The strikes are a sign of Israel’s shift away from restraint, containment and short wars, and toward using force to project power across the Middle East.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is on the mission of his lifetime. For years, the veteran leader has made the ...

Israel has long fought a shadow war with Iran while avoiding all-out conflict. Now Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is ...

Israel’s massive strike on Iran on Friday morning came after decades of mutual hostility and a long-running shadow war of ...

Mahmoud Abbas gave assurances to President Emmanuel Macron of France, who has set conditions for possible recognition of a ...

Critics assail Israel for employing a strategy the U.S. used in World War II, Afghanistan and Iraq.

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has closed its aid distribution sites for the day, without giving a date on when they would open again.

For years, the Qatari government had been sending millions of dollars a month into the Gaza Strip—money that helped prop up the Hamas government there. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gambled that a strong Hamas (but not too strong) would keep the peace and reduce pressure for a Palestinian state. By Mark Mazzetti and Ronen Bergman Reporting ...

when Benjamin Netanyahu returned to power for a second run as Israel’s prime minister, a job he has held almost continuously since, he was confronted with a major change in the region: Hamas, a ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told NPR that Israel is committed to doing three things in Gaza: destroying Hamas, freeing the Israeli hostages it's holding and giving Gaza a different ...