Students at a growing number of U.S. colleges are gathering in pro-Palestinian encampments with a unified demand to end investments supporting Israel’s war in Gaza
April 24, 2024
The United Nations is calling for “a clear, transparent and credible investigation” of mass graves uncovered at two major hospitals in war-torn Gaza that were raided by Israeli troops
April 23, 2024
Satellite photos analyzed by The Associated Press appear to show a new compound of tents being built near Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip as the Israeli military continues to signal it plans an offensive targeting the city of Rafah
April 23, 2024
The Senate is returning to Washington to vote on $95 billion in war aid to Ukraine and Israel
April 23, 2024
An independent panel reviewed the neutrality of the U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees after Israel alleged that a dozen of its employees in Gaza had participated in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks
April 22, 2024
An independent review of the neutrality of the U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees has found that Israel never expressed concern about anyone on the staff lists it has received annually since 2011
April 22, 2024
Israel expects its top ally, the United States, to announce that it’s blocking military aid to an Israeli army unit over gross human rights abuses in the Israeli-occupied West Bank before the war in Gaza began six months ago
April 22, 2024
U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria faced two separate rocket and explosive drone attacks in less than 24 hours, Iraqi security sources and U.S. officials told Reuters on Monday, in the
April 22, 2024
Israeli police said a car slammed into pedestrians in Jerusalem, wounding three people lightly
April 22, 2024
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is set to make his first official visit to Iraq in more than a decade
April 22, 2024
India's rupee and government bonds will move this week based on developments in the Middle East crisis as well as a key U.S. inflation gauge that
April 22, 2024
Australia's treasurer warned on Monday that events in the Middle East are fueling concerns for the global economy and will shape the government's budget in May, with near-term
April 21, 2024
Tension in the Middle East is unlikely to drive up energy prices and should not affect the European Central Bank's plans to start cutting interest rates in June, French central bank
April 21, 2024
A baby girl was delivered from the womb of a Palestinian killed along with her husband and daughter by an Israeli attack in
April 21, 2024
Israel's State Attorney on Sunday indicted the sister of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on charges of incitement and showing solidarity with a terror group, after she allegedly
April 21, 2024
Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei thanked the country's armed forces for their attack this month on Israel, saying the country had demonstrated its power regardless of how many
April 21, 2024
The Israeli settlers who rampaged through the West Bank village of al-Mughayyer on April 12 came in greater numbers and carried more weapons than
April 21, 2024
The House's $95 billion foreign aid package provides military aid to Ukraine and Israel, replenishes U.S. weapons systems and gives humanitarian assistance to civilians in Gaza
April 20, 2024
President Joe Biden can perhaps breathe a bit easier given that Israel and Iran seem to have stepped back for now from tipping the Middle East into all-out war
April 20, 2024
Gaza hospital officials say an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in the territory's southernmost city of Rafah has killed at least nine people, six of them children
April 20, 2024
This month’s unprecedented direct attacks between Iran and Israel are revealing deeper insights into both militaries
April 20, 2024
The Biden administration is imposing sanctions on two entities accused of fundraising for extremist Israeli-occupied West Bank settlers who have harassed and attacked Palestinians
April 19, 2024
Group of Seven foreign ministers warned of new sanctions against Iran on Friday for its drone and missile attack on Israel, and urged both sides to avoid an escalation of the conflict
April 19, 2024
Iran has fired air defense batteries after reports of explosions near a major airbase and nuclear site where drones were spotted
April 19, 2024
Israel's national amputee soccer team is heading to France for the 2024 European Amputee Football Championships in June
April 19, 2024
A civilian interrogator who worked 20 years ago at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq told jurors in Virginia that he never abused detainees and was actually promoted for doing a good job
April 18, 2024
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani is traveling to Michigan on Thursday to meet with the state's large Iraqi community and update them on escalating tensions in the Middle East
April 18, 2024
The U.S. is further restricting Iran's access to "low-level technology," in response to Iran's April 13 attack on Israel and its military support for Russia,
April 18, 2024
The U.S. and U.K. have imposed a new round of sanctions on Iran as concern grows that Tehran’s unprecedented attack on Israel could fuel a wider war in the Middle East
April 18, 2024
Google has fired 28 employees in the aftermath of protests over technology that the internet company is supplying the Israeli government amid the Gaza war, further escalating tensions surrounding a hot-button deal
April 18, 2024
Israel has vowed to respond to Iran’s unprecedented weekend attack
April 18, 2024
Calls for action against Israel in international soccer because of the conflict with Hamas will be stepped up by Palestinian officials at the annual FIFA congress next month
April 18, 2024
Reuters photographer Mohammed Salem captured this year’s prestigious World Press Photo of the Year award Thursday with his heartrending image of a Palestinian woman cradling the body of her young niece — a powerful depiction of loss and sorrow in Gaza
April 18, 2024
The United Arab Emirates is struggling to recover from the heaviest recorded rainfall ever to hit the desert nation, as its main airport worked to restore normal operations even as floodwater still covered portions of major highways and roads
April 18, 2024
The Chinese and Indonesian foreign ministers called for an immediate and lasting cease-fire in Gaza after a meeting in Jakarta on Thursday, condemning the humanitarian costs of the ongoing war that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians
April 18, 2024
The head of the U.N. agency that has helped millions of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank for decades is urging the U.N. Security Council to ensure its survival as Israel again demands its dissolution
April 18, 2024
Speaker Mike Johnson has unveiled a long-awaited package of bills that will provide military aid to Ukraine and Israel, replenish U.S. weapons systems and give humanitarian assistance to civilians in Gaza
April 17, 2024
With cloud seeding, it may rain, but it doesn’t really pour or flood — at least nothing like what drenched the United Arab Emirates and paralyzed Dubai
April 17, 2024
The small Gulf state has hosted high-level Western and Iranian delegations, passing messages between them.
April 17, 2024
A civilian contractor sent to work as an interrogator at Iraq’s infamous Abu Ghraib prison resigned within two weeks of his arrival and told his corporate bosses that mistreatment of detainees was likely to continue
April 17, 2024
A humanitarian organization in northeastern Mexico is saying it did not create flyers urging border-bound migrants to vote for President Joe Biden
April 17, 2024
House Speaker Mike Johnson is forging ahead toward a vote later this week on a package of Ukraine funding that also includes Israel and Taiwan
April 17, 2024
Heavy thunderstorms have lashed the United Arab Emirates, dumping the heaviest rain ever recorded in the country in the span of hours as it flooded out portions of major highways and Dubai’s international airport
April 17, 2024
Iran’s president has warned that the “tiniest invasion” by Israel would bring a “massive and harsh” response, as the region braces for potential Israeli retaliation after Iran’s attack over the weekend
April 17, 2024
Tensions in the Middle East and the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine top the agenda of European Union leaders at their summit in Brussels
April 17, 2024
An Army general who investigated the abuse of prisoners 20 years ago at Iraq’s infamous Abu Ghraib prison has testified that a civilian contractor instructed prison guards to “soften up” detainees for interrogations
April 16, 2024
Israel is vowing to retaliate against Iran even though such a mission carries many risks
April 16, 2024
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is warning of potential global “economic spillovers” from rising tensions in the Middle East
April 16, 2024
The United Nations human rights office says Israeli security forces must immediately put an end to settler attacks on Palestinians
April 16, 2024
The artist and curators representing Israel at this year’s Venice Biennale have announced they won’t open the Israeli exhibition until there's a cease-fire in Gaza and an agreement to release hostages
April 16, 2024
Brazilian police investigating the discovery of a boat full of corpses say the dead were likely African migrants from Mali and Mauritania
April 16, 2024
Heavy rains have lashed the United Arab Emirates, flooding out portions of major highways and leaving vehicles abandoned on roadways across Dubai
April 16, 2024
Israel’s military chief says Israel will respond to Iran’s weekend missile strike
April 15, 2024
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators blocked a freeway leading to three Chicago O’Hare International Airport terminals, temporarily stopping vehicle traffic into one of the nation’s busiest airports
April 15, 2024
An Israeli court has ordered the eviction of Palestinian family in a deeply contested neighborhood of east Jerusalem
April 15, 2024
Iraq called on all parties to show restraint amid soaring tensions between neighboring Iran and Israel, Deputy Prime Minister Muhammad Ali Tamim said on Monday,
April 15, 2024
The Israeli military has renewed warnings for Palestinians in Gaza not to return to the embattled territory’s north
April 15, 2024
President Joe Biden is set to host Iraq's leader this week for talks that come as tensions across the Middle East have soared over the war in Gaza and Iran's attack on Israel in retaliation for an Israeli military strike against an Iranian facility in Syria
April 15, 2024
A U.S. judge has tossed out a series of civil lawsuits against a Libyan military commander who used to live in Virginia and was accused of killing innocent civilians in that country’s civil war
April 14, 2024
A long-running conflict between adversaries Israel and Iran fell short of open confrontation – until both countries took more direct aim at each other.
April 14, 2024
Iran’s unprecedented attack on Israel marks a change in approach for Tehran, which had relied on proxies across the Middle East since the start of the Israel-Hamas war in October
April 14, 2024
Israel said its strikes against Iran on Saturday were in retaliation for Tehran's strikes on Israel on Oct. 1, the latest exchange in an escalating conflict between the arch-rivals.
April 14, 2024
The unprecedented attack by Iran on Israel early Sunday ratcheted up regional tensions
April 14, 2024
Israel has hailed the success of its defenses in the face of an unprecedented attack by Iran
April 14, 2024
Israel is hailing the success of its defenses in the face of an unprecedented attack by Iran involving hundreds of drones, ballistic missiles and cruise missiles
April 14, 2024
President Joe Biden is cutting short a weekend stay at his Delaware beach house and returning to the White House to meet with his national security team and monitor the situation in the Middle East
April 13, 2024
The Israeli army says the body of missing Israeli boy has been found in the occupied West Bank after he was killed in a “terrorist attack."
April 13, 2024
The British says a vessel may have been boarded by an unknown party near the crucial Strait of Hormuz
April 13, 2024
Palestinian health officials say dozens of Israeli settlers have rampaged through a village in the West Bank, killing one man and wounding at least 25 others
April 12, 2024
As PEN America begins its annual spring tradition of high-profile events, the organization faces criticisms from numerous writers who are unhappy with its stance on the war in Gaza
April 12, 2024
A fan at the Saudi Super Cup final lashed an Al-Ittihad player with a whip during a confrontation moments after the match Thursday night
April 12, 2024
Twenty years ago this month, photos of abused prisoners and smiling U.S. soldiers guarding them at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison were released, shocking the world
April 12, 2024
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has mocked a planned round of Ukraine peace talks in Switzerland, warning that Moscow will not accept any enforced agreements ignoring its interests
April 11, 2024
Some Muslim and Arab American leaders have grown frustrated with the outreach from President Joe Biden's White House as the war in Gaza drags on
April 11, 2024
It was hours after sundown when eight aid trucks and three support vehicles started their journey into Gaza
April 11, 2024
U.S. President Joe Biden has called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s handling of the war in Gaza a mistake
April 10, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Israel has not informed the U.S. of any specific date for the start of a major offensive into the southern Gaza city of Rafah
April 10, 2024
Turkey and Israel have announced tit-for-tat trade barriers as relations between them further deteriorated amid the war in Gaza
April 09, 2024
The U.N. Security Council has revived the Palestinian Authority's hopes of joining the United Nations as a full member
April 08, 2024
The commander of a European Union naval mission in the Red Sea wants to significantly increase its size to better defend against attacks by Houthi rebels
April 08, 2024
The United Nations’ top court is opening hearings in a case that seeks an end to German military and other aid to Israel
April 08, 2024
Israel’s military says it has withdrawn its forces from the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, wrapping up a key phase in its ground offensive against the Hamas militant group and bringing its troop presence in the territory to one of the lowest levels since the six-month war began
April 08, 2024
A top Iranian military adviser has warned Israel that none of its embassies are safe following a strike in Damascus last week that killed two elite Iranian generals
April 07, 2024
The United Nations’ top court is hearing a case on Monday that seeks an end of German military and other aid to Israel
April 07, 2024
A top military commander has renewed Iran’s promise to retaliate after an airstrike earlier this week widely blamed on Israel
April 06, 2024
Israel’s military says it has recovered the body of a 47-year-old farmer who was held hostage in Gaza
April 06, 2024
The Israeli military says two basic mistakes led to the series of drone strikes that killed seven staffers from the World Central Kitchen charity
April 06, 2024
The Israeli military’s killing of seven aid workers in Gaza has triggered unprecedented criticism from European leaders
April 06, 2024
President Joe Biden has written to the leaders of Egypt and Qatar, calling on them to press Hamas for a hostage deal with Israel
April 05, 2024
The Israel-Hamas war has stretched on for half a year and has become one of the most destructive, deadly, and intractable conflicts of the 21st century
April 05, 2024
McDonald’s is buying its restaurants in Israel from a longtime franchisee, hoping to reset sales that have slumped due to boycotts in the region
April 05, 2024
The Israeli military has dismissed two officers and reprimanded three others for their roles in drone strikes in Gaza that killed seven aid workers on a food-delivery mission
April 05, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says that measures the Israeli government has announced to expand the flow of aid into Gaza are welcome but may not be enough to meet the Biden administration’s demands for dramatic improvements in humanitarian conditions in the territory
April 05, 2024
The bodies of the seven Revolutionary Guard members killed in an airstrike widely attributed to Israel that destroyed Iran’s Consulate in the Syrian capital were laid to rest in Tehran amid nationwide protests
April 05, 2024
When Israel declared war against Hamas last October, it stood unified at home and enjoyed broad backing from around the world following an unprecedented attack by the Islamic militant group
April 05, 2024
Former President Donald Trump offered a tough message to Israel in its war against Hamas on Thursday, urging the country to: “Get it over with.”
April 04, 2024
More than 600 British jurists are calling on the government to suspend arms sales to Israel
April 04, 2024
Lebanon's billionaire caretaker prime minister has denied all allegations of money laundering after a complaint was formally filed in France by two anti-corruption groups this week
April 04, 2024
A Palestinian American doctor who has volunteered in Gaza walked out of a meeting with President Joe Biden this week
April 03, 2024
A top U.S. commander in the Middle East is acknowledging concern about retaliatory attacks on American forces there
April 03, 2024
A top U.S. commander says Houthi rebels in Yemen may be running through their supplies of drone swarms and anti-ship ballistic missiles as the pace of their attacks has slowed a bit
April 03, 2024
Britain’s main opposition parties are demanding that the Conservative government publish legal advice it has received on whether Israel has broken international humanitarian law during the war in Gaza
April 03, 2024
Egyptian state media say the bodies of six foreign aid workers killed in a series of Israeli strikes have been transported out of the Gaza Strip before their repatriation
April 03, 2024
Pope Francis has led thousands of people in a moment of silence to pray for the aid workers killed by an Israeli strike in Gaza
April 03, 2024
Israeli airstrikes have killed aid workers delivering food in Gaza
April 03, 2024
An aid group says an Israeli airstrike on its workers in Gaza killed at least seven people, including several foreigners
April 02, 2024
An aid group says an Israeli strike that hit its workers in Gaza killed at least seven people, including several foreigners
April 02, 2024
On Monday, the Israeli military withdrew from its second devastating raid on Gaza’s largest hospital, Shifa, leaving it in ruins, with the walls blown out and frame blackened
April 01, 2024
Syrian state media says an Israeli airstrike has destroyed the consular section of Iran’s embassy in Damascus, killing or wounding everyone inside
April 01, 2024
American and Israeli officials are planning talks to discuss the potential expansion of Israel’s war against Hamas to the southern Gaza city of Rafah
April 01, 2024
Palestinian residents say the Israeli military has withdrawn from Gaza’s main hospital after a two-week raid, leaving behind a vast swath of destruction
April 01, 2024
Palestinian residents say the Israeli military has withdrawn from Gaza’s main hospital after a two-week raid, leaving behind a vast swath of destruction
April 01, 2024
A pro basketball team in Iraq is owned by a paramilitary group, and some of its forces recently attacked U.S. troops
April 01, 2024
The U.S. military says its forces have destroyed two unmanned aerial vehicles in the Houthi-held areas in Yemen and over the crucial shipping route in the Red Sea
March 31, 2024
An Israeli airstrike has hit a tent camp inside a hospital in central Gaza, killing two Palestinians and wounding another 15
March 31, 2024
Four United Nations military observers have been wounded while patrolling the southern Lebanese border after a shell exploded near them
March 30, 2024
The United States has welcomed the formation of a new Palestinian autonomy government, signaling it is accepting the new lineup as a step toward political reform
March 30, 2024
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will return to the table for cease-fire talks with Hamas
March 29, 2024
A video showing a Lebanese nun asking young students to pray for the “men of the resistance,” a reference to Hezbollah fighters, has sparked controversy in Lebanon
March 29, 2024
The top United Nations court has ordered Israel to take measures including opening more land crossings to allow food, water, fuel and other supplies into Gaza to tackle crippling shortages in the war-ravaged enclave
March 28, 2024
A series of Israeli airstrikes across southern Lebanon has killed at least 16 people, including paramedics
March 28, 2024
An international team of doctors was prepared for the worst before visiting a hospital in central Gaza
March 28, 2024
Talks have restarted aimed at bringing top Israeli officials to Washington to discuss potential military operations in Gaza
March 27, 2024
The U.S. has imposed sanctions on an online media site called Gaza Now and its founder Mustafa Ayash, for allegedly supporting Hamas
March 27, 2024
An Iraqi man who carried out several Quran burnings in Sweden has told a newspaper in the country that he would seek asylum in neighboring Norway in the wake of a deportation order by authorities in Stockholm
March 27, 2024
An Israeli airstrike on a paramedics center linked to a Lebanese Sunni Muslim group in south Lebanon has killed seven of its members
March 27, 2024
Months after Hamas attackers killed 1,200 people, a string of Israeli farming communities they targeted just across the border fence with Gaza remain all but empty
March 27, 2024
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has threatened to break off diplomatic ties with Israel if the country doesn't comply with a U.N. Security Council resolution that calls for an immediate cease-fire in the Gaza Strip
March 26, 2024
The head of a Lebanese Sunni political and militant group that has joined the Shiite militant group Hezbollah in its fight against Israel on Lebanon’s border says the conflict has helped strengthen cooperation between the two groups
March 26, 2024
As Israel battles a prolonged war in Gaza, exemptions from mandatory military service for ultra-Orthodox men have reopened a divide in the country and rattled the government coalition
March 26, 2024
Hamas has rejected the latest proposal put forward by international mediators for a cease-fire and hostage release
March 26, 2024
Hamas has rejected the latest cease-fire proposal, accusing Israel of ignoring its core demands, which include an end to the war and a full withdrawal from Gaza
March 26, 2024
Former President Donald Trump says he would have responded the same way as Israel did after the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas but urged the country to “finish up” its offensive and “get this over with,” warning about international support fading
March 25, 2024
Tens of thousands of people have celebrated the Jewish holiday of Purim in Jerusalem, though the traditionally boisterous celebrations have been muted this year by the Israel-Hamas war
March 25, 2024
In mid-March, a line of trucks stretched for 3 kilometers along a desert road near a crossing point from
March 25, 2024
Palestinians who fled during an ongoing Israeli raid in and around the Gaza Strip’s main hospital describe days of heavy fighting, mass arrests and forced marches past dead bodies and flattened buildings
March 24, 2024
The U.S.-backed force that defeated the Islamic State group in Syria five years ago is warning that the extremists still pose grave dangers throughout the world
March 23, 2024
U_N_ Secretary-General António Guterres says it's time to “truly flood Gaza with lifesaving aid" and calls the starvation inside the enclave a “moral outrage.”
March 23, 2024
The U.N. Security Council is set to vote on a resolution demanding a humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, but the United States warned the measure could hurt negotiations to halt Israeli-Hamas hostilities
March 23, 2024
U.S. fighter jets from the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier struck three underground storage facilities in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen late Friday
March 22, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has once again left the Middle East empty-handed
March 22, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Tel Aviv, Israel, on the final stop in his sixth urgent trip to the region since the start of the war
March 22, 2024
Algeria will hold its next presidential election on Sept. 7, giving first-term President Abdelmajid Tebboune more than five months to campaign should he choose to seek a second term leading the oil-rich north African nation
March 21, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is huddling with top Arab diplomats in Cairo to discuss post-conflict plans for Gaza as relations between the United States and Israel are souring further over Israel's war against Hamas
March 21, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the “gaps are narrowing” in indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas over another cease-fire and hostage release that the U.S., Egypt and Qatar have spent several weeks trying to broker
March 21, 2024
A 12-year-old boy in east Jerusalem lights the fuse of a long firework and hoists it in the air
March 21, 2024
Israel is determined to launch an offensive against Hamas in Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost town, a plan that has raised global alarm because of the potential for harm to the hundreds of thousands of civilians sheltering there
March 20, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Israel this week as part of his sixth urgent mission to the Middle East since Israel's war with Hamas began in October
March 20, 2024
Mourners were holding funeral prayers Wednesday morning outside a hospital in central Gaza for 28 people killed in three separate Israeli airstrikes on urban refugee camps
March 20, 2024
Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s former White House adviser and his son-in-law, praised the “very valuable” potential of Gaza’s “waterfront property.”
March 19, 2024
Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen blew up a house in a town southeast of the capital, Sanaa, killing at least nine people from the same family, officials and residents said
March 19, 2024
Destroying Hamas in Rafah would required a ground incursion by Israeli forces, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday following a call by the White House to rethink
March 19, 2024
The incoming Palestinian prime minister has laid out wide-ranging plans for a revitalized Palestinian Authority and an independent trust fund to oversee Gaza’s reconstruction in a mission statement acquired Tuesday by The Associated Press
March 19, 2024
How a family-run bistro became the Middle East’s best restaurant
March 19, 2024
President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have spoken in their first interaction in more than a month as the divide has grown between allies over food crisis in Gaza, conduct of war
March 18, 2024
Israeli forces have launched another raid on the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, accusing Hamas militants of using it as a base
March 18, 2024
The European Union has announced a $8 billion aid package for cash-strapped Egypt amid concerns that economic pressure and conflicts and chaos in neighboring countries could drive more migrants to European shores
March 17, 2024
A suspected attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels has targeted a ship in the Gulf of Aden, potentially marking their latest assault on shipping through the crucial waterway leading to the Red Sea
March 17, 2024
Syrian state media say Israeli airstrikes have hit several sites in southern Syria wounding a soldier
March 16, 2024
Stalled talks aimed at securing a cease-fire in the war between Israel and Hamas are expected to restart in earnest in Qatar as soon as Sunday
March 16, 2024
Syria’s civil war has entered its 14th year, a somber anniversary in a long-frozen conflict
March 15, 2024
A ship carrying 200 tons of aid is approaching the coast of Gaza to inaugurate a sea route from Cyprus
March 15, 2024
The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza is accusing Israeli forces of launching an attack near an aid distribution point in war-wracked northern Gaza, killing 20 people and wounding 155 others
March 15, 2024
The United States has circulated the final draft of a United Nations Security Council resolution that would support international efforts to establish “an immediate and sustained cease-fire” in the Israel-Hamas war
March 15, 2024
A suspected attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels struck a ship in the Red Sea, causing damage to the vessel
March 15, 2024
A major deadline under the half-century-old War Powers Resolution came this week for President Joe Biden to obtain Congress’ approval to keep waging his military campaign against Yemen’s Houthis
March 14, 2024
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has appointed his longtime economic adviser to be the next prime minister
March 14, 2024
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is calling on Israel to hold new elections
March 14, 2024
Egypt’s top diplomat has appealed for an urgent increase in aid going into Gaza by land, even as a ship loaded with some 200 tons of food was on its way to the enclave, where hundreds of thousands have been driven to the brink of starvation
March 14, 2024
A humanitarian rescue group says survivors aboard a deflating rubber dinghy rescued in the central Mediterranean Sea have reported that some 60 people who departed Libya with them more than a week ago perished during the journey
March 14, 2024
With each passing day, the relatives of hostages held in Gaza since Oct. 7 face a deepening despair
March 14, 2024
The Israeli military says it plans to direct many of the 1.4 million displaced Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip’s southernmost town of Rafah toward “humanitarian islands” in the center of the territory ahead of its planned offensive there
March 13, 2024
South Africa’s foreign minister says her country’s citizens who fight in the Israeli armed forces or alongside them in Gaza will be arrested when they return home
March 13, 2024
Violent clashes overnight have left multiple Palestinians dead in the West Bank, and Israeli police say a Palestinian stabbed two people at a checkpoint near Jerusalem before being shot Wednesday
March 13, 2024
Evangelicals have been among Israel’s fiercest foreign supporters for years
March 13, 2024
China, Iran and Russia have begun a joint naval drill in the Gulf of Oman, a crucial waterway near the mouth of the Persian Gulf
March 12, 2024
An international charity says its aid ship bound for Gaza has set sail from Cyprus
March 12, 2024
The Muslim holy month of Ramadan, when the faithful fast from dawn to dusk, began at sunrise Tuesday in much of Asia, a day after many Muslims in the Middle East began their fasts
March 12, 2024
The Israeli military says about 100 projectiles were launched from Lebanon into Israel on Tuesday, a day after Palestinians in Gaza began fasting for the holy month of Ramadan
March 12, 2024
The U_N_ envoy focusing on sexual violence in conflict is warning Israel that the finding of “clear and convincing information” that some hostages taken by Hamas during its Oct_ 7 attack in southern Israel were subjected to sexual violence “does not in any way legitimize further hostilities.”
March 12, 2024
More than 20 progressive groups are coming together to forcefully reject pro-Israel groups’ efforts to primary challenge liberal members who've been critics of Israel’s military offensive in Gaza
March 11, 2024
An “uncommitted” campaign protesting President Joe Biden's handling of the Israel-Hamas war is seeing success in other states
March 11, 2024
The leader of Yemen’s branch of al-Qaida is dead
March 11, 2024
Officials have seen the crescent moon in Saudi Arabia, home to the holiest sites in Islam, marking the start of the holy fasting month of Ramadan for many of the world’s 1.8 billion Muslims
March 10, 2024
A U.S. Army vessel carrying equipment for building a temporary pier in Gaza is on its way to the Mediterranean
March 10, 2024
President Joe Biden says he believes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “hurting Israel more than helping Israel” in how he is approaching its war against Hamas in Gaza
March 09, 2024
Another top donor to the U.N. agency aiding Palestinians says it will resume its funding
March 09, 2024
Spain's prime minister says he will propose that parliament recognizes a Palestinian state
March 09, 2024
On the eve of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, Jerusalem’s Old City bears few of its usual hallmarks of festivity
March 09, 2024
Police in Peru have announced the arrest of an Iranian citizen who was purportedly a member of the Iranian Quds Force and had allegedly planned to kill an Israeli citizen in the South American country
March 08, 2024
The U.N. human rights office says in a report that the establishment and expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem amount to a war crime
March 08, 2024
Efforts are ramping up to deliver more desperately needed aid to war-ravaged Gaza, with the United States and Europe focusing on opening a sea route in a signal of the West’s growing frustration with Israel’s conduct in the war
March 08, 2024
A U.N. fact-finding mission says Iran is responsible for the “physical violence” that led to the death of Mahsa Amini in 2022 and sparked nationwide protests against the country’s mandatory headscarf laws and its ruling theocracy
March 08, 2024
The United Nations chief is urging Sudan’s warring parties to halt hostilities during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, warning that the nearly year-long conflict threatens the country’s unity and “could ignite regional instability of dramatic proportions.”
March 07, 2024
The top U.S. general for the Middle East tells Congress that exploding regional violence fueled by Iran presents the most likely threat to the U.S. homeland
March 07, 2024
A coalition of humanitarian and nongovernmental groups has slammed Israel's halt in renewing visas for international aid workers in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank
March 07, 2024
Hamas says its delegation has left Cairo and that talks on a Gaza cease-fire and hostage release will resume next week
March 07, 2024
China reiterated calls to admit Palestine to the U.N. on Thursday, and Norway warned companies against doing business in Israeli settlements, as international criticism of Israel’s war in Gaza mounted
March 07, 2024
Britain has circulated a draft U.N. resolution calling for an immediate cessation of hostilities in conflict-wracked Sudan ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which begins soon
March 07, 2024
Efforts to get desperately needed humanitarian aid to war-wracked northern Gaza are gaining momentum
March 06, 2024
Syria's activists and pro-government media say Islamic State militants have killed at least 18 people in an attack on villagers collecting truffles in eastern Syria
March 06, 2024
Nearly five months of fighting has left much of Gaza in ruins and created a worsening humanitarian catastrophe
March 06, 2024
Over the last five months, Israel has killed thousands of Hamas fighters, destroyed dozens of their tunnels and wreaked unprecedented destruction on the Gaza Strip
March 06, 2024
A U.S. destroyer shot down drones and a missile launched by Yemen’s Houthi rebels toward it in the Red Sea
March 06, 2024
The Middle East franchisee of Starbucks has begun firing staff at its coffee shops across the region after the brand found itself targeted by activists during the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip
March 05, 2024
A Missouri Girl Scout troop that made bracelets to raise funds for children in Gaza was ordered to stop and threatened with legal action by regional scout leaders
March 04, 2024
Israel has ramped up its criticism of the embattled U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees
March 04, 2024
Two Palestinian toddlers with sunken eyes and emaciated faces, one in a yellow cardigan and the other in a stripy top, were lying side
March 04, 2024
Israel's foreign minister said on Monday he has recalled the country's UN ambassador for consultation over alleged UN attempts to keep quiet a report on sexual violence
March 04, 2024
Senior U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein, who is visiting Beirut, says if a truce is reached in the Gaza Strip, it will not automatically translate to calm along the volatile Lebanon-Israel border which has witnessed a rise in tensions
March 04, 2024
A top member of Israel’s wartime Cabinet is meeting with U.S. officials in Washington while talks are underway in Egypt to broker a cease-fire in Gaza before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan begins next week
March 04, 2024
A severely wounded 4-year-old boy from Gaza has come to the U.S. for medical care and a prosthetic arm after an Israeli airstrike killed his family
March 04, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris is planning to host a member of Israel’s wartime Cabinet who is visiting Washington in defiance of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
March 04, 2024
An Israeli official says a top Israeli Cabinet minister's trip to Washington has angered Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
March 03, 2024
The Israeli military on Saturday promised an exhaustive and truthful investigation into the deaths of Palestinians queuing for aid in Gaza this week, an incident that has drawn
March 02, 2024
US officials say American military C-130 cargo planes have airdropped food and aid in pallets over Gaza
March 02, 2024
The U.S. military on Saturday carried out its first airdrop of humanitarian aid into Gaza, two U.S. officials said.
March 02, 2024
Palestinians in Gaza returning from wartime detention in Israeli custody are reporting physical abuse and medical neglect inside Israel's network of prisons
March 02, 2024
President Joe Biden has announced that the U.S. will begin airdropping sorely needed humanitarian assistance into Gaza amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war
March 01, 2024
A Turkish official has rejected allegations by a human rights group that Turkey bears responsibility for some of the abuses and possible war crimes carried out mostly against Kurdish residents in northern in Syria
March 01, 2024
An Iranian singer who won a Grammy presented by U.S. first lady Jill Biden has been sentenced to more than three years in prison over his anthem supporting the 2022 protests over the death of Mahsa Amini
March 01, 2024
The European Union says it will pay $54 million to the main provider of aid in Gaza next week
March 01, 2024
Iran has begun voting in its first parliamentary elections since the mass 2022 protests over its mandatory hijab laws after the death of Mahsa Amini
March 01, 2024
Three dozen leaders at news organizations around the world are expressing solidarity with reporters doing the dangerous work of covering the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza
February 29, 2024
A Palestinian-American detained by Israel for three weeks has been released on bail after a military judge's ruling
February 29, 2024
The flow of thousands of migrants daily through the treacherous migratory highway, the Darien Gap, has been cut off following the capture of a number of boat captains who had been ferrying the migrants to the starting point of their jungle trek
February 29, 2024
On Oct. 7, when Hamas militants stormed numerous Israeli locations, killing hundreds and abducting others, Marina Degtiar and other members of Argentina's Jewish community felt like traveling back in time, to July 18, 1994
February 29, 2024
Gaza health officials say more than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the start of the Israel-Hamas war nearly five months ago
February 29, 2024
Austria’s foreign minister has urged Israel and Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group against escalating the conflict along the volatile Israel-Lebanon border
February 29, 2024
Dearborn and two other Michigan cities with large Arab and Muslim populations turned against President Joe Biden in the state’s primary after Democratic leaders there warned for months that voters were angry about his handling of the Israel-Hamas war
February 28, 2024
The British government is stepping up security for lawmakers after politicians reported threats and intimidation connected to the Israel-Hamas war
February 28, 2024
The families of hostages held in Gaza and their supporters are launching a four-day march from southern Israel to Jerusalem to demand their loved ones be set free
February 28, 2024
Iran is holding parliamentary elections this Friday, yet the real question may not be who gets elected but how many people actually turn out to vote
February 28, 2024
At least one quarter of Gaza’s population – 576,000 people – are one step away from famine and virtually the entire population desperately needs food resulting in aid trucks being shot at, looted and overwhelmed by hungry people, top U.N. officials say
February 28, 2024
Israel and Hamas are inching toward a new deal that would free some of the roughly 130 hostages held in the Gaza Strip in exchange for a weekslong pause in the war
February 27, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy has arrived to Saudi Arabia with plans to visit the kingdom’s powerful crown prince to push for a peace plan and the return of prisoners of war from Russia
February 27, 2024
President Joe Biden says Israel would be willing to halt its war on Hamas in Gaza during the upcoming Muslim fasting month of Ramadan if a deal is reached to release some of the hostages held by the militants
February 27, 2024
United States President Joe Biden says Israel would be willing to halt its war on Hamas in Gaza during the upcoming Muslim fasting month of Ramadan if a deal is reached to release some of the hostages held by the militants
February 27, 2024
The Palestinian Authority’s prime minister has announced his government’s resignation
February 26, 2024
The United Nations top court has wrapped up historic proceedings into the legality of Israel’s occupation of lands sought by Palestinians for a future state
February 26, 2024
Greece has formally agreed to participate in and lead a European Union maritime security operation in the Red Sea, to protect commercial shipping from attacks by Houthi militants in Yemen
February 26, 2024
The Israeli military says its air force have struck targets of the militant Hebollah group deep inside Lebanon
February 26, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office says the army had presented to the War Cabinet its operational plan for a ground offensive into Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost town along the border with Egypt, where 1.4 million Palestinians have sought safety
February 26, 2024
The Taliban have held a public execution of a man convicted of murder in northern Afghanistan as thousands watched at a sports stadium
February 26, 2024
Human Rights Watch says Israel is not complying with an order issued by the United Nations’ top court because it is failing to provide urgently needed aid to desperate people in the Gaza Strip
February 26, 2024
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh says his government is resigning, in a move that could open the door to U.S.-backed reforms in the Palestinian Authority
February 26, 2024
An active-duty member of the U.S. Air Force was critically injured after setting himself ablaze outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington D
February 26, 2024
Israel’s defense minister vowed to step up attacks on Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group even if a cease-fire is reached with Hamas in the Gaza Strip
February 25, 2024
Algeria has inaugurated a gigantic mosque on its Mediterranean coastline after years of political upheaval transformed the project from a symbol of state-sponsored strength and religiosity to one of delays and cost overruns
February 25, 2024
U.S. and British forces carried out strikes against more than a dozen Houthi targets in Yemen on Saturday, officials said, the latest round of military action against the Iran-
February 24, 2024
The U.K.’s governing Conservative Party has suspended ties with one if its lawmakers after he accused London Mayor Sadiq Khan of being controlled by Islamists as tensions over the Israel-Hamas war roil British politics
February 24, 2024
Brazil’s president has alleged that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians
February 24, 2024
The U.S. military says an attack by Yemeni Houthi rebels on a Belize-flagged ship earlier this month caused a significant oil leakage
February 24, 2024
A documentary about a Tunisian family and the radicalization of two teenage daughters who joined the Islamic State group is up for one of the most prestigious film awards in the world
February 24, 2024
Two Navy SEALs drowned last month while trying to board a vessel that was intercepted by U.S. naval forces in the Arabian Sea
February 23, 2024
The Biden administration has restored a U.S. legal finding dating back nearly 50 years that Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories are “illegitimate” under international law
February 23, 2024
The Professional Fighters League is set to become the first major MMA promotion to hold a card in Saudi Arabia
February 23, 2024
A senior Cabinet minister says Israel plans to build more than 3,300 new homes in settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in response to a fatal Palestinian shooting attack
February 23, 2024
Hamas wrapped up ceasefire talks in Cairo and is now waiting to see what mediators bring back from weekend talks with Israel,
February 23, 2024
Hamas says its top political leader has left Egypt after holding talks with Egyptian officials about a possible cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, and an exchange of hostages held by the militants for Palestinians imprisoned in Israel
February 23, 2024
Relatives of hostages still being held by Hamas and other militant groups have endured a nightmare
February 23, 2024
Four people have been charged in connection with deaths of Navy SEALs trying to board a ship carrying Iranian-made weapons to Yemen
February 22, 2024
Candidates for Iran’s parliament began campaigning for the country’s first election since the crackdown on the nationwide protests in 2022 that followed the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody
February 22, 2024
Israel has intercepted an apparent attack by Houthi rebels near the port city of Eilat
February 22, 2024
Spain's prime minister has visited Morocco as the two nations reckon with a spike in migration to the Canary Islands and a Europe-wide debate and protests about agricultural regulations and imports
February 21, 2024
U.K. lawmakers have called for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war
February 21, 2024
From the earliest days of the Israel-Hamas war, the United States and much of the international community have pressed Israel to allow more humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip
February 21, 2024
Somalia has announced a defense deal with Turkey that includes support for the Horn of Africa nation’s sea assets and appears aimed at deterring Ethiopia’s efforts to secure access to the sea by way of the breakaway region of Somaliland
February 21, 2024
The United States says that the United Nations’ top court should not issue an advisory opinion that says Israel should “immediately and unconditionally withdraw” from territories sought for a Palestinian state
February 21, 2024
The aid group Doctors Without Borders says two people were killed when a shelter housing staff in the Gaza Strip was struck during an Israeli operation in an area where Palestinians have been told to seek shelter
February 21, 2024
An Israeli sabotage attack on an Iranian natural gas pipeline caused the multiple explosions that struck it a week ago
February 21, 2024
Syrian state TV says an Israeli strike has hit a residential area in the Syrian capital Damascus
February 21, 2024
South Africa has argued at the United Nations’ top court that Israel is responsible for apartheid against the Palestinians and that Israel’s occupation of land sought for a Palestinian state is “inherently and fundamentally illegal.”
February 20, 2024
Arab nations are putting to a vote a U.N. resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza, knowing it will be vetoed by the United States but hoping to show broad global support for ending the Israel-Hamas war
February 20, 2024
Israel’s foreign minister says Brazil’s president will not be welcome in Israel until he apologizes for comments he made comparing Israel’s war in Gaza to the Holocaust, accusing him of a “very serious anti-Semitic attack.”
February 19, 2024
Gaza’s Health Ministry says more than 29,000 Palestinians have been killed in the territory since the start of the Israel-Hamas war
February 19, 2024
The daughter of a long-detained human rights activist in Bahrain says she has been diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma and again called for his release
February 19, 2024
Historic hearings are opening at the United Nations' top court into the legality of Israel’s 57-year occupation of lands sought for a Palestinian state
February 19, 2024
Yemen’s Houthi rebels are suspected in an attack on a Belize-flagged ship traveling through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait connecting the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden
February 19, 2024
The United Nations’ highest court opens historic hearings Monday into the legality of Israel’s 57-year occupation of lands sought for a Palestinian state
February 18, 2024
Two Army Reserve soldiers killed in a Middle East drone attack three weeks ago are being remembered at funerals in their home state of Georgia
February 17, 2024
The head of the main United Nations agency supporting people in Gaza alleges that Israel is intent on “destroying” the organization along with the idea that Palestinians are refugees who have a right to return home one day
February 17, 2024
As cease-fire talks have floundered, Israel has vowed to press ahead with its offensive in the southern Gaza Strip despite warnings from the U.S. to work harder to protect civilians
February 17, 2024
Leaders at an African Union summit in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa have condemned Israel’s offensive in Gaza and called for its immediate end
February 17, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron says recognizing a Palestinian state is not a ‘’taboo’’ for France
February 17, 2024
A top U.S. envoy says Israel has not presented specific evidence that Hamas is diverting U.N. aid shipments entering Gaza
February 17, 2024
A 30-year-old man has gunned down 12 of his relatives in a remote rural area in southeast Iran, the deadliest shooting reported in decades
February 17, 2024
Missile fire has apparently targeted a ship off Yemen in the Red Sea
February 16, 2024
Egypt is building a wall and is leveling land near its border with the Gaza Strip ahead of a planned Israeli offensive targeting the border city of Rafah
February 16, 2024
In a phone call Thursday, President Joe Biden again cautioned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against moving forward with a military operation in Rafah without a “credible and executable plan” to protect civilians
February 16, 2024
The American embassy is investigating two shootings of Palestinian-American teenagers in the West Bank, the latest of which occurred Saturday
February 15, 2024
Israel has formally complained after a senior Vatican official spoke of “carnage” in Gaza
February 15, 2024
Palestinian medics say Israeli forces fired into the main hospital in southern Gaza, killing a patient and wounding six others
February 15, 2024
Lebanon's state-run news agency says the civilian death toll from two Israeli strikes in Lebanon the day before has now risen to 10, making it the single deadliest day since in more than four months of near-daily cross-border exchanges
February 15, 2024
The president of MIT has suspended a student group that has held demonstrations against Israel's military campaign in Gaza
February 14, 2024
The White House has announced that Palestinians living in the U.S. will be shielded from deportation as the Israel-Hamas war continues, citing “significantly deteriorated” conditions on the ground in Gaza
February 14, 2024
The slow-simmering cross-border conflict between Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group and Israeli forces has escalated, reviving fears that the daily clashes could expand into an all-out war
February 14, 2024
The war between Israel and Hamas, now in its fifth month, has devastated the health sector in the Gaza Strip, with less than half of its hospitals only partially functioning as scores of people are killed and wounded in daily bombardments
February 14, 2024
Palestinians have begun evacuating the main hospital in the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis after weeks of heavy fighting had isolated the medical facility and claimed the lives of several people inside
February 14, 2024
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given a stump speech for his re-election on a global stage in the United Arab Emirates, describing his years in power as pushing for “minimum government, maximum governance.”
February 14, 2024
Ibrahim Hasouna was staying with a friend when heard about the Israeli airstrikes near the house where his family was staying
February 13, 2024
Nine miners were missing after a landslide at an Anagold Mining operation in eastern Turkey on Tuesday, the energy ministry said, with rescue efforts under way.
February 13, 2024
The South African government says it has lodged an “urgent request” with the U.N.’s International Court of Justice to consider whether Israel’s military operations targeting the southern Gaza city of Rafah are a breach of provisional orders the court handed down last month in a case alleging genocide
February 13, 2024
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has arrived in the United Arab Emirates on his seventh trip to the nation
February 13, 2024
Two officials say Israel and Hamas are making progress toward a deal that aims to bring about a cease-fire and free hostages held in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip
February 13, 2024
China has called on Israel to halt military operations in Gaza as soon as possible, a day after Israeli forces rescued two hostages from the Gaza Strip in a dramatic operation that also killed at least 74 Palestinians, according to Palestinian hospital officials
February 13, 2024
Family and friends are gathering in Georgia this week as funerals begin for three Army Reserve soldiers killed in a recent drone attack in Jordan
February 13, 2024
The Israeli raid in the southern Gaza Strip lasted less than 90 minutes
February 12, 2024
The Israeli military has rescued two hostages from the Gaza Strip early in a dramatic operation that Palestinian hospital officials say also killed at least 67 Palestinians in airstrikes
February 12, 2024
Judges in the Netherlands have ordered the Dutch government to halt the export of F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel, citing a clear risk of violations of international law
February 12, 2024
Egypt has threatened to void its decades-long peace treaty with Israel if Israel begins a large-scale offensive on Rafah, where some 1.4 million Palestinians shelter in densely packed tent camps on the border with Egypt
February 12, 2024
President Joe Biden is hosting Jordan’s King Abdullah II in Washington and the two leaders are expected to discuss the ongoing effort to free hostages in Gaza and growing concern over a possible Israeli military operation in the port city of Rafah
February 12, 2024
A ship has come under attack by two missiles in the key Bab el-Mandeb Strait, the latest attack believed to have been carried out by Yemen’s Houthi rebels
February 12, 2024
The Israeli military says it has rescued two hostages from captivity in the Gaza Strip
February 12, 2024
The Iraqi government met again with the U.S. government on how to draw down American troops who have been deployed there for years combating the Islamic State
February 12, 2024
A pro-settler organization says the population of Israeli settlers in the West Bank increased nearly 3% in 2023 and expects growth to accelerate this year
February 11, 2024
Egypt has threatened to suspend its peace treaty with Israel if the Israeli Gaza offensive expands into the densely populated border town of Rafah
February 11, 2024
Iran has marked the 45th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution amid tensions gripping the wider Middle East over Israel’s continued war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip
February 11, 2024
Israel's war on Hamas in Gaza has also wreaked havoc on the Palestinian economy in the West Bank
February 11, 2024
The al-Qaida-linked militant group al-Shabab has claimed an attack that killed three Emirati troops and a Bahraini military officer at a military base in the Somali capital
February 11, 2024
A desperate rescue attempt in Gaza by medics with the Palestinian Red Crescent has ended with the discovery of their ambulance, blackened and destroyed
February 10, 2024
The Israeli military says it has discovered tunnels underneath the main headquarters of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees in Gaza City
February 10, 2024
Violence has continued this week in the Gaza Strip as well as across the broader Middle East
February 10, 2024
A hospital official and AP journalists say Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 28 Palestinians in the southern Gaza city of Rafah
February 10, 2024
The Syrian military says Israeli airstrikes have hit several sites on the outskirts of the Syrian capital, Damascus
February 10, 2024
The White House is downplaying sharp criticism from President Joe Biden and a senior national security official over Israel's war against Hamas
February 10, 2024
A new directive by President Joe Biden is appearing to ease a split among Democrats over his military support for Israel’s war in Gaza
February 09, 2024
The Senate is moving toward a final vote on an emergency spending package that would provide military aid to Ukraine and Israel, replenish U.S. weapons systems and provide food, water and other humanitarian aid to civilians in Gaza
February 09, 2024
Israel has identified the southern Gaza city of Rafah as the next target in its military offensive against Hamas
February 09, 2024
The Israel-Hamas conflict is putting a spotlight on all of the different people affected by the war, including Israel soldiers from Ethiopian, Filipino and Bedouin backgrounds.
February 09, 2024
Israel has bombed targets in Rafah, after U.S. officials warned Israel against expanding its Gaza ground offensive to the southern city where more than half of the territory’s 2.3 million people have sought refuge
February 09, 2024
At least nine people, including children and women, were killed in Israeli airstrikes overnight into Friday in the central area of the Gaza Strip and in the southern city of Rafah on the border with Egypt, witnesses and hospital officials said
February 09, 2024
A small group of families of Israelis who are hostages of Hamas believes that only continued Israeli military pressure on the militant group, rather than a deal, will free the captives
February 09, 2024
A U.S. general says combat exercises between the United States and the Philippines that involve thousands of forces each year will not be affected by America’s focus on the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East
February 09, 2024
Biden administration officials are meeting with Arab American and Muslim leaders in Michigan
February 08, 2024
The Gaza war has complicated issues in Ukraine, with Putin looking to exploit events in the Middle East to garner support among the Global South.
February 08, 2024
A German Navy frigate has set sail toward the Red Sea, where Berlin plans to have it take part in an EU mission to defend cargo ships against attacks by Yemen's Houthi rebels that are hampering trade
February 08, 2024
Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 13 people in Rafah on the border with Egypt
February 08, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has left the Middle East with public divisions between the United States and Israel at perhaps their worst level since Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza began in October
February 08, 2024
A new book describes a series of conversations between the mother of an American hostage who was brutally murdered by Islamic State militants in Syria and one of the men who contributed to his death
February 08, 2024
A group of progressive lawmakers are fighting back against a multimillion-dollar campaign to push them out of Congress for their vocal opposition to Israel's deadly bombardment of Gaza after the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas
February 08, 2024
Israel and Hamas are examining proposed terms for a deal meant to bring about a cease-fire in the four-month-old war in the Gaza Strip in exchange for the release of dozens of hostages who are still held captive there
February 07, 2024
About half of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in the U.S. believe the country is giving too much support of Israelis and not enough for Palestinians amid the ongoing war in Gaza
February 07, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is set to brief Israel’s leaders on Hamas’ response to a proposal for a cease-fire in Gaza and the release of scores of hostages as the war enters a fifth month with both sides dug in and pursuing thus far elusive goals
February 07, 2024
The war in Gaza has sparked a humanitarian catastrophe that has prompted shortages of the most basic necessities
February 07, 2024
Attacks on shipping in the Red Sea by Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthi rebels are disrupting a key trade route for energy supplies to Europe
February 07, 2024
Syria's military says Israeli airstrikes over the central city of Homs and nearby areas have killed and wounded civilians
February 07, 2024
A bill to provide Israel with more military aid has gone down in defeat in the House
February 07, 2024
Senate Democrats are pushing to prevent the Biden administration from bypassing Congress when approving weapons sales to Israel as the Jewish state's war against Hamas comes under increasing scrutiny
February 06, 2024
While the conflict between Hamas and Israel is unique, the case of South Africa’s border war – and subsequent fall of apartheid – might offer lessons that apply to the Middle East.
February 06, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Cairo for a meeting with Egyptian leaders that U.S. officials say will concentrate mainly on the task of negotiating a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war
February 06, 2024
A ship traveling through the southern Red Sea has been attacked by a suspected Yemen Houthi rebel drone
February 06, 2024
A year after the devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck southern Turkey and northwestern Syria, a massive rebuilding effort is still trudging along
February 06, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Saudi Arabia on his fifth visit to the region since the outbreak of the war in Gaza
February 05, 2024
The death toll in the Gaza Strip has increased following the latest Israeli airstrikes on the Palestinian territory
February 05, 2024
Criticism of President Joe Biden by a far-right minister in Israel’s government has sparked outrage at a sensitive time for Israel's relations with Washington
February 04, 2024
Iran has issued a warning to the U.S. over potentially targeting two cargo ships in the Mideast long suspected of serving as forwarding operating base for Iranian commandos
February 04, 2024
The latest U.S. military strikes targeted a strategic region in Syria and Iraq that Iran has been using to expand its influence in the Middle East
February 03, 2024
More than 85 locations linked to militias were hit in a robust response by Washington to an earlier deadly drone attack on a US base in Jordan.
February 03, 2024
The US attacks on military sites in Iraq and Syria are unlikely to further escalate conflict in the Middle East, he writes.
February 03, 2024
An Iraqi militia official has hinted at a desire to de-escalate tensions in the Middle East following retaliatory strikes launched by the United States against dozens of sites in Iraq and Syria used by Iranian-backed militias and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard
February 03, 2024
The European Union is worried about reports that the Israeli military intends to take its battle against Hamas to the town of Rafah at Gaza’s border with Egypt
February 03, 2024
Hamas’ demand that Israel release Marwan Barghouti brings new attention to a man many Palestinians see as their Nelson Mandela
February 03, 2024
A senior Hamas official says the group will respond “very soon” to a proposal that includes extended pauses in Gaza fighting and phased exchanges of Hamas-held hostages for Palestinians imprisoned in Israel
February 02, 2024
A new poll shows half of U_S_ adults believe Israel's war in Gaza has “gone too far."
February 02, 2024
Media outlets say two gunmen have taken seven hostages at a factory owned by Procter & Gamble in northwest Turkey, apparently in protest of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza
February 01, 2024
Gaza's Health Ministry says Israel's offensive in the territory has killed more than 27,000 people
February 01, 2024
The US is among more than a dozen countries to freeze funding to UN agency providing aid to displaced Gazans over allegations of complicity in the Oct. 7 attack.
February 01, 2024
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have fired two ballistic missiles at a Liberian-flagged container ship in the Red Sea
February 01, 2024
A new report says Israeli-made Pegasus spyware was used in Jordan to hack the cellphones of nearly three dozen people including journalists, lawyers and human rights activists
February 01, 2024
The prospect of a full-scale war between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia terrifies people on both sides of the border, but some see it as an inevitable fallout from Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza
February 01, 2024
Chicago’s City Council narrowly approved a resolution Wednesday calling for a permanent cease-fire in the war between Israel and Hamas, with Mayor Brandon Johnson casting the tiebreaking vote
January 31, 2024
South Africa’s foreign minister says Israel has ignored the ruling by the U.N.’s top court last week by killing hundreds more civilians in a matter of days in Gaza
January 31, 2024
Secretary of State Antony Blinken will return to the Middle East later this week on his fifth urgent diplomatic mission to the region since Israel's war with Hamas began in October
January 31, 2024
Gaza’s Health Ministry says 150 people have been killed in the territory in the last 24 hours and another 313 were wounded as Israeli forces continue to battle militants, even in the northern part of the territory
January 31, 2024
A U.S. Navy destroyer in the Red Sea shot down an anti-ship cruise missile launched by Yemen’s Houthi rebels
January 31, 2024
U.S. and Mideast mediators appeared optimistic in recent days that they are closing in on a deal for a two-month cease-fire in Gaza and the release of over 100 hostages held by Hamas
January 30, 2024
Israeli forces have killed three Palestinian militants in a raid on a hospital in the occupied West Bank, where violence has surged since the outbreak of the war in Gaza
January 30, 2024
Three American troops were killed and dozens more injured in an attack on a base in Jordan. How the Biden administration responds could determine if conflict in the Middle East widens.
January 29, 2024
An Iranian man who federal prosecutors say operates a criminal network that targets dissidents and activists abroad has been charged alongside a pair of Canadians with plotting to kill two people who had fled to the United States
January 29, 2024
Israel has officially notified the United Nations that it is cancelling the agreement regulating its relations with the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA, the Israeli foreign
January 29, 2024
The U.N. aid agency serving Palestinians in Gaza faces more funding cuts amid accusations that 12 of its employees were involved in Oct. 7 attack that sparked the Israel-Hamas war
January 29, 2024
A scholar of Israeli politics explains why Israelis are increasingly turning against Netanyahu and his promise that Israel can quickly defeat Hamas and bring Israeli hostages home.
January 29, 2024
An Israeli spells out allegations against a dozen U.N. employees the country says participated in Hamas’ Oct. 7 assault
January 29, 2024
The Syrian military says an Israeli airstrike on a Damascus suburb has killed and wounded several people
January 29, 2024
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for an attack on a Roman Catholic church in Istanbul during a Sunday Mass that killed one person, in a statement issued late Sunday
January 29, 2024
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have said they attacked a U.S. Navy mobile base at sea without offering evidence, something immediately rejected by an American defense official
January 29, 2024
Israel’s president has accused the U.N. world court of misquoting him in a ruling that ordered Israel to take steps to protect Palestinians and prevent a genocide in the Gaza Strip
January 28, 2024
Attacks on ships in the Red Sea by Yemen’s Houthi rebels have unraveled a key global trade route, forcing vessels into longer and more costly journeys around Africa
January 28, 2024
U.S. negotiators are making progress on a potential agreement in which Israel would pause military operations against Hamas in Gaza for two months in exchange for the release of more than 100 hostages who were captured in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel
January 28, 2024
Jews and Muslims from Bosnia and abroad gathered in Srebrenica to jointly observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day and promote compassion and dialogue amid rising global sectarian hatred fueled by Israel’s war in Gaza
January 27, 2024
Iraq's prime minister says his government and the United States have held a first session of formal talks in Baghdad aimed at winding down the mission of a U.S.-led military coalition formed to fight the Islamic State group in Iraq
January 27, 2024
The crew aboard a Marshall Islands-flagged tanker hit by a missile launched by Yemen’s Houthi rebels has extinguished an hourslong fire onboard the stricken vessel sparked by the strike
January 27, 2024
Witnesses say an Israeli airstrike on a house in the southern Gaza Strip killed two women and a man as Israel pursued its offensive against the Palestinian enclave
January 27, 2024
President Joe Biden’s campaign manager has traveled to Michigan, where many Arab American leaders are enraged over the administration’s policy toward Israel, and found some top activists unwilling to meet
January 26, 2024
The U.N. world court has come down hard on Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip, calling on Israel to “take all measures” to prevent a genocide of the Palestinians
January 26, 2024
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is raising concerns over a series of recent U.S. military strikes against Yemen's Houthi rebels
January 26, 2024
The British military says two missiles apparently targeting a ship off Yemen exploded Friday, though they caused no damage or injuries
January 26, 2024
The International Court of Justice is reading out its decision on whether to order Israel to halt its offensive in Gaza
January 26, 2024
Israel is set to hear whether the United Nations’ top court will order it to end its military offensive in Gaza during a case filed by South Africa accusing Israel of genocide
January 26, 2024
Turkey has published a measure approving Sweden’s membership in NATO in its official gazette
January 25, 2024
The U.S. government privately warned Iran that the Islamic State group’s affiliate in Afghanistan was preparing to carry out a terrorist attack before bombings in Kerman earlier this month killed 95 people
January 25, 2024
The United States and Iraq will soon begin formal talks soon to transition the mission of a U.S.-led military coalition formed to fight the Islamic State in Iraq
January 25, 2024
The death toll from a strike on a crowded shelter in Gaza has risen to 12, with over 75 wounded
January 25, 2024
Antisemitism is on the rise in Belgium since the Hamas attack against Israel that triggered a war in Gaza
January 25, 2024
The passenger in a pickup truck where an American-Palestinian was fatally shot in the West Bank says the shooting was unprovoked
January 25, 2024
A 72-year-old Israeli woman held captive by Hamas militants for nearly 50 days has told an Israeli TV channel that she was held at length in a dark, humid tunnel where she met Hamas' top leader in Gaza
January 24, 2024
Efforts to reach a new cease-fire between Israel and Hamas appear to be gaining steam
January 24, 2024
A liquor store has opened in Saudi Arabia for the first time in over 70 years
January 24, 2024
The United Nations’ top court says it will issue a decision Friday on South Africa’s request for interim orders in a genocide case against Israel, including that Israel halt its offensive in Gaza
January 24, 2024
Officials in Cyrpus say police have rescued 60 Syrian migrants from a rickety wooden boat that had been at sea six days and appeared to have run short of food and water
January 24, 2024
In the wake of US attacks against Houthi militants in Yemen, a scholar of presidential power to use the military examines the history and present of the laws around US military action.
January 24, 2024
Iran's hardline Guardian Council has banned former pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani from standing again in an election in March for the Assembly of Experts, which appoints and can
January 24, 2024
Israeli forces are battling Palestinian militants near the main hospital in Gaza’s second-largest city, Khan Younis
January 24, 2024
Israel and Hamas have moved closer to agreement on a 30-day ceasefire in Gaza when Israeli hostages and Palestinians
January 24, 2024
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron will travel to Israel on Wednesday where he is expected to raise concerns over the high number of Palestinians killed and push for a "
January 24, 2024
The U.S. military has hit three facilities in Iraq and two anti-ship missiles in Yemen within hours of each other in its continued effort to keep violence from the Israel-Hamas war from spilling over into a wider conflict
January 23, 2024
Israel and Hamas broadly agree in principle that an exchange of Israeli hostages for
January 23, 2024
Britain plans to announce new sanctions in the coming days targeting Houthi financing of attacks on shipping in the Red Sea, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Tuesday.
January 23, 2024
Israel and Hamas are running through countless weapons in the ongoing war − but where are those weapons coming from?
January 23, 2024
Iran has expanded its network of partners across the Middle East. But it isn’t a simple case of Tehran dictating the terms of the alliance.
January 23, 2024
The Israeli military says that Palestinian militants carried out the deadliest single attack on Israel’s forces since the Hamas raid that triggered the war
January 23, 2024
Oil prices eased in early trade on Tuesday as anxiety over the global demand outlook for oil offset geopolitical tensions in the Middle East and supply worries following an
January 23, 2024
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met with his counterparts from Iran, Turkey and Lebanon ahead of the United Nations Security Council meeting on Tuesday due to discuss the Middle
January 23, 2024
Intense international mediation efforts are working toward exchanging Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners
January 22, 2024
Israel’s invasion of the Gaza Strip is pounding the southern city of Khan Younis
January 22, 2024
The U.S. Navy’s top Mideast commander says Iran is “very directly involved” in ship attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels during Israel’s war against Hamas
January 22, 2024
The U.N.’s migration agency is launching its first “global appeal,” seeking $7.9 billion to help people on the move and ensure smoother pathways to migration
January 22, 2024
European Union foreign ministers say the creation of a Palestinian state is the only credible way to achieve peace in the Middle East
January 22, 2024
A pro-Palestinian protester threw papers onto an Australian Open court and briefly disrupted the fourth-round match between Olympic champion Alexander Zverev and Cameron Norrie of Britain
January 22, 2024
Dozens of family members of hostages held by Hamas stormed a committee meeting in Israel’s parliament, demanding a deal to win their loved ones’ release
January 22, 2024
A Republican running for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania is escalating criticism of Democrats over the Israel-Hamas war and has traveled to the Israel-Gaza border to make the case that the Biden administration hasn’t backed Israel strongly enough
January 22, 2024
The military says a 10-day search to rescue two Navy SEALs lost in the Arabian Sea during a mission to board a ship and confiscate Iranian-made weapons has ended and the sailors are considered deceased
January 21, 2024
Lebanese state media and health officials say an Israeli airstrike has hit two vehicles near a Lebanese army checkpoint in south Lebanon
January 21, 2024
Amid a tough reelection fight, Mayor London Breed has declined to veto a non-binding resolution from the San Francisco supervisors calling for an extended cease-fire in Gaza
January 21, 2024
Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said the kingdom was "very worried" that tensions in the Red Sea amid attacks by Yemen's Houthis and U.S. strikes on Houthi
January 20, 2024
The father of an American teen killed by Israeli fire in the occupied West Bank has railed against Washington’s military support for Israel
January 20, 2024
The British navy says two of its warships have collided in a harbor in Bahrain, causing damage but no injuries
January 20, 2024
Syrian and Iranian officials and media say an Israeli strike on the Syrian capital of Damascus has killed five Iranian advisers with the expeditionary Al Quds force belonging to Iran's Revolutionary Guard
January 20, 2024
The United Nations agency promoting gender equality says women and children are the main victims of the war in Gaza, with an estimated 16,000 killed
January 20, 2024
Rifts are emerging among top Israeli officials over the handling of the war against the Hamas militant group in Gaza
January 19, 2024
U.S. fighter jets struck Houthi rebel sites in Yemen for a sixth time Friday, taking out anti-ship missile launchers that were prepared to fire
January 19, 2024
Hundreds of people gathered in Tel Aviv to mark the first birthday of Kfir Bibas, the youngest Israeli hostage held in Gaza
January 18, 2024
U.S. forces have conducted a fifth strike against Iranian-backed Houthi rebel military sites in Yemen
January 18, 2024
The U.S. hit a United Arab Emirates shipping firm and its 18 vessels with sanctions after it transported Russian crude oil above the $60 per barrel price cap
January 18, 2024
The lucrative Saudi soccer league has lost one of its high-profile players
January 18, 2024
This week’s airstrikes between Iran and Pakistan mark a significant escalation in fraught relations between the neighbors
January 18, 2024
Syrian opposition activists say an airstrike that was likely carried out by Jordan’s air force on southern Syria has killed at least nine people in the latest of strikes in recent months
January 18, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has informed the United States that he opposes the establishment of a Palestinian state as part of any postwar scenario
January 18, 2024
The United States has conducted a fifth strike against Houthi rebels in Yemen
January 18, 2024
Israel’s president says normalizing ties between Israel and Saudi Arabia would be a key element of ending the war with Hamas and a game-changer for the entire Middle East
January 18, 2024
The U.S. military has launched another wave of missile strikes against Houthi-controlled sites in Yemen, marking the fourth time in days it has directly targeted the group
January 18, 2024
A public school district in Michigan approved a resolution Wednesday calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war while also encouraging its teachers to discuss the conflict in its classrooms
January 17, 2024
A U.S.-owned ship in the Gulf of Aden has come under attack from a bomb-carrying drone launched by Yemen’s Houthi rebels
January 17, 2024
The United States has put Yemen’s Houthis rebels back on its list of specially designated global terrorists
January 17, 2024
Medicine has entered the Gaza Strip after Qatar and France worked out a deal between Israel and Hamas
January 17, 2024
A spokesman for Qatar’s Foreign Ministry says a shipment of medicine for dozens of hostages held by Hamas has reached the Gaza Strip
January 17, 2024
The year has gotten off to a slow start for a charity-run rescue ship that typically plies the Mediterranean Sea looking for migrants and refugees in distress
January 17, 2024
Watermelons have emblazoned banners, T-shirts, balloons and social media over the past three months in global protests against the Israel-Hamas war
January 17, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Israel cannot achieve “genuine security” without a pathway to a Palestinian state, insisting such a move could help unify the Middle East and isolate Israel’s top rival: Iran
January 17, 2024
Sen. Bernie Sanders has forced a Senate vote testing the political unease over the Israel-Hamas war
January 16, 2024
The Biden administration is expected to soon announce plans to redesignate Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen as a specially designated global terrorists
January 16, 2024
Iran has launched attacks in Pakistan targeting what it described as bases for the Sunni militant group Jaish al-Adl, potentially further raising tensions in a Middle East already roiled by Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip
January 16, 2024
Palestinian militants have battled Israeli forces in devastated northern Gaza and launched a barrage of rockets from further south
January 16, 2024
A barrage of U.S., coalition and militant attacks in the Middle East are compounding U.S. fears that Israel’s war on Hamas in Gaza could expand
January 16, 2024
Iraq's Foreign Ministry has recalled its ambassador to Iran for consultations and summoned Iran’s chargé d’affaires in Baghdad in protest over Iranian strikes on northern Iraq that killed several civilians
January 16, 2024
Qatar and France say they have mediated a deal between Israel and Hamas to deliver medications to the more than 100 Israeli hostages held captive in Gaza
January 16, 2024
Iran says it fired missiles at what it claimed were Israeli “spy headquarters” near the U.S. Consulate in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil, and at targets linked to the extremist group Islamic State in northern Syria
January 15, 2024
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