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Palestinians amidst the rubble of ruined buildings in the Jabalia camp near Gaza City, northern Gaza, on Thursday.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 7, 2026
Hamas dissolves Gaza government, but Israel dismisses move as ¡®stunt¡¯
The ?area remains in ?ruins more than 2? years after the latest Gaza conflict was triggered by Hamas¡¯ Oct. 7, ?2023, raids on Israel.
Palestinian mourners carry the body of Al Jazeera journalist Ahmed Wishah, killed in an Israeli strike in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, on June 21.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 29, 2026
When killing the messenger becomes a strategy of war
Record journalist deaths in Gaza raise urgent questions about war, accountability and the targeting of reporters.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a news conference, following a U.S.-Iran deal, in Jerusalem on Monday.
WORLD
Jun 18, 2026
Netanyahu, Israel¡¯s arch-survivor, set to face voter fury over Iran deal
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has confirmed he intends to ?stand ?in an election that must be held by October, but polls put his right-wing coalition on course to lose.
Children stand near a damaged car, which Palestinians say was burned by Israeli settlers, in Halhul near Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on May 20.
WORLD
Jun 18, 2026
U.N. warns Israeli settlers could join blacklist for violations against children
A United Nations report says it has verified the killing of 2,668 Palestinian children in Gaza and 57 in the West Bank in 2025.
Mourners carry the body of Hamas leader Mohammed Odeh and other Palestinians in a funeral procession in Gaza City on Wednesday, a day after his targeted assassination by the Israeli army.
WORLD
May 28, 2026
Palestinians mourn slain Hamas militant chief as Israel escalates Gaza attacks
The Israeli military said Mohammad Odeh was killed in a targeted attack on Tuesday night, just over a week after his predecessor was killed.
Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike that targeted the southern Lebanese village of Nabatieh on Monday.
WORLD
May 26, 2026
Israel will intensify Lebanon strikes amid U.S.-Iran deal talks
Iran has demanded the cessation of hostilities in Lebanon as part of any peace agreement with the U.S. that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
People wait to fetch drinking water at a makeshift camp for displaced Palestinians in the southern Gaza Strip on April 10
WORLD
Apr 28, 2026
Israel using water access as ¡®weapon¡¯ in Gaza, report says
Doctors Without Borders has warned that Israeli authorities are systematically depriving people in Gaza of water.
Yair Lapid (right) and Naftali Bennett during a weekly Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on Sept. 18, 2022.The new party they formed, called "BeYachad" meaning "together" in Hebrew, has not released a formal policy platform.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Apr 28, 2026
Netanyahu¡¯s rivals are joining forces. Would they shift Israel¡¯s security policy?
The new party from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu¡¯s top rivals ¡ª right-leaning?Naftali Bennett and centrist Yair Lapid ¡ª is called ¡°BeYachad,¡± or ¡°together¡± in Hebrew.
A Palestinian man casts his ballot at a polling station during municipal elections in the Palestinian town of Birzeit, north of Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 27, 2026
Abbas loyalists win Palestinian municipal elections, including some seats in Gaza
Saturday¡¯s ballot marked the first elections of any ?kind in the Gaza ?Strip since 2006 and the first Palestinian polls since the Gaza war began more than ?two years.
Pedestrians cross Enghelab Square in Tehran, near a billboard showing Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran's new supreme leader, in the Iranian capital on Saturday.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 12, 2026
The Indo-Pacific price of a hasty war with Tehran
The allies are not abandoning the U.S.; they are recoiling from a war that lacks a defined strategy.
People inspect the remnants of an Iranian missile that landed in a settlement in the northern Israeli-occupied West Bank on Thursday.
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Apr 10, 2026
As U.S. and Iran talk truce, Israel digs in for a ¡®forever war¡¯
Creating ¡°buffer zones¡± in Gaza, Syria and Lebanon reflects a strategic shift that puts Israel in a semipermanent state of war, Israeli military and defense officials said.
Rising public disillusionment with democratic institutions is fueling support for disruptive leaders like Donald Trump, whose ¡°wrecking-ball¡± politics are dismantling the postwar liberal international order.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 19, 2026
A world on the eve of destruction
In all the countries surveyed for the Munich Security Index 2026, the downsides of U.S. President Donald Trump¡¯s wrecking-ball politics dominate public perceptions.
Palestinians make their way through a devastated neighborhood, amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict, in Gaza City
WORLD
Feb 20, 2026
Gaza deaths in war¡¯s first 15 months higher than reported, study says
The peer-reviewed study found that women, children and ?the elderly comprised some 56.2% of violent deaths in Gaza during that period.
Senior Hamas leader Khaled Meshal in Cairo in 2009
WORLD / Politics
Feb 8, 2026
Top Hamas leader rejects disarmament or ¡®foreign rule¡¯
¡°Criminalizing the resistance, its weapons?and those who carried it out is something we should not accept,¡± Khaled Meshal said at a conference in Doha.
Palestinians walk past the clinic of Doctors Without Borders, or Medecins Sans Frontieres, in the al-Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City on Jan. 11.
WORLD
Feb 2, 2026
Israel to terminate Doctors Without Borders¡¯ work in Gaza for not providing Palestinian staff list
Israel last year said it would prevent 37 aid organizations from working in Gaza for failing to submit detailed information about Palestinian employees.
Ambulances wait on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip in northeastern Egypt on Sunday.
WORLD
Feb 1, 2026
Israel partially reopens Gaza¡¯s Rafah crossing
The Rafah crossing is a vital gateway for both civilians and aid, but it had remained closed since Israeli forces seized control of it in May 2024.
Friends and family members mourn the death of a 19-year-old after his body arrives at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis on Thursday after allegedly being shot by an Israeli sniper.
WORLD
Jan 30, 2026
Israel releases 15 Palestinian bodies as truce deal shifts to next phase
Subsequent stages of the ceasefire deal remain to be fulfilled, with deep splits over what comes next, including Hamas disarmament.
Tents and shelters are pictured at a camp for people displaced by conflict amidst the rubble of the former headquarters of the Palestinian Legislative Council and near the Unknown Soldier Square in Gaza City on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 29, 2026
U.S. tells U.N.: Gaza demilitarization to include internationally funded buyback program
Hamas retains control of just under half of Gaza following an ?October ceasefire deal brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump.
An Israeli soldier patrols near the site of a Hamas attack on a music festival in southern Israel, on Oct. 12, 2023.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 27, 2026
Gaza war triggers unprecedented Israeli mental health crisis
Analysts of Israeli society say the trauma has sidelined support for coexistence with the Palestinians and is making another hawkish government more likely in elections.
Israeli women hug in front of a banner with photos of former hostages including Israeli police officer Ran Gvili in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Monday.
WORLD
Jan 27, 2026
Israel brings home remains of last Gaza hostage Ran Gvili
The return closes the chapter on a painful saga that has haunted Israeli society since Hamas¡¯ attack on Oct. 7, 2023.

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