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Israel increases evacuations as clashes with Hezbollah escalateAs conflict intensified on Israel’s border with Lebanon, Israeli authorities said they were expanding a state-funded evacuation plan to an additional 14 villages. Along with...

The Israeli military carried out a rare airstrike on a mosque in the occupied West Bank overnight, killing at least two people in what Palestinian officials called a “dangerous escalation.”The strike hit...

Oct. 21, 2023, 2:00 p.m. ETOct. 21, 2023, 2:00 p.m. ETVolunteers helping to pack aid for the Gaza Strip at a donation center set up by the Emirates Red Crescent in Dubai...

Saturday marked two weeks since the Hamas rampage that killed more than 1,400 Israelis and triggered Israel’s declaration of war. Two of the more than 200 hostages believed to have been seized...

Leaders, foreign ministers and diplomats from dozens of Arab, European, African and other countries gathered in Cairo on Saturday for a “peace summit” aimed at de-escalating the violence in Gaza. But after...

A United Nations commission has found new evidence that Russian forces committed war crimes in Ukraine, including deliberate killings, rape and the removal of Ukrainian children, according to a report released on...

Updated Oct. 21, 2023, 3:32 a.m. ETOct. 21, 2023, 3:32 a.m. ETTrucks appeared to be moving through the Rafah border crossing into Gaza from Egypt, according to images shown on Egyptian state television....

Whatever final conclusions the investigators still parsing the evidence eventually reach about the blast’s origins did not seem likely to change, for many Arabs, the stark truth: It was Israel that was...

Diplomats said Egypt and Israel remained at odds over the details of getting humanitarian relief through the Rafah crossing. Among the disputes are whether to allow in fuel and how to screen...

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