Middle East

The United States will bring a U.N. draft resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and an Israel-Hamas hostage deal to a Security Council vote on Friday morning, ...

The United States and Saudi Arabia have made “good progress” in talks on normalising ties between the kingdom and Israel, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday ...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Cairo on Thursday for talks with Arab officials to push for a ceasefire in Gaza, after Israel‘s prime minister told ...

Satellite images analysed by the United Nations Satellite Centre show that 35% of the Gaza Strip’s buildings have been destroyed or damaged in the Israel offensive in the Palestinian enclave. ...

The Israeli military said on Thursday that it killed more than 50 Palestinian gunmen over the past day in fighting around the Gaza Strip’s Shifa hospital. The military said it ...

Saudi Arabia’s government plans to create a fund of about $40 billion to invest in artificial intelligence, the New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing three people briefed on the ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told U.S. Republican senators on Wednesday that Israel will continue its efforts to defeat Palestinian militant group Hamas in the Gaza Strip, senators told ...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, launching a tour of the Middle East to try to secure a ceasefire in the Gaza war ...

–Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump drew outrage from the White House, Democrats and leaders of Jewish groups for saying Jewish Americans who vote for Democrats hate their religion ...

The healthcare system in Gaza has essentially collapsed, Western doctors who visited the Palestinian enclave in recent months told an event at the United Nations on Monday, speaking of “appalling ...

The United States made a fresh push on Tuesday for a ceasefire in Gaza to avert a manmade famine, while pressing its ally Israel to back away from plans for ...

Israel early on Tuesday launched missiles at several military targets outside the Syrian capital Damascus resulting in some “material damage,” Syria’s defense ministry said. Syrian air defenses intercepted Israeli “...

United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit the Middle East this week, the U.S. State Department said on Tuesday, as Washington pushes for a ceasefire between Israel ...

The European Union on Monday pledged to spend an initial 7.7 billion euros ($8.39 billion) on humanitarian aid in 2024, less than last year despite soaring needs in Gaza and elsewhere. “I think ...

Famine is expected between now and May in the north of the Gaza Strip where 300,000 people remain trapped by fighting, a U.N.-backed report said on Monday. Across the ...

Israeli troops raided the compound of Gaza’s Al Shifa Hospital early on Monday in an operation that Palestinian health authorities said caused multiple casualties and set off a fierce ...

By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Ari Rabinovitch Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed international pressure on Sunday and said he would keep on with the military campaign against Hamas in Gaza, ...

By Nidal al-Mughrabi Trucks of flour have reached northern Gaza for distribution to areas that have had no aid in four months, Palestinian media reported on Sunday, with famine looming ...

By Sarah Marsh The large number of civilian casualties that would result from an Israeli assault on the Gaza city of Rafah would make regional peace “very difficult”, German Chancellor ...

By Andrew Mills and Maayan Lubell The main U.N. aid agency operating in Gaza said on Saturday that acute malnutrition was accelerating in the north of the Palestinian enclave ...

One in three children under age 2 in northern Gaza is now acutely malnourished and famine is looming, the main U.N. agency operating in the Palestinian enclave said on Saturday. “...

Israel‘s military said armed Palestinians had opened fire while crowds were waiting for aid trucks in the northern Gaza Strip and denied soldiers fired at the convoy, defending its ...

With ally Hamas under attack in Gaza, the head of Iran’s Quds Force visited Beirut in February to discuss the risk posed if Israel next aims at Lebanon’s ...

Hamas has presented a Gaza ceasefire proposal to mediators and the U.S. which includes the release of Israeli hostages in exchange for freedom for Palestinian prisoners, 100 of whom are ...