Middle East

Israel has multi-layered air defences against attacks by regional adversaries such as Iran, where military sites were hit by Israeli strikes on Saturday in the latest exchange in the escalating ...

Israel struck military sites in Iran on Saturday, saying it was retaliating against Tehran’s missile attack on Israel on Oct. 1, the latest exchange in the escalating conflict between the ...

By Tristan Dunning, Martin Kear and Shannon Brincat While the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar could have provided an off-ramp for the conflict in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ...

By Luigi Scazzieri A year after Hamas launched its October 7th attack on Israel, the Middle East is on the edge of a broader war. For a time, Europeans and ...

Israeli military strikes across the Gaza Strip have killed at least 72 people since Thursday night and Israeli forces launched a night-time raid on a hospital in the north of the ...

Children in Gaza are dying in pain for want of emergency treatment as a result of Israeli authorities approving fewer and fewer of them for medical evacuation following the closure ...

An Israeli strike early on Friday morning killed at least three journalists as they slept in a guesthouse in Hasbaya in southern Lebanon, Lebanese media reported. Those killed included cameraman ...

The United States does not want a protracted Israeli campaign in Lebanon, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday, a month into Israel’s military onslaught against ...

U.S. and Israeli negotiators will gather in Doha in the coming days to try to restart talks toward a deal for a ceasefire and the release of hostages in ...

The war between Israel and armed group Hezbollah is expected to wipe 9 per cent off Lebanon’s national wealth as measured by GDP, the United Nations said this week, with ...

Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister pleaded in Paris on Thursday for support for his nation’s army which would help secure any ceasefire, but a low-level U.S. presence at ...

An Israeli strike killed three Lebanese troops in south Lebanon on Thursday as France hosted a conference to rally support for Lebanese state forces which are seen as vital to ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos on Thursday attended an international conference in Paris for Lebanon, with the aim of rallying military and humanitarian aid for the country. The conference was hosted ...

Israel launched strikes on the Syrian capital Damascus and a military site near the western city of Homs on Thursday, the Syrian defence ministry said, as U.S. Secretary of ...

France is hoping that a meeting on Thursday of some 70 delegations to support Lebanon will raise about €500 million in humanitarian aid, according to a foreign ministry framework document for the ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Wednesday that failure by Israel to safeguard civilians in Gaza could create a generational backlash and create more anti-Israel insurgents in the ...

Hashem Safieddine, the top Hezbollah official widely expected to succeed slain secretary general Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in an Israeli attack, the group said Wednesday. Hezbollah confirmed that Safieddine was ...

Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said on Wednesday that after Israel strikes in Iran, the world will understand the preparations that went into such an operation. “After we attack in ...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken pushed on Wednesday for a halt to fighting between Israel and militant groups Hamas and Hezbollah, but heavy Israeli air strikes on a ...

Israeli strikes across Gaza killed 16 people on Wednesday as Israeli forces stepped up pressure on northern areas of the Palestinian enclave, besieged hospital and refugee shelters, and ordered residents to ...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday that Israel’s response to Iran’s Oct. 1 missile barrage should not lead to greater escalation, as he pushed for ...

The UN Palestinian refugee agency called on Tuesday for a temporary truce to allow people to leave areas of northern Gaza as health officials said they were running out of ...

Israel is unlikely to make a “significant move” against Tehran but could instead mount a symbolic limited attack, Revolutionary Guards cultural and social commander Mohammad Ali Jafari said on Tuesday, ...

The war between Israel and Hamas has devastated the Palestinian economy and left nearly all of Gaza’s population in poverty, with quality of life indicators such as health and ...