The U.S. says the Iranian-backed Houthis launched two anti-ship cruise missiles and struck a commercial ship in the Gulf of Aden off Yemen, setting it on fire and severely injuring one civilian mariner

It’s been only 13 years since South Sudan emerged from civil war and became an independent nation

The leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy democracies have agreed to set in motion a $50 billion loan to help Ukraine

Yemen’s Houthi rebels have likely launched a boat-borne bomb attack against a commercial ship in the Red Sea, further escalating their campaign despite a U.S.-led campaign trying to protect the vital waterway

Palestinian supporters have vandalized locations associated with the Brooklyn Museum and the United Nations in New York City

The latest proposal for a cease-fire in Gaza has the support of the United States and most of the international community, but Hamas has not fully embraced it, and neither, it seems, has Israel

Lebanon’s Hezbollah has fired scores of rockets into northern Israel to avenge the killing of a top commander

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says that mediators will keep trying to close an elusive cease-fire deal after Hamas proposed numerous changes to a U.S.-backed proposal

Scores of rockets were fired from Lebanon toward northern Israel on Wednesday morning, hours after Israeli airstrikes on a southern Lebanese village killed four officials from the militant Hezbollah group including the most senior military commander to be killed since clashes along the Lebanon-Israel border began eight months ago