JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, entered Syrian territory Tuesday and said Israeli troops would remain in the area indefinitely, blurring the border with its northern ...

Sept 24 (Reuters) - Escalating hostilities between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah group are the latest episode in decades of conflict across the Lebanese-Israeli border. Here is the history: ...

TIBNIN CASTLE, Southern Lebanon — The walls of a limestone citadel towering over olive groves near the frontiers of Lebanon, Syria and Israel tell the history of various civilizations that ruled here.

The Gaza war, which began when Hamas invaded Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking 250 others hostage a year ago, has spread across the Middle East and put Israel on the brink of war with Iran. The ...

March 18 (Reuters) - Israel hit Gaza with heavy airstrikes on Tuesday, shattering nearly two months of ceasefire without formally declaring an end to a January truce agreement with Hamas. The violence ...

On the second anniversary of the Oct. 7 attacks, Roger Cohen explains how the war in Gaza has left Israel divided and isolated. By Katrin Bennhold I’m the host of The World. By Roger Cohen Two years ...

The struggle between Iran and Israel isn’t one war. It is three globally significant wars all at once. Israel is waging a war for the Middle East, a war for nuclear nonproliferation, and a war against ...

The term “regime change” has fallen out of favor in the past two decades, and it is not a term that Israelis use to describe the war they are waging in Gaza. But regime change is precisely what Israel ...

Beirut, Lebanon — Israel has launched an attack on the Lebanese capital, Beirut, for the first time since a fragile ceasefire ended the latest Israel-Hezbollah war in November. Associated Press ...

This article originally appeared in History of War magazine issue 40. Following Israel's Declaration of Independence on 14 May 1948, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's first formal order was to ...

“Let diplomacy silence the guns!” Pope Leo XIV told the crowd in St. Peter’s Square after he recited the Angelus prayer on Sunday. Hours earlier, the Israel-Iran war escalated after the United States ...