Middle East

Turkey is ready to take in cancer patients from Gaza’s Turkish-Palestinian Friendship hospital, which went out of service on Wednesday after running out of fuel, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca ...

United Nations experts called on Thursday for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, saying time was running out for Palestinian people there who find themselves at “grave risk of genocide”. Nearly ...

Palestinians in Gaza sheltering from an intensifying Israeli bombardment that has killed thousands of people are running out of clean water and face growing health risks with public services at ...

Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah will on Friday make his first public comments since the Palestinian group Hamas and Israel went to war, a speech which will be closely watched ...

People hoping to leave the Gaza Strip converged on the Rafah crossing to Egypt on Thursday, with those whose names were on an official list gradually passing through while others ...

Israeli tanks and troops pressed towards Gaza City on Thursday but met resistance from Hamas militants using mortars and hit-and-run attacks from tunnels as the Palestinian death toll from nearly ...

The White House on Wednesday said the United States would not put U.S. troops on the ground in Gaza in any future peacekeeping role, as it discusses with allies ...

Israeli forces killed another Hamas commander on Wednesday in their second strike on Gaza’s largest refugee camp in two days, the military said, as the first group of civilian ...

The European Union’s top diplomat Josep Borrell on Wednesday said he was “appalled” by the high number of casualties from the bombing by Israel of a refugee camp in ...

The BBC will start an emergency radio service for the people of Gaza in response to the ongoing conflict in the region, the British broadcaster’s World Service arm said ...

Oil prices edged up in Asian trade on Wednesday ahead of key meetings of global central banks this week, including the US Federal Reserve, while the market closely watched the ...

Firefighters in Lebanon were battling wildfires late on Tuesday that Lebanese civil defence said had been sparked by Israeli shelling, with the flames visible for miles as darkness fell. The ...

Israeli airstrikes hit a densely populated refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, killing at least 50 Palestinians and a Hamas commander, and medics struggled to treat the casualties in the enclave ...

The United States has made “real progress” in the last few hours in negotiations to secure a safe passage for Americans and other foreigners who wish to depart the Gaza ...

By Iole Damaskinos, Nick Theodoulou, Nikolaos Prakas and Tom Cleaver Cyprus’ proposal for the establishment of a humanitarian corridor to the Gaza strip is being received positively, President Nikos Christodoulides ...

Israel said its forces fought Hamas gunmen inside the militants’ vast tunnel network beneath Gaza as a hospital director said more than 50 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli air strike ...

In Los Angeles, a man screaming “kill Jews” attempts to break into a family’s home. In London, girls in a playground are told they are “stinking Jews” and should ...

The chairman of Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Remembrance Center on Tuesday criticised the country’s delegation to the United Nations for putting on yellow stars, a symbol of Nazi ...

A “public health catastrophe” is imminent in Gaza, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday, amid overcrowding, mass displacement and damage to water and sanitation infrastructure. WHO spokesperson Christian ...

Armoured Israeli forces attacked the Gaza Strip’s main city from two directions on Monday and targeted the main road linking it to the south of Gaza, witnesses said, drawing ...

An Illinois man charged with murder and hate crimes for stabbing a 6-year-old Muslim boy to death and wounding his mother pleaded not guilty before a judge on Monday at ...

Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva said on Monday her country had been “let down” by the global body, saying its agency chiefs had not done enough ...

Israel said on Monday that its forces freed a soldier from Hamas captivity during the ground offensive in the Gaza Strip. The soldier, identified as Ori Megidish, was kidnapped by ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned as “cruel psychological propaganda” a video released on Monday by Hamas that shows three of the hostages seized by the Islamist movement on Oct. 7. ...