Six key events that shaped the Middle East since Oct. 7, 2023

Putin says he won’t allow Russia to fall into recession amid warnings

Economy Minister Maxim Reshetnikov said earlier during the St. Petersburg Economic Forum that the economy is “on the verge of going into a recession.”...

How Israel and Iran’s conflict went from covert to all-out fighting

Israel and Iran have been enemies for decades — but this is their most sustained direct fighting ever. Here’s how a shadow war erupted into an overt conflict....

Putin says he’s open to meeting Zelensky, even as he denies his legitimacy

Russia’s Vladimir Putin said he’s willing to meet with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky but suggested the democratically elected leader couldn’t legally sign a peace deal....

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he is in contact with Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu about...

Air India crash underscores risks of country’s infrastructure boom

For more than a decade, pilots and judges have warned that India’s breakneck urban development was pushing population centers closer to the nation’s runways....

With ally Iran under attack, Hezbollah stays out of the fray for now

The stance has been met with relief by war-weary in Lebanon, but there is still a possibility Hezbollah could change its position if Iran’s regime starts to wobble....

Israel-Iran live updates: Iran warns U.S. military intervention would bring ‘irreparable damage’

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei made the comments as President Donald Trump weighs entering the conflict between Israel and Iran....

Russia hits Kyiv with deadliest attack of the year; G-7 avoids talk of Ukraine

Russia attacked multiple cities across Ukraine with 440 drones and 32 missiles, while President Donald Trump avoided committing to any new sanctions at the G-7 summit....

With Trump on side, Israel becomes the Middle East’s clear hegemon

President Donald Trump had cast himself as a man of “peace” and a “dealmaker” intent on stabilizing a febrile region and ending wars. But he now appears poised to join one....

Israelis reeling from Iranian barrages brace for a new kind of war

With ballistic missiles slamming into buildings in Tel Aviv, Israelis say they are losing their long-held sense of security....

A major turning point in the Israel-Iran conflict

Israel and Iran have been exchanging attacks since Friday, leaving more than 20 dead in Israel and more than 200 dead in Iran. Could this become a war? And will the U.S. get involved?...

Pentagon expands Middle East response as Israel, Iran trade strikes

U.S. refueling aircraft and warships have been dispatched to safeguard U.S. interests as the deadly conflict shows no sign of abating....

Russia fears Israel’s conflict with Iran could cost it another Mideast ally

When Israel first started bombing Iran, many in Russia saw it as an opportunity, a means of drawing support and attention away from Ukraine....

Live updates: Israel issues evacuation warning for Tehran as attacks on Iran enter fourth day

Iran launched a wave of missiles just hours after Israel said it was striking missile sites in central Iran. Israel says it hit Quds Force command centers....

Israel appears to take aim at Iran’s regime with expanded targets

New targets appear to indicate an expansion of Israel’s war aims beyond the Iranian nuclear facilities that consumed the first days of the conflict....

Trump had visions of Middle East ‘peace.’ Netanyahu had other ideas.

Last month, Donald Trump declared that, “for the first time in a thousand years, the world will look at this region not as a place of turmoil and strife, and war and death, but as a land of opportunity and hope.”...

Ukraine’s field hospitals keep getting hit, so they are moving underground

Ukrainians say the Russians systematically target their medical facilities. This underground prototype offers an answer....

In ordering major attack on Iran, Netanyahu sheds his inhibitions

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....

Violeta Chamorro, Nicaraguan leader who helped end civil war, dies at 95

She called for national reconciliation and, in 1990, became her country’s first female head of state...

Russia’s offensive pushes closer to northern city of Sumy, opens new front

Russia says it has moved into the previously unscathed Dnipropetrovsk region to create a buffer zone, a claim Ukraine has dismissed....

Trump warns Israel could strike Iran; U.S. officials say no military support

As Middle East tensions rise, the Trump administration works on a diplomatic solution to the standoff over Iran’s nuclear program as Israel prepares to attack....

Attack leaves Kyiv choked in smoke, hits Odessa maternity hospital

The escalation in aerial attacks comes as Russia begins a summer push on the 620-mile front line in the country’s east....

Russia launches war’s largest drone assault, Ukraine’s air force says

The warring sides also exchanged prisoners in one of the few results of talks last week, and Russia reported new attacks on the front line....

Ukraine’s previous president says he knows how to win over Trump

Former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko is a rival to Zelensky and under sanctions, but says he knows how to get the American relationship back on track....

Trump travel ban targets nations mired in civil wars or armed conflicts

Of the 12 countries from which travel is fully restricted, three are embroiled in bloody civil wars. Many of the other countries are also undergoing conflicts....

Russian officials delight in Trump-Musk rift, offer mediation, asylum

Officials offered to mediate and even asylum for Elon Musk as many commented how a leader falling out with a top businessman was familiar to Russia....

Ukrainian cities pounded by Russia in retaliation for Sunday drone strike

The Russian attacks come after President Donald Trump likened the two sides to children on a playground who needed “to fight for a while.”...

After Putin call, Trump suggests Ukraine, Russia should ‘fight for a while’

The comments, in an Oval Office meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, were Trump’s clearest indication to date that he was unsure he would be able to quell Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine....

U.K. to build attack submarines and munitions factories to counter Russia

Prime Minister Keir Starmer says new military projects will create jobs but it is unclear the British public supports increased defense spending demanded by President Trump....

German city evacuates 20,000 after unexploded World War II bombs are found

Authorities in Cologne said this was the largest evacuation of the city since World War II. Unexploded ordnance has commonly been found across Europe....