The Druze became central figures in a recent, startling episode in the Middle East. Israel sent warplanes and troops into Syria to defend this Arab religious minority, attacking the armed groups that ...

Israel has that same right — except what’s different about October 7 is that Israel was not invaded or attacked by another sovereign country. Hamas’s attacks, and other instances of armed rebellion by ...

On Sunday, Israeli soldiers opened fire on a crowd of hungry Palestinians who rushed a food convoy as it entered Gaza, leaving at least 94 dead, and 150 wounded. Here’s how one witness described it: ...

(RNS) — The continued bombardment of Gaza that has killed and maimed civilians almost every day since early October 2023 has long ago ceased to be a war of self-defense. (RNS) — In a Dec. 25 letter to ...

UNITED NATIONS, June 16 (Reuters) - Iran's strikes on Israel are self-defense and are "proportionate defensive operations directed exclusively at military objectives and associated infrastructure," ...

International law experts are divided. By Amanda Taub Is Israel’s latest attack on Iran’s military and nuclear facilities legal under international law? And would it be legal for the United States to ...

The Syrian Foreign Ministry called on residents of the city of Al-Suwayda to "rally around the Syrian army and not take part in any suspicious projects," without specifying which projects it meant ...

If any other nation in the world practiced outright ethnic cleansing in the manner that Israel has for 60 years, the United States would understandably be scandalized. Yet not only have we ignored ...