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As online nationalism reaches new heights, youth and state bots are attacking anyone critical of the country and its communist government.| Los Angeles Times
As online nationalism reaches new heights, youth and state bots are attacking anyone critical of the country and its communist government.| Los Angeles Times
The day the Vietnam War ended has become a high-profile celebration in Vietnam. But debates over the name of the April 30 holiday reveal lingering sensitivities within the country and beyond| Los Angeles Times
President Trump is nearing a decision on whether to join Israel’s war against Iran, a choice that will reshape the Mideast and divide his Cabinet and his party.| Los Angeles Times
Israel says the militant group's headquarters is located under residential buildings in Beirut suburb, which were hit.| Los Angeles Times
Here’s a look at the so-called Axis of Resistance, an Iran-backed coalition including Hezbollah, Hamas and other militant groups devoted to destroying Israel.| Los Angeles Times
Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite militant group backed by Iran, appears to have hit the lowest point in its more than 40-year history.| Los Angeles Times
As rescue crews recovered victims of Israel’s strike on Beirut, Israeli warplanes launched a withering attack on Lebanon’s south amid fears of wider war.| Los Angeles Times
Hezbollah leader says Israel crossed all "red lines" with two-day wave of electronic device explosions in Lebanon.| Los Angeles Times
Lebanon wracked by fresh wave of explosions of booby-trapped communication devices believed to be part of an electronic sabotage campaign against Hezbollah.| Los Angeles Times
A U.N.-backed commission named several government-affiliated factions whose members allegedly took part in 'extrajudicial killings and torture and ill-treatment' of civilians in Alawite-majority areas.| Los Angeles Times
Hosam Saraya, who had returned to Syria to aid his ill father, was executed along with other members of his family. Their killings were captured on video recorded by the gunmen.| Los Angeles Times
Clashes in Syria’s coastal areas kill more than 700 people, a monitor says. Interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa's government says it has regained control of the situation.| Los Angeles Times
With Syria's corruption-ridden economy in shambles after the overthrow of Bashar Assad, the caretaker government’s priority is to raise cash and bring stability.| Los Angeles Times
Once Syria's most influential minority, Alawites struggle to move on from their association with a hated dictator.| Los Angeles Times
Naim Kassem’s comments came as Lebanon’s Cabinet was meeting to discuss Hezbollah’s disarmament. Beirut is under U.S. pressure to disarm the group.| Los Angeles Times
The Israeli military says its warplanes have fired on southern Lebanon after detecting Hezbollah activity at a rocket storage facility.| Los Angeles Times
The cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah ended the deadliest bout of violence between the two sides in decades.| Los Angeles Times
Israel has stopped the entry of all goods and supplies into Gaza.| Los Angeles Times
Israel’s military orders evacuation of more areas in south Gaza — where many Palestinians had fled on its orders — as its deadly bombardment continues.| Los Angeles Times
Israel bombs Gaza and Hamas aims rockets at Israel as top U.S. diplomat departs region. But now-expired truce saw scores of Israeli hostages and hundreds of Palestinian prisoners freed.| Los Angeles Times
The recent hostage-for-prisoner swaps between Hamas and Israel have focused attention on the number of Palestinian minors imprisoned by Israel.| Los Angeles Times
This moment in the Israel-Hamas saga can be glimpsed in the fate of two fathers, strangers who share misfortunes brought on by larger powers and are now left to find their way| Los Angeles Times
As the Palestinian militant group Hamas frees more hostages amid a temporary truce with Israel, a harrowing glimpse of captivity in war-torn Gaza emerges.| Los Angeles Times
After a hospital blast in Gaza, doctors struggling to save lives amid danger and dwindling supplies say they and the medical system are near collapse.| Los Angeles Times
Security video from a hospital in Sweida in southern Syria shows what appears to be the killing of a medical worker by men in military garb.| Los Angeles Times
Israel's military acknowledged “several casualties” as its forces opened fire on the approaching Palestinians, and said authorities would investigate.| Los Angeles Times
More than 100,000 people have marched in Paris to protest against rising antisemitism in the wake of Israel’s ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza.| Los Angeles Times
The videos released late last week by militant groups Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad show two skeletal hostages pleading for their lives.| Los Angeles Times
'Our human ask is that people give a damn when we die,' said one rabbi. Amid the Israel-Hamas war, many U.S. Jews feel betrayed by people they thought were allies.| Los Angeles Times
Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas appear set to go head-to-head on the ground in Gaza. What's each side's endgame?| Los Angeles Times
Palestinian health officials say Israeli strikes killed more than 50 people in Gaza, including children. U.S. officials are in the Middle East for talks.| Los Angeles Times
A Times special correspondent in Gaza offers a personal account of living in a place where nowhere feels safe.| Los Angeles Times
As desperate Palestinians in Gaza try to find refuge from Israeli bombardment, many ask why Egypt and other Arab nations refuse to take them in.| Los Angeles Times
Israel's military says it killed a Hamas commander in devastating strikes in Jabaliya refugee camp in Gaza. Hospital chief describes 'waterfall of casualties.'| Los Angeles Times
Ancestors and histories are summoned but nothing has brought resolution to a conflict that again threatens to ignite the Middle East. This war between Israel and Hamas is scarier than the ones that came before.| Los Angeles Times
The Palestinian cause was fading in many Arab countries. The Israel-Hamas war has reignited it.| Los Angeles Times
The closure of schools has removed a key social outlet for young people as they grapple with war, hunger and displacement.| Los Angeles Times
Sunday’s announcement comes a week after Israel cut off all supplies of goods to the Gaza Strip, a territory to over 2 million people.| Los Angeles Times
Hamas continues to free Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, holding to cease-fire terms. But the militant group's grip on Gaza remains strong| Los Angeles Times
The assertions by B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel add to an explosive debate over whether Israel’s military offensive in Gaza amounts to genocide.| Los Angeles Times
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is days away from implementing a new aid system in Gaza and plans to create a 'sterile zone' there, free of Hamas.| Los Angeles Times
Palestinians in Gaza are eager to leave miserable tent camps and return to their homes if a long-awaited cease-fire agreement halts the Israel-Hamas war.| Los Angeles Times
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's effort to remove Ronen Bar as director of the Shin Bet follows an increasingly acrimonious dispute.| Los Angeles Times
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to relocate Gaza’s 2 million people through “voluntary migration" — and what critics see as ethnic cleansing.| Los Angeles Times
Though the ceasefire between Israel and Iran has been holding, 'The war remains an unfinished project, for both sides,' one Middle East expert warns.| Los Angeles Times
Israel’s preliminary analysis of the U.S. strike known as Operation Midnight Hammer has found the deployment of 'bunker buster' bombs inflicted widespread destruction on Iran's nuclear facilities.| Los Angeles Times
Some parts of the world are particularly anxious over the prospect of a Trump victory in next week's presidential election| Los Angeles Times
Can wider war between Iran and Israel still be averted? U.S., others urgently call for restraint after retaliatory airstrikes near Tehran on Saturday.| Los Angeles Times
Directors, writers and actors who had to appease censors in the regime of former Syrian President Bashar Assad, now face a new uncertainty: Whether the Islamist-led government that overthrew Assad will seek more control on the programs they create.| Los Angeles Times
The Chernihiv Regional Youth Theater in Ukraine has adapted to the war by having women perform traditionally male roles, after many men left the troupe to fight.| Los Angeles Times
The trip gave him a chance to escape Washington’s summer heat, but he could not avoid questions about Jeffrey Epstein, the food crisis in Gaza or other issues.| Los Angeles Times
President Trump is in Scotland to inaugurate a new golf course in Aberdeenshire.| Los Angeles Times
A classified report casts doubt on Trump's assertions that Iran's nuclear facilities were 'totally obliterated.' The White House downplays the assessment, calling it 'flat-out wrong.'| Los Angeles Times
President Trump warned Tehran against retaliation against the U.S., saying Iran can choose between “peace or tragedy.”| Los Angeles Times
Gaza's Health Ministry says the bodies of 79 airstrike victims have been brought to hospitals in the last 24 hours, including nine of Dr. Alaa Najjar's 10 children.| Los Angeles Times
The World Food Program issued a statement condemning the violence that erupted in northern Gaza as Palestinians tried to reach a convoy of trucks carrying food.| Los Angeles Times
Israel is facing mounting international criticism for its latest offensive and pressure to let aid into Gaza amid a catastrophic humanitarian crisis.| Los Angeles Times
The Israeli prime minister, facing growing opposition at home and abroad, declares that Israel 'has no choice but to finish the job and complete the defeat of Hamas' in Gaza.| Los Angeles Times
Israeli warplanes pounded Syrian government buildings in Damascus, escalating its campaign against Syria’s new authorities amid heavy clashes between government forces and the country’s Druze minority.| Los Angeles Times
Israel and Iran have opened a new chapter in their long history of conflict when Israel launched a major attack with strikes early Friday on Tehran.| Los Angeles Times
Yarmouk, on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria, was once the de facto capital of the Palestinian diaspora. It was devastated during Syria's civil war. Now, after the fall of strongman Basha Assad, it faces an uncertain future.| Los Angeles Times
Sectarian violence has turned a Syrian city into a slaughterhouse, and survivors recount shelling, executions and burials in a mass grave.| Los Angeles Times
Syria's new government sent troops to quell fighting between the Druze religious minority and Sunni Muslim tribes. Then Israel intervened, bombing Damascus.| Los Angeles Times
Violence between government forces and armed factions of a religious minority in southern Syria has deepened divisions in a country still recuperating from a civil war.| Los Angeles Times
Syria has welcomed the move by the Trump administration to ease sanctions, calling it a 'positive step' to ease humanitarian and economic suffering in the war-torn country.| Los Angeles Times
Rebels took over the city of Hama, upending a long-running stalemate in Syria's civil war.| Los Angeles Times
Syrian rebels have made their largest gains in years, threatening a fragile status quo in the country.| Los Angeles Times
International aid groups and Palestinians say the changes have only been incremental and are not enough to reverse what food experts say is a 'worst-case scenario of famine' unfolding in the war-ravaged territory.| Los Angeles Times
Palestinian officials say Fatah and Hamas near a deal to appoint a committee of politically independent technocrats to administer the Gaza Strip.| Los Angeles Times
In a separate development, the U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon said an Israeli tank fired on its headquarters in the town of Naqoura.| Los Angeles Times
Families of hostages held in Gaza vent anger at Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu for his failure to seal a cease-fire that would free their loved ones.| Los Angeles Times
International condemnation is growing over Israel’s decision for a military takeover of Gaza City. Meanwhile, 20 more aid-seekers have been killed in Gaza and 11 more have died of malnutrition-related causes.| Los Angeles Times
Local health officials say at least 38 Palestinians were killed overnight and during the day in the Gaza Strip while seeking aid from U.N. convoys and sites run by an Israeli-backed American contractor.| Los Angeles Times
Abeer and Fadi Sobh spend their days in Gaza seeking food for themselves and their six children.| Los Angeles Times
International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister, a blow to Israel's international standing.| Los Angeles Times
In his first term as president, Trump managed to impose his will on the Middle East. That will be harder this time.| Los Angeles Times
Israel’s allegations that 12 employees of a U.N. agency were involved in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack have led several Western countries to cut off funding.| Los Angeles Times
Gaza’s Health Ministry said Tuesday afternoon that the bodies of 93 people killed by Israeli strikes had been brought to hospitals in Gaza over the last 24 hours, along with 278 wounded.| Los Angeles Times
The Israeli military says it targets only militants and tries to avoid harming civilians. It blames civilian deaths on Hamas because the militants operate in densely populated areas.| Los Angeles Times
Israeli airstrikes killed 15 Palestinians in Gaza early on Friday, while a hospital said 20 more people died in shootings while waiting for aid.| Los Angeles Times
The Biden administration is stepping up criticism of Israel for not doing more to improve humanitarian conditions in Gaza.| Los Angeles Times
Israel says it has terminated the agreement facilitating the work of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, the main provider of aid in Gaza.| Los Angeles Times
Israel launches waves of airstrikes across Lebanon and Gaza, killing at least 45 people in Lebanon’s northeast; the toll from central Gaza attacks rose to 25.| Los Angeles Times
The Hamas-run ministry said the death toll has climbed to 60,034, with 145,870 others wounded. The deaths include 18,592 children and 9,782 women.| Los Angeles Times
Desperation is mounting in the Palestinian territory of more than 2 million, which experts say is at risk of famine because of Israel's blockade and nearly two-year offensive.| Los Angeles Times
An Israeli military official says his country targeted Iranian nuclear sites. The attack Friday comes amid heightened tensions over Tehran's nuclear program.| Los Angeles Times
The head of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees warned that airdrops are 'expensive, inefficient and can even kill starving civilians' and won’t reverse the increasing starvation.| Los Angeles Times
Airstrikes and shootings in Gaza killed 94 Palestinians overnight, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry on Thursday.| Los Angeles Times
Health officials in Gaza say Israeli strikes over the last 24 hours have killed at least 38 people, including a mother and her two children sheltering in a tent.| Los Angeles Times
Palestinian health officials say Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip have killed at least 32 people, including more than a dozen women and children.| Los Angeles Times
Five years after the Beirut port explosion, families of victims are still seeking justice.| Los Angeles Times
Five months after he was killed by an Israeli airstrike, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is laid to rest after a funeral attended by defiant supporters.| Los Angeles Times
A senior Hezbollah security official says the Israeli airstrike that killed Hassan Nasrallah happened while he was inside the militant group’s war operations room.| Los Angeles Times
Battery experts weigh in on how the exploding pager attack in Lebanon could have been designed.| Los Angeles Times
After a war between Israel and Hezbollah, Lebanon’s new leaders sense an opportunity to revitalize the country’s economy with help from Gulf neighbors.| Los Angeles Times
Israel’s air force has carried out intense airstrikes on mountains overlooking a southern Lebanon city.| Los Angeles Times
President Trump met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the second time in two days at the White House on Tuesday evening, but there was no sign of a breakthrough.| Los Angeles Times
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel has killed Mohammed Sinwar, the younger brother of Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader who helped mastermind the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that started the Israel-Hamas war.| Los Angeles Times
The Israeli military said they were targeting a Hezbollah commander in the strikes late Tuesday on the southern town of Qana.| Los Angeles Times
In the latest dispute, Israel tells U.N. peacekeepers to leave southern Lebanon to avoid being attacked.| Los Angeles Times
