BEIRUT — The Israeli military is considering opening investigations into operational shortcomings that led to Oct. 7, "without waiting for the end of the fighting," as desired by the government,...
BEIRUT — Lebanon's caretaker cabinet is due to meet Wednesday to discuss multiple issues, including controversial topics such as "temporary compensations for the public sector and retirees" and the...
Hamas on Tuesday said a US airman who died after setting himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington would "remain immortal" for his shocking anti-war protest. Footage of...
BEIRUT — Lebanon's Hezbollah will halt fire on Israel if its Palestinian ally Hamas agrees to a proposal for a truce with Israel in Gaza —unless Israeli forces keep shelling Lebanon, two sources...
The United States on Tuesday announced another $53 million in humanitarian assistance for Palestinians as the US aid chief pleaded for protections to relief workers in war-ravaged Gaza....
ROME — Almost 9,000 people, including artists, curators and museum directors, have signed an online appeal calling for Israel to be excluded from this year's Venice Biennale art fair and...
Palestinian teacher Iman Mussallam says she is struggling to come to terms with the Gaza war's death toll nearing 30,000 after almost five months of conflict between Israel and Hamas....
BEIRUT — Hezbollah central council member Nabil Kaouk has said that the downing of a Hermes-450 drone by the party on Monday marks a "new phase in the confrontation" with Israel. Kaouk's remarks...
LONDON — Britain on Tuesday imposed sanctions on units of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), targeting those who it said were enabling the work of the Houthis, the Iran-linked...
Over the weekend, the issue of surveillance towers installed by the British government in 2014 along the border between Lebanon and Syria stirred up discussions in the country. While the Syrian...
BEIRUT — Lebanon's caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati, received Arab ambassadors at his residence in Tripoli on Tuesday. The visit was part of a tour organized by the Culture Ministry to...
Attacks by Yemeni rebels on commercial ships in the Red Sea have had only a "moderate" impact on global trade, Ralph Ossa, the World Trade Organization's chief economist told AFP....
In mid-January, Rachel Touitou came across a call posted on Facebook by Israeli citizens outraged by the shipment of humanitarian convoys to the Gaza Strip. Israel's war had, at the time, exceeded...
Israeli forces are "systematically" blocking access to people in need in Gaza, complicating the task of delivering aid in what has become a lawless war zone, the UN said Tuesday....
COPENHAGEN — Palestinian pop singer Bashar Murad hopes to represent Iceland at the Eurovision Song Contest in May, and bring a Palestinian voice to the event, which draws millions of television...
COPENHAGEN — Denmark's Maersk on Tuesday told its clients in a statement that they should prepare for disruptions in the Red Sea to last into the second half of the year and to build longer...
Negotiations had been ongoing behind the scenes for some time. On Monday, the Palestinian Authority (PA) government submitted its resignation to President Mahmoud Abbas, paving the way for the...
Saudi Arabia on Tuesday executed seven people for "terrorism" offences, state media said, the highest single-day figure since 81 were put to death in March 2022. The seven...
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said on Tuesday that the recent escalation in an exchange of fire between Israel and Hezbollah has the potential to put at risk a political...
DUBAI – Hamas has received a draft proposal from Gaza truce talks in Paris for a pause in military operations and the exchange of Palestinian prisoners for Israeli hostages, a senior source...
Israeli troops killed three Palestinians in an overnight raid in a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said Tuesday. It was the...
BEIRUT — A Lebanese army soldier was shot by his uncle in Tripoli following a family dispute on Tuesday, a security source told L'Orient Today. The uncle shot the soldier in the Zahirieh...
The health ministry in Gaza said Tuesday that at least 29,878 people have been killed in the Palestinian territory during the war between militants and Israel. The toll...
Hezbollah and Israel exchanged fire on Tuesday following deadly Israeli strikes on east Lebanon a day earlier, while United Nations peacekeepers warned the intensifying attacks could jeopardize a...
US President Joe Biden said Monday he hoped a cease-fire in Gaza could start by the beginning of next week, adding that Israel was ready to halt operations during the Muslim month of Ramadan as...
Israelis voted Tuesday in twice postponed municipal elections that could offer a gauge of the public mood nearly five months into the war against Hamas in Gaza. Soldiers had already cast their...
At a museum in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Gazan works on display are proclaimed to be an "ongoing artistic demonstration" in solidarity with the war-ravaged Palestinian territory....
US forces struck three unmanned vessels and two cruise missiles inside Yemen and an attack drone over the Red Sea on Monday that posed an "imminent threat" to ships in the area, the military said....
The US state of Michigan votes Tuesday in a presidential primary that is expected to be another ticker-tape parade for Republican Donald Trump – but could deliver Democratic leader Joe Biden a...
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