US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Israel on Tuesday for meetings with Israeli leaders, the first stop of a wider Middle East tour to launch another push for an elusive ceasefire. The top US diplomat’s latest trip - his 11th to the region since Palestinian Hamas militants...

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...

Hundreds of far-right Israeli settlers gathered at a conference near the border with the Gaza Strip to press for the rebuilding of Jewish settlements in the Palestinian enclave. The event, held in an area designated by the Israeli army as a closed military zone near the settlement of Be’eri...

More than 600 people have been killed since the start of Israel’s ongoing military offensive in the northern Gaza Strip over two weeks ago, the Civil Defense Service said on Monday. “The bodies of dozens of dead people are still under the rubble and on the streets as civil defense teams...