Israel has always had a thorny relationship with the United Nations. In recent weeks, it has become even thornier, after the U.N. accused Israeli armed forces of having fired on ...
Iran’s second strike on Israeli soil with a barrage of missiles on October 1 marked a significant escalation in the ongoing conflict between the two regional powers. After Israel’s assassination ...
More than 40,000 people have died in the fighting in the Middle East triggered by the Hamas-organized attack on Israel one year ago on Oct. 7. That conflict has since ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...