President-elect Donald Trump was the first to announce a ceasefire deal was reached in Gaza between Israel and Hamas on Wednesday. Israeli officials soon confirmed an agreement was in place ...
The new year has begun with a grim sense that there are too many global conflicts and crises happening simultaneously, with many of the old tools of aid, diplomacy, and ...
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at the World Health Organization’s condemnation of an Israeli raid on a Gaza hospital, South Korean officials seeking an arrest warrant for ...
Of the many worrying developments across the Middle East this year, the direct military confrontation between Israel and Iran stands out. The two states have long fought a shadow war, ...
Emma Ashford: Hi, Matt. I hope you’re having a good Christmas. This year is almost over! It’s been a pretty eventful year, all told, for foreign policy, and I’d like ...
As Biden’s White House prepares to hand over power to a new administration, it will also oversee a change in leadership at one of the world’s biggest aid agencies. The ...
An Al Jazeera cameraman was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Nuseirat, in central Gaza, on Sunday — but Israel says that he was also an Islamic Jihad terrorist. Al ...
The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas inflated the death count from the war in Gaza, including natural deaths and cancer patients in the data — and global media outlets faithfully reported ...
ROME — This weekend Pope Francis presided over the unveiling of a nativity scene in the Vatican featuring a baby Jesus lying on a keffiyeh, the traditional Palestinian scarf used ...
When Israel and Hezbollah signed a cease-fire agreement in late November, it represented a rare bit of hopeful news since the Oct. 7, 2023, attack enflamed the Middle East. But ...