Middle East

The Israeli military said on Saturday that the country is on “high alert” for possible retaliation after confirmation that Friday’s airstrike in Beirut killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Nasrallah was one of...

Israel killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in an airstrike on the militant group’s headquarters in Beirut’s Dahiyeh neighborhood on Friday, in a dramatic escalation of fighting between the two sides....

Iran’s new reformist president, Masoud Pezeshkian, took the stage at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Sept. 24 with an unmistakable message. “The appropriate response to Iran...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected Thursday a proposal by the United States and France for a three-week cease-fire with Hezbollah, vowing to keep fighting “with full force.” “The news...

Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. “If Hezbollah didn’t get the message, I promise you, it will get the message,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Sunday. The...

The French anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office on Tuesday opened its first-ever genocide case against a French citizen, a jihadist it has charged with enslaving and torturing a Yazidi teenager. Sonia Mejri, 35,...

LONDON — U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer rejected a claim by his Israeli counterpart that the U.K. undermined Israel’s security when it blocked some arms exports to Tel Aviv. Starmer...

BEIRUT—In the early morning hours of Tuesday, thousands of people fleeing Israeli airstrikes in southern and eastern Lebanon poured into the capital of Beirut. Many of them slept by the...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan compared Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler on Tuesday, urging that he be stopped. “Just as Hitler was stopped by the alliance...

When Israel attacked Hezbollah last week by unleashing a spate of synchronized explosions in Lebanon and Syria, the first response of many observers—wherever they sat on the geopolitical spectrum—was of...