The action came after the channel aired a report describing a number of leaders of Iranian backed armed groups as terrorists. Iraqi regulators have suspended the license of a Saudi-owned television channel and are taking steps to terminate its right…
The Israeli prime minister and his wife were not home at the time of the strike, his office said. The episode highlighted the challenge drones pose to Israel’s air defenses. A drone from Lebanon struck a building near the private…
news analysis Just about all of the actors in the region are looking for an “offramp” to the conflict, many analysts say. But Hezbollah and Hamas are talking tough, and Israel is not backing down. The killing of Yahya Sinwar,…
Extensive Israeli attacks have blown up Hezbollah munitions and killed many fighters and leaders, but the Lebanese militia is far from incapacitated, analysts say. Israeli bombs have blown up its munitions stores and killed thousands of its fighters, including many…
American commandos and intelligence officers began helping Israel soon after the Oct. 7 attacks last year. Days after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, the Pentagon quietly dispatched several dozen commandos to Israel to help advise on hostage recovery…
Israel has demanded that the force, known as UNIFIL, pull out. But all the countries contributing troops and the U.N. Security Council decided unanimously that UNIFIL should stay. U.N. peacekeepers in Lebanon have experienced a series of deliberate attacks by…
Israeli forces had been steadily closing in on Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader, for weeks before he was cornered and killed in a ruined house in the Gaza Strip. At the end, the fearsome militant leader who had helped unleash…
Israel’s military showed journalists parts of what it said was Hezbollah’s deeply entrenched military infrastructure across the border in southern Lebanon. We had entered southern Lebanon early Sunday afternoon in a convoy of armored vehicles through a gap punched by…
Amid the chaos and the war that followed the Hamas-led assault, Israel has not yet held a national day of mourning for the 1,200 people who were killed. People in Israel were bracing on Sunday to mark the first anniversary…
Lessons learned from a 2006 invasion of Lebanon have guided Israel in its current one. Security experts say a political deal is needed to restore calm. Israel’s last war with Hezbollah, in 2006, was considered a failure within much of…
President Kais Saied, who has jailed opponents and consolidated power, is almost certain to win Sunday’s election in the North African country, the birthplace of the Arab Spring movement. For many Tunisians, there seems to be little point to the…
The French leader’s comments drew the condemnation of Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and reflected the growing international concern over Israel’s expanding conflicts in the region. President Emmanuel Macron of France called for an “immediate and lasting” cease-fire in Lebanon…