World | Middle East
UN schools in Gaza shaped our reporter’s childhood. She worries for the future.The Israeli parliament’s ban on U.N. Relief and Works Agency operations in Israel threatens humanitarian aid to Gaza and its schools.
In Israel-Hezbollah war, a rising cry from Lebanese: Why were we bombed?Lebanon is all too familiar with the heavy cost civilians bear in war. Now, as Israel pursues Hezbollah, people are dying or displaced from their homes, caught in the crossfire of a war that is not theirs.
Israeli strikes inside Iran cross a threshold. How will Iran respond?In over a year of conflict between Israel and Iran’s militia allies, a key brake on a regional war has been each side’s fear of what the other could do. Does Israel’s latest strike mean that brake is failing?
First LookIsrael conducts airstrikes against Iranian military targetsIsrael launched missile strikes against Iranian targets in retaliation for Iran’s attack on Tel Aviv earlier this month. Iran said the strikes caused only “limited damage.”
Under deadly Israeli siege, north Gaza residents face terrifying ultimatumWhere can one find safety in war? That has been an especially agonizing question for Palestinians in Gaza, ordered to and fro by Israel for more than a year. With death everywhere, one community after another has been reduced to rubble.
Netanyahu has high hopes of Trump. Might he be mistaken?Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu hopes Donald Trump will win the U.S. presidency. But Mr. Trump might well be just as demanding as his predecessor.
First LookA terrorist attack in Turkey drew global condemnation. Then, Turkey struck back.The strike came days after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan suggested parole for the PKK’s imprisoned leader and hours after a terrorist attack in Ankara. Turkey regularly conducts airstrikes against the PKK, who have power bases in Iraq and Syria.
Is an Israel-Hamas cease-fire possible? Pressures mount on Netanyahu.Benjamin Netanyahu initially described Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar’s death as “the beginning of the end” to the war in Gaza. But are there any indications that pressures for a cease-fire will bear fruit?
As Israel pounds Lebanon, Gazans empathize, yet feel forgottenGazans know what Lebanon is going through, as Israel attacks Hezbollah and as civilians are killed or forced from their homes. But they worry the world’s attention has been diverted.
First LookDrone targeted house of Israeli prime minister, as IDF bombards GazaHezbollah didn't claim responsibility for the drone attack, which inflicted no casualties, but said it carried out several rocket attacks on Israel. Israel carried out at least 10 airstrikes on southern Beirut suburbs that are home to Hezbollah’s offices.
Hamas leader’s death revives hopes for a Gaza peace plan. Is that enough?After a year of war in Gaza and the Middle East, the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar rekindled hopes for a grand U.S.-led peace plan. But many obstacles, Israeli and Palestinian, remain.
Hamas leader, Israel’s ‘most wanted,’ is dead. What happens to war in Gaza?The death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar is the heaviest blow the Islamic militant group has endured in a year of war in Gaza. Will it break the stalemate over a cease-fire with Israel?
Slow and small, drones find cracks in Israel’s high-tech air defensesWarfare requires constant adaptation, both offensive and defensive, in tactics and technology. Trends in innovation often point to modern sophistication, but sometimes older and simpler methods work best.
First LookIsrael steps up attacks in Gaza as UN peacekeepers come under fire in LebanonPalestinians in northern Gaza are describing heavy Israeli bombardment in the hours after airstrikes killed at least 22 people. A member of the U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon was in stable condition after being struck by gunfire in Naqoura.
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