Latest Middle East News
Attack on central Israel injures 11 as Iran's leader promises a punishing response
JERUSALEM (AP) — An attack on a central Israeli town early Saturday injured 11 people as Iran's supreme leader vowed a punishing response to Israel's attack last week and Israeli airstrikes continued in Gaza and Lebanon. The predawn strike on Tira was one of several barrages fired...
A Palestinian-Israeli collective made one of 2024's most lauded docs. Will it be released in the US?
NEW YORK (AP) — Basel Adra, a Palestinian, and Yuval Abraham, an Israeli, spent five years making a movie that depicts daily life in Adra’s village under Israeli occupation. The resulting film, “No Other Land,” has been hailed as one of the year's most powerful documentaries, winning prizes...
Israel pummels Lebanon and Gaza, killing dozens in fresh waves of airstrikes
BEIRUT (AP) — Israel launched dozens of intense airstrikes across Lebanon's northeastern farming villages on Friday, killing at least 52 people and wounding scores more, the Lebanese Health Ministry reported. In central Gaza, Palestinians recovered the bodies of 25 people killed in...
Pentagon bolsters the US presence in the Middle East with bombers, fighter aircraft and warships
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is sending bomber aircraft, fighter jets and more Navy warships to the Middle East to bolster the U.S. presence in the region, the Pentagon announced Friday, as an aircraft carrier and its ships are preparing to leave. Austin ordered...
Army looking into shoving allegations involving the general who heads US Central Command
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Army's Criminal Investigation Division is looking into allegations that the four-star general who heads U.S. Central Command shoved a member of his air crew during a trip overseas, according to U.S. officials. Officials said Army Gen. Erik Kurilla became upset...
Israel fights a seemingly endless war in Gaza's most devastated region
JERUSALEM (AP) — More than a year into a war that has ricocheted across the Middle East, Israeli troops are still battling Hamas in the most heavily destroyed and isolated part of the Gaza Strip. In northern Gaza, Hamas militants carry out hit-and-run attacks from bombed-out...
Rocket fire from Lebanon kills 7 in Israel as US officials try to push for cease-fires
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Rocket barrages from Lebanon into northern Israel killed four foreign workers and three Israelis on Thursday, Israeli medics said, the deadliest cross-border strikes in Israel since it invaded Lebanon. Israel kept up airstrikes it says targeted Hezbollah militants across...
Longtime PEN America CEO Suzanne Nossel is stepping down to head Freedom House
NEW YORK (AP) — The CEO of PEN America, Suzanne Nossel, is stepping down after more than a decade marked by substantial growth and recent controversy, In January, she will be heading the pro-democracy Freedom House. “I am tremendously honored to lead an organization with Freedom...
UN report warns of famine, aggravated by conflicts and climate shocks
ROME (AP) — Severe food crises threaten hundreds of thousands of people in vulnerable areas, including the Palestinian territories, Sudan, South Sudan, Haiti, and Mali, said a report released Thursday by the United Nations' food agencies. Conflicts, economic instability, and...
Paris court lifts ban on Israeli firms exhibiting their weapons at Euronaval trade show
PARIS (AP) — A Paris commercial court lifted a ban that had prevented Israeli defense companies from exhibiting weapons used by Israel's military in the conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon at the Euronaval trade exhibition. The court’s ruling on Wednesday night came just days before...
