Middle East

More than 50 people are reported to have been killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza City this weekend. At least 24 people were killed in an air raid on houses...

Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe.  Since October, Western officials have been working tirelessly to try and prevent the war in Gaza from spilling over, focused on the...

The alleged rape of a 12-year-old Jewish girl near Paris is transforming into an electoral issue 10 days before the legislative elections in France as members of President Emmanuel Macron’s...

The EU will hit Russia with unprecedented sanctions against its lucrative gas sector, according to the Belgian EU presidency — a once-unthinkable step that could drain hundreds of millions from Moscow’s...

While Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza has drawn much of the world’s attention over the past eight months, fighting on a second front—at the country’s northern border with Lebanon—is...

The paint has burned away from the missile launchers aboard the destroyer Laboon, one of the U.S. warships whose crew has just minutes or even seconds to respond to incoming...

Ivo Daalder, former U.S. ambassador to NATO, is CEO of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and host of the weekly podcast “World Review with Ivo Daalder.” He writes POLITICO’s...

On the Lebanese side of the border with Israel, only a few villages remain intact, and vast neighborhoods in the towns that remain standing, like Marwaheen, are entirely destroyed. When...

The Qatar-based U.S. Air Force task force that’s been experimenting with unmanned technologies—including AI-designed, 3D-printed drones—may add a component on U.S. soil. The small group, based at Al Udeid Air...

Israel said on Saturday that its military forces rescued four hostages in the Gaza Strip who were kidnapped during the attack by Hamas militants last October. The rescues came as...