A lawyer for the military contractor being sued by three survivors of the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq told jurors Monday that the plaintiffs are suing the wrong people.
European Union foreign and defense ministers secured a political agreement on Monday to impose new sanctions on Iran over its attack on Israel.
An independent review of the neutrality of the U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees found that Israel never expressed concern about anyone on the staff lists it has received annually since 2011.
By the weekend, the immediate threat of escalation seemed to have been lifted between Iran and Israel. But there’s less reason for optimism when it comes to Gaza.
Pakistan security forces killed 11 militants in two raids Monday targeting their hideouts in the volatile northwest region bordering Afghanistan.
The head of Israeli military intelligence said Monday he would resign because of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, becoming the first senior figure to step down over his role in the stunning failure to anticipate or quickly respond to the deadliest assault in Israel’s history.
A Palestinian woman was 30 weeks pregnant when an Israeli airstrike hit her home. Medical workers performed an emergency cesarean section. Her baby came into the world seconds after her mother left it.
Israeli leaders on Sunday harshly criticized an expected decision by the U.S. to impose sanctions on a unit of ultra-Orthodox soldiers in the Israeli military.
Analysts believe both Iran and Israel, regional archrivals locked in a shadow war for years, are trying to dial back tensions following a series of escalatory attacks between them as the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip rages on and inflames the wider region.
A maritime convoy with more than 5,000 tons of aid for Gaza is preparing to set sail from Turkey in the coming days.
Israeli strikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah overnight killed 22 people, including 18 children, health officials said Sunday.
The Pentagon can get weapons moving to Ukraine quickly because it has a network of storage sites in the U.S. and Europe. Those sites already hold some of the munitions and air defense components that Kyiv desperately needs to fight Russia.
An explosion at a base belonging to a coalition of Iran-allied militias killed one person and injured eight. Militia officials initially described the explosion at the Kalsu military base north of Babylon - a former US base that was handed over to the Iraqi military in 2011 - as an airstrike, blaming it on U.S. forces.
President Joe Biden can perhaps breathe a bit easier given that Israel and Iran seem to have stepped back for now from tipping the Middle East into all-out war. But the situation situation remains a delicate one for Biden as he gears up his reelection effort in the face of headwinds in the Middle East, Russia and the Indo-Pacific.
Gaza hospital officials say an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in the territory’s southernmost city of Rafah has killed at least nine people
The White House had scrambled to avert a harsher Israeli attack on Iran that might have sparked a wider regional confrontation.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday he has made “determinations” related to a set of accusations that Israel violated U.S. laws prohibiting the provision of military assistance to policy or security units that commit gross violations of human rights.
Israel and Iran on Friday both played down an apparent Israeli airstrike near a major air base and nuclear site in central Iran, signaling the two bitter enemies are ready to prevent their latest eruption of violence from escalating into a full-blown regionwide war.
What Tehran calls its “axis of resistance” has been a central focus of Israel’s military, which has made great efforts to hunt them down. Yet analysts agree their capabilities persist and Iran’s proxy forces could still extract a high cost, ratcheting up the conflict for the broader Middle East.