President Barack Obama spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi on Wednesday and reiterated U.S. support for Israel’s right to self-defense in light of ...

Israel has that same right — except what’s different about October 7 is that Israel was not invaded or attacked by another sovereign country. Hamas’s attacks, and other instances of armed rebellion by ...

(RNS) — The continued bombardment of Gaza that has killed and maimed civilians almost every day since early October 2023 has long ago ceased to be a war of self-defense. (RNS) — In a Dec. 25 letter to ...

UNITED NATIONS, June 16 (Reuters) - Iran's strikes on Israel are self-defense and are "proportionate defensive operations directed exclusively at military objectives and associated infrastructure," ...

The Syrian Foreign Ministry called on residents of the city of Al-Suwayda to "rally around the Syrian army and not take part in any suspicious projects," without specifying which projects it meant ...

International law experts are divided. By Amanda Taub Is Israel’s latest attack on Iran’s military and nuclear facilities legal under international law? And would it be legal for the United States to ...

On Sunday, Israeli soldiers opened fire on a crowd of hungry Palestinians who rushed a food convoy as it entered Gaza, leaving at least 94 dead, and 150 wounded. Here’s how one witness described it: ...