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An Israeli military vehicle patrols on the Israeli side of the Gaza border on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
May 8, 2025
U.S. and Israel discuss possible U.S.-led administration for Gaza, sources say
There would be no fixed timeline for how long such a U.S.-led administration would last, which would depend on the situation on the ground.
Israeli tanks are positioned near the Israel-Gaza border in southern Israel on April 23.
WORLD / Politics
May 6, 2025
Israel may seize all of Gaza in expanded operation, officials say
The newly approved offensive would move the territory's civilian population southward and keep humanitarian aid from falling into Hamas' hands.
An Israeli soldier walks near tanks deployed at a position near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
May 5, 2025
Israel prepares to scale up pressure on Gaza ahead of Trump visit
The new ground operations will likely involve taking control of additional territory while stopping short of a full siege.
An Israeli police officer investigates a crater at the site of a missile attack, launched from Yemen, near Ben Gurion Airport, in Tel Aviv on Sunday.
WORLD
May 5, 2025
Israel vows response after Houthi missile evades air defense
"We will hit back sevenfold at anyone who hurts us,” Israel Defense Minister Israel Katz said Sunday after the attacks near the country's main airport.
U.S. President Donald Trump talks to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting in which Trump announced nuclear talks with Iran, in Washington on April 7.
WORLD
May 3, 2025
How Trump blindsided Netanyahu with his Iran nuclear gamble
In just three weeks, the U.S. and Iran have held three rounds of talks aimed at preventing Tehran from building a nuclear weapon in return for sanctions relief.
Palestinian girls look at the rubble after Israeli strikes in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday.
WORLD
Apr 29, 2025
Amnesty accuses Israel of 'live-streamed genocide' in Gaza
In its annual report, Amnesty charged that Israel had acted with "specific intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza, thus committing genocide."
Palestinians mourn medics, who came under Israeli fire while on a rescue mission, after their bodies were recovered, according to the Red Crescent, at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on March 31.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 21, 2025
Israel's military finds 'professional failures' in killings of Gaza medics
Fifteen paramedics and other rescue workers were shot dead on March 23 in three separate shootings at the same location near Rafah.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu enters the White House in Washington on April 7.
WORLD
Apr 20, 2025
Israel's Netanyahu says military to increase pressure on Hamas
Hamas, whose militants carried out the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel that triggered the war, has said it would only free the remaining hostages under a deal that ends the war.
U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on April 7.
WORLD
Apr 19, 2025
Israel still eyeing a limited attack on Iran's nuclear facilities
Israel has not ruled out an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities in the coming months despite a lack of U.S. support for now.
A flag bearing a portrait of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah displayed on Feb. 28 in the southern Lebanese border town of Aitaroun.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 15, 2025
Disarming Lebanon's Hezbollah possible under U.S. pressure, analysts say
Hezbollah was left badly weakened by more than a year of hostilities with Israel, and Lebanon has since elected a president and formed a government.
A man holds a Hezbollah flag in southern Lebanon. The militant group emerged severely weakened from the 2024 conflict with Israel.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 9, 2025
Hezbollah ready to discuss weapons if Israel withdraws, senior official says
U.S.-backed Lebanese President Joseph Aoun intends to open talks with Hezbollah over its arsenal soon, three Lebanese political sources said.
People visit the graves of relatives as is customary on the first day of Eid al-Fitr marking the end of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, at the damaged cemetery of the Yarmuk camp for Palestinian refugees in Damascus on Monday.
WORLD
Apr 3, 2025
Syria says deadly Israeli strikes a 'blatant violation'
Syrian state media said the strikes hit close to a defense research center in Damascus, among other sites, while a war monitor reported four dead.
Israeli soldiers conduct operations in Gaza on Wednesday.
WORLD
Apr 3, 2025
Israel ‘carving’ new corridor in south Gaza, Netanyahu says
As mediators try to cobble together another ceasefire and hostage-release deal, Israel has been carrying out attacks with a new threat to seize land.
Palestinian children wait to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on March 9.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 2, 2025
Israel says there's plenty of food in Gaza — U.N. says that's ridiculous
No aid has been delivered to the Palestinian enclave since March 2.
People fleeing Rafah arrive in Khan Younis city following new Israeli evacuation orders, in the southern Gaza Strip on Monday.
WORLD
Apr 1, 2025
Israel tells Gazans to leave south before ‘intense fight’
The notification on Monday covered Rafah, a city near the border with Egypt, as well as surrounding areas.
Palestinians mourn medics, who came under Israeli fire while on a rescue mission, after their bodies were recovered, according to the Red Crescent, at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Monday.
WORLD
Apr 1, 2025
Bodies of 15 rescue workers recovered from Gaza grave, U.N. officials say
U.N. aid chief Tom Fletcher said on X that the bodies were buried near "wrecked & well-marked vehicles."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gestures during a news conference in 2021.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 31, 2025
Netanyahu offers Hamas leaders Gaza exit but demands group disarm
Hamas has expressed a willingness to relinquish Gaza's administration, but has warned its weapons are a "red line."
Palestinians take part in an anti-Hamas protest calling for an end to the war with Israel, in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday. 
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 30, 2025
Israel must not ignore the anti-Hamas protests in Gaza
Though still relatively small in scale, the anti-Hamas demonstrations in Gaza clearly indicate a shift in opinion.
Relatives mourn Palestinian journalist Hussam Shabat, who collaborated with Al Jazeera Mubasher, during his funeral at the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip, on Monday.
WORLD
Mar 25, 2025
Journalist killed, evacuation calls issued as Israel presses Gaza offensive
More than 206 journalists and media workers have been killed since the start of the war, the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate said.
Israeli soldiers work by military vehicles, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, near the border with Gaza, in Israel, on Feb. 15.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Mar 21, 2025
In Israel, reservist burnout and little public appetite for more war in Gaza
A full-scale ground war against Hamas could prove more complicated amid waning public support, exhausted military reservists and political challenges.

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