Israel, Middle East

Will Israel's Wars in the Middle East End in 2025?
Israel's wars in the Middle East are unlikely to end in 2025 or for that matter any time in the foreseeable future. The immediate reason for that is that Benjamin Netanyahu needs to prolong the ghastly war in Gaza to avoid standing trial at home on corruption charges which carry a prison sentence.
Israelis See Chance to Remake Middle East in War’s Wake
Despite criticism over its conduct of the war in Gaza, some see new diplomatic opportunities for Israel.
Middle East latest: Israeli’s defense minister acknowledges it killed Hamas leader
Palestinian medics say Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip have killed at least 20 people. One of the strikes overnight and into Monday hit a tent camp in the Muwasi area, an Israel-declared humanitarian zone,
Middle East latest: 5 Palestinian journalists killed by Israeli strike, Gaza Health Ministry says
Five Palestinian journalists have been killed by an Israeli strike in the Gaza Strip, the Health Ministry said Thursday. Israel's military said it targeted a group of militants allied with Hamas, which ignited the war with its Oct.
At least 10 killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza, medics say
(Reuters) -At least 10 people were killed, including five journalists, and more than a dozen wounded in Israeli strikes on Gaza early on Thursday, medics with the Gaza health authorities said. Five people were killed and 20 wounded in an Israeli airstrike on a house in Gaza City's Zeitoun neighborhood,
Middle East live updates: IDF troops killed in Gaza as hospitals 'besieged'
Rebel forces in Syria are building a transitional government after toppling the regime of President Bashar Assad in a lightning-quick advance across the country.
Middle East latest: Israeli raid and airstrikes in West Bank kill at least 8 Palestinians
The Palestinian Health Ministry says at least eight people were killed by Israeli military operations in the northern West Bank. The ministry said three of the dead were killed by
Middle East latest: Israel expels patients from a hospital in Gaza
Israeli soldiers raided a hospital in isolated northern Gaza after forcing all the patients and most of the doctors to leave, the Palestinian Health Ministry said Tuesday.
Lebanon hopes for neighbourly relations in first message to new Syria government
Lebanon said on Thursday it was looking forward to having the best neighbourly relations with Syria, in its first official ...
Middle East live updates: Houthi missile from Yemen sets off sirens in Israel
Rebel forces in Syria are building a transitional government after toppling the regime of President Bashar Assad in a ...
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The Changing Balance of Power in the Middle East
We are now faced with a dramatically reshaped Middle East in which Israel is stronger, Iran is weaker, its proxies decimated, ...
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Middle East latest: Lebanon closes all its land border crossings with Syria except one
The announcement comes as heightened tensions grip the wider Middle East over Israel’s continued war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip and as an uneasy ceasefire holds in Lebanon. Australian leader ...
Middle East latest: Israeli airstrikes on Gaza kill at least 20 people, Palestinian medics say
Palestinian medics say Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip have killed at least 20 people.
AP photos in 2024 show a Middle East riven by wars, but also moments of grace
An Israeli bomb hangs suspended in air, caught in a split-second image of a suburb in Beirut before it slams into an ...
UNIFIL urges timely Israeli pullout from south Lebanon under month-old truce deal
The United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) called on Thursday for a timely Israeli withdrawal from south ...
Pooling the Middle East's medical resources, physicians compare notes
Senior physicians from Iran, Lebanon, Egypt, Israel, and the US compare notes on health disparities in the Middle East.