Riad Salameh was arrested on graft charges and accused of undermining Lebanon’s economy, as the Israel-Hezbollah war further destabilizes the country.
After over a year of war, the economy in the occupied West Bank is being choked off by restrictions on Palestinians’ movements in the territory, the cancellation of work permits in Israel and near-daily military raids....
Western officials say two incendiary devices were part of a covert Russian operation targeting cargo or passenger aircraft flying to the U.S. and Canada....
The close election demonstrates the challenging path toward Western democracy for former Soviet states....
North Korea’s leader is forging an unproven—and even more brazen—path to achieve regime security, advance his country’s nuclear program and win economic relief....
Tech-savvy soldiers target Russian tanks and infantry, holding back their advance. A few pounds of explosives make the inexpensive aerial devices lethal....
Tehran has warned diplomats that it is planning to use more powerful warheads and other weapons....
As thousands of North Korean troops deploy to Russia for use in its war with Ukraine, China is left particularly uncomfortable by the swift militarization of ties between Pyongyang and Moscow....
Kemi Badenoch became the first Black woman to lead the U.K.’s Conservative Party, following its disastrous performance in a recent general election....
A response would extend the cycle of violence between the two enemies and risk dragging the Middle East into a wider war. ...
Secretary of State Antony Blinken says North Koreans engaged against Kyiv’s forces would be legitimate military targets....
The proposal would allow Israel to continue striking Lebanon for a two-month period, but that could face resistance from Hezbollah and the Lebanese government....
The Gaza war has allowed the Iran-backed Yemeni militants to broaden alliances with Iraqi militias, African jihadists and Russia....
The migrants are sent back home where a gang war awaits. “We’re being treated like animals,” one said....
The new laws effectively ban Unrwa from operating in Israeli territory and will make it harder for the agency to lead the humanitarian response to the Gaza war....
Iran’s Russian-made air-defense equipment stopped few if any of the missiles that Israel launched from 100 jet fighters....
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned that the West Bank’s economy could collapse if Israel doesn’t preserve its banking relationship with Palestinian financial institutions in the territory it occupies....
Manpower is the decisive factor in a drawn-out war of attrition—with Russia’s population four times the size of Ukraine’s....
Captagon is bringing in billions for Syria’s Assad regime and Iran-backed militias including Hezbollah—and it’s triggering a health crisis....
The opposition in Georgia vowed to fight the election results, saying they were falsified....
Recent conflict pits Iran and Israel in a direct, long-distance war—and Israel has the upper hand....
The first wave appears young and with physiques that don’t scream strapping commando, though leader Kim Jong Un has reasons to hold his elite forces back....
The attack unfolded in waves, striking missile-manufacturing and surface-to-air missile-defense sites, but steering clear of oil and nuclear facilities that Iran had warned would prompt a retaliation....
Military targets were hit in a number of areas, including missile manufacturing facilities and air-defense sites....
Ukrainian officials and some of their Western backers increasingly see the pain of drone and other long-range strikes inside Russia’s borders as a game-changer that could force President Vladimir Putin into negotiating an acceptable peace....
The Biden administration believes that some North Korean troops are on their way to the Kursk region to help Russia fend off Ukrainian forces who mounted an offensive there in August, according to a U.S. official....
Regular contacts between world’s richest man and America’s chief antagonist raise security concerns. Topics include geopolitics, business and personal matters....
Israel’s military remains engaged in a ferocious campaign in the Palestinian enclave while it fights its other war in Lebanon....
Moscow’s assistance in Iran-backed militant attacks that are disrupting trade shows how the Kremlin is seeking to tie up the U.S. in the Middle East....
Ukraine is building a new type of field hospital to protect patients and staff from Russia’s bombardments....
Biden administration officials are still weighing a response as Moscow becomes more reliant on foreign assistance to reinforce its military offensive in eastern Ukraine....
