By David S. Wimberley The Middle East is a region where the most seemingly insignificant event can have far-reaching consequences. The assassination of Hezbollah leader Imad Mughniyeh in Damascus on February 12, 2008, is a case in point.

Israeli warplanes struck a United Nations-run school in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing at least 15 people and wounding dozens more who had sought refuge there from the violence that has engulfed the territory, according to Palestinian health officials.

Israeli forces pressed an offensive in central Gaza on Sunday, a day after a deadly strike on a United Nations-run school sheltering Palestinians displaced by the conflict.

President Joe Biden’s administration is leaving migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border in limbo over the fate of asylum, as it grapples with a surge in arrivals and a court order that has blocked a key policy change.

A War on the Nile Pushes Sudan Toward the Abyss Sudanese soldiers stand guard at a checkpoint in the capital, Khartoum, on June 16, 2021. Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Reuters

Papua New Guinea’s prime minister says the government will end the search for victims of a landslide that killed at least 25 people in the country’s highlands.

A train crash in the Czech Republic on Friday killed four people and injured more than 20, according to the country’s emergency services. The crash occurred at around 11:30 a.

The world is witnessing a wave of elections in which strongmen are being challenged, and in some cases, defeated. In the United States, President Donald Trump, who has been accused of authoritarian tendencies, is facing a tough re-election battle against former Vice President Joe Biden.

MOSCOW — The Russian military has been pounding Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region for weeks, and now it is turning its attention to the capital, Kyiv.

Inside the Base Where Israel Has Detained Thousands of Gazans Israeli soldiers stand guard at the Erez crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip on July 16, 2018.