For the world, 2024 was riven by conflict on two fronts.

Israeli and Hamas appear close to reaching a ceasefire deal to wind down the war in Gaza.

A Palestinian Health Ministry official says Israeli airstrikes slammed into two schools sheltering displaced people in Gaza City.

Israel launched two waves of airstrikes on Yemen overnight, killing at least nine people, according to the Houthi-controlled satellite channel al-Masirah.

A released hostage in Gaza is fighting to save her boyfriend, who remains in captivity.

The Israeli military has ordered another evacuation in central Gaza ahead of an offensive in the area, even as Israel and the militant group Hamas appear to inch closer to a ceasefire.

After months of deadlock, Israel and Hamas appear to be moving closer toward a ceasefire to end their 14-month war.

Health officials in the Gaza Strip say more than 45,000 Palestinians have now been killed in the war between Israel and Hamas militants.

Palestinian medics said an Israeli airstrike hit a refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, killing at least 25 Palestinians and wounding dozens more.

Palestinian medical officials say an Israeli airstrike flattened a multistory building in central Gaza, killing at least 25 people and wounding dozens more.

The U.N. General Assembly has overwhelmingly approved resolutions demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and backing the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees that Israel has moved to ban.

Palestinian medical officials say Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip have killed at least 33 people.

A Hamas official says that after a weekslong hiatus international mediators have resumed negotiating with the militant group and Israel over a ceasefire in Gaza, and that he was hopeful a deal to end the 14-month war was within reach.

Amnesty International accuses Israel of committing genocide in the Gaza Strip during its war with Hamas, saying it has sought to deliberately destroy Palestinians by mounting deadly attacks, demolishing vital infrastructure and preventing the delivery of humanitarian aid.

A Palestinian health official said Wednesday that at least 21 people were killed in Israeli strikes on a camp housing displaced people in Gaza.

A Palestinian health official said Wednesday that at least 21 people were killed in an Israeli strike on a camp housing displaced people in Gaza.

Palestinian officials say Fatah and Hamas are closing in on an agreement to appoint a committee of politically independent technocrats to administer the Gaza Strip after the war.

President-elect Donald Trump is demanding the immediate release of the Israeli hostages still being held in Gaza, saying that if they are not freed before he is sworn into office there will be “HELL TO PAY.”.

Israel has unleashed its largest wave of airstrikes across Lebanon since agreeing to a ceasefire with Hezbollah last week, killing at least 11 people.

The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees says it is halting aid deliveries through the main cargo crossing into Gaza because of the threat of armed gangs who have looted recent convoys.

An Israeli airstrike on a car in the Gaza Strip on Saturday killed five people including employees of World Central Kitchen.

For many across the Middle East, the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire came as a relief: the first major sign of progress in the region since war began more than a year ago.

A ceasefire deal that could end more than a year of cross-border fighting between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group has gone into effect.

The ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah militants has begun as a region on edge wonders whether it will hold.

Arrest warrants issued for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defense minister and a Hamas leader put them in a small group of leaders to be accused of crimes against humanity.

The world’s top war-crimes court has issued arrest warrants for the leaders of Israel and Hamas, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defense minister and a Hamas leader.

Palestinian health officials say the death toll in the Gaza Strip from the 13-month-old war between Israel and Hamas has surpassed 44,000.

The United States has vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire in the war in Gaza because it was not linked to an immediate release of hostages taken captive by Hamas last year.

The United States has vetoed a U.N. resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.

A U.S. envoy has held talks in Beirut with Lebanese officials about a possible cease-fire in the Israel-Hezbollah war.

The summit of the Group of 20 leading economies in Rio de Janeiro has produced a joint declaration that, while not totally endorsed by one of the group’s members, succeeded in addressing most topics host Brazil had prioritized addressing: both ongoing major wars, a global pact to fight hunger, taxation of the world’s wealthiest people and changes to global governance.

Some families of the 101 hostages still being held in Gaza are desperately hoping that a drastically different political landscape will be able to reignite the momentum to bring their loved ones home.

A delegation of former hostages held by Hamas in Gaza and their relatives have met with Pope Francis.

New Israeli strikes have killed dozens of people including children in Lebanon and northern Gaza.

Qatar says it has suspended its key mediation efforts between Hamas and Israel.

Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant has officially stepped down in a ceremony that replaced him with Israel Katz, the former foreign minister, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired Gallant earlier this week.

Several large airstrikes have hit Beirut’s southern suburbs, including one on a site adjacent to Lebanon’s only international airport.

Palestinian officials say an Israeli airstrike in northern Gaza has killed at least 20 people, mostly women and children.

One of the most startling aspects of Israel’s campaign against Hamas in Gaza has been the destruction wreaked on the territory’s health sector.

An Israeli court has loosened a gag order on a case investigating leaks of classified information allegedly involving one of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s media advisers.

Lebanese health authorities say that Israel has launched dozens of intense airstrikes across Lebanon’s northeastern farming villages, killing at least 52 people and wounding 72 others.

More than a year into a war that has ricocheted across the Middle East, Israeli troops are still battling Hamas in the most heavily destroyed and isolated part of the Gaza Strip.

The United Nations says that if Israel puts in place new laws cutting ties with the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, the Israeli government will have to meet their needs under international law.

Gaza's Health Ministry says two Israeli strikes in the northern Gaza Strip killed at least 88 people.

With the U.S. presidential election just a week away, the Biden administration is not giving up hope for short-term deals for cease-fires between Israel and Hamas in Gaza and Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Israel's parliament has passed bills banning the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees from operating in Israel and the Palestinian territories.

Israel’s parliament has passed two laws that severely restrict the U.N. agency responsible for distributing aid in Gaza.

Egypt’s president says his country has proposed a two-day cease-fire between Israel and Hamas during which four hostages held in Gaza would be freed.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s weeklong trip to the Middle East ended as expected without a cease-fire breakthrough for Gaza, but talks are being revived.

The presiding judge of an International Criminal Court panel considering a request to issue arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his defense minister and senior Hamas leaders has been replaced on medical grounds.

The grandson of South Africa’s first Black president, Nelson Mandela, says the U.K. government denied him an entry visa because of his support for Hamas.

Palestinian officials say an Israeli strike on a school where displaced people were sheltering in the central Gaza Strip has killed at least 17 people.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Doha to meet with Qatari officials who have been key mediators for Hamas, as the U.S. struggles to break the logjam of cease-fire negotiations between Israel and the militant group.

The Israeli army has accused six Al Jazeera journalists covering the war in Gaza of also being current or former paid fighters for Palestinian militant groups.

Customarily, Simchat Torah is one of the most joyous days of the Jewish calendar, highlighted by exuberant dancing around a Torah.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Israel needs to pursue an “enduring strategic success” in Gaza after its tactical victories against Hamas.

United Nations agencies have long warned that it could take decades to rebuild Gaza after Israel’s offensive against Hamas.

The Israeli military says one of its airstrikes in early October killed a top Hezbollah official who had been widely expected to become the group’s next leader.

The crisis in the Middle East is looming over the race for the White House as the campaign enters its final weeks.

Israel says it is planning to carry out more strikes in Lebanon against a Hezbollah-run financial institution that it targeted the night before.

On top of the grievous toll in human life and misery, Israel’s war against the Hamas and Hezbollah militant groups has been expensive.

Pennsylvania has the biggest Jewish population of any swing state, and any shift could have enormous implications in a state decided by narrow margins the past two presidential elections.

Israel’s government says a drone targeted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s house on Saturday, with no casualties.

The killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar by Israeli forces in Gaza this week leaves the militant group considering new leadership for the second time in less than three months.

The families of hostages held by Hamas militants in Gaza say time is of the essence to rescue their loved ones following the killing of Yahya Sinwar, the head of Hamas, by Israeli troops in Gaza.

The Hamas leader who was killed by Israeli forces in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, was the mastermind behind the Oct. 7 attack on Israel that sparked the war.

Yahya Sinwar has been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.

Hamas has confirmed that its leader, Yahya Sinwar, was killed by Israeli forces in Gaza and reiterated its stance that hostages the militant group took from Israel a year ago will not be released until there is a cease-fire in Gaza and a withdrawal of Israeli troops.

Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group says it is entering a new phase in its fight against invading Israeli forces, as the region reckons with the killing of top Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in a battle with Israeli forces in Gaza.

Israel’s killing of Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’ top leader and the mastermind of the group’s Oct. 7 2023, attack, is a dramatic turning point in the brutal yearlong war that it touched off.

Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris says the death of Hamas’ top leader, Yahya Sinwar, “gives us an opportunity to finally end the war in Gaza.”.

President Joe Biden says the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar by Israeli troops is a “good day for Israel, for the United States, and for the world."

Yahya Sinwar masterminded an attack on Israel that shocked the world, unleashing a still-widening catastrophe with no end in sight.

The Israeli military says it has killed Hamas’ top leader, Yahya Sinwar, during a battle in Gaza.

Israel says Hamas top leader Yahya Sinwar has been killed in a battle with Israeli forces in Gaza.

U.S. long-range B-2 stealth bombers launched airstrikes targeting underground bunkers used by Yemen’s Houthi rebels.

Yemen risks being dragged further into the military escalation in the Middle East and could spiral out of control, the U.N. special envoy for the Arab world’s poorest nation says.

The Biden administration has warned Israel that it must increase the amount of humanitarian aid it is allowing into Gaza within the next 30 days or it could risk losing access to U.S. weapons funding.

Hezbollah's acting leader says the militant group will aim rockets into more areas of Israel.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is examining a plan to seal off humanitarian aid to northern Gaza in an attempt to starve out Hamas militants.

Israel’s military says four soldiers were killed in a Hezbollah drone attack on an army base Sunday evening.

A series of attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels have targeted a Liberian-flagged chemical tanker in the Red Sea.

Brown University has rejected a proposal to divest from 10 companies that protesters say were facilitating the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory.

Bob Woodward writes in his new book “War” that Donald Trump has had as many as seven private phone calls with Vladimir Putin since leaving office and that he secretly sent the Russian president COVID-19 test machines in 2020.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel has killed the successor to the head of Hezbollah while the militant group’s acting leader promised more fighting in southern Lebanon.

It has been one year since Hamas militants stormed across the border between Israel and Gaza.

Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris have marked the first anniversary of the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust.

Commemorations and protests are being held across the world to mark a year since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel.

Palestinian militants in Gaza fired a barrage of rockets into Israel on Monday as mourners marked the anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack, without disrupting a nearby ceremony.

A year after Hamas’ fateful attack on southern Israel, the Middle East is embroiled in a war that shows no signs of ending and seems to be getting worse.

Israelis are holding somber ceremonies to mark a year since the deadliest attack in the country’s history.

Crowds are taking part in pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli protests and memorial events across the world on the eve of the first anniversary of the Hamas attacks on Israel.

An Israeli airstrike has hit a mosque in central Gaza and Palestinian officials said at least 19 people were killed.

Campuses across the U.S. have been calmer in the wake of last spring’s protests, yet many are mired in a lingering unease.

Ali Al-Taweel was born on Oct. 7, 2023, as Israeli warplanes started to pound the Gaza Strip after Hamas’ surprise cross-border attack on southern Israel.

Police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse violent demonstrators in Rome as tens of thousands pro-Palestinian protesters took to the streets in European cities and around the globe, calling for a cease-fire as the first anniversary of the Hamas attacks on Israel approached.

Powerful new explosions have rocked Beirut’s southern suburbs around midnight as Israel expands its bombardment of the Hezbollah and Hamas militant groups in Lebanon.

Hamas official Saeed Atallah Ali has been killed in an Israeli airstrike on a refugee camp in Lebanon.

Relatives say an Israeli airstrike on a West Bank cafe that the military said targeted Palestinian militants also killed a family of four, including two young children.