Russian President Vladimir Putin said his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, had proposed reviving contacts on Black Sea shipping but that he had not yet had time to study the documents. Turkey and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres have long been seeking to get merchant shipping...

Children in Gaza are dying in pain for want of emergency treatment as a result of Israeli authorities approving fewer and fewer of them for medical evacuation following the closure of the Rafah crossing, United Nations agencies said on Friday. Whereas before almost 300 children were being...

The Israeli military confirmed on Friday that it had struck a border crossing between Syria and Lebanon that it said was being used by Hezbollah to transfer weapons. The airstrike hit Hezbollah “infrastructure” at the Jousieh crossing in Lebanon’s northern Bekaa area overnight, the...

Hezbollah said Thursday it targeted an Israeli military base near Haifa, the second time within 24 hours it has said it targeted the facility. Hezbollah fighters “bombed” the “defense industry” base “north of the city of Haifa with a salvo of rockets,” a statement said, after...