Middle East

Israeli strikes on northern Gaza killed at least 22 people, Palestinian officials said Sunday, as Israel stepped up its offensive and aid groups decried a humanitarian catastrophe. Most of the...

EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell on Saturday added his voice to international calls for action to end “the human tragedy” unfolding in northern Gaza amid Israel’s military offensive there....

Iran reported “limited damage” from Israel’s airstrikes early Saturday amid fears of retaliation and an escalation in the Middle East conflict. Iranian officials told government broadcaster IRNA that the Israeli...

‘Hope went out like a candle’ EU official Johan Floderus survived years in an Iranian jail. Reunited with his partner and ready to return to work, the 34-year-old Swede speaks...

CHANAY, Lebanon — Sheikh Akl Sami Abi al-Mona, the spiritual leader of Lebanon’s 300,000-strong Druze community, knows full well the horrors of sectarian conflict. His father was killed during the...

The Turkish air force hit Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) targets in northern Syria and Iraq late Wednesday night, its defense ministry announced, in retaliation for a deadly attack on the...

He died building a ship for the U.S. government. His family got nothing. ProPublica reports on the death of a shipbuilder at Thoma-Sea, among Louisiana’s largest shipyards. Elmer De León...

A growing number of Silicon Valley AI companies want to do business with the military, making the case that the time and effort they’ve put into training large neural networks...

Hezbollah launched a wave of rockets at Israel as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived Tuesday in Tel Aviv for his latest attempt to broker a cease-fire in Gaza....

Elisabeth Braw is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, the author of the award-winning “Goodbye Globalization” and a regular columnist for POLITICO. A nondescript suite of rooms in an office building...