Live updates | UN top court hears genocide allegation as Israel focuses fighting in central Gaza
January 11, 2024
The United Nations’ top court began hearings Thursday on South Africa’s allegation that Israel’s war with Hamas amounts to genocide against Palestinians. Israel strongly ...The top UN court is set to hear South Africa's allegation of Israeli genocide in Gaza
January 10, 2024
A legal battle over whether Israels war against Hamas in Gaza amounts to genocide opens Thursday at the United Nations' top court with preliminary ...Middle East latest: Syrians celebrate Assad's fall as US seeks a peaceful political transition
December 13, 2024
Thousands of Syrians gathered in Damascus’ main square and a historic mosque for the first Muslim Friday prayers since former President Bashar Assad was ...Middle East latest: Israel passes 2 laws restricting UN agency that distributes aid in Gaza
October 28, 2024
Israeli lawmakers passed two laws Monday that could threaten the work of the main United Nations agency providing aid to people in Gaza by ...As pro-Palestinian encampments spread to European campuses, UK government seeks to head off unrest
May 9, 2024
About three dozen pro-Palestinian protesters crawled out of their tents Thursday morning at Cambridge University, grabbed coffee and tea and sat in a circle ...Genocide case against Israel: Where does the rest of the world stand on the momentous allegations?
January 13, 2024
South Africa says more than 50 countries have expressed support for its case at the United Nations top court accusing Israel of genocide against ...The Latest | Palestinians mark 76 years of their dispossession as more catastrophe unfolds in Gaza
May 15, 2024
Palestinians are marking 76 years of dispossession on Wednesday, commemorating their mass expulsion from what is today Israel, as a potentially larger catastrophe unfolds ...Blinken seeks Palestinian governance reform for postwar Gaza as deadly Israeli strikes continue
January 10, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken pressed the Palestinian president Wednesday to reform his government, seeking to rally the region behind postwar plans for ...Israel intensifies bombardment of Gaza and southern Lebanon ahead of Oct. 7 anniversary
October 6, 2024
A new round of airstrikes hit Beirut suburbs late Sunday as Israel intensified its bombardment of northern Gaza and southern Lebanon in a widening ...Live updates | Israel rejects genocide case as Mideast tensions rise after US-led strikes in Yemen
January 12, 2024
In the second day of hearings Friday at the United Nations top court, Israel rejected allegations levied by South Africa that its campaign against ...Live updates | US-owned ship attacked near Yemen, medicine for Israeli hostages enters Gaza
January 17, 2024
Yemens Houthi rebels launched a bomb-carrying drone into a U.S.-owned ship on Wednesday, officials said, the second such attack in recent days targeting vessels ...Live updates | Hospitals in Gaza are devastated after 5 months of Israel's war against Hamas
February 14, 2024
The war between Israel and Hamas, now in its fifth month , has devastated hospitals in the Gaza Strip, with less than half of ...Portraits of those held hostage after Hamas attack on Israel
October 31, 2023
A temporary cease-fire deal that would facilitate the release of dozens of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza offers a glimmer of hope to ...