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
US SEC charges Bit Mining with violating Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
Trump's social media group in talks to buy Bakkt, FT reports
Nearly 40% of young Americans get their news from influencers. Many of them lean to the right, study finds
North American leaders talk cooperation on G20 sidelines
US says Russia escalated Ukraine conflict by deploying North Koreans
AI startup Perplexity adds shopping features as search competition tightens
Actors Jonathan Majors and Meagan Good are engaged. She backed him through domestic violence trial
WWE's 'Monday Night Raw' on Netflix will debut on Jan. 6 in Los Angeles
Lakers to honor former coach Pat Riley with a statue outside their downtown arena