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Byline: Claire Parker, Heidi Levine, Miriam Berger, Abbie Cheeseman JERUSALEM - Just days after a ceasefire took hold in Gaza, bringing relative calm to the Palestinian enclave, violence flared in [...]

Byline: Amy Sedghi block-time published-time 8.25am GMT French investigating magistrates have issued an arrest warrant against ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad for suspected complicity in war crimes, notably the launch [...]

Byline: Pius Adeleye in Niamey On 12 December, Hadjara Zibo and her three young daughters ran to the hills from their home in Libiri as armed jihadists stormed their village [...]

Byline: Guardian staff Israeli strikes across Gaza killed 42 people on Wednesday as the military intensified a siege on northern parts of the Palestinian territory, forcing the World Health Organization [...]

Byline: Susannah George, Suzan Haidamous NABATIYEH, Lebanon - For weeks, the Middle East has been on edge, waiting for a retaliatory Iranian attack on Israel that many fear could trigger [...]

Byline: Michael Savage and Bethan McKernan in Jerusalem There is a rising risk of 'full-scale regional war' in the Middle East, the foreign secretary, David Lammy, has warned, amid frantic [...]

Byline: Missy Ryan, John Hudson, Yasmeen Abutaleb, Karen DeYoung JERUSALEM - The Biden administration is racing to avert an explosion of violence across the Middle East, a high-stakes moment that [...]

Byline: Martin Farrer block-time published-time 9.58pm BST A new road connecting Sydney Airport to the city's motorway network will open shortly, but the state government is urging motorists to study [...]

Byline: Bethan McKernan in Jerusalem and Julian Borger in Washington Israel's top general has said the country will respond to Iran's missile and drone attack, but it remains unclear what [...]

Byline: NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE; Staff AL-FUR'AH, ISRAEL -- Police trucked away the blackened remnants of a massive Iranian drone and missile attack from the deserts of southern Israel Sunday as the [...]

Byline: Steve Hendrix, Dan Lamothe, Alex Horton JERUSALEM - Iran launched a massive attack of more than 300 missiles and drones toward Israel late Saturday, a stunning assault that put [...]

Byline: MOHAMMAD ZAATARI, MELANIE LIDMAN H; ASSOCIATED PRESS HEBBARIYE, LEBANON -- A series of Israeli air strikes in southern Lebanon killed 16 people and a barrage of rockets fired by [...]

Byline: Dan Lamothe, Missy Ryan The Biden administration is expanding efforts to surveil and intercept Iranian weapons being smuggled to Yemen, where Houthi militants have staged a deadly campaign of [...]

“I saw people falling to the ground after being shot,” said one witness, “and others simply took the food items that were with them and continued running for their lives.” [...]

Tehran, wary of igniting open warfare with Washington, has told militia groups it backs to curtail assaults on targets such as military installations, Iranian and American officials say. Iran has [...]

Tehran, wary of igniting open warfare with Washington, has told militia groups it backs to curtail assaults on targets such as military installations, Iranian and American officials say. Iran has [...]

The number of attacks on American troops in the Middle East increases the risk of deaths, a red line that could lead to a wider war. Another day, another barrage [...]

Byline: Jason Burke and Sufian Taha in Tulkarm For days earlier this month, many of the young men of Nur Shams refugee camp on the outskirts of the town of [...]

Byline: Jason Burke in Jerusalem A new wave of violence has swept the occupied West Bank, with a series of major raids launched by the Israeli military across much of [...]

Byline: Patrick Wintour Last summer, as Washington tried quietly to coax Saudi Arabia towards the grand bargain of normalisation of its relations with Israel, diplomats in Riyadh were much more [...]

Byline: John Hudson, Abigail Hauslohner and Claire Parker The Biden administration is seeking firmer commitments from Israel that U.S.-made weapons will not get into the hands of Israeli settlers before [...]

Byline: Jason Burke in Jenin At 8.30 on Friday morning, Jenin's morgue was crowded. Outside, dozens of young men in black baseball caps, T-shirts and jeans stood quietly, some with [...]

Byline: Bethan McKernan in Jerusalem Women's rights groups in Israel have warned of significant failings in preserving forensic evidence that could have shone a light on the scale of sexual [...]

Byline: Dan Lamothe, Alex Horton and Missy Ryan American fighter jets struck an Iranian weapons facility in eastern Syria on Wednesday, the Pentagon said, marking the latest use of military [...]

Byline: Dan Lamothe, Alex Horton and Missy Ryan American fighter jets struck an Iranian weapons facility in eastern Syria on Wednesday, the Pentagon said, marking the latest use of military [...]

Byline: Peter Beaumont in Jerusalem Gaza was rocked by a series of huge explosions on Sunday evening and communications with the coastal strip were cut, as violence also escalated on [...]

Byline: Bethan McKernan in Masafer Yatta, West Bank Life in Zanuta, a Palestinian village atop a windy ridge in the desolate south Hebron hills, deep in the occupied West Bank, [...]

Byline: Sufian Taha in Tulkarem and Ruth Michaelson in Jerusalem Tensions flared in the West Bank on Friday as angry and sometimes armed confrontations between Palestinians and Israeli forces took [...]

The fighting between Israel and Hamas has raised fears the violence will spill into Lebanon as a wider conflict with Hezbollah. Given the strength of Hezbollah forces, that would pose [...]

Byline: Martin Pengelly in Washington The US must support Israel 'no ands, ifs or buts', the former US president George W Bush said as he advocated for tough action in [...]

Byline: Ben Doherty block-time published-time 5.39am BST Save the Children has warned children will bear a disproportionate, long-lasting impact from the intensifying conflict in Israel and Gaza. At least 700 [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick, Ellen Nakashima, Shane Harris and Souad Mekhennet The Palestinian militants behind the surprise weekend attack on Israel began planning the assault at least a year ago, with [...]

Byline: Niha Masih Israel declared war against Hamas on Sunday following a surprise attack by the Palestinian militant group based in Gaza that included the taking of military and civilian [...]

Byline: Niha Masih Israel declared war against Hamas on Sunday following a surprise attack by the Palestinian militant group based in Gaza that included the taking of military and civilian [...]

Byline: Niha Masih Israel declared war against Hamas on Sunday following a surprise attack by the Palestinian militant group based in Gaza that included the taking of military and civilian [...]

Byline: Brian Murphy, Adam Taylor, Sammy Westfall, Bryan Pietsch and Steve Hendrix Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the nation was 'at war' Saturday after Palestinian gunmen infiltrated Israel from [...]

Byline: Brian Murphy, Adam Taylor, Sammy Westfall, Bryan Pietsch and Steve Hendrix Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the nation was 'at war' Saturday after Palestinian gunmen infiltrated Israel from [...]

For nearly a decade, the country had seemingly broken the cycle of violence, but extremist groups have bounced back since the Taliban regained control in neighboring Afghanistan. It was a [...]

For nearly a decade, the country had seemingly broken the cycle of violence, but extremist groups have bounced back since the Taliban regained control in neighboring Afghanistan. It was a [...]

Byline: Jason Burke Africa correspondent Al-Qaida-linked militants have killed at least 64 people in twin attacks on an army base and a crowded passenger boat on the Niger River in [...]

Byline: Kaamil Ahmed Increased violence against health workers in Khartoum is endangering the few hospitals still open in the Sudanese capital, the medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said after [...]

Byline: Editorial Israel has portrayed its strikes on the Jenin refugee camp -- the biggest military operation in the occupied West Bank for two decades -- as a limited intervention [...]

Byline: Bethan McKernan and Sufian Taha in Jenin In the darkness of the night, thousands of people stumbled in lines through the Jenin refugee camp, guiding each other through the [...]

Israel said it used drone-fired missiles and ground troops against militant targets in the Jenin refugee camp. The assault killed at least eight Palestinians, the Palestinian health ministry said. Israel [...]

Byline: Dan Sabbagh Defence and security editor SAS and other British special forces have been involved in covert operations in 19 countries in the past dozen years, including in Nigeria, [...]