1+ hour, 4+ min ago   (520+ words) A three-week military offensive in the Gaza Strip in 2009, which killed more than 1,400 people, including an estimated 1,100 civilians, spurred Venezuela’s Socialist president at the time, Hugo Chavez, to expel the Israeli ambassador in protest and end diplomatic relations. Seventeen years…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (536+ words) WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump secretly flew out of Turkey last month on a smaller plane than previously known due to an assassination threat from Iran, the Washington Post reported Monday. According to an anonymous US official who spoke to…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (323+ words) BOGOTA — Colombia’s newly appointed hard-right government on Monday recognized Israel’s claim over the Golan Heights, which it captured from Syria in 1967. The United States was until now the only country to recognize Israel’s annexation of the territory in 1981. Colombian President…...

1+ week, 56+ min ago   (922+ words) The statement issued after this week’s meeting in Jordan was blunt about what might happen next. Jordan’s foreign minister called the meeting because of mounting evidence that the Israeli government is surreptitiously changing a decades-old agreement meant to ensure intercommunal…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (344+ words) BEIRUT — More than 800,000 people displaced by war in Lebanon have begun returning to their hometowns following a lull in violence amid the Israel-Hezbollah war, the United Nations said. The announcement late on Tuesday came as Lebanon and Israel began a…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1183+ words) US President Donald Trump touted it as a “historic breakthrough.” But so far the new Gaza peace deal, announced last week and meant to help end the fighting and ease the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the coastal enclave, only seems…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (414+ words) ISTANBUL, Turkey — Two journalists were arrested in Turkey on Sunday, their media outlets said, the latest in a wave of detentions ahead of a Nato summit in Ankara next week due to be attended by leaders including US President Donald…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (949+ words) DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran fired on targets across the Middle East, sparking multiple blazes at a Kuwaiti oil refinery, while American and Israeli airstrikes hit the Islamic Republic on Friday as the war neared the end of its fifth…...

5+ mon, 7+ hour ago   (425+ words) JERUSALEM — Israel said it would partially reopen Gaza’s Rafah crossing with Egypt on Wednesday, after it closed the key gateway when it launched a joint attack on Iran with the US. “The Rafah Crossing will reopen for movement in both…...