Middle East

In the year since Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack, Israel has gone from looking more vulnerable than it has for half a century—when it almost lost the 1973 Arab-Israeli War—to dramatically...

On May 1, 2003, U.S. President George W. Bush donned a cool-looking flight suit, climbed into an S-3 Viking aircraft, and landed aboard the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln. Standing beneath...

Shortly after U.S. officials predicted it publicly, Iran launched more than 200 ballistic missiles at Israel on Tuesday, with dozens flying over Jerusalem’s Old City, a holy site for Muslims,...

Israel declared the United Nations chief “undesirable” Wednesday, prohibiting him from entering the country. “I decided today to declare U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres an undesirable personality in Israel and to...

The Israeli assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah last week made a lot of Israelis happy—but probably no one quite as much as Benjamin Netanyahu. His joy marks a sudden...

BERLIN — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Wednesday warned about a further escalation in the Middle East after Iran launched a ballistic missile attack targeting Israel. “Iran risks setting the...

The Israeli military launched what it described as a “limited, localized” ground offensive into Lebanon on Monday in a bid to dislodge Hezbollah from the country’s south. The operations marked...

The armed forces of the United Kingdom were involved in an operation to shoot down missiles fired by Iran at Israel Tuesday night, British Defense Secretary John Healey confirmed. “British...

Iran’s overnight attack on Israel could spiral into a far wider conflict, the EU has warned, as the two countries face off in an escalating exchange that threatens to engulf...

TEL AVIV — Israel is vowing that Iran will face “consequences” for a barrage of about 200 missiles that it fired at Israel on Tuesday — but said that joint...