Bassem Mroue

An Israeli soldier directs a tank at a staging area near the border with the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel, Tuesday, July 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Hamas is open to a ceasefire. But Netanyahu says there’s no room for Hamas in postwar Gaza

July 2, 2025 at 4:02 p.m.

Hamas suggested Wednesday that it was open to a ceasefire agreement with Israel, but stopped short of accepting a U.S.-backed proposal announced by President Donald Trump hours earlier, insisting on...

Mourners carry the bodies of Al-Mashharawi family members, who were killed in an Israeli airstrike that hit their home, at Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City on Saturday, March 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Israel fires on Lebanon after rocket attack in the heaviest exchange since truce with Hezbollah

March 22, 2025 at 9:46 a.m.

Israel has struck Lebanon in retaliation for rockets targeting Israel, and two people have been killed including a child.

The map above locates coastal cities in Syria where clashes between Syrian security forces and gunmen loyal to ousted President Bashar Assad have killed more than 70 people. (AP Graphic)

2 days of clashes and revenge killings in Syria leave more than 1,000 people dead

March 8, 2025 at 7:23 p.m.

The death toll from two days of clashes between Syrian security forces and loyalists of ousted President Bashar Assad and revenge killings that followed has risen to more than 1,000,...

A Syrian man observes the destroyed Jobar Synagogue, also known as Eliyahu Hanavi, in Jobar neighborhood, in Damascus, Syria, Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Syria’s dwindling Jewish community can visit one of the world’s oldest synagogues again

December 29, 2024 at 8:42 a.m.

The handful of remaining Jews in Syria can again make pilgrimages to one of the world’s oldest synagogues where people from throughout the region once came to pray.

A fisherman holds a basket full of fish in Tyre, southern Lebanon, where the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah brought hope for normality back to many in southern Lebanon on Friday, Nov. 29, 2024, including fishermen who’ve long launched their single-engine wooden boats into the Mediterranean at dawn. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanese fishermen hope ceasefire with Israel means normal life returning

November 30, 2024 at 2:55 p.m.

During the last two months of its year fighting Hezbollah, Israel imposed a siege on southern Lebanon that kept hundreds of fishermen at this ancient Phoenician port, upending their lives...

Displaced residents celebrate as they return to their villages following a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah that went into effect on Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024, in Ablah, eastern Lebanon. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

An Israeli strike in Gaza kills World Central Kitchen workers. Israel says 1 was an Oct. 7 attacker

November 30, 2024 at 2:48 p.m.

An Israeli airstrike on a car in the Gaza Strip on Saturday killed five people, including employees of World Central Kitchen.

Mariam Kourani, 56, sits on the rubble of her destroyed house after she returned with her family to Hanouiyeh village, southern Lebanon, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024 following a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah that went into effect on Wednesday.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Displaced families in Lebanon who return home are faced with piles of rubble

November 28, 2024 at 2:50 p.m.

Tens of thousands of residents who have started streaming back into southern Lebanon to check on their homes after the U.S.-mediated ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah went into effect.

An excavator removes a destroyed car as rescue workers gather at the site of an Israeli airstrike that hit central Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Israeli strikes in central Beirut kill at least 20 as diplomats push for a cease-fire

November 23, 2024 at 4:03 p.m.

Israeli airstrikes Saturday in central Beirut killed at least 20 people, officials said, as the once-rare attacks on the heart of Lebanon’s capital continued without warning while diplomats scrambled to...

A woman shouts slogans during a protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government and call for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Nov. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

A rare Israeli strike on central Beirut kills Hezbollah’s spokesman, official says

November 17, 2024 at 12:40 p.m.

The latest in a series of targeted killings of senior Hezbollah officials came as Lebanese officials were considering a United States-led cease-fire proposal.

Smoke rises after an Israeli airstrike on Dahiyeh, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Nov. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Israeli troops reach deepest point in Lebanon since Oct. 1 invasion, Lebanese media say

November 16, 2024 at 3:06 p.m.

Israeli ground forces reached their deepest point in Lebanon since they invaded six weeks ago before pulling back Saturday after battles with Hezbollah militants, Lebanese state media reported.

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