At least 800,000 students have been deprived of an education as Israel’s months-long offensive against the Gaza Strip continues, the Gaza Media Office said Saturday. The Office said, according to a statement by the Ministry of Education in Gaza, “more than 800,000 students of various...

BEIRUT (AP) — Thousands of fighters from Iran-backed groups in the Middle East are ready to come to Lebanon to join with the militant Hezbollah group in its battle with Israel if the simmering conflict escalates into a full-blown war, officials with Iran-backed factions and analysts say....

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An aerial drone likely launched by  Yemen's Houthi rebels  struck and damaged a vessel in the Red Sea on Sunday, officials said, the latest attack by the group targeting the vital maritime corridor. The attack comes as  the U.S. has sent the...

Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the Palestinian group, Hamas, reiterated Friday his group's openness toward any initiative that ends the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip that meets the demands of the Palestinian resistance. Haniyeh made the statement in a seminar in Beirut that discussed scenarios of...