Forget the dumb doves,” says Zeina Hashem Beck, a young poet at a recital in support of Gaza in New York. Will the war in ...

Josep Borrell loves to condemn things — sometimes in the “strongest possible terms.” Does it ever have any impact?

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The Israeli military on Thursday warned people to evacuate a city and other communities in southern Lebanon that are north of a U.N.-declared buffer zone, signaling that it may widen a ground ...

Israel has been pounding areas of the country where the militant group has a strong presence but has rarely struck in the ...

Greg Sheridan has incorrectly subjected to a full linguistic barrage on Penny Wong for her address to the UN General Assembly ...

The Lebanese health ministry says five people were killed and at least 11 injured in an Israeli raid targeting a district in ...

There was no warning before the strike late Wednesday, which hit an apartment in central Beirut not far from the United ...

Israel has been pounding areas of Lebanon where the militant group Hezbollah has a strong presence since late September, but has rarely struck in the heart of the capital.

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Netanyahu’s ruthless strategy sets off a wave of retribution that could drag the U.S. into a showdown with Iran, and risks a ...

Israel and Iran exchanged threats of retaliation at a UN Security Council meeting, raising fears of a broader Middle East war ...