Middle East, Gaza and Israel

Middle East live updates: Gaza hospitals become 'battlegrounds,' WHO says
The Israel Defense Forces continues its intense airstrike and ground campaigns in Gaza, particularly in the north of the strip around several Palestinian hospitals.
Middle East latest: Israel plans an extended occupation of Syrian buffer zone
An Israeli strike in Gaza killed at least eight people from the same family, most of them women and children, Palestinian medics said Tuesday.
Syria Israel Middle East Crisis Live Updates: Israel to occupy Syria buffer zone for foreseeable future
The buffer zone between Syria and the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights was created by the U.N. after the 1973 Mideast war. A
Middle East live updates: Israel evacuates last functioning hospital in northern Gaza
Cpt. Ilay Gavriel Atedgi, 22, Staff Sgt. Netanel Pessach, 21, and Sgt. First Class (res.) Hillel Diener, 21, were all killed by an explosion during an operation in the Beit Hanoun area, which has been a focus of Israel's intense recent offensive in the northern part of the strip.
Israel vs. Turkey: The Intensifying Middle-East Power Struggle
Turkey and Israel are the main strategic beneficiaries of the collapse of the Syrian regime, but now they are on a collision course of their own.
Middle East latest: Israeli soldiers burn a hospital in Gaza
Israeli soldiers stormed and burned a hospital in isolated northern Gaza after forcibly removing staff and patients on Friday, Health Ministry officials said. The Israeli military said the hospital was being used by Hamas fighters as a base,
Israel Says 20 Militants Killed In Gaza Hospital Raid
Israel's military said Sunday forces had killed approximately 20 Palestinian militants in a raid on a northern Gaza hospital, calling it one of its "largest operations" conducted in the territory.
Gaza rescuers say Israeli strike on hospital kills 7
Gaza's civil defence agency said an air strike hit a hospital Sunday, killing at least seven people, while Israel said it had targeted militants at the no longer functioning facility."Seven martyrs and several injured people,
Middle East latest: Ukraine pledges support for a new Syria, once a key Russian ally
Ukraine is pledging support for the new authorities in Syria who ousted Bashar Assad, a key Russian ally in the Mideast. The ...
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With Hamas, Hezbollah battered, Israel pivots to Iran, Syria, Yemen in 2025
As 2024 comes to an end, Israel is now less worried about threats from Hamas and Hezbollah and instead very much concerned ...
Israel, at UN, warns Houthis risk sharing the same fate as Hamas, Hezbollah
Houthis have repeatedly fired drones and missiles towards Israel in what they describe as acts of solidarity with ...
Will Israel's Wars in the Middle East End in 2025?
Israel's wars in the Middle East are unlikely to end in 2025 or for that matter any time in the foreseeable future. The ...
Syria Israel Middle East Crisis Live Updates: Turkey's foreign minister meets HTS leader in Damascus
The buffer zone between Syria and the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights was created by the U.N. after the 1973 Mideast war. A ...
New leaders in Damascus call for cordial Syria ties with a resistant Israel
"Our problem is not with Israel. We don't want to meddle in anything that will threaten Israel's security," Damascus Governor ...
Jeffrey Sachs: Israel Has Run American Foreign Policy In The Middle East For 30 Years
Well, first of all, thank you. So many things have happened in the last two weeks. I keep thinking, where's Jeff Sachs? I ...
A look ahead: Seismic changes brought to the Middle East
Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, and its attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon, have humiliated the anti-Israel government in Iran, ...