Israel-Palestinian conflict escalates as rockets fly and street violence flares
Despite diplomatic efforts to ease the crisis, which U.S. President Joe Biden said he hoped would end "sooner than later," hundreds of rockets flew across the Gaza Strip overnight.
Limits of Israel’s Arab partnerships tested as violence rages
While the UAE and Bahrain are unlikely to tear up their normalization deals, experts say the recent violence will complicate efforts to translate them into a genuine partnership.
Israel-Gaza crisis drags Biden into vortex he sought to avoid
Biden had been trying to pivot America’s foreign policy to China, revive the Iran nuclear deal and wind down America’s "forever wars.”
35 killed in Gaza and three dead in Israel as violence escalates
Israel carried out hundreds of air strikes in Gaza as militant groups fired multiple rocket barrages at Tel Aviv and Beersheba.
Twenty killed as Israel strikes Gaza after Hamas rocket barrage
The dead included nine children and a senior Hamas commander, while 65 others were wounded, Gaza authorities said.
The A-word (apartheid) gives Palestinians a new path to normalcy
The new HRW report relies on international legal definitions of apartheid and draws a direct connection between Israeli policies towards Palestinians in the West Bank and inside Israel.
Israel's Netanyahu loses mandate to form government, opening door for rivals
Netanyahu, on trial over corruption charges he denies, had a 28-day window to secure a coalition following the March 23 vote, Israel's fourth in less than two years.
Dozens killed in stampede at religious bonfire festival in Israel
Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews had gathered at the Mount Meron tomb of the 2nd-century sage Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai.
Israel intensifying air war in Syria against Iranian encroachment
Israel has dramatically expanded air strikes on suspected Iranian missile and weapons production centers in Syria to repel what it sees as a stealthy military encroachment by its regional arch-enemy, Western and regional intelligence sources say. Capitalizing on a longtime alliance with Syria, Iran is ...
South African variant can 'break through' Pfizer vaccine, Israeli study says
The study suggests the vaccine is less effective against the South African variant, compared with the original coronavirus and a variant first identified in Britain.
'Vaccine passports' could help global travel resume. But is Japan on board?
Japan has consistently been opposed to installing a system domestically out of concern that doing so would discriminate against those who cannot be inoculated.
