Bassem Mroue

People walk past tents sheltering people displaced by Israeli airstrikes at a public space along the Beirut waterfront at sunset in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, March 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

War rages on multiple fronts as Israeli attacks in Lebanon grow, Iran shipping stranglehold persists

March 16, 2026 at 6:42 p.m.

Fears of a global energy crisis rose Monday as the war in the Middle East raged on, with more U.S.-Israeli strikes on the Iranian capital and Israel’s bombardment of Lebanon....

Police tape hangs outside the Temple Israel synagogue Friday, March 13, 2026, in West Bloomfield Township, Mich. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Israeli military claims brother of man who attacked Michigan synagogue was Hezbollah commander

March 15, 2026 at 3:45 p.m.

The brother of a man who attacked a Michigan synagogue last week, who was killed earlier this month in an Israeli airstrike, was a Hezbollah commander, Israel’s military claimed Sunday.

Police vehicles sit outside the Temple Israel synagogue Friday, March 13, 2026, in West Bloomfield Township, Mich. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Man who attacked Michigan synagogue lost relatives in Israeli airstrike in Lebanon, official says

March 13, 2026 at 12:06 p.m.

A man with a rifle who crashed into a large Michigan synagogue in what federal officials say was an attack had lost four family members in an Israeli airstrike in...

A convoy of Lebanese army vehicles drives near the border with Israel in the village of Alma al-Shaab during a Lebanese army media tour in south Lebanon, Friday, Nov. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Israel launches intense airstrikes in Lebanon as deadline looms to disarm Hezbollah

December 18, 2025 at 7:51 a.m.

Israel carried out a series of airstrikes on southern and northeastern Lebanon as a deadline looms to disarm the militant Hezbollah group.

This is a locator map for Syria with its capital, Damascus. (AP Photo)

Donald Trump pledges retaliation after 3 Americans are killed in Syria attack that the US blames on IS

December 13, 2025 at 2:13 p.m.

The attack on U.S. troops in Syria is the first to inflict casualties since the fall of President Bashar Assad a year ago.

Pope Leo XIV arrives for a meeting with young people in the Square in front of the Maronite Patriarchate of Antioch in Bkerke, Lebanon, Monday, Dec. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

Pope Leo XIV sends message of support to southern Lebanon as he ends 1st foreign trip

December 2, 2025 at 3:26 p.m.

Pope Leo XIV prayed Tuesday at the site of a deadly 2020 Beirut port explosion that has become a symbol of dysfunction and official impunity and called for justice to...

Worshippers visit Our Lady of Lebanon shrine in Harissa, north of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Nov. 9, 2025, as the sun sets over the Mediterranean Sea. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Pope Leo XIV’s visit highlights Christian resilience in Lebanon despite regional turmoil

December 1, 2025 at 8:39 a.m.

Over the past few decades, hundreds of thousands of Christians have left parts of the Middle East for good, driven by wars and the rise of Muslim extremists.

Palestinian rescue workers check the scene where an Israeli strike on Tuesday night hit the Ein el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

Israel’s military carries out strikes in Lebanon and Gaza, killing dozens of people

November 19, 2025 at 4:45 p.m.

The Israeli military has carried out airstrikes in southern Lebanon, targeting what it claims are Hezbollah weapons storage facilities.

Displaced Palestinians flee northern Gaza carrying their belongings along the coastal road near Wadi Gaza, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

President Trump says Israel must ‘immediately’ stop bombing Gaza as Hamas agrees to release all remaining hostages

October 3, 2025 at 5:20 p.m.

Hamas said Friday that it has accepted some elements of President Donald Trump’s plan to end the war in Gaza.

Displaced Palestinians fleeing northern Gaza carry their belongings in a car along the coastal road toward southern Gaza, Friday, Sept. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Israel calls on famine-stricken Gaza City residents to leave as it targets high-rises in latest offensive

September 6, 2025 at 8:11 a.m.

Israel's army has urged Palestinians in Gaza City to move to a designated humanitarian area in the south.

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