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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