US journalist Terry Anderson, who was held hostage for nearly seven years during Lebanon's civil war, has died aged 76.
Anderson was the chief Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press when he was captured by militants in 1985 during what (...)
As hostilities continue in Gaza, the UN agency that assists Palestine refugees, UNRWA, urged donors not to forget about Palestinians affected by the ongoing war in Syria.
UNRWA on Tuesday launched a $414.4 million appeal for Palestine refugees in (...)
The UN peacekeeping force in south Lebanon (UNIFIL) has announced that it is investigating an explosion in the Rmeish area that injured four unarmed peacekeepers on a foot patrol along the Blue Line that divides Israel from Lebanon and the disputed (...)
Three United Nations observers and a translator have been wounded by shelling in Rmeish, southern Lebanon, the UN peacekeeping mission said.
Lebanon's state news agency reported that an Israeli drone strike was behind the explosion, but the Israeli (...)
Hamas said Tuesday there could be no "exchange of prisoners" before a permanent ceasefire and a full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, as it responded to proposals from Egyptian and Qatari mediators.
"The security and safety of our people will not be (...)
Israel has proposed that Hamas senior leaders could leave Gaza as part of a broader ceasefire agreement, two officials familiar with the ongoing international discussions told CNN.
The extraordinary proposal, which has not been previously reported, (...)
Iran's Revolutionary Guards on Monday launched ballistic missiles at what it said was a spy base for Israel's intelligence agency Mossad in northern Iraq, and at "anti-Iran terror groups" in Syria, in the latest escalation of hostilities that (...)
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Palestinians must not be pressured into leave Gaza, and must be allowed to return to their homes once conditions allow.
Blinken condemned statements by some Israeli ministers, who called for the resettlement (...)
The Israeli army says it has "completed the dismantling" of Hamas's command structure in the northern Gaza Strip.
Army spokesman Daniel Hagari told reporters that Palestinian militants are now operating in the area only sporadically and "without (...)
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has outlined proposals for the future governance of Gaza once the war between Israel and Hamas is over.
There would, he said, be limited Palestinian rule in the territory.
Hamas would no longer control Gaza and (...)
Protests erupted in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday shortly after top Hamas official Saleh Arouri and six other members of the militant group were killed by a drone strike in Beirut.
Hamas and Hezbollah officials confirmed that Arouri was killed (...)
The leader of the Lebanese militia Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah, in his speech Wednesday, described Tuesday's killing of Hamas deputy chief Saleh Al-Arouri here as "dangerous".
He described Al-Arouri as "a great leader" and said he was killed in an (...)
The UN Secretary-General praised the hard work of judges and staff of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, which closed on Sunday following efforts to try those responsible for a 2005 attack that killed 22 people, including former Lebanese Prime (...)
Israel's military will act to remove Hezbollah from the border with Lebanon if its attacks continue, an Israeli minister has warned.
Benny Gantz said the Israel Defense Forces would intervene if the world and the Lebanese government did not stop (...)
One of the harshest things a person is supposed to be faced with is to contemplate how he can coexist with someone who owns a factory that produces lies and slander against him, or rather against his homeland to be precise. These are factories that (...)
Israeli troops are still locked in heavy combat with Hamas fighters in and around Gaza City, more than six weeks after invading the territory's north.
Palestinian militants carried out one of the deadliest single attacks on Israeli soldiers since (...)
At least 94 people have died and 406 been injured in Lebanon as a result of "the Israeli aggression against southern Lebanon" between October 8 – when Hezbollah began firing rockets at Israel – and December 5, according to the Lebanese Ministry of (...)
This book is engrossing not only due to its compilation of interviews with prominent figures in Arab culture, which many journalists may find to be the case, but also due to the thought-provoking questions and occasionally contentious topics that (...)
Four people, including two journalists, have been killed in Israeli strikes in Lebanon, local media say, as exchanges of fire intensify along the border.
Lebanon's Prime Minister Nabjib Mikati condemned the "attack" in the village of Tayr Harfa that (...)
It should be the height of tourist season in Tiberias, an Israeli city on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee where the New Testament says many of Jesus' miracles were performed.
But instead of pilgrims, thousands of Israelis evacuated from (...)
The second in command of Hezbollah — the powerful Iranian backed militia in Lebanon — has said Israel's killing of civilians in Gaza risks wider war in the Middle East.
Sheikh Naim Qassem told the BBC that "very serious and very dangerous (...)
President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas has denounced the "genocide" carried out in the Gaza Strip by Israel.
Abbas was speaking during a meeting with the American Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
"Once again, we meet in the harshest (...)
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected calls for a temporary ceasefire in the conflict with Hamas.
Speaking during a televised address, Netanyahu said he would not agree to such a move until the hostages Hamas took during its attack (...)
This was their third time trying to cross. But there were reasons to hope. All the news reports said the border would definitely open.
The family had been called by the Jordanian embassy and told to go to the Rafah crossing.
Tala Abu Nahleh's mother (...)
TEL AVIV/RAMALLAH — In the last few days I have been in southern Israel close to the border with Gaza, deep in the West Bank with hard-line Jewish settlers, and seen the funeral of two young Palestinian men killed by the Israeli army in a raid on a (...)