Middle East News Headlines
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Attack on central Israel injures 11 as Iran's leader promises a punishing response
An attack on a central Israeli town has injured 11 as Iran’s supreme leader vowed a punishing response to Israel’s attack last week
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A Palestinian-Israeli collective made one of 2024's most lauded docs. Will it be released in the US?
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
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Israel pummels Lebanon and Gaza, killing dozens in fresh waves of airstrikes
Lebanese health authorities say that Israel has launched dozens of intense airstrikes across Lebanon’s northeastern farming villages, killing at least 52 people and wounding 72 others
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Pentagon bolsters the US presence in the Middle East with bombers, fighter aircraft and warships
The Pentagon says Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is sending additional bomber aircraft and Navy warships to the Middle East to bolster the U.S. presence in the region
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Army looking into shoving allegations involving the general who heads US Central Command
U.S. officials say 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
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Israel fights a seemingly endless war in Gaza's most devastated region
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
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Rocket fire from Lebanon kills 7 in Israel as US officials try to push for cease-fires
Israeli authorities say rocket barrages fired from Lebanon have killed four Thai agricultural workers and three Israelis in northern Israel in the deadliest cross-border strikes from the country since Israel launched its ground invasion
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Longtime PEN America CEO Suzanne Nossel is stepping down to head Freedom House
The CEO of PEN America has stepped down after more than a decade marked by substantial growth and recent controversy
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UN report warns of famine, aggravated by conflicts and climate shocks
Severe food crises threaten hundreds of thousands in vulnerable areas, including Sudan, South Sudan, Haiti, Mali and the Palestinian territories, where populations face or approach famine, a report by the United Nations’ food agencies says
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Some US Muslims struggle to find a candidate they can tolerate supporting for president
Just four years ago, most U.S. Muslim voters supported Democratic President Joe Biden
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