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Gaya Kalderon last heard from half her family at 8:26 a.m. on Saturday morning.“They are here,” her sister, Sahar, 16, wrote in a text message.“Who is?” Gaya, 21, replied.“We’re hiding from them,”...

Hamas, the group that controls Gaza and staged the brazen surprise attack on Israel, has taken scores of hostages since storming across the border in a deadly assault that began Saturday.Here’s what...

After a surge this summer when oil prices approached $100 a barrel, the cost of crude was tumbling again. Now a Middle East war has sent it right back up.Traders drove up...

A former spokesman for Israel’s military gave one of the bluntest assessments of the situation in Israel on Sunday, warning that it would take hours or longer to reclaim all the towns...

The Pentagon announced on Sunday that it was sending additional munitions to Israel and moving Navy warships closer to the country in a show of support, a day after Palestinian militants launched...

The most sweeping invasion of Israeli territory in decades, conducted by a Hamas force that had been widely seen as a ragtag collection of militants, has delivered a psychological shock to Israel...

Hamas’s attack on Saturday took Israeli intelligence officials by surprise, particularly the methods the militants used to enter and leave Israel, according to a senior defense official familiar with the information collected...

The militant attacks across Israel on Saturday made for one of the most violent and deadly days of fighting in the region in decades.Hamas, the militant group that controls the Gaza Strip,...

As Israelis living abroad woke up on Saturday morning to messages from their families and news alerts on their phones, some started booking flights back home.Their country was under attack, they said....

For Israelis, Saturday’s surprise assault from Gaza was a recurring nightmare, coming 50 years and a day after invading forces from Egypt and Syria caught Israel off-guard, setting off a 19-day war...