Politics
The military confrontation involving the United States, Israel and Iran entered its sixth day on March 5 with no sign of a ceasefire, as strikes and missile attacks continued across the Middle East and the conflict’s human and economic costs intensified. Israel launched new waves of air strikes......
An Iranian missile barrage on central Israel has killed at least nine people and wounded dozens more, while a separate warhead landed within sight of some of Jerusalem’s most sensitive religious sites as open conflict between Iran and Israel entered its second day. A direct hit on a residential......
Several governments have begun withdrawing diplomats and urging their nationals to leave parts of the Middle East amid rising fears of a military confrontation involving the United States, Israel, and Iran. The moves follow the collapse of the latest talks on Iran’s nuclear program and a rapid......
A senior Hezbollah figure has privately signaled that the group would stay out of any limited United States military action against Iran, while declaring that an attack aimed at Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei or a bid to topple the Islamic Republic would compel the movement to join the fight.......
FIFA has promised to spend $50 million on a new national soccer stadium in the Gaza Strip, unveiling the plan at the first meeting of President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace in Washington as part of a broader reconstruction drive for the war‑devastated territory. The commitment comes as international......
Egypt and Israel are locked in a sharpening regional contest centered on Somalia and the wider Horn of Africa, as Cairo expands its military footprint in the country in response to Israel’s recognition of the breakaway region of Somaliland. An assessment by the Hebrew-language outlet Natsiv Net,......
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned Iran that any direct attack on Israel would trigger a response of a scale Tehran “cannot even imagine,” as coordinated military preparations with the United States intensify across the Middle East. Speaking at an Israel Defense Forces officers’......
Foreign ministers from Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Indonesia, Pakistan, Egypt and Türkiye have denounced Israel’s decision to designate large areas of the occupied West Bank as state land and to initiate comprehensive land registration there for the first time since......
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened a high-level security consultation in Jerusalem on Thursday with top advisors and defense officials on a "classified matter," Israeli media reported, as the United States edges toward a potential military strike on Iran amid soaring regional tensions.......
Israeli forces razed buildings at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency headquarters in occupied east Jerusalem early Tuesday, prompting sharp condemnation from the UN agency as an unprecedented assault and a flagrant breach of international law. Around 7 a.m. local time, troops entered the Sheikh......
HM King Mohammed VI of Morocco has accepted an invitation from former U.S. President Donald J. Trump to join, as a founding member, a newly proposed Peace Council aimed at supporting international efforts to resolve conflicts, particularly in the Middle East, according to an official statement from Morocco’s......
María Corina Machado, the Nobel Peace Prize winner speaking from hiding in a detailed interview published Saturday, pledged to position Venezuela as Israel's closest ally in Latin America upon gaining power. This commitment aims to reverse decades of animosity that began under Hugo Chávez......
Education Minister Yoav Kisch has informed United States President Donald Trump that he will be awarded the Israel Prize next year in recognition of what officials describe as his sustained and far reaching support for the Jewish people and the State of Israel. During a phone call held while Trump met......
