While strategic considerations were still in play, the heart of the decision lay in defending the extended family of Israel’s own Druze—a gesture shaped as much by kinship as by security.

So it's a messy situation. Israel has to decide, with help from the United States, what it wants to do next with this ...

Despite a US-brokered ceasefire in Syria, Israel launched a strike on Tuesday targeting Syrian army tanks heading to Suwayda.

The White House is increasingly concerned about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s military actions in Syria, with ...

During a U.N. Security Council emergency meeting, the U.S. ambassador said “the United States did not support recent Israeli ...

"Bibi acted like a madman. He bombs everything all the time," one White House official was quoted as saying, expressing worry that such moves jeopardize American diplomatic initiatives.

Israel has achieved plenty of short-term military gains, but will that outweigh regional, and international, isolation?

Israeli forces have killed a high number of Palestinian aid seekers across Gaza, while an evacuation order for Deir al-Balah ...

Israel’s long-standing policy of securing its borders through military expansion has now reached unprecedented levels, raising serious concerns about regional stability. While officials in Tel Aviv ...

IT’S a strategy that for time immemorial has been framed in terms of words like “self-defence”, “survival” and “national security”.

Hundreds of people have been killed in days of violence in southern Syria which began with clashes between members of the ...

It is a concentration camp,” Israel’s former prime minister Ehud Olmert said this week. “If they [Palestinians] will be ...