For months, Israelis put aside their deep differences to fight a common enemy. Now, amid renewed government pressure on the government, they are fighting each other. A year and a half ago, after Hamas attacked Israel, Israelis put their internal…
Hamdan Ballal was attacked by masked men in his home village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, witnesses said. The Israeli military said he was being held for questioning. Read in Spanish The Palestinian director of the Oscar-winning documentary “No Other…
The United Nations is pulling about a third of its international staff out of Gaza, a reduction that comes after an Israeli tank shell hit a UN compound. The United Nations announced on Monday it would reduce its presence in…
Supporters of Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu said the corruption charges against him were a ploy to thwart President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main political rival. Istanbul’s mayor was jailed pending trial on corruption charges and removed from office on Sunday, threatening a…
Gaza’s Health Ministry said the death toll in the enclave since the war began had exceeded 50,000. Israeli forces expanded their offensive in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, taking control of new areas and issuing new evacuation orders for residents…
Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, says his top lawyer tried to undermine him in what his critics in Israel say is part of a purge of those he sees as disloyal. Israel’s cabinet passed a no-confidence vote Sunday in the…
More than 1,000 people, including about 700 civilians, have been killed in clashes between new government forces and remnants of the ousted regime, according to a military observer. Three days of clashes between militants linked to Syria’s new leaders and…
Residents described gunfire outside their homes and bodies in the streets in the worst unrest in Syria since the ouster of Bashar al-Assad, with more than 1,000 people killed since Thursday, a military monitor said. The shooting began at dawn…
The illegal amphetamine, used across the Middle East, became Syria’s biggest export during its 13-year civil war. Video Rebel fighters in Syria said on Friday that they had found vast stockpiles of an illegal amphetamine called captagon in a Damascus…
In an impoverished, war-ravaged country, the first prayers after the fall of a brutal regime drew jubilant crowds, even in areas seen as regime strongholds. Jubilant crowds gathered in cities across Syria for the first Friday Prayers since rebels toppled…
Israel Dispatch Abandoned and off limits to civilians, Metula, a symbol of early pioneering Zionism, is left half-ruined by Hezbollah’s rockets and missiles. By Isabel Kershner Photographs by Sergey Ponomarev Once a picturesque Israeli mountain resort with panoramic views into…
Critic’s Notebook In fights to sway public sentiment, critics often point to costly clothes as evidence of moral corruption. On Oct. 19, three days after Israeli soldiers killed the Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the Israeli military released a video that…