More than a year into the Gaza war, the Israeli army’s reservists are exhausted and it is struggling to recruit soldiers just as it opens a new front in Lebanon. Some 300,000 reservists have been called up since October 7, 2023, according to the army, 18 percent of them men over 40 who...

Lebanese armed group Hezbollah named Naim Qassem as its new leader on Tuesday but Israel said his tenure would be “temporary,” an apparent threat after it killed his predecessor Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut over a month ago. “Temporary appointment. Not for long,” Israel’s Defense...

Hundreds of Syrians protested in The Hague against Dutch government plans to return refugees to areas in Syria deemed safe, taking to the streets of the capital last Sunday. Coalition parties want to designate so-called “safe” zones before the end of the year so they can start returning...

The first Bangladeshis airlifted home after fleeing Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon described the constant fear of living in a city rocked by explosions. Late Monday the first 54 of some 1,800 Bangladeshis wanting to escape the troubled Mediterranean nation flew back to Dhaka on a...