Israel & Palestinian Territories

15+ min ago   (171+ words) US President Donald Trump on Sunday extolled the work of his special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner amid reports he was looking to elevate CIA chief John Ratcliffe in their stead with regard to Washington’s efforts to bring an…...

27+ min ago   (298+ words) Published - September 15, 2026 02:27 am IST - Sanaa Yemen's Houthis said on Monday (September 14, 2026) that Saudi Arabia launched airstrikes across the west of the country after the Iran-backed group earlier announced it targeted military bases in the kingdom. The group, fighting the Saudi-backed,…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (379+ words) BEIRUT — Lebanon’s president made a rare visit to a southern city Saturday, close to where Israel captured a strategic hill, amid fears of more Israeli attacks. President Joseph Aoun’s visit to Nabatiyeh came after Israel seized parts of Ali Taher…...

7+ hour, 45+ min ago   (309+ words) Commentary by Vali Nasr Published September 14, 2026 The United States and Israel went to war with Iran in February 2026 with the aim of reshaping the Middle East. However, it is Iran that seems to have emerged from the initial stages of…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (148+ words) On Defense and Aerospace Report, Patrick Cronin joins a discussion on the recent Houthi strikes on Saudi Arabian oil infrastructure; the decision by a dozen nations to sanction trade with Israeli settlements in the West Bank; the United States’ continuing…...

11+ hour, 47+ min ago   (841+ words) The systematic violence unfolding across the occupied West Bank is not a series of random, isolated incidents. Israeli leaders seek to portray it as such — the actions of "extremis... Israeli violence West Bank: Full-fledged ethnic cleansing campaign The world’s failure…...

42+ min ago   (101+ words) Israel is frustrated with the Lebanese army's unwillingness to confront Hezbollah directly in the limited pilot zones already under its control. Lebanon is also reluctant after the IDF demolished Hezbollah's tunnels under the Ali Taher Ridge Israeli Ambassador to the…...

16+ hour, 27+ min ago   (101+ words) For more than a month, the Houthis have been striking Saudi oil infrastructure and shipping, putting pressure on global oil prices and boosting Iran’s leverage with the United States. Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels have seized control of the Bab al-Mandeb…...

49+ min ago   (96+ words) One of the country's leading human rights organizations says Israel is dismantling all aspects of Palestinian life at a breakneck rate. The group has extensively documented what it says are the mechanisms Israel has used to "ethnically cleanse" the West…...

46+ min ago   (619+ words) US Vice President JD Vance said on Monday that Washington has engaged in direct diplomatic conversations with Yemen's Houthis and is closely monitoring the situation following the Iran-backed group's seizure of a strategic Red Sea island. The remarks come amid…...