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Activists in t-shirts hold signs and bullhorns on a highway.

Middle East

Israeli military says strikes on Gaza hospital targeted Hamas camera, without providing evidence

The Israeli military said its double strike on a Gaza hospital that killed 20 people, including five journalists, targeted what it believed was a Hamas surveillance camera, but offered no immediate explanation for striking twice and no evidence for an assertion that six of the dead were militants.

August 26, 2025

Navy F/A-18 Super Hornets fly in formation over the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility on April 5, 2025. Two months after the end of the U.S. military’s Operation Rough Rider against the Houthi militants in Yemen, the Iran-backed group claimed responsibility for a Sunday attack on a ship in the Red Sea and is being blamed for a fatal attack the following day.

Middle East

Muted US response to new Houthi strike after lull contrasts with previous firepower display

The U.S. military spent hundreds of millions of dollars in a six-week barrage intended to stop Houthi rebels from targeting ships in the Red Sea. Now it appears the Houthis are back at it.

July 9, 2025

Syrians gather at Saadallah al-Jabiri Square during a victory celebration in Aleppo, Syria, on Dec. 13, 2024. MUST CREDIT: Salwan Georges/The Washington Post

Middle East

6 key events that shaped the Middle East since Oct. 7, 2023

Hamas’s deadly assault on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, was meticulously planned and devastating in nature. But few could have foreseen how the impact of the attacks would be felt across the region, from wars in Gaza and Lebanon, to a rapidly escalating conflict with Iran that President Donald Trump is contemplating joining.

June 20, 2025

Middle East

Dozens killed in US strike on purported detention center in Yemen, visuals show

The compound includes a migrant detention center and has at times served military functions, according to U.N. and human rights researchers.

May 4, 2025

This grab from AFPTV footage shows smoke plumes rising following bombardment on Yemen's Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa on March 15, 2025. (Osama Abdulrahman/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)

Middle East

US progress against resilient Houthi militants remains murky

President Donald Trump has boasted that he’s “decimated” the Houthis, the Iran-backed militants who have attacked commercial ships transiting the Red Sea since 2023. But three weeks into a campaign of U.S. airstrikes, his administration has offered limited evidence of weapons deployed and targets hit to back up that assertion.

April 5, 2025

Middle East

Houthi link-up with Somalia’s al-Shabab could newly imperil Middle East shipping, report says

Africa’s most lethal terrorist organization is expected to gain strength in Somalia, raising the security threat through a Middle East choke point for commercial shipping, a new report cautions.

April 2, 2025

President Donald J. Trump speaks during a briefing at U.S. Southern Command headquarters in Doral, Florida. The President visited SOUTHCOM to take part in a briefing with cabinet members, SOUTHCOM leaders and subject matter experts to get an update on the progress of enhanced counter narcotics operations in Latin America and the Caribbean. (Photo by Michael C. Dougherty, U.S. Southern Command Public Affairs)

Opinion

Trump needs to take a step back in the Red Sea

Washington is abuzz about the data breach over President Donald Trump’s decision to escalate the war against the Houthis in Yemen. While protecting sensitive information is important, the issue that deserves even more attention is the wrongheadedness of the war itself.

March 30, 2025

A line of fire shoots out from the back of a military fighter jet as it prepares to take off from the deck of an aircraft carrier.

Middle East

Latest US strikes on Houthis reflect tactical shift at the Pentagon, analysts say

U.S. military attacks on Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen came with more firepower and less hesitancy to strike in populated areas than under the Biden administration, military analysts said this week.

March 18, 2025

250313-N-SW048-1189 U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY (March 13, 2025) A U.S. Navy Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Aircraft Handling) directs an F/A-18F Super Hornet, attached to Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 11, to an aircraft catapult on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility. (Official U.S. Navy photo)

Middle East

US strikes Houthis for third day, Pentagon says attacks will continue until targeting of Red Sea ships stops

U.S. Central Command on Saturday began attacking Houthi targets with more than 30 targets struck, according to Air Force Lt. Gen. Alex Grynkewich, director of operations for the Joint Staff. The barrage of strikes in Yemen are ongoing.

March 17, 2025

Israeli reservists stop at a military staging area near the Gaza border in southern Israel on May 21. MUST CREDIT: Heidi Levine for The Washington Post

Middle East

Israeli forces used civilians as human shields in Gaza, Palestinians and soldiers say

For two weeks in late July and early August, said Mohammed Saad, 20, he and two other Palestinian men were forced by an Israeli army unit in Gaza to enter buildings feared to contain explosives and photograph every inch before troops were given the all clear to enter. When the soldiers were done with him, he said, someone shot him in the back.

November 3, 2024

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