The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has announced that it fired a barrage of missiles at a military base deep inside Israel following an Israeli airstrike more than a day earlier that killed at least 37 people, including one of the militant group’s senior leaders
September 21, 2024
The Biden administration is taking a more hands-off approach than usual during a week of dramatic escalation between Israel and Hezbollah militants in Lebanon
September 21, 2024
The Hezbollah commander killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut’s southern suburbs was one of the Lebanese militant group’s top military officials
September 20, 2024
Lebanon's Iran-aligned Hezbollah group confirmed in the early hours of Saturday that its top military commander Ibrahim Aqil was killed, calling him "one of its top leaders", without
September 20, 2024
Video shows the destruction of buildings and cars in southern Beirut, Lebanon, after the Israel Defense Forces reported carrying out what it called a “targeted” strike.
September 20, 2024
Senior Hezbollah commander among 31 killed in Israeli airstrike in southern Beirut
September 20, 2024
U.S. officials have not given up hope of landing a Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal but are increasingly pessimistic that a
September 20, 2024
A Lebanese-Belgian dual citizen accused by the United States of financing the armed group Hezbollah pleaded guilty on Friday in a criminal case charging him with sanctions
September 20, 2024
Top Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Aqil was killed on Friday in an Israeli strike on Beirut's southern suburbs, two security sources told Reuters.
September 20, 2024
The mother of the woman whose company was linked to thousands of pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria says her daughter has received threats and been advised by the Hungarian secret services not to talk to media
September 20, 2024
Israel has launched a rare airstrike that killed a senior Hezbollah military official in a densely populated southern Beirut neighborhood
September 20, 2024
An Israeli airstrike in Beirut has killed at least 14 people and wounded more than 60, according to Lebanese health officials
September 20, 2024
The batteries of the walkie-talkies used by Lebanese armed group Hezbollah that blew up this week were laced with a highly explosive compound known as PETN, a Lebanese source
September 20, 2024
Israel killed a top Hezbollah commander and other senior figures in the Lebanese movement in an airstrike on Beirut on Friday, vowing to
September 20, 2024
Italy is about to send another Samp-T anti-missile system to Ukraine, Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said on Thursday, underlining the need, however, to avoid entering war with
September 20, 2024
After a second day of explosions target Hezbollah in Lebanon, Christiane Amanpour speaks with Abdallah Bou Habib about risk of war with Israel
September 20, 2024
CNN Senior International Correspondent Ben Wedeman reacts to Israeli jets flying over Beirut, Lebanon, as Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah delivered an address in response to a wave of explosions across the country.
September 20, 2024
Middle East on the precipice again after Hezbollah leader vows retribution and Israel launches strikes. Here’s what we know
September 20, 2024
The U.N. peacekeeping force in south Lebanon urged de-escalation on Friday after a big increase in hostilities at the Lebanese-Israeli border, where Israel and the Iran-backed
September 20, 2024
For millions of Lebanese, this week's mass explosion of pagers and walkie-talkies and the bloody aftermath are painfully similar to the horrific explosion four years ago of haphazardly stored ammonium nitrates that tore through Beirut's port
September 20, 2024
The president and founder of a Taiwanese pager company linked to the detonation of thousands of pagers targeting Hezbollah in Lebanon was questioned by prosecutors late into the
September 19, 2024
Videos obtained by The Associated Press show Israeli soldiers pushing four apparently lifeless bodies from rooftops during a raid in the occupied West Bank
September 19, 2024
U.S. officials now believe that a ceasefire deal between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in Gaza is unlikely before President Joe Biden leaves office in January, the
September 19, 2024
U.S. officials say Israel warned U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in a call Tuesday that a military operation was going to take place in Lebanon
September 19, 2024
CNN's Jake Tapper speaks to five families of American hostages being held by Hamas.
September 19, 2024
Father of American hostage held by Hamas says Lebanon attacks treat ‘agony with more agony’
September 19, 2024
There are no changes to U.S. military posture in the Middle East, the Pentagon told reporters on Thursday when asked about recent deadly
September 19, 2024
The U.S. is sending several additional Air Force fighter jet squadrons to the Middle East, beefing up what has already been an increased military presence there as the region teeters on the brink of all-out war
September 19, 2024
Six Palestinians were killed and 18 others injured by Israeli forces during a military raid in the occupied West Bank city of Qabatiya, the governor of Jenin told Reuters on
September 19, 2024
Delta Air Lines said on Thursday it will pause its flights between New York-JFK and Tel Aviv through Dec. 31, due to escalating security concerns in the Middle East.
September 19, 2024
The United States on Thursday warned all parties in the Middle East against escalation as tensions between Iran-backed Lebanese movement
September 19, 2024
With little prospect for a deal, Israel floats Sinwar exile proposal to Biden
September 19, 2024
Israel will face "a crushing response from the axis of resistance", Iran's Revolutionary Guards Commander Hossein Salami told Hezbollah Chief Hassan Nasrallah on Thursday according
September 19, 2024
The Israeli military said it was striking Hezbollah targets in Lebanon on Thursday, shortly before the movement's leader was due to give a speech.
September 19, 2024
Israeli jets are carrying out huge sonic booms over the Lebanese capital, Beirut, during a speech by Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Thursday, a Reuters witness said.
September 19, 2024
Spain's foreign ministry condemned this week's attacks targeting mobile communications devices used by Hezbollah members in Lebanon, saying they constituted a violation of
September 19, 2024
The impression that Israel is at a stalemate or that there is a rift between leader Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli public over the fate of the hostages is misleading. His hold on power is solid.
September 19, 2024
Turkey is reviewing its measures to secure the communication devices used by its armed forces after the deadly blasts in Lebanon, a Turkish defence ministry official said on Thursday
September 19, 2024
A U.N. committee on Thursday accused Israel of severe breaches of a global treaty protecting children's rights, saying its military actions in Gaza had a catastrophic
September 19, 2024
The leader of Hezbollah vowed to retaliate for this week’s deadly attacks on the group’s communications devices
September 19, 2024
Some Arab American and Muslim voters angry at U.S. support for Israel's offensive in Gaza are shunning Democrat Kamala Harris in the presidential race to back
September 19, 2024
The Japanese maker of the brand of walkie-talkies linked to explosions targeting the Hezbollah armed group that killed 25 people in Lebanon and injured hundreds of
September 19, 2024
The sale of a stake in the Middle East, North Africa and central Asia Starbucks franchise operated by Kuwait's AlShaya Group is on hold,
September 19, 2024
The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah is promising to retaliate for deadly attacks on its communication devices
September 19, 2024
Israeli security services said on Thursday they had arrested an Israeli citizen on suspicion of involvement in an Iranian-backed assassination plot targeting
September 19, 2024
Iranian and European officials will meet at the U.N.
September 19, 2024
More than 130 world leaders will meet at the United Nations next week, faced with wars in the Middle East and Europe threatening to spread, frustration
September 19, 2024
Taiwan's national security team is "paying great attention" to the detonation of thousands of pagers targeting Hezbollah in Lebanon, the island's defence minister said, after a
September 19, 2024
UN members vote to demand Israel end occupation of Palestinian territories within 12 months
September 18, 2024
The specter of all-out combat between Israel and Hezbollah seems closer than ever before
September 18, 2024
US imposes sanctions on 12 Iranian officials for human rights abuses
September 18, 2024
The company linked to the manufacture of the pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria is based in a duplex in a quiet neighborhood of the Hungarian capital
September 18, 2024
Israel notified US ahead of Tuesday’s Lebanon operation but gave no details of what was planned, sources say
September 18, 2024
Germany has put a hold on new exports of weapons of war to Israel while it deals with legal challenges, according to a Reuters analysis of data and a source close
September 18, 2024
The mass pager attack against Hezbollah in Lebanon has turned the spotlight on Israel's secretive Unit 8200, the Israel
September 18, 2024
When streams of bloodied people converged on Lebanon's hospitals on Tuesday, it was a test of whether the crisis-hit health sector could cope with a
September 18, 2024
The United States issued a new round of Iran sanctions on Wednesday targeting 12 individuals who it said were tied to Tehran's "ongoing, violent repression of the Iranian people
September 18, 2024
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders is preparing a series of Senate resolutions that would stop more than $20 billion in U.S. arms sales to Israel
September 18, 2024
Lebanon's Hezbollah was bracing for the risk of Israeli military escalation when its old foe struck a blow it hadn't seen coming, plunging the Iran-
September 18, 2024
Egypt will not accept any changes to the security arrangements that were in place on its border with Gaza before war broke out between Israel and Hamas last October, the Egyptian
September 18, 2024
Although Israel has not commented on the intelligence operation that caused thousands of pagers used by Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon to explode almost simultaneously, the
September 18, 2024
Israel is pushing the whole Middle East to the brink of regional conflict by maintaining a dangerous escalation on several fronts, Jordan's foreign minister said on Wednesday.
September 18, 2024
Who made Hezbollah’s exploding devices? Questions swirl around a mysterious supply chain stretching from Taiwan to Hungary
September 18, 2024
The Kremlin warned on Wednesday that an attack on Lebanese group Hezbollah and others using exploding pagers could become a trigger for a wider regional conflict and called for its
September 18, 2024
Lebanon’s health ministry says at least 20 people were killed and 450 others wounded by exploding electronic devices in multiple regions of the country
September 18, 2024
Israel has killed numerous leaders of Hamas and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah during more than a year of conflict ignited by the Palestinian militant group's Oct. 7, 2023
September 18, 2024
Israel's defense minister declares a “new phase” of war as Hezbollah officials and Lebanon's state media say explosions went off in Beirut and multiple parts of Lebanon in an apparent second wave of detonations of electronic devices
September 18, 2024
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have shot down two American MQ-9 Reaper drones in under a week, further highlighting the regional spread of the Israel-Hamas war
September 18, 2024
How did pagers explode in Lebanon and why was Hezbollah using them? Here’s what we know
September 18, 2024
At least nine people were killed and 2,800 wounded in an attack that targeted pagers held by members of Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah across Lebanon. CNN chief intelligence analyst John Miller discusses.
September 18, 2024
Israel's Mossad spy agency planted a small amount of explosives inside 5000 Taiwan-made pagers ordered by Lebanese group Hezbollah months before
September 17, 2024
U.S.
September 17, 2024
Thousands of pagers used members of the militant group Hezbollah exploded near simultaneously in Lebanon and Syria, killing at least nine people and wounding several thousand, officials said
September 17, 2024
Iran's president committed his country to deeper ties with Russia to counter Western sanctions on Tuesday, state media reported, amid U.S. worries that Tehran is supplying Moscow
September 17, 2024
Iran's ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani, was slightly injured on Tuesday by the explosion of an electronic pager, Iran's semi-official Fars news agency reported, as numerous such
September 17, 2024
Israel behind deadly pager explosions that targeted Hezbollah and injured thousands in Lebanon
September 17, 2024
Hundreds of handheld pagers exploded near simultaneously in parts of Lebanon and Syria, killing at least nine people — including members of the militant group Hezbollah and a young girl
September 17, 2024
Militant group Hezbollah promised to retaliate against Israel after accusing it of detonating pagers across Lebanon on Tuesday, killing nine people and wounding
September 17, 2024
Israel expands war objectives as questions swirl over defense minister’s future
September 17, 2024
A majority of Gazans believe Hamas' decision to launch the Oct. 7 attack on Israel was incorrect, according to a poll published on Tuesday pointing to a
September 17, 2024
Hundreds of handheld pagers have exploded almost simultaneously across Lebanon and in parts of Syria, killing at least nine people, government and Hezbollah officials say
September 17, 2024
Israel's Business Forum on Tuesday urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to not fire his defence minister, saying it would create more division and weaken the
September 17, 2024
Israel says that halting Hezbollah’s attacks in the country's north to allow its residents to return to their homes there is now an official war goal as it considers a wider military operation in Lebanon
September 17, 2024
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has accused Israel’s military of striking schools, humanitarian workers and civilians in Gaza
September 17, 2024
Israel on Tuesday added the safe return of its citizens to their homes near the border with Lebanon to its formal war goals amid reports that Prime Minister
September 16, 2024
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is heading to Egypt this week on his 10th trip to the Middle East since the war in Gaza began nearly a year ago
September 16, 2024
Blinken heads to Egypt but not Israel with prospects for a Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal bleak
September 16, 2024
Reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was considering firing Defence Minister Yoav Gallant shook the political landscape and sent Israeli
September 16, 2024
Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Monday that his government had not transferred any weapons to Russia since it took office in August, after Western powers accused Tehran of
September 16, 2024
In August 2023, Hanan al-Bayouk travelled from Gaza to Israeli-occupied Arab East Jerusalem for a high-risk birth.
September 16, 2024
Iran could hold direct talks with the United States if Washington demonstrates "in practice" that it is not hostile to the Islamic Republic, President Masoud Pezeshkian said on
September 16, 2024
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Monday that Tehran would never give up on its missile programme as it needs such deterrence for its security in a region where Iran's arch
September 16, 2024
Taylor Dees moved to the United Arab Emirates from the US and found her passion in camel racing. Now she's inspiring other women to break into more traditionally male-dominated sports.
September 16, 2024
Tehran has not sent hypersonic missiles to Yemen's Houthis, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said in a televised news conference on Monday, a day after the Iran-backed group said
September 16, 2024
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant told U.S.
September 16, 2024
A Greek-flagged oil tanker ablaze for weeks after attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels has been “successfully towed to a safe area without any oil spill.”
September 16, 2024
Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury, who dedicated much of his writings to the Palestinian cause and taught at universities around the world, making him one of Lebanon’s most prominent intellectuals has died
September 15, 2024
‘We no longer study.’ Gaza’s children lose out on school, as Israel’s war disrupts a year of education
September 15, 2024
Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian will attend the upcoming BRICS summit in Russia, state media cited Tehran's ambassador in Moscow as saying on Sunday, amid tensions with the West
September 15, 2024
Netanyahu warns Yemen’s Houthis face a ‘heavy price’ as missile lands in central Israel
September 15, 2024
A missile fired by Yemen’s Iran-backed rebels has landed in an open area in central Israel and triggered air raid sirens at its international airport
September 15, 2024
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would inflict a "heavy price" on the Iran-aligned Houthis who control northern Yemen, after they reached central Israel with a
September 15, 2024
The foreign ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) industrialised powers condemned on Saturday "in the strongest terms" Iran's export and Russia's procurement of Iranian ballistic
September 14, 2024
Iraqi oil minister Hayan Abdel-Ghani is in stable condition after receiving emergency heart surgery during an official visit to the United States, an oil ministry official who is
September 14, 2024
The United Arab Emirates does not expect to resume talks with the U.S. about a multi-billion dollar deal for F-35 warplanes, irrespective of who is elected to the White House in
September 14, 2024
Russia and Ukraine conducted a major exchange of 206 prisoners on Saturday, 103 apiece, in their second such swap in two days, following negotiations mediated by the
September 14, 2024
Turkish authorities have arrested an Islamic State militant believed to be involved in planning an attack on the Santa Maria Italian Church in Istanbul earlier this year, the
September 14, 2024
A Turkish-American activist who was killed by Israeli fire in the West Bank has been laid to rest in her hometown in Turkey with thousands lining the streets and anti-Israeli feelings in the country rising
September 14, 2024
Turkey's spy chief has met a delegation from the Palestinian militant group Hamas in Ankara and discussed the negotiations for a ceasefire in Gaza, state broadcaster TRT said on
September 13, 2024
Pope Francis on Friday decried the deaths of Palestinian children in Israeli military strikes in Gaza, calling bombings of schools, on the "
September 13, 2024
560,000 children in Gaza vaccinated against polio as first round of campaign ends
September 13, 2024
Hamas leader sends letters from hiding after almost a year of silence
September 13, 2024
Spain, hosting a high-level meeting on Friday of several Muslim and European countries on ways to end the Gaza war, called for a clear schedule for the
September 13, 2024
The body of a Turkish-American activist was received with a solemn ceremony at the airport in Istanbul on Friday, arriving a week after she was shot in the head by Israeli troops
September 13, 2024
An opinion poll on Friday showed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party would form the largest single party in parliament if an election were held now
September 13, 2024
Hamas chief Yehya Sinwar thanked the leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah for his group's support in the conflict with Israel, Hezbollah said on Friday, in the
September 13, 2024
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has thanked Lebanon’s Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah for his support in the ongoing war with Israel
September 13, 2024
Israeli intelligence commander to resign after being accused of failing to prevent October 7
September 12, 2024
When Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas travels to New York for the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations this month, he will for the
September 12, 2024
One of two U.S. aircraft carrier strike groups deployed to the Middle East in part to deter Iran from carrying out a threatened attack against Israel has departed the region,
September 12, 2024
The Israeli military on Thursday named nine men it said were Hamas militants killed in Gaza airstrikes that the U.N.
September 12, 2024
The Biden administration is sending Egypt its full $1.3 billion allocation of military aid
September 12, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that more pressure should be put on Hamas to accept a new Gaza deal proposal, after the Palestinian militant group said
September 12, 2024
The Palestinian economy is “in free fall,” with production in Gaza plunging to one-sixth of its level before Israeli forces began a blistering military response to the Oct. 7 attacks in the territory, the United Nations says
September 12, 2024
The foreign ministers of several Muslim and European countries will meet in Madrid on Friday to discuss how to implement a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian
September 12, 2024
Experts will this week resume a risky operation to salvage the Sounion tanker that was repeatedly attacked by Yemen's Houthis in the Red Sea last month and still holds about one
September 12, 2024
With Israel blocking the entry of almost all fuel into Gaza to prevent its use by Hamas militants, some Palestinians in the north of the shattered
September 12, 2024
Turkey has opened an investigation into the death of a Turkish-American activist believed to have been shot by Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank and will request
September 12, 2024
Evacuated to Qatar from the chaos of Gaza, nine-year-old Palestinian Mahmoud Youssef Ajjour still dreams of becoming a pilot one day despite losing
September 12, 2024
Israeli airstrike on Gaza school sheltering displaced people kills at least 18, including UN staff, Palestinian officials say
September 11, 2024
The Palestinian Hamas group said on Wednesday that its negotiators reiterated its readiness to implement an "immediate" ceasefire with Israel in Gaza based on a previous U.S.
September 11, 2024
A lack of accountability for the killing of United Nations staff and humanitarian aid workers in the Gaza Strip is "totally unacceptable," U.N.
September 11, 2024
US will not restrict any military funding to Egypt
September 11, 2024
Russian ship suspected of delivering Iranian ballistic missiles seen at Caspian Sea port
September 11, 2024
Twelve-year-old Heba Dawas lost her footwear in the chaos while fleeing Israel's military offensive in Gaza.
September 11, 2024
Billions of dollars will be needed to rebuild Gaza when the war between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas ends, according to assessments from the United
September 11, 2024
Iran's foreign minister said on Wednesday that Tehran had not delivered any ballistic missiles to Russia and sanctions imposed on Iran by the United States and three European powers
September 11, 2024
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday called the Israeli military's killing of an American activist in the Israeli-
September 11, 2024
23 years later, September 11 families continue quest for accountability from Saudi Arabia in landmark civil case
September 11, 2024
Among the dozens of Wagner mercenaries presumed dead after a lethal battle with Tuareg rebels during a desert sandstorm in Mali
September 11, 2024
Israeli airstrikes across Gaza have killed more than three dozen Palestinians
September 11, 2024
At least 5 people were killed in an Israeli air strike on Tubas in the West Bank, the Palestinian Red Crescent reported on Wednesday.
September 11, 2024
Iraqi security officials have said an explosion targeted a site used by the U.S. military next to the Baghdad airport, one day before an expected visit by the Iranian president
September 10, 2024
Israeli official floats safe passage for Oct. 7 architect Yahya Sinwar in return for hostages
September 10, 2024
Israel launches multiple airstrikes on southern Lebanon, killing Hezbollah special forces commander
September 10, 2024
The Israeli military has released video footage of a Gaza tunnel where it says six hostages were recently killed by Hamas
September 10, 2024
Israeli forces are near to fulfilling their mission in Gaza and their focus will turn to the country's northern border with Lebanon as daily exchanges of fire with Hezbollah take
September 10, 2024
The U.N. mission in Libya will resume facilitating talks between factions in Tripoli on Wednesday to try to resolve the central bank crisis that has slashed oil output and threatened
September 10, 2024
US imposes new sanctions on Iran’s main airline over Tehran supplying missiles to Russia
September 10, 2024
Blinken slams Israel after IDF says its forces likely shot slain American activist
September 10, 2024
Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC) are looking into the reported death of Hamas military leader Mohammed Deif and will withdraw their case against him if they
September 10, 2024
At least 40 people were killed in an overnight Israeli airstrike in southern Gaza, which is supposed to be a humanitarian zone for displaced civilians. Israel says the strike was aimed at Hamas leaders in the area. CNN's Paula Hancock reports.
September 10, 2024
The United States and Britain have formally accused Iran of supplying short-range ballistic missiles to Russia for its war in Ukraine and will take measures to punish those involved
September 10, 2024
The Israeli military says an American activist killed in the West Bank last week was likely shot “indirectly and unintentionally” by its soldiers, drawing a strong rebuke from U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the activist’s family
September 10, 2024
Air-taxi maker Joby Aviation said on Tuesday it had applied for a certificate that will allow it to operate commercial air transport in the United Arab Emirates.
September 10, 2024
Israel’s defense minister says the window is closing on an opportunity to reach a temporary cease-fire deal with the Hamas militant group
September 10, 2024
Thousands of Iraqi football fans were expected in Kuwait on Tuesday for a World Cup qualifier, the first time they have been allowed to attend
September 10, 2024
Iraq faces a budget crunch in 2025 due to the slump in the price of oil, the overwhelming source of government revenue, a top economic adviser to Prime Minister
September 10, 2024
Palestinian officials say an Israeli strike hit a crowded tent camp in Gaza, killing at least 19 people and wounding 60
September 10, 2024
The United Nations General Assembly is likely to vote next week on a Palestinian draft resolution demanding Israel end "its unlawful presence in the
September 09, 2024
Gaza hostage families urge Trump and Harris to bring Americans home
September 09, 2024
Israeli soldiers rammed UN vehicles with bulldozer and fired shots before letting them go, says UN spokesperson
September 09, 2024
The United States called on Israel on Monday to complete a full inquiry into the killing of an American Turkish woman last week in the Israeli-
September 09, 2024
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan urged the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation to convene an emergency summit to discuss the war in Gaza and what he called Israel's attacks on
September 09, 2024
The U.N. chief says the United Nations has offered to monitor any cease-fire in Gaza and is demanding an end to the worst death and destruction he has seen in his more than seven-year tenure
September 09, 2024
A Dutch court has convicted two Pakistani men in their absence over calls to their followers to murder anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders, the leader of the Party for Freedom that won last year’s general election in the Netherlands
September 09, 2024
The Palestinians have circulated a draft U.N. resolution demanding that Israel end its “unlawful presence” in Gaza and the West Bank within six months
September 09, 2024
CNN's Alex Marquardt talks with INARA founder Arwa Damon about the conditions in Gaza and the challenges faced in attempts to administer polio vaccinations to the children.
September 09, 2024
The Palestinian Authority holds a funeral procession for an American activist who a witness says was shot and killed by Israeli forces
September 09, 2024
Israeli lawmakers gave their initial approval on Monday to raising the 2024 budget framework to help fund reservists and assist people displaced as a result of
September 09, 2024
U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi hopes to hold talks with new Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian by November on improving Iran's cooperation with his
September 09, 2024
Many Palestinian Americans, in recent months, have been reeling from the double blow of the rising Palestinian death toll in Gaza and their own government’s support for Israel in the war against Hamas
September 09, 2024
North Korea's provision of weapons has strengthened Russia's hand in Ukraine by allowing it to keep its arsenals stocked at home, Germany's top military official said
September 09, 2024
The new school year in the Palestinian territories officially began on Monday, with all schools in Gaza shut after 11 months of war and no sign of a ceasefire.
September 09, 2024
The Israeli military has ordered another evacuation of some residential areas in northwest Gaza where it says Palestinian militants fired rockets on the nearby Israeli town of Ashkelon
September 09, 2024
Turkey will discuss the Gaza war and ties with the Arab League when its foreign minister attends a ministerial meeting of the group in Cairo on Tuesday for the first time in 13
September 09, 2024
The Kremlin, asked on Monday about a Wall Street Journal report that Iran has sent short-range ballistic missiles to Russia, said that Iran is Russia's partner, and that the two
September 09, 2024
The United Arab Emirates' economy grew 3.4% in the first quarter of 2024 compared with the same period the previous year, according to preliminary government estimates reported by
September 09, 2024
A judge ordered Lebanon's former central bank chief Riad Salameh to remain in detention amid a probe into alleged financial crimes committed during
September 09, 2024
Airstrikes hit Syrian facility that West alleged produced chemical weapons, eyewitness says
September 08, 2024
Israeli airstrikes killed 16 people in western Syria and wounded dozens more overnight, Syrian state media reported on Monday, the deadliest Israeli attack reported by Syrian
September 08, 2024
Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Meshal al-Ahmad al-Sabah issued a decree on Sunday accepting the resignation of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Oil Emad al-Atiqi.
September 08, 2024
Jordan has closed the King Hussein bridge crossing with the occupied West Bank as it investigates a shooting incident in which three Israelis were killed, a Jordanian official
September 08, 2024
Israeli officials say three Israelis were fatally shot at the border crossing between the West Bank and Jordan
September 08, 2024
An entire Palestinian community fled their tiny West Bank village last fall after repeated threats from Israeli settlers with a history of violence
September 08, 2024
Three killed in Israeli airstrike were emergency workers, Lebanon says. Israel says it targeted terrorists
September 07, 2024
The United States has informed allies that it believes Iran has transferred short-range ballistic missiles to Russia for its war in Ukraine
September 07, 2024
A political adviser to Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani has rejected recent allegations that employees at the premier's office have been spying on and wire-tapping
September 07, 2024
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday Islamic countries should form an alliance against what he called "the growing threat of expansionism" from Israel, drawing a
September 07, 2024
CIA and MI6 heads discuss Gaza ceasefire efforts, Russian threat in unprecedented joint public appearance in London
September 07, 2024
Family of American killed in West Bank blames Israel for her death, demands independent investigation
September 07, 2024
The head of the CIA, who is also the chief U.S. negotiator for an end to the Gaza war and release of hostages held by Hamas, said a more detailed ceasefire proposal
September 07, 2024
The U.N. independent investigator on the right to food accused Israel of carrying out a “starvation campaign” against Palestinians in Gaza
September 06, 2024
Responding to a question from CNN's Jeremy Diamond about civilian deaths in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defends the IDF's conduct in Gaza and says he won't change his "humanitarian policies, vaccination policies and combat policies to minimize civilian casualties."
September 06, 2024
Major roadblocks in Gaza ceasefire talks raise doubts over whether war can be ended before Biden leaves office
September 06, 2024
A Pakistani man has been arrested in Canada and accused of plotting a mass shooting at a Jewish center in Brooklyn on the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas that sparked the latest conflict in the Middle East
September 06, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron discussed the importance of maintaining support for Ukraine and the need for a ceasefire in Gaza during talks on Friday with German Chancellor Olaf
September 06, 2024
Vice presidential candidate Tim Walz said Thursday that those protesting American support for Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza are doing so for “all the right reasons,” as the Democratic ticket looks to balance its support for Israel with the humanitarian plight of civilians in the war-torn enclave
September 06, 2024
The United States and Iraq have reached an understanding on plans for the withdrawal of U.S.-led coalition forces from Iraq, according to multiple
September 06, 2024
Jordanians vote on Tuesday for a 138-seat parliament, with tribal, centrist and pro-government deputies expected to remain dominant in a system
September 06, 2024
American activist shot dead by Israeli forces at West Bank protest, eyewitnesses say
September 06, 2024
Pro-Palestinian protesters disrupted an opening night screening at the Toronto International Film Festival, chanting “Stop the genocide!”
September 06, 2024
The status of a narrow stretch of land known as the Philadelphi corridor on Gaza's border with Egypt has emerged as a stumbling block in efforts to secure a deal for a ceasefire between
September 06, 2024
A witness tells The Associated Press that Israeli soldiers fatally shot an American woman participating in a protest against settlements in the West Bank
September 06, 2024
Israeli troops shot and killed a Turkish-American woman who had been taking part in a protest against settlement expansion in the Israeli-occupied West
September 06, 2024
Iqbal al-Zeidi has been going out to retrieve her family's belongings from the rubble of their home ever since it was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City
September 06, 2024
‘All the streets were destroyed:’ Palestinians count the cost as Israel pulls back from Jenin
September 06, 2024
Israel's ultra-Orthodox parties, already at odds with coalition partners over demands to draft young religious men into the army, are again testing the unity of
September 06, 2024
The Biden administration and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are sharply at odds over prospects of reaching a deal for a Gaza cease-fire and hostage release
September 05, 2024
Israeli forces killed six Palestinian militants in the town of Tubas and in a nearby refugee camp in the occupied West Bank early on Thursday, the military
September 05, 2024
Netanyahu is unequivocal about ceasefire and hostage agreement with Hamas: ‘There’s not a deal in the making’
September 05, 2024
Police kill armed man near Israeli consulate in Munich terror attack
September 05, 2024
Police in Munich have exchanged fire with a gunman near the Israeli Consulate in Munich, fatally wounding him
September 05, 2024
German police shot dead an Austrian suspected Islamist gunman in Munich on Thursday in an exchange of fire close to the Israeli consulate,
September 05, 2024
Palestinian health officials say Israeli strikes in the occupied West Bank killed six people, including the son of a prominent jailed militant
September 05, 2024
At least six Palestinians were killed and three wounded in the Israeli bombing of a vehicle in Tubas, West Bank, The Palestinian Ministry of Health and the Red Crescent reported on
September 05, 2024
US official lays out new details on Gaza ceasefire talks, says Netanyahu comments on Philadelphi Corridor not constructive
September 04, 2024
United Nations officials are hailing limited pauses in the fighting between Israel and Hamas to allow children’s polio vaccinations as rare moments of hope in the war in Gaza
September 04, 2024
Journalists injured by Israeli fire during military raid in West Bank, eyewitnesses say
September 04, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel must keep open-ended control of Gaza’s border with Egypt, digging in on his stance on an issue that has threatened to derail cease-fire efforts
September 04, 2024
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers remarks after six hostages' bodies were found in Gaza this weekend, sparking massive protests in Israel.
September 04, 2024
Saudi Arabia decided on Wednesday to cancel fees for issuing commercial activity licenses for hotels, hotel apartments and residential resorts in the kingdom, state
September 04, 2024
Three judicial officials have told the Associated Press that Lebanon has charged its embattled former central bank governor with the embezzlement of $42 million
September 04, 2024
Israeli strikes hit targets of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah movement in Lebanon on Wednesday after dozens of missiles were fired into northern Israel, starting fires but causing
September 04, 2024
Good progress is being made in rolling out a polio vaccine to children in Gaza but a permanent ceasefire in the 11-month war is needed to ease humanitarian
September 04, 2024
The presidents of Turkey and Egypt are finding common ground on the war in Gaza as they continue to mend long-strained relations
September 04, 2024
A global watchdog report says European Union aid sent to Lebanon in an attempt to regulate migration by sea is funding practices that violate human rights
September 04, 2024
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi discussed the Gaza war and ways to further repair the long-frozen ties between the
September 04, 2024
Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, says he is “gutted” after the killings of American Hersh Goldberg-Polin and five other Israeli hostages taken by Hamas
September 04, 2024
Israel does not need to keep troops in the southern Gazan border area for security reasons and should not be used as a reason to prevent a deal to bring back
September 03, 2024
Hamas’ brutal new tactics signal new phase in war and hostage crisis
September 03, 2024
The cousin of Carmel Gat, one of the six hostages killed by Hamas, said he blames Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for their deaths because of the prime minister's delay in agreeing to a deal.
September 03, 2024
Private companies involved in salvaging the Sounion tanker, which was attacked by Yemen's Houthis in the Red Sea, are exploring other options after the towing operation was
September 03, 2024
Officials say Lebanon’s controversial former central bank governor has been detained after being questioned in several corruption cases
September 03, 2024
A showdown between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant over the Gaza war is the latest in a series of confrontations
September 03, 2024
A narrow strip of scrubland and sand dunes on the Gaza side of the border with Egypt has emerged as a major obstacle in talks aimed at halting the Israel-Hamas war and freeing scores of hostages
September 03, 2024
US captures ISIS leader who helped terror group escapees, military says
September 02, 2024
Hamas' armed wing said on Monday that since June the group has been operating under new instructions on how to handle hostages should Israeli
September 02, 2024
The salvage operation of the oil tanker MV Sounion, which was recently attacked by Iran-aligned Houthi militants, is about to begin, the European Union's mission in the Red Sea,
September 02, 2024
Britain will immediately suspend 30 of its 350 arms export licences with Israel because there was a risk such equipment might be used to commit
September 02, 2024
Jordan's health ministry has recorded an mpox case for a non-Jordanian resident, state news agency Petra said on Monday, adding that the case was currently in isolation.
September 02, 2024
Biden and Netanyahu at odds again after US president says Israeli PM not doing enough in ceasefire-hostage release talks
September 02, 2024
An Israeli-American family that became an international symbol in the struggle to free hostages from Hamas captivity in Gaza lay their son to rest on Monday after the discovery of his body and those of five others brought a fresh outpouring of grief
September 02, 2024
The recovery of the bodies of six Israeli hostages seized by Palestinian militants during the Oct.
September 02, 2024
Israeli forces killed at least 48 Palestinians in the past 24 hours across the Gaza Strip as they battled Hamas-led militants, Palestinian
September 02, 2024
Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels attacked two crude oil tankers - the Saudi-flagged Amjad and the Panama-flagged Blue Lagoon I - in
September 02, 2024
Netanyahu defiant as protesters demanding a ceasefire-for-hostages deal bring Israel to a halt
September 02, 2024
U.S. President Joe Biden is adding to the pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying he isn't doing enough to reach a cease-fire deal in Gaza
September 02, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pushing back against a new wave of pressure to reach a cease-fire deal in Gaza after hundreds of thousands of Israelis protested and went on strike
September 02, 2024
An attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels has targeted a Panama-flagged oil tanker in the Red Sea, and a nearby Saudi-flagged tanker also came under fire, allegedly by the group
September 02, 2024
Anger is mounting across Israel over the deaths of six hostages killed inside Gaza. CNN's Nic Robertson reports.
September 01, 2024
With one of the world's tallest people on the team, Iran is chasing its third Paralympic gold medal in sitting volleyball
September 01, 2024
The helicopter crash in which Iran's late President Ebrahim Raisi was killed was primarily caused by weather conditions that included thick fog, Iran's state TV said on Sunday, citing
September 01, 2024
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday to conclude a ceasefire deal with Hamas to bring the remaining hostages home from Gaza, as
September 01, 2024
Israel’s military said it recovered the bodies of six hostages killed by Hamas militants in Gaza – including an Israeli-American captive. Journalist Elliot Gotkine gives insight into each hostage.
September 01, 2024
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel would not rest until it catches those responsible for the killing of six hostages whose bodies were recovered from
September 01, 2024
Israel’s military said it has recovered the bodies of six hostages killed by Hamas militants in Gaza – including an Israeli-American captive – dealing fresh heartbreak to relatives who fear time is running out for loved ones seized by the militants more than 10 months ago.
September 01, 2024
Israel’s military says six hostages ‘brutally murdered’ in Gaza, including Israeli-American Goldberg-Polin
September 01, 2024
Tens of thousands of Israelis have surged into the streets in an outpouring of grief and anger after six more hostages were found dead in Gaza
September 01, 2024
The IDF is asking the public to refrain from speculation as they announced the discovery of bodies in Gaza. CNN's Nic Robertson reports.
August 31, 2024
Hostage families call for public to mobilize after Israeli military reports finding several bodies in Gaza
August 31, 2024
UN-led campaign to vaccinate children against Polio kicks off in Gaza
August 31, 2024
Gaza’s Health Ministry says it has begun a multi-day campaign to inoculate children in Gaza against polio and prevent the spread of the virus
August 31, 2024
Israeli strikes on Saturday killed at least 48 people in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian health authorities said, as clashes took place in
August 31, 2024
Netanyahu clashes with defense minister over Gaza deal terms, Israeli media reports say
August 31, 2024
They vanished for weeks. Now Russia says it detained two Colombian men on suspicion of fighting for Ukraine
August 31, 2024
CNN's Jim Sciutto visits a new school in Israel south of the Lebanese border that will be attended by students who were uprooted from their school as tensions rise in region.
August 31, 2024
The U.N. is about to launch an ambitious campaign to vaccinate 640,000 children in Gaza against polio, a disease that doctors fear has spread in the territory due to the massive humanitarian catastrophe unleashed by Israel's military offensive there
August 31, 2024
The United States military and Iraq have launched a joint raid targeting suspected Islamic State group militants in the country’s western desert that killed at least 15 people and left seven American troops hurt
August 31, 2024
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have fired two missiles targeting a Liberian-flagged container ship in the Gulf of Aden
August 31, 2024
Clashes broke out between Israeli troops and Palestinian fighters in the occupied West Bank on Saturday as Israel pushed ahead with a military operation in the
August 30, 2024
Kamala Harris' strong support for Israel as it continues its war in Gaza is fueling calls for a fresh round of protests at campaign stops, universities and
August 30, 2024
SF State to divest from weapons manufacturers in deal with pro-Palestinian students
August 30, 2024
The 19-year-old Palestinian TikTok star Medo Halimy began making his “tent life” video series when he took refuge with his family earlier this year in a strip of southern Gaza that Israel has designated a humanitarian safe zone
August 30, 2024
Fadi Aldeeb, the sole Palestinian Paralympic athlete, wants to show that ‘there is also life’ in Gaza
August 30, 2024
Israeli military says it killed Hamas commander and two other fighters in occupied West Bank
August 30, 2024
A salvage operation to recover a Greek-registered oil tanker stranded ablaze in the Red Sea after an attack by Houthi militants is expected to
August 30, 2024
The United Nations has released $100 million to support 10 underfunded humanitarian crises in Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Middle East, the U.N. said on Friday.
August 30, 2024
The British government said on Friday it was "deeply concerned" by Israel's ongoing operation in the occupied West Bank, warning that risk of instability was serious and that there
August 30, 2024
An Israeli military strike has hit the first vehicle in a convoy carrying medical supplies and fuel to an Emirati hospital in the Gaza Strip, killing four Palestinians associated with a local transportation company
August 30, 2024
Israeli forces killed a local commander of the Islamist movement Hamas in the flashpoint city of Jenin on Friday as they pressed a major operation in the
August 30, 2024
The Israeli military says it struck the West Bank city of Jenin on the third day of heavy fighting in the Palestinian territory and killed a senior Hamas commander in the city
August 30, 2024
The Army commander in charge of the U.S. military's Gaza pier project says the mission was the biggest “organizational leadership challenge” he has ever experienced
August 30, 2024
Israel told the United States that an initial review found that shots were fired at a World Food Programme (WFP) vehicle in the Gaza Strip after a "
August 29, 2024
A 4-year-old boy who accidentally broke a rare 3,500-year-old jar at a museum in Israel has been forgiven and even invited back
August 29, 2024
Israel is carrying out large-scale military raids in parts of the occupied West Bank, where the decadeslong conflict with the Palestinians had worsened even before the outbreak of the war in Gaza
August 29, 2024
Israel's military and Palestinian militant group Hamas have agreed to three separate, zoned three-day pauses in fighting in Gaza to allow for the first
August 29, 2024
As the world focuses on Gaza, the West Bank has reached boiling point. Here’s what to know
August 29, 2024
Saudi Arabia issued royal decrees announcing changes to the heads of its joint forces, navy and land forces, state news agency SPA reported on Thursday.
August 29, 2024
The U.N. nuclear watchdog says that Iran has further increased its stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels in defiance of international demands
August 29, 2024
Israel says it killed Islamic Jihad commander in battle at mosque, as West Bank raid enters second day
August 29, 2024
Families of Israeli hostages being held in the Gaza Strip protested near the border on Thursday, demanding a deal to secure their release and at one point made a dash
August 29, 2024
Ireland and the European Union's top diplomat have urged the bloc to review its relations with Israel as the death toll mounts in Gaza and the West Bank
August 29, 2024
Palestinians in Gaza were waiting on Thursday to see if there would be a pause in fighting to allow a polio vaccination campaign to begin
August 29, 2024
A United Arab Emirates official said on Thursday the government was in contact with French authorities and representatives of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov, who is a UAE citizen.
August 29, 2024
Iraq's air defences shot down a Turkish drone on Thursday in Iraqi air space over the northern city of Kirkuk, four police and army sources said.
August 29, 2024
The Israeli military says it has killed five more militants in a large-scale operation in the occupied West Bank, including a well-known local commander
August 29, 2024
Israeli troops killed a local commander of the Iranian-backed Islamic Jihad movement in the West Bank and four other militants on
August 29, 2024
European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Thursday he has asked the bloc's members to consider imposing sanctions on two Israeli ministers for "hate messages"
August 29, 2024
The Israeli military says it has killed five more militants, including a local commander, in the occupied West Bank
August 29, 2024
Polio vaccines are coming to Gaza, but for this baby boy, its first case in 25 years, they’re too late
August 28, 2024
Frail and malnourished, rescued hostage hopes war in Gaza ends ‘for all Palestinian and Israeli families’
August 28, 2024
World Food Programme halts movement in Gaza after repeated gunfire strikes aid vehicle
August 28, 2024
An Israeli hostage rescued from Gaza returned to a hero’s welcome tinged with a bitter reality
August 28, 2024
The Israeli military said on Wednesday that the body of a soldier abducted by Gaza militants on October 7 was rescued and taken to Israel.
August 28, 2024
The Israeli military said on Wednesday that it had failed to protect civilians when settlers carried out a deadly attack on a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank, amid
August 28, 2024
US sanctions Israeli group and individual for alleged West Bank violence against Palestinians
August 28, 2024
The fate of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas is "largely a question that is going to be answered" by the leader of the Palestinian militant group, Deputy CIA Director David Cohen
August 28, 2024
Teenager Diaa al-Adini was one of the few Palestinians who found a functioning hospital in war-ravaged Gaza after he was wounded by an Israeli strike.
August 28, 2024
The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday unanimously voted to extend a long-running peacekeeping mission in Lebanon for another year, but Israel's
August 28, 2024
Greek vessel attacked by Houthis in Red Sea appears to be leaking oil, Pentagon warns
August 28, 2024
Israeli forces sent tanks deeper into Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip and launched strikes across the enclave as they battled Hamas-led militants, killing
August 28, 2024
Here is a timeline chronicling Libya's years of chaos and division: 2011 - Revolt and civil war An uprising against Muammar Gaddafi's four-decade rule rapidly spreads, becoming
August 28, 2024
Israel launches large-scale West Bank raid as minister calls for Gaza-style operation
August 28, 2024
Israel has launched a major military operation in the occupied West Bank and has sealed off the volatile city of Jenin
August 28, 2024
The latest flurry of Gaza cease-fire talks — the back-and-forth over now-familiar sticking points and appeals from around the world — obscures a grim truth about the monthslong efforts to end the Israel-Hamas war and free scores of hostages
August 28, 2024
Hundreds of Israeli troops backed by helicopters, drones and armoured personnel carriers raided the flashpoint cities of Jenin and Tulkarm and other areas in
August 28, 2024
A report from a government watchdog says President Joe Biden ordered the construction of a temporary pier to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza this year over warnings from staffers of the U.S. Agency for International Development
August 28, 2024
US hopeful that likelihood of wider conflict breaking out between Israel and Hezbollah has reduced, officials say
August 27, 2024
Israel's military has rescued its eighth hostage from Gaza, a 52-year-old man found in an underground room in a tunnel in southern Gaza
August 27, 2024
President Joe Biden’s top Middle East adviser on Tuesday held talks in Doha with senior Qatari leaders on the ongoing efforts to complete a cease-fire and hostage deal between Israel and Hamas
August 27, 2024
The Greek-flagged crude oil tanker Sounion that was recently attacked by Yemen's Houthis is still on fire in the Red Sea and now appears to be leaking oil, a Pentagon spokesman
August 27, 2024
The United States remains committed to defending Israel in any Iranian attack, and was hopeful about a possible Gaza ceasefire agreement, White House national security
August 27, 2024
President Masoud Pezeshkian said in a video published on Tuesday that fuel subsidies made no sense in Iran, a major oil producer with a struggling economy that has
August 27, 2024
Russian forces are closing in on the strategically important city of Pokrovsk in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, prompting some
August 27, 2024
Israeli special forces have recovered an Israeli hostage from a tunnel in southern Gaza in "a complex rescue operation", the military said on
August 27, 2024
Israeli forces rescued a hostage found alone underground in Gaza, freeing a living captive from Hamas’ vast tunnel network for the first time since the Oct. 7 attack that ignited the war
August 27, 2024
Pakistan aims to raise up to $4 billion from Middle Eastern commercial banks by the next fiscal year, the country's central bank chief told Reuters on Tuesday, as
August 27, 2024
Palestinians displaced by fighting in the Gaza Strip crowded onto the seashore as Israeli forces continued to
August 27, 2024
The United States continues to assess that the threat of attack against Israel by Iran and its proxy groups still exists, the Pentagon said on
August 26, 2024
Israeli settlers shot dead one Palestinian and wounded three others in the occupied West Bank's Bethlehem, while five others were killed in an Israeli strike on the Nur Shams refugee camp
August 26, 2024
Negotiations in Cairo to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza and a hostage deal are still pressing ahead, White House national security spokesperson John
August 26, 2024
The Taliban is rejecting concerns and criticism raised by the United Nations over new vice and virtue laws that include a ban on women’s voices and bare faces in public
August 26, 2024
United Nations aid operations in Gaza ground to a halt on Monday after Israel issued new evacuation orders on Sunday for Deir Al-Balah in the central
August 26, 2024
Progress made in Gaza ceasefire talks but still work to do on ‘final details,’ US official says
August 26, 2024
Israeli officials and media reacted with satisfaction on Monday after a long-expected missile attack by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah movement appeared to have
August 26, 2024
Russia's Wagner mercenary group said on Monday that it only operated in Africa and in Russian ally Belarus, and its soldiers were no longer fighting in the Ukraine war.
August 26, 2024
One of Gaza’s last functioning hospitals has been emptying out in recent days as Israel has ordered the evacuation of nearby areas
August 26, 2024
Israel's hardline Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir repeated a call for Jews to be allowed to pray at the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, drawing sharp criticism
August 26, 2024
Israel issued new evacuation orders for Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip late on Sunday, forcing more families to flee, saying its
August 26, 2024
The ferocious exchange of fire by Hezbollah and the Israeli military is raising fears of a regional war beyond the tense border
August 26, 2024
The Greek-flagged crude oil tanker Sounion has been on fire in the Red Sea since Aug. 23 after an attack by Yemen's Houthis with no obvious
August 26, 2024
Nearly 11 months into the war with Hamas, Israel’s economy is struggling as the country’s leaders grind ahead with an offensive in Gaza that shows no signs of ending and threatens to escalate into a wider conflict
August 26, 2024
After a short-lived calm following a heavy exchange of strikes between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, fighting resumed Monday
August 26, 2024
There was no agreement on Sunday in the Gaza ceasefire talks that took place in Cairo, with neither Hamas nor Israel agreeing to
August 25, 2024
Lebanon' current premier says five-time former Prime Minister Salim Hoss has died at age 94
August 25, 2024
American rapper Macklemore says he canceled an upcoming October concert in Dubai over the United Arab Emirates’ role "in the ongoing genocide and humanitarian crisis” in Sudan
August 25, 2024
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Sunday that efforts to mend ties with Turkey had so far brought no tangible results.
August 25, 2024
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warned America's top general during a meeting on Sunday of the dangers of a major conflict in Lebanon. U.S. Air Force General C.Q.
August 25, 2024
Air France has cancelled its flights to Tel Aviv and Beirut until at least Monday, the company said after Hezbollah launched rockets and drones at Israel on Sunday and Israel's
August 25, 2024
At least 40,405 Palestinians have been killed and 93,468 others injured in Israel's military offensive on Gaza since Oct. 7, said the Gaza Health Ministry.
August 25, 2024
Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah pulled back after an exchange of heavy fire over the weekend that briefly raised fears of an all-out war
August 25, 2024
Islamic State has described the 26-year-old Syrian man taken into custody after a stabbing rampage in the western German city of Solingen as a "soldier" of the
August 25, 2024
A 26-year-old Syrian man has been ordered held on suspicion of murder and membership in a terrorist organization in connection with the Solingen knife attack
August 25, 2024
Christiane speaks with Yuli Novak, head of B'Tselem, about their report alleging serious abuses inside Israeli detention centers and prisons -- allegations which the IDF and the prison service deny.
August 25, 2024
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke with his Israeli counterpart and reaffirmed Washington's commitment to Israel's defense, the Pentagon said late on Saturday.
August 25, 2024
Israel’s military said it launched “preemptive strikes” against Hezbollah in Lebanon, saying the militants were preparing to launch a barrage of missiles and rockets at Israel. “Whoever hurts us — we hurt him,” said Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu. CNN's Ben Wedeman reports.
August 25, 2024
Hezbollah launched hundreds of rockets and drones at Israel early on Sunday, as Israel's military said it struck Lebanon with around 100
August 25, 2024
A round of high-level talks in Cairo meant to bring about a cease-fire and hostage deal to at least temporarily end the 10-month Israel-Hamas war in Gaza has ended without a final agreement
August 25, 2024
Syrian man confesses to stabbing to death 3 people at German festival
August 24, 2024
The top U.S. general began an unannounced visit to the Middle East on Saturday to discuss ways to avoid any new escalation in tensions that could spiral into a
August 24, 2024
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has locked horns with Israeli ceasefire negotiators over his insistence that Israel will not pull out of the so-called Philadelphi Corridor in
August 24, 2024
Health workers say multiple Israeli airstrikes have killed at least three dozen Palestinians in southern Gaza while officials including a Hamas delegation gather for high-level cease-fire talks in neighboring Egypt
August 24, 2024
Russia and Ukraine exchanged 115 prisoners of war from each side on Saturday after the United Arab Emirates acted as an intermediary.
August 24, 2024
A Hamas delegation headed by its senior official Khalil al-Hayya will arrive in Cairo on Saturday to hear from mediators on the latest round of Gaza ceasefire talks that took place
August 24, 2024
Hundreds of mourners in southern Pakistan have attended the funerals of 28 Shiite pilgrims who were killed in a bus crash in Iran this week while heading to Iraq
August 24, 2024
The Israeli military is issuing evacuation orders for southern Gaza at an unprecedented pace
August 24, 2024
Israel’s military said more than 100 projectiles were fired overnight from Lebanon into Israel. This comes after Israel carried out some of its most intense strikes on Lebanon against Hezbollah since the October 7 attacks. CNN's Ben Wedeman reports.
August 24, 2024
Even if a Gaza ceasefire is agreed, Israel has made clear it reserves the right to resume the war with Hamas
August 23, 2024
The White House says that ongoing cease-fire talks in Cairo have been constructive and will continue over the weekend as the U.S. and Mideast allies continue to press Israel and Hamas to forge an agreement
August 23, 2024
Israel offers new proposal for the Philadelphi corridor to Hamas
August 23, 2024
The U.S. has imposed sweeping sanctions against hundreds of firms across Russia, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, accusing them of providing products and services that enable Russia’s war effort and aiding its ability to evade sanctions
August 23, 2024
Harris says bloodshed in Gaza is devastating, emphasizes support for hostage and ceasefire deals
August 23, 2024
Bank of Singapore aims to grow its business in the Middle East with the region contributing up to 20% of its overall revenue and private
August 23, 2024
Disappointed Pro-Palestinian activists said Kamala Harris' speech to close the Democratic convention in Chicago failed to demonstrate any break
August 23, 2024
Questions mount over six hostages’ fate in Gaza after IDF finds gunshot wounds
August 22, 2024
Leaders of a Democratic protest-vote movement pushing back on the handling of the Israel-Hamas war say their request to have a Palestinian American speak at the Democratic National Convention has been rejected
August 22, 2024
The US has given military aid to Israel since the 1960s, backed by both domestic and regional strategic interests, including containing Iran.
August 22, 2024
Israel's military court has extended the house arrest of soldiers accused of sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee until Sept. 4 but will allow the defence to hold a hearing on
August 22, 2024
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday denied reports suggesting Israel is considering agreeing to the deployment of an international force along a narrow border strip
August 22, 2024
The Taliban say it's mandatory for Afghan women to conceal their voices and bare faces in public
August 22, 2024
A Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal "now is in sight," the U.S. envoy to the United Nations told the Security Council on Thursday, urging members
August 22, 2024
Qatar's prime minister will visit Iran in the coming days, Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Thursday.
August 22, 2024
Israeli hostage families to boycott October 7 memorial as ceasefire talks drag on
August 22, 2024
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is urging diplomatic efforts to end the war in Ukraine during a visit to Poland, saying that no conflict can be solved on a battlefield
August 22, 2024
‘There are no longer places to go’: Thousands in Gaza forced to flee again after Israeli evacuation orders
August 21, 2024
President Joe Biden has spoken with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the United States presses Israel and Hamas to agree to a “bridging proposal” that could lead to a cease-fire in the war in Gaza
August 21, 2024
Israel has not agreed to withdraw its troops from the so-called Philadelphi corridor along the border between Egypt and Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office
August 21, 2024
Biden spoke with Netanyahu Wednesday at a critical moment in Gaza talks
August 21, 2024
More than 2,000 pro-Palestinian protesters rallied just a half mile from a neighboring park where pro-Israel demonstrators gathered
August 21, 2024
Key mediator Egypt is expressing skepticism about the proposal meant to bridge gaps in cease-fire talks between Israel and Hamas
August 21, 2024
The helicopter crash in which Iran's late President Ebrahim Raisi was killed in May was caused by weather conditions and the aircraft's inability to handle the weight it was carrying
August 21, 2024
Iran's parliament approved President Masoud Pezeshkian's 19 ministers on Wednesday, state media reported, giving way to a cross-factional
August 21, 2024
Escalating conflict between Israel and Iran is partly the result of an unsuccessful, decade-long plan to ‘contain and deter’ the Iranian regime.
August 21, 2024
The Israeli military said on Wednesday it had bombed Hezbollah weapons storage facilities in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley overnight, and Hezbollah said it had carried out a
August 21, 2024
A Greek-flagged tanker was adrift in the Red Sea on Wednesday after repeated attacks that started a fire on the vessel and caused the ship to lose
August 21, 2024
A bus carrying Shiite pilgrims from Pakistan to Iraq has crashed in central Iran, killing at least 28 people
August 21, 2024
Blinken says Israel has agreed to Gaza withdrawal terms in ‘bridging proposal,’ despite reported comments from Netanyahu
August 20, 2024
The United States on Tuesday disputed a report that cited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as saying he might have convinced U.S.
August 20, 2024
Iran says it will not take ‘hasty action’ against Israel for killing of Hamas political leader
August 20, 2024
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Israel's premier Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday agreed that regional de-escalation was in everyone’s interests, Starmer's office said in a
August 20, 2024
Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz chaired a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, state media said, for the first time since a royal decree issued by him on Aug. 8 allowing the cabinet
August 20, 2024
The need to keep water cool in Gaza, where electricity is in short supply and 2.3 million people have been driven from their homes, has spurred a resurgence in
August 20, 2024
Hamas said on Tuesday that U.S.
August 20, 2024
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and U.S.
August 20, 2024
The Taliban's morality ministry dismissed more than 280 members of the security force for failure to grow a beard and detained more than 13,000 people in Afghanistan for "immoral
August 20, 2024
At least 10 Palestinians were killed on Tuesday in an Israeli airstrike on a school housing displaced families west of Gaza City, the enclave's civil defence authorities said.
August 20, 2024
Bodies of six Israeli hostages retrieved from Gaza, Israel says
August 20, 2024
Israel retrieved the bodies of six hostages from the Gaza Strip, the military said on Tuesday, as negotiations continued in an effort to bring back more than 100
August 20, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has ended his latest visit to the Middle East without securing a cease-fire in Gaza
August 20, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has visited fellow mediators Egypt and Qatar as he presses ahead with the latest diplomatic mission to secure a cease-fire in the war in Gaza, even as Hamas and Israel signal that challenges remain
August 20, 2024
She says Israeli military killed her husband and daughter. Then soldiers brought her to an Israeli hospital
August 20, 2024
Five-year-old Shams and her mother, Sanaa, share their heartbreaking story of loss and survival in war-torn Gaza, facing the trauma of violence and the death of family members. CNN's Jeremy Diamond reports.
August 20, 2024
Most students at Columbia University who faced disciplinary action, suspension or arrest for participating in pro-Palestinian protests opposing Israel's war in
August 20, 2024
Oil prices fell about 1% to a two-week low on Tuesday as Middle East supply concerns eased after Israel accepted a proposal to tackle disagreements blocking a ceasefire deal in Gaza, and
August 19, 2024
The Democratic Party has been riven for months by the war in Gaza, giving rise to a protest movement that threatened President Joe Biden’s electoral coalition
August 19, 2024
Hamas senior official Osama Hamdan criticized U.S.
August 19, 2024
Senior officials will convene for Gaza ceasefire negotiations in Cairo before week's end, White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Monday, adding
August 19, 2024
Thousands of mostly peaceful pro-Palestinian protesters marched in Chicago on the opening day of the Democratic National
August 19, 2024
In Gaza, a mother worries that her month-old son, Mohammed, could be infected with polio after the Palestinian health ministry confirmed the first case
August 19, 2024
The armed wings of Hamas and Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility on Monday for a bomb blast near a synagogue in Tel Aviv that Israeli police and the Shin Bet intelligence agency
August 19, 2024
Blinken says Israel has agreed to US proposal to close remaining gaps on ceasefire deal and calls on Hamas to do the same
August 19, 2024
Israeli airstrikes on Yemen's Hodeidah port last month appeared to be an indiscriminate or disproportionate attack on civilians which may amount
August 19, 2024
A former Saudi official has alleged that Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman forged his father’s signature on the royal decree that launched the kingdom’s yearslong, stalemated war against Yemen’s Houthi rebels
August 19, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is set to meet with Israel’s prime minister on Monday as mediators say they are closing in on a deal to halt the war in Gaza and free hostages captured by Hamas
August 19, 2024
Oil prices fell by more than $2 a barrel Monday on the prospect of successful Middle Eastern peace talks reducing supply risks, while leading oil importer China's
August 18, 2024
The Palestinian group Hamas said on Sunday that a new proposal meant to bridge the gaps between Israel and the Islamist armed group over a Gaza ceasefire were
August 18, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will use his ninth diplomatic mission to the Middle East since the start of the Israel-Hamas war to press for the quick conclusion of an elusive cease-fire agreement
August 18, 2024
Algeria will immediately begin supplying Lebanon with fuel for its power plants, Algerian state radio said in a statement on Sunday, after Lebanon's electricity company said the day
August 18, 2024
Sudan's government said it will send a delegation to Cairo for discussions with U.S. and Egyptian officials on Monday, keeping open the question of participation in peace talks aimed
August 18, 2024
Pro-Palestinian activists face complicated new decisions as Democrats gather to support a surging Kamala Harris
August 18, 2024
Libya's Tripoli-based central bank said on Sunday it would shut down all operations and not resume work until a senior bank official kidnapped earlier in the day was released.
August 18, 2024
The latest Israeli strikes across Gaza have killed 29 people, including young quintuplets
August 18, 2024
Israeli strike kills 10 in southern Lebanon in one of the deadliest incidents since October 7
August 17, 2024
An Israeli strike has killed at least ten people in Nabatiyeh, southern Lebanon, the Lebanese Ministry of Health said, prompting Hezbollah to launch a barrage of retaliatory rockets at Israel. CNN's Ben Wedeman walks through the rubble of a destroyed warehouse in Toul.
August 17, 2024
An Israeli airstrike in Gaza has killed at least 18 people, all from the same family
August 17, 2024
Lebanon’s Health Ministry says an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon has killed at least 10 Syrian nationals including a woman and her two children
August 17, 2024
The threat of polio is rising fast in Gaza, prompting aid groups to call for an urgent pause in the war so they can ramp up vaccinations and head off a full-blown outbreak
August 17, 2024
Residents of West Bank town say deadly settler attack was ‘most vicious’ yet
August 17, 2024
At least 17 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded in an Israeli strike in the central Gaza town of Zawayda on Saturday,
August 17, 2024
10-month-old contracts Gaza’s first case of polio in 25 years
August 17, 2024
Muted response from UK and France after Israeli FM calls for retaliation to any Iran strike
August 17, 2024
Around 10 people were killed, including two children, and five were wounded by an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in the city of Nabatieh in south Lebanon, state news
August 16, 2024
Palestinian health officials say the first case of polio has been recorded in an unvaccinated 10-month old-child in the Gaza city of Deir al-Balah
August 16, 2024
US and allies push for Israel-Hamas ceasefire to be reached next week after presenting fresh proposal to warring sides
August 16, 2024
Peace activists from several countries are setting out on a converted trawler to defy an Israeli blockade and deliver humanitarian aid to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
August 16, 2024
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday called for parties to the conflict in Gaza to provide concrete assurances guaranteeing humanitarian pauses
August 16, 2024
The US maintains close to 1,000 troops in Syria and supports Kurdish groups in the northeast and some opposition groups in the southeast.
August 16, 2024
Mediators to the Gaza War cease-fire talks say the two-day talks wrapped up and they aim to reconvene in Cairo next week to seal a deal to stop the fighting
August 16, 2024
The Israeli army ordered people in south and central Gaza areas it had previously designated humanitarian safe zones to leave on
August 16, 2024
As conflict casts a shadow across the Middle East, people are getting rich in Dubai
August 16, 2024
A U.S. official says mediators are preparing for a possible cease-fire and hostage-release deal in Gaza, in a sign that mediators believe an agreement to end the 10-month Israel-Hamas war might be imminent
August 16, 2024
Some families of hostages held in Gaza believe the latest round of cease-fire talks between Israel and Hamas could be the last best chance to set their loved ones free after more than 300 days of captivity
August 16, 2024
Gaza ceasefire talks in Doha paused on Friday with negotiators to meet again next week seeking an agreement to end fighting between Israel
August 15, 2024
Iraq postpones plans for US troop withdrawal amid regional tensions
August 15, 2024
Turkey and Iraq have signed a memorandum of understanding on military, security and counter-terrorism cooperation, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Thursday, after two
August 15, 2024
Independent experts with the United Nations have urged Bahrain to ensure those held at its Jaw prison have access to adequate food, water and medical care
August 15, 2024
More than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in 10 months of war in Gaza, health ministry says
August 15, 2024
CNN's Jeremy Diamond reports on an Israeli airstrike that targeted an apartment building, killing the wife and days-old twin children of Mohammad Abu Al Qumsan. He had left their home to get the twins' birth certificates. His wife and the twins were among at least 23 people killed in several Israeli strikes in the area, according to hospital officials.
August 15, 2024
With the death toll in Gaza surpassing 40,000 after 10 months of war, the small, densely packed territory is crammed with bodies
August 15, 2024
The Health Ministry in Gaza says more than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war
August 15, 2024
The White House says talks aimed at halting the Israel-Hamas war have resumed in Doha and are expected to run into Friday
August 15, 2024
The University of California in Los Angeles cannot allow pro-Palestinian protesters to block Jewish students from accessing campus buildings, classes and services, a federal
August 14, 2024
A top Hamas official says the Palestinian militant group is losing faith in the United States’ ability to mediate a cease-fire in Gaza ahead of a new round of talks scheduled for this week
August 14, 2024
Talks aimed at ending Sudan's shattering 16-month-old civil war began on Wednesday in Switzerland although the absence of the military dampened hopes for imminent steps to alleviate
August 14, 2024
Germany on Wednesday condemned a visit by two Israeli ministers to the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem, known to Jews as Temple Mount, and said it expects the Israeli
August 14, 2024
Attempts to pass the Afghan Adjustment Act have faltered, leaving tens of thousands of Afghans who fled chaos during the fall of Kabul in limbo.
August 14, 2024
Israel has published plans for one of its proposed new settlements in the occupied West Bank, finance minister Bezalel Smotrich said on
August 14, 2024
U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein said on Wednesday he believed all-out war between Israel and Lebanon's powerful militant group Hezbollah could be avoided but that Israel and Hamas needed
August 14, 2024
Hamas said on Wednesday it would not take part in a new round of Gaza ceasefire talks slated for Thursday in Qatar, but an official briefed on the talks said
August 14, 2024
The Taliban are celebrating their third year as rulers of Afghanistan at a former U.S. air base
August 14, 2024
International mediators are hoping to kickstart stalled cease-fire negotiations between Israel and Hamas with a new round of talks meant to finally clinch a deal between the sides
August 14, 2024
A Gazan father went to register his twins’ births. They were killed in an Israeli strike, hospital officials say
August 13, 2024
San Francisco prosecutors have charged 26 protesters who blocked the Golden Gate Bridge for hours in April to demand a cease-fire in Gaza
August 13, 2024
Netanyahu accuses defense minister of ‘anti-Israel narrative,’ exposing rift over war in Gaza
August 13, 2024
Cracks are widening in a public tiff between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his defense minister
August 13, 2024
Only a ceasefire deal in Gaza stemming from hoped-for talks this week would hold Iran back from direct retaliation against Israel for the
August 13, 2024
A senior U.N. official says Yemen’s Houthi rebels have stormed the headquarters of the U.N. Human Rights Office in the capital, Sanaa
August 13, 2024
Iran has rejected a call by three European countries urging it to refrain from any retaliatory attacks that would further escalate regional tensions
August 13, 2024
The United States is asking Turkey and other allies that have ties with Iran to persuade it to de-escalate tensions in the Middle East, the U.S. ambassador to
August 13, 2024
A Liberian-flagged oil tanker in the Red Sea has been targeted in a third attack by suspected Yemeni rebels in their campaign of assaults over the Israel-Hamas war
August 13, 2024
One Israeli male hostage was killed by his guard and two women captives were seriously wounded in two separate incidents in Gaza, the spokesperson for
August 12, 2024
Israel is monitoring developments in Iran regarding a threatened strike against Israel, but the military has not changed its precautionary guidelines to the public, the Israeli
August 12, 2024
Yurii Oliynyk sat milking his cows on his farm in northeastern Ukraine, hunkering down as fighting from his country's new push into Russia raged on a few
August 12, 2024
Turkey and Syria could meet at the ministerial level as part of efforts to normalise ties if suitable conditions are created, Turkish Defence Minister Yasar Guler told Reuters in an
August 12, 2024
The leaders of France, Germany and Britain have endorsed the latest push by mediators United States, Qatar and Egypt to broker an agreement to end the Israel-Hamas war
August 12, 2024
The United Kingdom, France and Germany called on Iran and its allies to refrain from attacks against Israel that would further escalate tensions and jeopardise the chances of a ceasefire
August 12, 2024
Ret. Lt. General Mark Hertling explains why he thinks US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's decision to announce he ordered a guided-missile submarine to the Middle East is "unusual."
August 12, 2024
The Pentagon says Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered a guided missile submarine to the Middle East and is telling the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group to sail more quickly to the area
August 11, 2024
Hamas leader Sinwar wants a ceasefire deal, mediators say, but Netanyahu’s stance unclear
August 11, 2024
Iran's new president presented his cabinet to parliament on Sunday for a vote of confidence, state media reported, proposing seasoned pragmatic diplomat Abbas Araqchi as foreign
August 11, 2024
The Israeli military has ordered more evacuations in southern Gaza a day after health authorities said an airstrike on a school-turned-shelter in the north killed at least 80 Palestinians
August 11, 2024
US and coalition personnel sustained minor injuries in Friday drone attack in Syria, official says
August 11, 2024
Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said on Saturday that the kingdom would not be a battlefield for Iran or Israel, as the region braces for a possible new wave of attacks by
August 10, 2024
Libyan officials say clashes between two heavily armed militia groups in the country’s capital terrorized residents and killed about a dozen people, the latest bout of violence in the largely lawless North African nation
August 10, 2024
US National Security Council spokesman rebukes Israeli finance minister as ‘dead wrong,’ amid push for ceasefire talks
August 09, 2024
The State Department says it's opted against what would have been its first-ever blocking of aid to an Israeli military unit over rights abuses
August 09, 2024
Iran is set to carry out an order by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to "harshly punish" Israel over the assassination of a Hamas leader in Tehran, a
August 09, 2024
The United States has determined that alleged human rights violations by a Israeli Defense Force unit have been "effectively remediated" after reviewing new information provided
August 09, 2024
Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group has used dozens of drones to attack Israel in recent months
August 09, 2024
Israeli tanks returned to the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis on Friday, forcing families to evacuate along congested roadways, as
August 09, 2024
Pakistan would support all efforts to prevent war escalating in the Middle East, its foreign ministry said on Friday, as fears grow of a wider conflict
August 09, 2024
Dozens of countries, academics and rights groups have filed legal arguments either rejecting or supporting the International Criminal Court’s power to issue arrest warrants in its investigation into the war in Gaze and Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas in Israel
August 09, 2024
Palestinians are fleeing large areas around Khan Younis in southern Gaza where the Israeli military has begun a new assault after ordering another mass evacuation
August 09, 2024
Iraqi teen arrested in Vienna after Taylor Swift terror attack plot thwarted
August 09, 2024
Israeli troops have launched a new assault into the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis
August 09, 2024
Authorities say four suspected attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels targeted a ship in the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait linking the Gulf of Aden to the Red Sea
August 09, 2024
Disney plans to spend at least $1 billion every year in the UK, Europe, the Middle East and Africa over the next five years to produce movies and TV shows, a company spokesperson told
August 09, 2024
Leaders of the United States, Egypt and Qatar are jointly demanding that Israel and Hamas return to stalled talks on the war in Gaza
August 08, 2024
Mediators urge Israel and Hamas to accept ‘final’ proposal on ceasefire deal as threat of Iran attack looms
August 08, 2024
US updates injured count in Al Asad attack to 5, down from 7
August 08, 2024
United Airlines said on Thursday it has suspended its flights to Tel Aviv for the foreseeable future and plans to resume them when it is safe for its customers and crew.
August 08, 2024
Authorities say two men linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard are facing terrorism charges in the U.S. in connection with the interception of a vessel in the Arabian Sea that resulted in the deaths of two Navy SEALs
August 08, 2024
Authorities say two suspected attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels targeted a ship in the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait that links the Gulf of Aden to the Red Sea
August 08, 2024
Residents of a frontline Israeli city feel Hezbollah’s war ‘getting closer’
August 08, 2024
A top U.N. counterterrorism official has told the Security Council that a vast stretch of Africa could fall under the control of groups affiliated with the Islamic State group and affiliated terrorist groups
August 08, 2024
The Mediterranean island of Cyprus is on standby to assist in the evacuation of Europeans and third-country nationals if conflict in the Middle East deepens, officials said
August 08, 2024
Concerns over a wider conflict in the Middle East have prompted international airlines to suspend flights to the region or to avoid affected air space.
August 08, 2024
Israeli forces stepped up airstrikes across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing at least 40 people, Palestinian medics said, in further battle with Hamas-led
August 08, 2024
Israel’s Western allies have condemned remarks by the country's far-right finance minister who suggested that causing the starvation of Gaza’s population of more than 2 million Palestinians “might be just and moral” until Hamas-held hostages are released
August 08, 2024
The Israeli military has ordered another mass evacuation in large areas around Khan Younis in southern Gaza, saying its forces will soon operate there in response to Palestinian rocket fire
August 08, 2024
The World Central Kitchen (WCK), a U.S.-based, non-governmental organisation, said on Thursday that a Palestinian staff member had been killed in Gaza.
August 07, 2024
Hezbollah poised to strike Israel independent of Iran, sources say
August 07, 2024
Israel’s Supreme Court has convened again to consider a petition to shut down a military prison where soldiers have been accused of abusing Palestinian detainees
August 07, 2024
Reports of rape, torture and abuse of Palestinian prisoners by Israel's military are deeply concerning, the White House said on Wednesday.
August 07, 2024
A Yemeni official says that 30 people have been killed and hundreds displaced in flooding in the southern city of Hodeidah following several days of heavy rains
August 07, 2024
Hungry and displaced Gazans see their misery continuing with Hamas’ new leadership
August 07, 2024
Iran will not stay quiet over aggression, President Masoud Pezeshkian told French counterpart Emmanuel Macron according to state media on Wednesday, amid fears of more regional
August 07, 2024
The U.S. ambassador to Japan has decided to skip this year's atomic bombing memorial service in Nagasaki after Israel was not invited
August 07, 2024
Bob Woodward’s next book, continuing a long tradition of election year releases, will focus on the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East and their place in American presidential politics
August 07, 2024
Turkey has filed a formal request with the International Court of Justice to join South Africa’s genocide lawsuit against Israel
August 07, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the newly chosen Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has the power to ensure that a cease-fire deal is reached for the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza
August 07, 2024
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has spoken for the first time on his decision to throw out a plea deal for the accused mastermind of al-Qaida’s 2001 attacks and two other defendants
August 06, 2024
Preparing to again defend Israel, US presses Iran and Israel to de-escalate
August 06, 2024
The United States has communicated to Iran and Israel that conflict in the Middle East must not escalate, Secretary of State
August 06, 2024
Pakistani national with ties to Iran charged in connection to a foiled assassination plot potentially targeting Trump
August 06, 2024
Yahya Sinwar, named leader of Hamas on Tuesday, masterminded the bloodiest attack on Jews in a single day since the Holocaust, having made no secret of his desire to
August 06, 2024
The Palestinian militant group Hamas says it has chosen Yahya Sinwar, its top official in Gaza who masterminded the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel, as its new leader
August 06, 2024
Hamas named its Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar as successor to former political chief Ismail Haniyeh, who was assassinated in Tehran last week, the group said
August 06, 2024
Top U.S. national security leaders are calling for calm in the Middle East and say they are directly pressing Israel, Iran and others to avoid escalating the conflict
August 06, 2024
Dozens of ultra-Orthodox protesters broke into an Israeli army base near Tel Aviv on Tuesday, the military said, as demonstrations against call up orders for religious Jews
August 06, 2024
Israeli warplanes broke the sound barrier three times over Beirut in less than 30 minutes on Tuesday, leading to loud booms that sent people in the city running for cover just ahead
August 06, 2024
The release of a Russian hit man and the assassination of Israel’s enemies in Lebanon and Iran have shone a spotlight on killings carried out on state orders.
August 06, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin has asked Iran's Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for a restrained response to Israel's suspected
August 06, 2024
Like thousands of Israeli reservists, Michael Ofer Ziv and Yuval Green were called up to war following the Hamas-led attacks on Israel on October 7th. After serving in Gaza and witnessing the military's destructive approach, they tell CNN's Jeremy Diamond why they, and dozens of others, are refusing to serve again.
August 06, 2024
‘Going to a very bad place’: Israeli reservists who refuse to return to Gaza cite military’s destructive approach
August 06, 2024
In Gaza, where energy is scarce, one Palestinian tailor has found a way to make the wheel of his sewing machine turn again in the chaos of war.
August 06, 2024
In photos: A photographer’s journey with the Palestinian Bedouin
August 06, 2024
South Korea said on Tuesday it will issue a ban on its citizens travelling to the border areas of Israel and Lebanon after advising them to leave the countries amid
August 06, 2024
The Palestinian militant group Hamas says it has chosen the mastermind of the Oct. 7 attack as the group's new leader
August 06, 2024
The killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was intended to prolong the Gaza conflict, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told Russia's state news agency, adding that he will
August 05, 2024
Israeli forces backed by drone strikes killed at least 11 Palestinians in clashes around the volatile West Bank city of Jenin, the military and
August 05, 2024
At least five U.S. personnel were injured in an attack against a military base in Iraq on Monday, U.S. officials told Reuters, as the Middle East
August 05, 2024
UN probe finds 9 UNRWA employees ‘may have’ been involved in October 7 attack
August 05, 2024
Two Katyusha rockets on Monday were fired at Iraq's Ain al-Asad air base which hosts U.S. and other international forces in western Iraq, security sources said.
August 05, 2024
The foreign ministers of Italy and Iraq called on Monday for diplomacy and de-escalation in the Middle East, saying they were deeply concerned about increasing tension threatening the
August 05, 2024
The United States has been urging other countries through diplomatic channels to tell Iran that escalation in the Middle East is not in their
August 05, 2024
Hundreds of Israelis have sent orange balloons into the air to mark the fifth birthday of one of two children held captive by militants in the Gaza Strip
August 05, 2024
Jordan's King Abdullah, in a phone call on Monday with U.S.
August 05, 2024
The U.N. says it has fired additional staff members from its agency for Palestinian refugees after an internal investigation found they may have been involved in the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attack against Israel
August 05, 2024
In Beirut, shops are open and traffic is as snarled as ever
August 05, 2024
Middle East braces for week that could determine the course of the Gaza war
August 05, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing anger in Israel and abroad over his handling of talks on a Gaza ceasefire that have faltered, just as fears
August 05, 2024
Bahrain's economy grew 3.3% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2024, according to a quarterly economic performance report by the Ministry of Finance, citing preliminary data from
August 05, 2024
Israel returned the bodies of more than 80 Palestinians killed in its military offensive in the Gaza Strip, as Israeli airstrikes killed at
August 05, 2024
If Iran retaliates for the assassination of its close ally Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran last week, its regional allies - known as the "Axis of Resistance" to Israel and U.S.
August 05, 2024
In war-ravaged Gaza, even the dead cannot rest.
August 05, 2024
A German federal court says it has rejected a former Syrian secret police officer’s appeal against his conviction for overseeing the abuse of detainees at a jail in his homeland
August 05, 2024
The Group of Seven major democracies urged restraint and de-escalation in the Middle East on Monday, saying that recent events "threatened to ignite a broader conflict in the region
August 05, 2024
The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah says it launched a drone attack early Monday on northern Israel that the Israeli military said wounded two Israeli troops
August 05, 2024
The foreign ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) major democracies called on all parties involved in the current conflict in the Middle East to avoid actions that could lead to an
August 04, 2024
The United States is telling its citizens to leave Lebanon and is deploying more military might in the Middle East as preventative and defensive measures, Jonathan Finer, White
August 04, 2024
The Beirut port blast anniversary this year coincides with soaring regional tensions
August 04, 2024
Retired US Army Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling joins CNN as the Middle East braces for possible Iranian retaliation for the killing of a senior Hamas leader in Tehran.
August 04, 2024
Foreign citizens urged to leave Lebanon ‘as soon as possible’ as regional tensions spike
August 04, 2024
2 killed in stabbing attack in Israeli city of Holon
August 04, 2024
Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi concluded a rare visit to Iran on Sunday with a plea for an end to the escalation of violence and for the region to be able to live in "peace,
August 04, 2024
A Palestinian attacker killed two people and wounded two others in a stabbing spree in central Israel on Sunday before being shot dead by police, Israeli authorities said.
August 04, 2024
The U.S. is deploying additional military might in the Middle East as a defensive measure with a goal of de-escalating tensions in the region, a White House
August 03, 2024
Israelis fear for hostages as Netanyahu celebrates ‘crushing blows’ against enemies
August 03, 2024
CNN's Clarissa Ward speaks with Yifat Zailer, whose relatives have been held in Hamas captivity for approximately 300 days, about her thoughts following the assassination of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh.
August 03, 2024
Anti-Netanyahu protests erupt in Israel over delayed hostage deal
August 03, 2024
A passionate crowd showered Algerian boxer Imane Khelif with cheers during her fight Saturday at the Paris Olympics following a cascade of backlash over false claims about her gender
August 03, 2024
Iran claims Hamas leader killed by ‘short-range projectile,’ contradicting reports it was hidden bomb
August 03, 2024
The IDF now says they killed Mohammed Deif, Hamas’ military chief in Gaza, in a July airstrike. The IDF released video of the strike in Khan Yunis, Gaza. At least 90 Palestinians were reportedly killed in the strike that hit a displacement camp, CNN reported at the time.
August 03, 2024
The strike a week ago in the Israeli-held Golan Heights that killed 12 Druze children unified Druze across the region in grief
August 03, 2024
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard says a short-range projectile was behind the killing of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh
August 03, 2024
Air France said on Saturday it and its affiliate Transavia were further extending their suspensions of flights between Paris and Beirut until at least Aug 6, amid rising regional
August 03, 2024
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Saturday that Palestinian militant group Hamas' leader Ismail Haniyeh was slain in Tehran by a short-range projectile with a warhead of about 7 kg,
August 03, 2024
An Israeli airstrike on a school sheltering displaced persons in Gaza City killed at least 15 Palestinians on Saturday, hours after two
August 03, 2024
US sending aircraft carrier, warships and fighter squadron to Middle East as region braces for Iranian retaliation
August 02, 2024
The Pentagon has announced that the U.S. will move a fighter jet squadron to the Middle East and maintain an aircraft carrier in the region
August 02, 2024
Russia pulled back weapons shipment to Houthis amid US and Saudi pressure
August 02, 2024
An Israeli delegation will travel to Cairo in the coming days for negotiations to reach a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said
August 02, 2024
The U.S. military will deploy additional fighter jets and Navy warships to the Middle East, the Pentagon said on Friday, as Washington seeks to
August 02, 2024
Egyptian women’s beach volleyball team slams French hijab ban after Olympic match
August 02, 2024
The Church of England's spiritual head urged governments on Friday to respect the findings of the United Nations top court that Israel's occupation of Palestinian
August 02, 2024
Amid fears of wider Middle East conflict, Poland has advised its citizens against travelling to Lebanon, Israel and Iran, according to updated guidance published on Friday.
August 02, 2024
As if he knew his time had come, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh's last words to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Ali Khamenei before he was assassinated in Tehran
August 02, 2024
Al-Qaida propaganda indicates a shift toward low-tech, high-impact attacks that can be executed by lone actors to disrupt daily life and instill fear on a massive scale.
August 02, 2024
Thousands of mourners have converged around the flag-draped coffin of Hamas’ slain political chief, Ismail Haniyeh, in the emirate of Qatar as the fallout from his death in an alleged Israeli attack surged with breathtaking speed
August 02, 2024
Israel's foreign ministry summoned the deputy Turkish ambassador for a reprimand on Friday after Turkey's embassy in Tel Aviv lowered its flag to half mast in response to the
August 02, 2024
The Pentagon has announced that the U.S. will move a fighter jet squadron to the Middle East and maintain an aircraft carrier in the region
August 02, 2024
Airlines are avoiding Iranian and Lebanese airspace and cancelling flights to Israel and Lebanon, as concerns grow over a possible conflict in the region after the
August 02, 2024
An Australian investigation has found the Israeli military’s attack on an aid convoy in Gaza that killed seven people resulted from serious failures of defense procedures, mistaken identification, and bad decisions
August 02, 2024
More than 3,200 people were arrested on college campuses this spring during a wave of pro-Palestinian tent encampments protesting the war in Gaza
August 02, 2024
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday declared Friday, Aug 2, a day of national mourning over the killing of the head of Hamas' political bureau Ismail Haniyeh.
August 01, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S.
August 01, 2024
A woman has been arrested on hate crime charges in the vandalism of the homes of the Brooklyn Museum’s leaders during a wave of pro-Palestinian protests
August 01, 2024
Israeli forces hit a school in Shejaia in Gaza City on Thursday, killing at least 15 people and wounding 29, Palestinian civil emergency services said, as fighting continued in various
August 01, 2024
Israel said on Thursday that Yahya Sinwar, the overall leader of Hamas and the architect of the Palestinian group's Oct. 7, 2023 attacks on Israeli soil, had been
August 01, 2024
Mohammed Deif, Hamas’ shadowy longtime military leader and one of the alleged masterminds of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel that sparked the war in Gaza, is said to be dead following an Israeli airstrike last month
August 01, 2024
The head of Hamas' military wing, Mohammed Deif, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza last month, the Israeli military said on Thursday, its
August 01, 2024
Hamas' military leader Mohammed Deif, one of the masterminds of the Oct. 7, 2023 assault on southern Israel, was an elusive figure who had a long and secretive career in the
August 01, 2024
The Israeli military says it has confirmed that the head of Hamas’ military wing was killed in an airstrike in Gaza in July
August 01, 2024
Top Iranian officials will meet the representatives of Iran's regional allies from Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen on Thursday to discuss
August 01, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is calling for “all parties” in the Middle East to avoid escalatory actions that could plunge the region into further conflict
August 01, 2024
Hezbollah’s leader warned that the militant group's conflict with Israel has entered a “new phase.”
August 01, 2024
Two back-to-back strikes in Beirut and Tehran targeted high-ranking figures in Hezbollah and Hamas and have been attributed to Israel
August 01, 2024
Australia has asked its citizens in Lebanon to leave immediately, saying there was a real risk that the tensions between Israel and militant group Hezbollah could escalate seriously
August 01, 2024
Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei will lead funeral prayers for Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on Thursday, Iran's state-run Press TV said.
July 31, 2024
Oil prices settled more than $1 lower on Thursday as global supply seemed largely unaffected by worries of a wider Middle East crisis after the killing of a
July 31, 2024
United Nations Security Council countries on Wednesday called for stepped-up diplomatic efforts to avert a wider Middle East conflict after the
July 31, 2024
A full-blown war between Israel and Hezbollah would likely set the entire region on fire, involving Iran and its proxies, and could drag the US into direct confrontation with Tehran.
July 31, 2024
The White House on Wednesday voiced concern about the increased risk of an escalation into a broader Middle East war after the assassination
July 31, 2024
White House says reports of Hamas leader’s assassination in Iran ‘don’t help with the temperature going down’
July 31, 2024
Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters marched through the streets of central Istanbul late on Wednesday to protest the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.
July 31, 2024
U.S. legacy carriers United Airlines and Delta Air said on Wednesday they will suspend their flights to Tel Aviv, Israel due to security concerns.
July 31, 2024
Israel’s suspected killing of Hamas’ political leader in the heart of Tehran points to an Israeli government ever more openly at odds with diplomatic efforts by the Biden administration to calm the region
July 31, 2024
Al-Jazeera says two of its reporters were killed in an Israeli strike in northern Gaza
July 31, 2024
Despite a spike in tensions in the Middle East, U.S.
July 31, 2024
Lebanon's armed group Hezbollah confirmed on Wednesday that senior military commander Fuad Shukr had been killed, more than 24 hours after an Israeli strike hit a building in the
July 31, 2024
Israel will respond forcefully to any attack on it, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday, after the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran and of a senior
July 31, 2024
The missile that killed Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh struck him "directly", Hamas deputy chief in Gaza Khalil Al-Hayya said on Wednesday, citing witnesses who had been with Haniyeh in
July 31, 2024
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres believes that attacks in Beirut and Tehran this week mark a "dangerous escalation" of the conflict in the Middle East, his spokesperson
July 31, 2024
The body of Hezbollah military commander Fuad Shukr has been found in rubble in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital Beirut, two security sources told Reuters on Wednesday.
July 31, 2024
Khaled Meshaal, tipped to be the new Hamas leader, became known around the world in 1997 after Israeli agents injected him with poison in a botched assassination
July 31, 2024
The assassination of Ismail Haniyeh in Iran strips Palestinian Islamist group Hamas of one of its sharpest political minds but will have no bearing on the
July 31, 2024
The targeting of two senior militant leaders in two Middle Eastern capitals within hours of each other — with each strike blamed on Israel — risks rocking the region at a critical moment
July 31, 2024
Israel's government maintained a deliberate silence over the assassination of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Iran on Wednesday but for many Israelis, the killing
July 31, 2024
Hours after Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Iran, anxious residents in Israeli-besieged Gaza voiced fear that his death
July 31, 2024
Turkey will invite Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to address the Turkish parliament in the coming days, Parliament Speaker Numan Kurtulmus was cited as saying by state-owned
July 31, 2024
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated early on Wednesday morning in Iran, the Palestinian militant group and Tehran said.
July 31, 2024
Sudan’s military says its leader, Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, has survived a drone attack on an army graduation ceremony he was attending in the country’s east
July 31, 2024
Ismail Haniyeh was the international face of Hamas, its top leader in exile who kept up the militant group’s ties with allies around the region
July 31, 2024
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Iran early on Wednesday, the Palestinian militant group said, drawing fears of wider escalation in a
July 31, 2024
Sudan's army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan struck a defiant tone on Wednesday after a drone hit an army base he was visiting in eastern Sudan, casting doubt on
July 31, 2024
The U.N. human rights office has issued a report saying Palestinians detained by Israeli authorities since the Oct. 7 attacks have faced waterboarding, sleep deprivation, electric shocks and other forms of torture and mistreatment
July 31, 2024
Who was Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas political leader killed in Tehran?
July 31, 2024
Thousands of Palestinians have been forcibly removed from Gaza, sometimes from bomb shelters, and dragged into detention in Israel where some have been tortured and
July 31, 2024
Russia on Wednesday condemned the killing of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Iran and called on all parties to refrain from steps that could tip the Middle East into a major war.
July 31, 2024
Hamas political leader Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, plunging Middle East conflict into dangerous new phase
July 31, 2024
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in Iran on Wednesday, the Palestinian militant group Hamas and Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards said in separate statements.
July 31, 2024
Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard says Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh has been assassinated in Tehran
July 31, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that Israel "will exact a heavy price from any aggression against us on any front.”
July 31, 2024
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in the Iranian capital Tehran early on Wednesday morning, an attack that drew threats of
July 31, 2024
Oil prices rose nearly 3% on Wednesday as investors worried the conflict in the Middle East could widen after the killing of a Hamas leader in Iran, and after a sharp
July 30, 2024
An Israeli strike on the southern suburbs of Lebanon's capital on Tuesday killed Fuad Shukr, identified by the Israeli military as Lebanese armed group Hezbollah's most senior
July 30, 2024
Israel says its Beirut strike killed Hezbollah’s top military commander, who it blames for Golan Heights attack
July 30, 2024
A new video obtained by CNN shows the moment a rocket struck a football pitch in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights that killed 12 children. CNN’s Alex Marquardt reports.
July 30, 2024
The U.S. will continue pursuing diplomacy to avert an escalation of the conflict between Israel and the Lebanese group Hezbollah, the State Department said on Tuesday.
July 30, 2024
The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has confirmed that Israel killed a top commander after a rare strike in Beirut on Tuesday
July 30, 2024
Iran's new president Masoud Pezeshkian was sworn in on Tuesday, after winning an election earlier this month by promising to improve ties with the world and ease restrictions on
July 30, 2024
Sudan's government conditionally accepted on Tuesday an invitation to attend U.S.-sponsored peace talks in Geneva, raising hopes that the talks could advance efforts to end a 15-month
July 30, 2024
Hezbollah has rejected calls from international envoys to avoid responding to an anticipated Israeli attack in retaliation for a deadly rocket strike on the Israeli-occupied Golan
July 30, 2024
12 children were killed in a strike on the small town of Majdal Shams, in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Israel has blamed Hezbollah, but the Lebanese militant group denies responsibility.
July 30, 2024
Turkish forces targeted Kurdish militants in northern Iraq with air strikes, killing 13 members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), the defence ministry said on Tuesday
July 30, 2024
Turkey and Armenia on Tuesday resumed talks aimed at normalising ties after a two-year lull and agreed to simplify visa rules for some passport holders, the two countries said.
July 30, 2024
An Israeli military court is holding a hearing for nine soldiers detained for questioning over alleged abuse of a Palestinian at a shadowy facility where Israel has held prisoners from Gaza during the war
July 30, 2024
Greece's Aegean Airlines and Germany's Condor cancelled flights to Beirut on Tuesday, the latest airlines to suspend services to the Lebanese capital in recent days as tensions escalate
July 30, 2024
Two days after a rocket slammed into a soccer pitch in the Israel-controlled Golan Heights, killing 12 children, many questions remain about the attack on the Druze town of Majdal Shams
July 30, 2024
Morocco’s King Mohammed VI has pardoned three journalists who were charged with sex crimes and espionage in prosecutions widely condemned by press freedom advocates as retaliation for critical reporting
July 29, 2024
Israel's foreign minister urged NATO to expel Turkey on Monday after its President Tayyip Erdogan threatened his country might enter Israel as it had entered Libya and Nagorno-
July 29, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron warned his new Iranian counterpart Massoud Pezeshkian in a phone call on Monday against Iran's continuing support for Russia's war in Ukraine, the
July 29, 2024
For many of the Druze community in the Golan Heights mourning 12 youngsters killed in a missile strike at the weekend, the
July 29, 2024
Israel's defense minister told his U.S. counterpart on Monday that Iran-backed Hezbollah would be held responsible for a rocket strike that killed 12 children and teenagers in
July 29, 2024
Far-right lawmakers break into Israeli detention camp, protesting probe into soldiers’ alleged abuse of prisoner
July 29, 2024
Israel and the Islamist group Hamas traded blame on Monday over the lack of progress in reaching a ceasefire and hostage release deal in the Gaza Strip despite
July 29, 2024
The Israeli military says it is holding nine soldiers for questioning following allegations of “substantial abuse” of a detainee at a shadowy facility where Israel has held Palestinian prisoners throughout the war in Gaza
July 29, 2024
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni discussed the war in Ukraine and the crisis in the Middle East at a meeting
July 29, 2024
Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani has discussed efforts to prevent a new war in the Middle East with his Israeli and Lebanese counterparts, Israel Katz and Bou Habib, he said on
July 29, 2024
The German government has called on all parties to the Middle East conflict, in particular Iran, to prevent an escalation after a rocket attack in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights
July 29, 2024
Thousands of Palestinians fled a community in the central Gaza Strip on Monday in the face of new Israeli evacuation
July 29, 2024
The United States is cautioning Israel about escalation with the Iranian-backed Hezbollah as Israel weighs its response to a rocket attack from Lebanon over the weekend that killed 12 youths in the Israel-controlled Golan Heights
July 29, 2024
Israel wants to hurt Hezbollah but not drag the Middle East into all-out war, two Israeli officials said on Monday, as Lebanon braced for
July 29, 2024
Some Arab American leaders in Michigan are expressing cautious optimism about Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential campaign after months of outrage over President Joe Biden's handling of the Israel-Hamas war
July 29, 2024
Oil fell by nearly 2% on Monday after Israeli officials said they wanted to avoid dragging the Middle East into an all-out war while responding to a deadly rocket
July 28, 2024
Yemenia Airways will resume commercial flights from Sanaa to Egypt and India, the Houthi-run Saba news agency said on Sunday, as part of a deal between opposing sides in Yemen's civil
July 28, 2024
CNN's Ben Wedeman speaks with Lebanese Foreign Minister Bou Habib about the rising tensions in the region following a rocket attack on Israeli-controlled Golan Heights.
July 28, 2024
CNN's Jeremy Diamond reports from Majdal Shams in Golan Heights, where at least 12 people, including children, were killed when multiple rockets hit a village in an attack described by Israel as the deadliest against it since October 7.
July 28, 2024
Iran’s supreme leader has endorsed Masoud Pezeshkian as president, allowing the reformist heart surgeon to take charge of a country weakened by economic sanctions over its nuclear program
July 28, 2024
The Middle East is bracing for a potential flare-up in violence a day after Israeli authorities said a rocket from Lebanon struck a soccer field in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights and killed 12 children and teens
July 28, 2024
Foreign Minister Israel Katz said Israel was approaching an all-out war against Hezbollah and Lebanon after a rocket attack on a football ground in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights
July 27, 2024
A rocket attack on a football ground in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights killed 12 people including children on Saturday,
July 27, 2024
A rocket strike at a soccer field in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights has killed at least 12 children and teens
July 27, 2024
Israeli airstrikes have hit a school being used by displaced Palestinians in central Gaza and killed at least 30 people including seven children
July 27, 2024
UK drops plan to challenge ICC arrest warrant request for Netanyahu
July 26, 2024
CIA Director William Burns will meet this weekend in Rome with his Israeli and Egyptian counterparts and Qatar's prime minister for talks on a Gaza ceasefire and the release of hostages by
July 26, 2024
Harris’ team rejects Israeli notion that her comments could harm ceasefire talks
July 26, 2024
The White House will offer deportation relief and work permits to an estimated 11,500 Lebanese nationals already in the U.S., due to conflict
July 26, 2024
Israeli troops battled Palestinian fighters in Khan Younis in southern Gaza and destroyed tunnels and other infrastructure, as they sought to suppress small militant units that
July 26, 2024
A male judoka from Iraq tested positive for two anabolic steroids at the Paris Olympics
July 26, 2024
After weeks of Israeli bombardment left them with nowhere else to go, hundreds of Palestinians have ended up in a former Gaza prison built to hold murderers and
July 26, 2024
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s office says the U.K. will not intervene with the International Criminal Court’s request for an arrest warrant against Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
July 26, 2024
In consecutive days this week, China brokered a deal between rival Palestinian factions and hosted Ukraine’s foreign minister at a key moment in the grinding war there
July 26, 2024
Following the most violent anti-Syrian riots to date in Turkish areas with large Syrian refugee populations, Turkey and Syria are on a delicate path to rapprochement that will affect the Middle East.
July 26, 2024
Britain's new government said on Friday it was dropping its predecessor's query of the International Criminal Court's (ICC) jurisdiction to issue an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime
July 26, 2024
Italy has decided to appoint an ambassador to Syria "to turn a spotlight" on the country, its foreign minister said on Friday, making it the
July 26, 2024
Israeli officials criticized U.S.
July 26, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu worked to mend ties with Donald Trump on Friday and offered measured optimism about progress toward a cease-fire deal for Gaza
July 26, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris met with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to talk about the war in Gaza
July 26, 2024
Oil futures fell about 1.5% on Friday, finishing the week lower on declining Chinese demand and hopes of a Gaza ceasefire agreement that could ease Middle East
July 25, 2024
Vice President and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris talks about her meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu where she said she would ensure that Israel would be able to defend itself and urged an end to the war in Gaza.
July 25, 2024
More than 500 people in southern Mexico have fled to neighboring Guatemala this week amid armed clashes between criminal groups fighting over drug trafficking
July 25, 2024
A Hamas leader in the West Bank died in Israeli custody after a deterioration in his health condition, a Palestinian governmental body said early on Friday.
July 25, 2024
Protesters against the Gaza war have held a “die-in” across from Lafayette Park and the White House as President Joe Biden met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
July 25, 2024
EU's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Thursday urged Israel to revoke its decision to outlaw the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA),
July 25, 2024
The top U.S. general said on Thursday Israel still has not shared much of its "day after" planning for Gaza once the war with Hamas ends.
July 25, 2024
Senior figures in Israel's government have said it is closing in on its war aims of defeating Hamas militarily and the return of
July 25, 2024
A Houthi response to Israeli airstrikes near Yemen's Hodeidah is coming, the Iran-backed group's leader declared in a televised speech on Thursday.
July 25, 2024
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, one day before meeting Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu, called for a quick end to its war with Hamas and a return of the hostages,
July 25, 2024
Biden and Netanyahu meet with urgency to reach ceasefire deal at top of the agenda
July 25, 2024
Palestinian Olympic athletes have been greeted with a roar of a crowd and gifts of food and roses as they arrived in Paris
July 25, 2024
Families of hostages held in Gaza slam Netanyahu for leaving ceasefire deal out of Congress speech
July 25, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed Congress in Washington as he sought to bolster U.S. support for his country's war in Gaza
July 25, 2024
Israeli forces advanced deeper into some towns on the eastern side of Khan Younis in southern Gaza on Thursday and tanks advanced in central Rafah, with
July 25, 2024
CNN's Jeremy Diamond fact-checks claims made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a speech to the US Congress in Washington, D.C.
July 25, 2024
Harris steps out on Israel as she navigates Biden and Netanyahu
July 25, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris says she urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reach a cease-fire deal soon with Hamas so that dozens of hostages held in Gaza since the Oct. 7 attack can return home
July 25, 2024
Negotiations on a ceasefire-for-hostages deal in the Gaza conflict appear to be in their closing stages and U.S.
July 24, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended his country’s conduct in the devastating Gaza war and urged the U.S. to support the fight against Hamas despite the humanitarian crisis it has unleashed
July 24, 2024
Hamas senior official Sami Abu Zuhri said on Wednesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech addressing the U.S.
July 24, 2024
Israeli forces recovered on Wednesday the bodies of five hostages killed in Hamas' Oct. 7 attack and held in Gaza since, the Israeli military said.
July 24, 2024
Aaron Rodgers’ offseason excursion to Egypt during mandatory minicamp made quite a few headlines
July 24, 2024
In deserted villages and communities near the southern Lebanon border, Israeli troops and Hezbollah fighters have watched each other for months,
July 24, 2024
Erdogan courts ‘terrorist’ Assad amid pressure to solve Turkey’s ‘Syrian problem’
July 24, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday there was no change in policy at a sacred Jerusalem site, after a far-right cabinet minister said Jews could now pray
July 24, 2024
Iran's foreign ministry summoned the German ambassador in Tehran on Wednesday over Berlin's decision to ban the Islamic Centre Hamburg (IZH) association, the official IRNA news
July 24, 2024
Israeli forces carried out new raids in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, hours before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was due to address
July 24, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sketched a vague outline of a plan for a "deradicalized" post-war Gaza in a speech to Congress
July 24, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed Congress in Washington as he sought to bolster U.S. support for his country's war in Gaza
July 24, 2024
Sudan’s paramilitary leader has announced plans to attend cease-fire talks in Switzerland next month arranged by the United States and Saudi Arabia
July 24, 2024
The German government has banned an organization accused of being an “outpost” of Iran's theocracy, promoting the ideology of its leadership and supporting Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group
July 24, 2024
Police deployed tear spray and demonstrators were taken into custody as thousands of protesters against the war in Gaza converged on Washington to condemn Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit
July 24, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged in a scathing speech to Congress to achieve “total victory” against Hamas and criticized American opponents of the war in Gaza as “idiots.”
July 24, 2024
Netanyahu will make speech to Congress as optimism for a ceasefire in Gaza rises
July 23, 2024
Protesters against the Gaza war have staged a sit-in at a congressional office building ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress, and Capitol Police have made multiple arrests
July 23, 2024
Palestinian factions and bitter foes Hamas and Fatah have signed a declaration in China vowing to form a unity government that would rule over the occupied West Bank and Gaza when the Israel-Hamas war ends
July 23, 2024
The Iraqi government has announced an official ban on a Kurdish separatist group which has been engaged in a long-running conflict with Turkey
July 23, 2024
Officials in Israel say they targeted Hamas’ top military official, Mohammed Deif, in an airstrike in southern Gaza, where local authorities say dozens of Palestinians were killed in multiple strikes in the same area.
July 23, 2024
Recent developments in the Red Sea and surrounding waterways suggest that the threat to international shipping from Yemen's Houthis is growing, U.N.
July 23, 2024
Israeli former national security officials and business leaders blast Netanyahu ahead of his speech to Congress
July 23, 2024
French security services have been probing migrant communities from former Soviet republics in an effort to safeguard the Olympics from the ISIS-K militant group, the interior
July 23, 2024
A newspaper report that Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will meet Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Moscow next month is incorrect, a Turkish diplomatic source said.
July 23, 2024
Israeli warplanes broke the sound barrier over Beirut and other areas of Lebanon on Tuesday, Lebanese security sources and media reported, rattling nerves as the conflict between
July 23, 2024
Seven Palestinians, including two militant commanders and a woman, were killed on Tuesday during Israeli raids targeting gunmen in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian
July 23, 2024
Hamas and Fatah sign agreement in Beijing ‘ending’ their division, China says
July 23, 2024
Palestinian residents of eastern neighbourhoods of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip fled their homes on
July 23, 2024
Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah have agreed to form a government together
July 23, 2024
Biden to meet this week with families of American hostages in Gaza
July 23, 2024
A groups that monitors settlements in the West Bank says Israel has budgeted millions of dollars to protect and support the growth of small, unofficial Jewish farms in the Israeli-occupied territory
July 23, 2024
Palestinian rivals including Hamas and Fatah agreed to form a unity government at talks hosted by China, Beijing said on Tuesday, a deal
July 23, 2024
U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday at the White House, a U.S. official said on Monday.
July 23, 2024
Iraq wants troops from a U.S.-led military coalition to begin withdrawing in September and to formally end the coalition's work by September 2025
July 22, 2024
Global business travel spending in 2023 recovered to pre-pandemic levels in North America, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa as companies resumed in-
July 22, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has requested an in-person meeting with former President Donald Trump while in the U.S. this week, Politico reported on Monday citing people
July 22, 2024
While US presidents have consistently said that a two-state solution is the only way forward to settle Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the US has blocked Palestine from being fully recognized at the UN.
July 22, 2024
Israel declared dead on Monday two more of its hostages being held in Gaza, as talks to secure a ceasefire deal that would include the release of some 120 captives there were set
July 22, 2024
A court in the United Arab Emirates has sentenced dozens of Bangladeshi nationals to prison, including three for life imprisonment, over protests against their home government in the Gulf country
July 22, 2024
A Canadian citizen attempted to attack an armed civilian security unit with a knife in southern Israel near the Gaza border and was shot dead, Israeli authorities said
July 22, 2024
The Israeli military has ordered the evacuation of part of a crowded area in the southern Gaza Strip it had designated a humanitarian zone
July 22, 2024
Civilians in Sudan have suffered horrendous levels of violence during more than a year of conflict between the army and a rival paramilitary force, facing
July 22, 2024
The Israeli military has ordered the evacuation of part of a crowded area in Gaza it has designated a humanitarian zone
July 22, 2024
Israel will be the United States' strongest ally in the Middle East regardless of who is elected president in November, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said
July 22, 2024
Activists opposing Israel's war in Gaza and Washington's support for its Middle Eastern ally plan protests at the U.S.
July 21, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is headed to Washington, leaving behind a brutal war to make a politically precarious speech before a joint session of Congress
July 21, 2024
Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 15 people including women and children overnight in Gaza
July 21, 2024
Israeli forces battled Palestinian fighters in the southern Gaza city of Rafah on Sunday, striking areas in the centre of the coastal enclave where thousands of
July 21, 2024
Authorities in the United Arab Emirates ordered an investigation and an expedited trial of Bangladeshi nationals arrested after protesting against their home government across the Gulf country
July 21, 2024
The Israeli military says it has intercepted a missile fired from Yemen
July 21, 2024
At least 13 killed in Israeli airstrikes on Nuseirat camp in central Gaza
July 20, 2024
The Israeli army says it has struck several Houthi targets in western Yemen following a fatal drone attack by the rebel group in Tel Aviv the previous day
July 20, 2024
Ruth Lieberman, a Jewish settler in the Israeli occupied West Bank, is determined to thwart international pressure for a sovereign
July 20, 2024
Greek Cypriots mourned and Turkish Cypriots rejoiced on Saturday, the 50th anniversary of Turkey's invasion of part of the island after
July 20, 2024
Israel’s invitation to this year’s atomic bomb commemorations in Japan has sparked a controversy over double standards
July 20, 2024
Two top Biden administration officials say Iran is talking more about getting a nuclear bomb, and has made strides in developing one key aspect of a weapon in recent months
July 19, 2024
Blinken says Iran’s nuclear weapon breakout time is probably down to 1-2 weeks
July 19, 2024
Polio detected in Gaza sewage water, threatening new health disaster
July 19, 2024
The Israeli military is set to issue call-up notices to 1,000 members of the Ultra Orthodox Haredi community on Sunday in the latest step in a long-running and divisive battle
July 19, 2024
The Israeli military is set to issue call-up notices to 1,000 members of the ultra-Orthodox community on Sunday as a divisive battle over drafting the religious Haredim into the
July 19, 2024
The European Commission said on Friday it would provide the Palestinian Authority with 400 million euros ($435.5 million) in emergency financial support in the coming two months amid
July 19, 2024
Israeli forces bombed parts of central Gaza on Friday, killing at least eight Palestinians in the Al-Nuseirat camp area, while fighting
July 19, 2024
‘He was a pious man’: The Gaza neighborhood shocked to find Israeli hostages in their midst
July 19, 2024
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have claimed responsibility for a drone strike that hit part of central Tel Aviv near the U.S. Embassy, killing one person and injuring 10
July 19, 2024
The top United Nations court says that Israel’s presence in the Palestinian occupied territories is “unlawful” and called on it to end and for settlement construction to stop immediately
July 19, 2024
The United Nations' highest court said on Friday that Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories and settlements there are illegal
July 19, 2024
Israel investigates security failures around deadly Tel Aviv drone strike
July 19, 2024
Yemen's Houthi rebels hit and damaged a Singapore-flagged container ship with two missiles on Friday as they escalate attacks on global
July 19, 2024
An Iranian-made drone sent by Yemen’s Houthi rebels struck Israel on Friday, leaving one person dead and at least 10 wounded
July 19, 2024
UN says Israeli evacuation orders are making it harder to reach those most in need in Gaza
July 19, 2024
The United Arab Emirates' president and the head of Sudan's army have discussed an offer from Ethiopia's leader to mediate in Sudan's 15-month-old war, diplomatic sources said.
July 18, 2024
Israeli lawmakers vote overwhelmingly against Palestinian statehood, challenging US policy
July 18, 2024
Russia said on Thursday that Donald Trump's assertion he could quickly end the Ukraine war should be viewed realistically, given that he had promised a Middle East
July 18, 2024
Results of Syria’s parliamentary elections show that President Bashar Assad’s Baath Party has won a majority of seats, as expected
July 18, 2024
This week's attack on a Shiite mosque in the capital stunned Oman, a quiet nation long spared militant violence
July 18, 2024
Israel’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has visited Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site, a move that could threaten the delicate Gaza cease-fire talks
July 18, 2024
Inspired by Muhammad Ali, meet the judo star who fled civil war conscription in Syria and will now compete at the Paris Olympics
July 18, 2024
Italy has sent food supplies and health equipment for the Gaza population aboard a humanitarian flight that landed in Jordan, a statement said on Thursday, as part of Rome's "Food for
July 18, 2024
Germany-based air taxi developer Lilium on Thursday clinched its biggest order yet in a deal for Saudi airline Saudia Group to purchase up to 100 of its all-
July 18, 2024
Israeli forces bombarded the Gaza Strip's historic refugee camps in the centre of the enclave and struck Gaza City in the north on Thursday,
July 18, 2024
Shiite Muslims mark holy day of Ashura with mourning and self-flagellation
July 18, 2024
Israel must be banned from any football-related activities for violating FIFA's statutes amid the war in Gaza, according to an independent legal analysis by lawyers who
July 18, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a surprise visit to troops in southern Gaza, days before his speech to the U.S. Congress
July 18, 2024
Ultra-Orthodox party in Israel urges young Haredi men to resist draft
July 17, 2024
US military ends troubled temporary pier mission off Gaza coast
July 17, 2024
A former Syrian military official who oversaw a prison where human rights officials say torture and abuse took place has been arrested in Los Angeles on suspicion of immigration fraud
July 17, 2024
US imposes visa restrictions on former IDF sergeant for human rights violation
July 17, 2024
The U.S. military-built pier to carry humanitarian aid to Gaza will be dismantled and brought home, ending a mission fraught with weather and security problems
July 17, 2024
The State Department on Wednesday barred a former Israeli Defense Forces sergeant from traveling to the United States, accusing him of being
July 17, 2024
Nine crew members were rescued and another died as teams searched for others after an oil tanker capsized this week off the coast of Oman, according to the country's state news agency
July 17, 2024
A meeting of the United Nations Security Council on the Middle East was briefly interrupted on Wednesday when two protesters stood with signs and yelled for the release of
July 17, 2024
Tunisia's prime minister urged European countries on Wednesday to increase financial assistance to his country and others to help tackle the flow
July 17, 2024
An Israeli delegation has arrived in Egypt to continue cease-fire talks as Israel and Hamas consider the latest proposal
July 17, 2024
Hamas-led groups committed ‘numerous war crimes’ on October 7, rights group says
July 17, 2024
The United Arab Emirates is considering building a second nuclear power plant to meet growing demand for electricity in the oil-rich Gulf state, a government official told
July 17, 2024
Roads torn up months ago by Israeli army bulldozers in Jenin refugee camp remain unpassable because the Palestinian Authority can't afford to fix them.
July 17, 2024
Israeli forces hit areas in the central Gaza Strip on Wednesday, killing at least nine Palestinians, according to health officials, while Israeli tanks carried
July 17, 2024
A father in Gaza is mourning a baby boy killed in bed by an Israeli airstrike
July 17, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron spoke on Tuesday with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Qatar's Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani and Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa to
July 16, 2024
Iranian spies tasked Israeli citizen with delivering severed animal head, Shin Bet says
July 16, 2024
Families release photos of five female Israeli soldiers from their first days of captivity in Gaza
July 16, 2024
The Israeli military will next week begin the process of drafting candidates from Israel's ultra-Orthodox community, the military said on Tuesday.
July 16, 2024
The Israeli military will begin sending draft notices to Jewish ultra-Orthodox men on Sunday
July 16, 2024
Tehran remains open to resuming negotiations with Washington on restoring their participation in a nuclear agreement, Iran's acting foreign minister told Newsweek magazine in an
July 16, 2024
Israeli forces battled Hamas-led fighters in several parts of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, and Palestinian health officials said at least 57
July 16, 2024
Gazans endure deadly weekend of Israeli strikes as UN chief laments ‘incomprehensible and inexcusable’ destruction
July 16, 2024
Israeli airstrikes have killed more than 60 Palestinians in southern and central Gaza overnight and into Tuesday
July 16, 2024
CIA director says Hamas leader is facing growing pressure from his own commanders to end Gaza war
July 16, 2024
Under American pressure, Israel has pledged to deliver large quantities of humanitarian aid into the war-ravaged Gaza Strip
July 16, 2024
Authorities in the Gulf Arab state of Oman say several gunmen burst into a Shiite mosque and opened fire, killing six people and wounding nearly 30 more
July 16, 2024
US-made munitions used in Israeli strike on Gaza school that killed 22, experts say
July 15, 2024
Palestinian factions, including rivals Hamas and Fatah, will hold unity talks in China in July, two senior Hamas and Fatah officials told Reuters on Monday, as they try to resolve
July 15, 2024
An Israeli drone strike on a car near the Lebanon-Syria border has killed a prominent Syrian businessman who was sanctioned by the United States and had close ties to the government of Syria’s President Bashar Assad
July 15, 2024
An Israeli drone strike on a car near the Lebanon-Syria border has killed a prominent Syrian businessman who was sanctioned by the United States and had close to Syrian President Bashar Assad's government
July 15, 2024
The European Union announced sanctions on Monday against five Israeli individuals and three entities, describing them as responsible for "serious and systematic human rights abuses" against
July 15, 2024
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad said on Monday he would only meet Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan if the two countries could focus on the core issues of Ankara's support for "
July 15, 2024
Syrians in government-held areas headed to the polls on Monday to elect a new parliament, a vote expected to yield few surprises and labelled a farce by political
July 15, 2024
Israel struck the southern and central Gaza Strip on Monday to put more pressure on Hamas, following a weekend strike targeting the militant
July 15, 2024
Yemen's Houthis targeted three vessels, including an oil tanker, in the Red and Mediterranean seas with ballistic missiles, drones and booby-trapped boats, they said on Monday.
July 15, 2024
Syrians have voted for members of a new parliament in an election that was expected to hold few surprises
July 15, 2024
Oil prices eased on Monday as worries about demand in top importer China offset supportive U.S. economic news, OPEC+ supply restraint and ongoing Middle East
July 15, 2024
At least 22 killed in strike on makeshift mosque in Gaza City camp, hospital official says
July 14, 2024
Israel says Hamas commander killed in southern Gaza strike but fate of military chief unclear
July 14, 2024
The new British foreign secretary has called for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza during a visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories, his second international trip since Labour’s resounding victory in elections earlier this month
July 14, 2024
A senior Hamas official said on Sunday that the Islamist group has not withdrawn from ceasefire talks with Israel after this weekend's
July 14, 2024
Israel says it tried to assassinate Mohammed Deif, the shadowy leader of the Hamas group’s military wing who has long topped the country’s most-wanted list
July 13, 2024
Gaza ceasefire talks have been halted after three days of intense negotiations failed to produce a viable outcome, two Egyptian security sources said on Saturday, blaming Israel for
July 13, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it was still not clear whether Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif and another senior commander were killed in an Israeli strike in
July 13, 2024
Iranian president-elect ready to set relations with Europe ‘on the right path’
July 13, 2024
At least 90 Palestinians reported killed in Israeli strike targeting Hamas military chief
July 13, 2024
Israel's prime minister says “there still isn’t absolute certainty” that Hamas’ shadowy military commander was killed in a massive airstrike in southern Gaza
July 13, 2024
The United Nations chief is appealing for funding for the beleaguered U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees in Gaza and elsewhere in the Middle East
July 13, 2024
The US held off sanctioning this Israeli army unit despite evidence of abuses. Now its forces are shaping the fight in Gaza
July 13, 2024
Delta removes an employee, changes its uniform policy after backlash over social media post perceived to be anti-Palestinian
July 12, 2024
Civil defense workers in Gaza have been digging bodies out of collapsed buildings and pulling them off rubble-covered streets
July 12, 2024
Israel's offensive in Gaza has pulverised most of its sports facilities and equipment but that has not stopped boxing coach Osama Ayoub training Palestinian girls in a
July 12, 2024
A Dutch court has rejected a claim from human rights organizations that the Netherlands is dodging a court order to stop sending F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel which could use them in Gaza
July 12, 2024
Israeli forces pulled back from parts of Gaza City overnight, after a fierce, week-long offensive that met with Hamas resistance,
July 12, 2024
A Dutch court on Friday rejected a demand by rights groups to order the Netherlands to block all exports of F-35 fighter jet parts which might end up in Israel.
July 12, 2024
Israeli and Egyptian ceasefire negotiators are in talks about an electronic surveillance system along the border between Gaza and Egypt that
July 12, 2024
CNN’s Bianna Golodryga spoke with Andrey Kozlov, who was held hostage for eight months by Hamas after being kidnapped at Nova Music festival on October 7. Kozlov spoke about the abuse he endured and the day he was rescued by IDF.
July 12, 2024
GM self-driving unit Cruise admits to submitting false report, will pay $500,000 fine
Oil dips on oversupply concerns, heads for weekly loss
BOJ chief Ueda to speak in Nagoya, focus on hints of next rate-hike timing
Pepi goal lifts US over Jamaica 1-0 in CONCACAF Nations League quarterfinal first leg
Indonesia Oct exports up 10.3% y/y, beating forecast
Connor McDavid scores to become the 4th-fastest NHL player to reach 1,000 points
Sale, Crochet win Comeback Players of Year, Clase, Helsley top relievers and Ohtani best DH