnings failed to lift investor mood.
October 23, 2024
Lufthansa extended the suspension of its flights to Tehran and Beirut until early next year for operational reasons, the German flagship airline said on Wednesday.
October 23, 2024
Israel's air force shot down two rockets from Lebanon that set off air raid sirens in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, the military said, as U.S.
October 23, 2024
Blinken urges Israel to capitalize on Sinwar’s killing to end Gaza war, but a breakthrough seems a long way off
October 22, 2024
Two US service members injured in raid that killed ISIS operatives In Iraq, Pentagon says
October 22, 2024
Rescuers continued to search for bodies under the rubble more than 16 hours after an Israeli airstrike hit a crowded residential area across the street from Beirut's main public hospital
October 22, 2024
Since Israel began bombarding Beirut’s southern suburbs in its war against Hezbollah militants, Lebanon’s national air carrier has become a local icon simply by continuing to do its job
October 22, 2024
An Iranian military official has been charged in a plot to kill an Iranian American author on U.S. soil
October 22, 2024
The United States issued fresh charges over the attempted Tehran plot to kidnap and assassinate an Iranian-American journalist in New York, indicting an Iranian Revolutionary
October 22, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, meeting with U.S.
October 22, 2024
France’s government is defending its decision to bar Israeli companies supplying the wars in the Middle East from exhibiting at an upcoming trade fair outside Paris
October 22, 2024
Washington’s Arab allies engage with Iran as US efforts to stem Middle East violence falter
October 22, 2024
Lebanon will need $250 million a month to help more than a million people displaced by Israeli attacks, its minister in charge of responding to the crisis said on
October 22, 2024
At least 18 people were killed, including four children, and 60 were wounded in an Israeli strike on Monday near Beirut's main government hospital, the health ministry said on
October 22, 2024
The FBI says it's investigating the unauthorized release of classified documents on Israel’s preparation for a potential retaliatory attack on Iran
October 22, 2024
The International Monetary Fund further lowered its GDP growth forecast for Saudi Arabia for 2024 to 1.5% and estimated growth to accelerate to 4.6% next year in its latest World
October 22, 2024
Lebanon's Hezbollah movement said on Tuesday there would be no negotiations while fighting continued with Israel and it claimed sole responsibility for a drone attack on Israeli
October 22, 2024
Iraq's prime minister says the Islamic State militant group’s leader in Iraq was killed in a military operation along with eight of the group’s other senior leaders
October 22, 2024
The U.N.
October 22, 2024
The war between Israel and Hamas has devastated the Palestinian economy and left nearly all of Gaza's population in poverty, with quality of life indicators such as
October 22, 2024
The Israeli military says one of its airstrikes in early October killed a top Hezbollah official who had been widely expected to become the group’s next leader
October 22, 2024
The Israeli military says a top Hezbollah official who was widely expected to be the group’s next leader was killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Beirut in early October
October 22, 2024
Super-thin skyscraper, just one apartment wide, planned for Dubai
October 22, 2024
Gold hit an all-time peak on Tuesday as a mixture of factors including safe-haven demand spurred by U.S. election uncertainties and the Middle
October 22, 2024
Sirens sounded in central Israel as a projectile was identified crossing from Lebanon and falling into open ground, the army said on Tuesday.
October 22, 2024
The crisis in the Middle East is looming over the race for the White House as the campaign enters its final weeks
October 22, 2024
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will host Qatar's Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, at a baroque palace just north of Berlin on Tuesday for talks aimed at
October 22, 2024
Oil prices settled higher for the second consecutive session on Tuesday, as traders downplayed hopes of a Middle East ceasefire and focused on signs of improving
October 22, 2024
Israel's requirements for the indemnification needed to allow Israeli banks to continue conducting transactions with Palestinian banks have been met by the Palestinian
October 21, 2024
Blinken heads to Middle East with hopes receding for a quick diplomatic breakthrough following Sinwar’s death
October 21, 2024
Two Navy pilots killed in jet crash had recently returned from Middle East deployment
October 21, 2024
The heads of the United Nations World Food Programme and U.N. children's agency UNICEF have privately appealed to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for
October 21, 2024
Initial investigation into US intelligence leak on Israeli attack planning focusing on who had access to documents
October 21, 2024
The Israeli military has carried out a wave of airstrikes targeting branches of a financial institution affiliated with Lebanon’s Hezbollah, saying the quasi-banking system is being used to fund the militant group’s military wing
October 21, 2024
Russia says it is investigating the claimed shoot-down of a cargo jet by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in Darfur
October 21, 2024
The United States has launched a review of an Israel Defense Forces unit that could have implications on U.S. assistance to Israel, Axios reported on Monday, citing two Israeli
October 21, 2024
Jewish settlers, including ministers in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet, gathered on the border of Gaza on Monday
October 21, 2024
At least two people were killed and three others injured on Monday in an apparent guided missile attack on a car in the Mazzeh area of Damascus, Syrian state television said, quoting a
October 21, 2024
Israel's security services have broken up a spy ring that was gathering information on behalf of Iranian intelligence in the latest attempt by Tehran to recruit
October 21, 2024
Israeli authorities are still preventing humanitarian missions from reaching areas of northern Gaza with critical supplies including medicine and food for people under siege, the head
October 21, 2024
United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday that he was ready to support efforts to find peace in Ukraine.
October 21, 2024
Fethullah Gulen, Turkish cleric once blamed for failed coup attempt, dies at 83
October 21, 2024
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is heading again to the Middle East, making his 11th trip to the region since the Gaza war erupted last year and as Israel steps up attacks against Hezbollah in Lebanon
October 21, 2024
‘He got out of Gaza, but Gaza did not get out of him’: Israeli soldiers returning from war struggle with trauma and suicide
October 21, 2024
Israel says it is planning to carry out more strikes in Lebanon against a Hezbollah-run financial institution that it targeted the night before
October 21, 2024
Fethullah Gülen, a reclusive U.S.-based Islamic cleric who inspired a global social movement while facing accusations he masterminded a failed 2016 coup in his native Turkey, has died
October 21, 2024
Stock markets in the Gulf were mixed on Monday amid rising geopolitical tensions in the region, while investors await more companies to report quarterly results.
October 21, 2024
The Israeli military has apologized for a strike that killed three Lebanese soldiers in southern Lebanon, saying it is not battling the country’s military and its troops believed they were targeting a vehicle belonging to the Hezbollah militant group
October 21, 2024
Global finance chiefs will gather in Washington this week amid intense uncertainty over wars in the Middle East and Europe, a flagging Chinese economy and
October 21, 2024
Israel gave the United States a document last week with its conditions for a diplomatic solution to end the war in Lebanon, Axios reported on Sunday, citing two U.S. officials and two
October 21, 2024
President Vladimir Putin told the visiting president of the United Arab Emirates on Sunday that relations between the two states amounted to a "strategic partnership" and thanked him for
October 20, 2024
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said on Sunday he had ordered his ministry to start legal proceedings against French President Emmanuel Macron after Paris banned Israeli firms from
October 20, 2024
Hezbollah said it had fired rockets at two bases near the Israeli city of Tel Aviv and a naval base west of Haifa on Tuesday morning just
October 20, 2024
CNN's Matthew Chance reports on the latest in the Israeli military's activity and the suffering across Gaza.
October 20, 2024
At least 87 killed in Israeli strike on northern Gaza, health ministry says
October 20, 2024
Yehuda Bauer, one of Israel’s foremost Holocaust scholars who shaped the way people around the world study and learn about the Holocaust, has died in Jerusalem
October 20, 2024
The U.N. peace envoy for the Middle East on Sunday condemned continued attacks on civilians after Israeli airstrikes in Gaza's Beit Lahiya killed dozens late on Saturday.
October 20, 2024
A total of 87 people were killed or missing under the rubble after an Israeli attack on Saturday on northern Gaza's town of Beit Lahiya, with more than 40
October 20, 2024
Israel’s military says it is now taking aim at the Lebanon-based Hezbollah’s financial arm and plans to attack a “large number of targets” in Beirut and elsewhere
October 20, 2024
Hussein Hachem hugged his injured daughter as she arrived in Senegal on a flight repatriating citizens escaping the escalating conflict in Lebanon.
October 20, 2024
Residents of Iraq’s semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region are going to the polls in long-awaited parliamentary elections under the shadow of ongoing rivalries, economic instability, and unresolved disputes with Baghdad
October 20, 2024
German authorities have arrested a Libyan national with suspected ties to the extremist Islamic State group who was allegedly planning an attack on the Israeli Embassy in Berlin
October 20, 2024
Israel’s ties with Europe strained by wars in Gaza and Lebanon
October 20, 2024
Iraqi Kurds voted on Sunday for a new regional parliament amid an economic crisis caused by an enforced halt in oil exports and corrosive rivalry between the two main
October 20, 2024
Exclusive: Inside the prison that executes people for supplying cannabis
October 20, 2024
The United States is investigating an unauthorized release of classified documents that assess Israel’s plans to attack Iran and note that Israel continues to move military assets in place to conduct a military strike in response to Iran’s blistering ballistic missile attack on Oct. 1
October 19, 2024
CNN's Natasha Bertrand reports on the the leaked documents that show US intelligence on Israel’s plans to attack Iran.
October 19, 2024
US sources say Israel's plan for retaliation on Iran was leaked on Telegram. CNN's global chief correspondent Matthew Chance explains what is learned from the leak and how Israeli officials are responding to it.
October 19, 2024
Leaked documents show US intelligence on Israel’s plans to attack Iran, sources say
October 19, 2024
The United States would like to see Israel scale back some of its strikes in and around the Lebanese capital of Beirut, U.S.
October 19, 2024
The European Union's foreign policy chief said on Saturday a ceasefire was a priority in the Middle East and the killing of Hamas leader Yaya Sinwar by Israeli forces could
October 19, 2024
CNN's Jeremy Diamond speaks to the man who performed the autopsy on slain Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar who was assassinated by the Israeli Defense Force.
October 19, 2024
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar will not halt the "Axis of Resistance" and that Hamas would live on.
October 19, 2024
The killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar by Israeli forces in Gaza this week leaves the militant group considering new leadership for the second time in less than three months
October 18, 2024
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Friday that the death of Palestinian Islamist group Hamas' leader Yahya Sinwar would make
October 18, 2024
The families of hostages held by Hamas militants in Gaza say time is of the essence to rescue their loved ones following the killing of Yahya Sinwar, the head of Hamas, by Israeli troops in Gaza
October 18, 2024
The Hamas leader who was killed by Israeli forces in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, was the mastermind behind the Oct. 7 attack on Israel that sparked the war
October 18, 2024
Yahya Sinwar has been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza
October 18, 2024
The killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, a mastermind of the attack that ignited the war in the Gaza Strip, marked a major
October 18, 2024
The United States doubled down on Friday on calls for a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of hostages following the death of Hamas' leader Yahya
October 18, 2024
Hamas has confirmed that its leader, Yahya Sinwar, was killed by Israeli forces in Gaza and reiterated its stance that hostages the militant group took from Israel a year ago will not be released until there is a cease-fire in Gaza and a withdrawal of Israeli troops
October 18, 2024
The United Nations humanitarian office accused Israel on Friday of using "war-like" tactics against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, citing killings by soldiers
October 18, 2024
The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Lebanon said on Friday it had come under several "deliberate" attacks by Israeli forces in recent days and efforts to help civilians in
October 18, 2024
The Israeli military said on Friday it had identified what it called "a number of suspects" in Jordan's border area trying to cross into Israel south of the Dead Sea region and had
October 18, 2024
Lebanon's caretaker prime minister on Friday made a rare rebuke to Iran and said Tehran's envoy should be summoned over reported comments by a senior Iranian official that it would
October 18, 2024
Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group says it is entering a new phase in its fight against invading Israeli forces, as the region reckons with the killing of top Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in a battle with Israeli forces in Gaza
October 18, 2024
Israel says it killed the Hamas mastermind behind October 7. Here’s what we know
October 18, 2024
CNN's Clarissa Ward reports on what Palestinians in Gaza are telling CNN in the wake of Israel claiming they have killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.
October 18, 2024
U.S. President Joe Biden told European partners that it’s important for Ukraine’s Western allies to “sustain our resolve” in supporting the country
October 18, 2024
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was tracked by an Israeli mini drone as he lay dying in the ruins of a building in southern Gaza and filmed him
October 17, 2024
Lebanese nationals living in the US will be granted humanitarian relief as Israel-Hezbollah conflict continues
October 17, 2024
Joe Biden is expected to use Israel’s killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar to pressure Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to wind down the
October 17, 2024
Who was Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar?
October 17, 2024
The killing of Yahya Sinwar by Israeli forces dealt a fatal blow to Hamas, France's Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Thursday, adding that a page must now be turned to
October 17, 2024
The Biden administration has announced temporary legal status for Lebanese citizens already in the United States, likely pleasing some Arab voters, including in the battleground state of Michigan
October 17, 2024
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar killed in Gaza, Israeli military says
October 17, 2024
Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris says the death of Hamas’ top leader, Yahya Sinwar, “gives us an opportunity to finally end the war in Gaza.”
October 17, 2024
President Joe Biden says the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar by Israeli troops is a “good day for Israel, for the United States, and for the world."
October 17, 2024
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, a mastermind of the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that triggered the Gaza war, has been killed by Israeli forces in the Palestinian enclave, Hamas
October 17, 2024
Ten years to the day after the formal launch of the U.S.-led operation against the Islamic State, the United States and its NATO allies gathered in Brussels on
October 17, 2024
As the phone call from his tent on a stretch of beach in Gaza connected him to parents he has not seen for a year because of
October 17, 2024
Israel confirmed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the architect of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel last year, has been killed in Gaza, with Foreign
October 17, 2024
The international authority on hunger crises says the Gaza Strip is still at risk of famine more than a year into the Israel-Hamas war
October 17, 2024
The entire Gaza Strip remains at risk of famine and is experiencing emergency levels of hunger, with intense Israeli military operations adding to concerns and hampering
October 17, 2024
Israel says Hamas top leader Yahya Sinwar has been killed in a battle with Israeli forces in Gaza
October 17, 2024
Three BofA bankers in India leave over alleged client tips, FT reports
Crypto industry jockeys for seats at Trump's promised council
Snap seeks to dismiss New Mexico lawsuit over child safety
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Mexican cartel leader who faked his own death has been arrested in California, Justice Department says
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