When Hamas-led militants sprang from Gaza last year, leaving 1,200 people dead in southern Israel and 250 more held hostage in the enclave, it set off a chain of events that has moved the Middle ...

Area: 22,000 sq km. Population: 9.5m. Prime minister: Binyamin Netanyahu.

The U.S. bombed Iran overnight, raising tensions across the region as attention shifts to how Tehran may retaliate and location of U.S. military in the region.

Mapped: Where Israel has fired missiles around the Middle East as IDF begin ground invasion in Lebanon. More than a thousand people have been killed in Israeli strikes across Lebanon, Syria, Yemen ...

The geopolitical conditions for the Israel-Iran war have been brewing for decades, and the past 20 months have seen a titanic ...