Tag: Israel

All eyes are on the scale and scope of Israel’s promised response to Iran’s large-scale missile barrage on Tuesday. Few eyes are watching more warily than those in the oil ...

Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s SitRep, where we’re taking a sip of coffee every time we write the phrase “escalating tensions.”  Since you last heard from us, Hezbollah leader Hassan ...

Following Iran’s massive but largely ineffectual missile barrage launched at Israel on Tuesday, the world is bracing for Israel’s response. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Iran’s attack was ...

Legislation proposed in the US Senate would bar unions from using members’ dues to support positions deemed to be promoting antisemitism and other hateful ideologies without their consent. It comes after ...

As the first anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack and the ensuing Israel-Hamas war approaches, the prospects of peace between Israelis and Palestinians seem less likely than ever. Despite repeated ...

Someday, probably later rather than sooner, Israel and Hamas will stop shooting at each other. Relieved U.S. officials could claim there is a cease-fire and the worst is behind us, ...

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at Israel simultaneously addressing threats from Lebanon and Iran, Ukraine bolstering its weapons production efforts, and storm destruction in the United States ...

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 ...

What ended Israel’s last invasion of Lebanon in 2006—and made the latest incursion all but inevitable—is a once-heralded U.N. resolution honored more in the breach than the observance. The sad ...