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Pagers used by the militant group Hezbollah simultaneously exploded, injuring more than 2,800 people and killing at least nine, officials said.

White House adviser Amos Hochstein met with top Israeli officials as he tried to de-escalate tensions with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.

“There is a rope hanging over my son’s head,” said Yehuda Cohen, father of hostage Nimrod Cohen. He says the U.S. must pressure Netanyahu into a cease-fire.

“I’ve never seen a crisis like this in my 25 years in humanitarian work,” a U.N. World Food Program regional director said of the increasingly insecure situation in Gaza.

Israeli forces said the missile Sunday did not cause any direct injuries, but Netanyahu threatens, “we exact a heavy price for any attempt to harm us.”

When Israel and Hezbollah attack each other, the UNIFIL peacekeeping force takes cover.

U.S. sanctions over Iran’s missile deal with Russia are unlikely to derail President Masoud Pezeshkian’s efforts to bring his country out of isolation, diplomats say.

Military officials said those killed in a dramatic mission by U.S. and Iraqi forces last month included the extremist group’s head of operations in Iraq.

The recent dramas gripping the country have been shadowy, shaped by backroom deals, black-market transfers and illicit smuggling.

The workers were killed when two airstrikes hit a Gaza refugee camp, said UNRWA, the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees. Israel said it targeted Hamas militants.

About 650,000 students are missing their second school year, an absence educators say will compound the trauma of war and could cause lasting developmental problems.

Iran has cultivated ties with criminal networks in the West to carry out a recent wave of violent plots in the United States and Europe.

Canada is the latest country to suspend some weapons exports, amid scrutiny over military aid to Israel as the war in Gaza nears the one-year mark.

The Biden administration had previously withheld some annual funding from Egypt amid scrutiny of its human rights record.

The IDF said Aysenur Eygi was shot “unintentionally” during a “violent riot.” A Post analysis shows clashes had subsided and protesters had retreated.

Israel carried out at least four airstrikes in Gaza and mounted raids in two West Bank villages.

The plight of Afghanistan’s women in 2024 provides a grim coda to the saga of the U.S.’s role in the country since 2001. It’s a tale of tragedy and hubris, misadventures and corruption, and — in the final, bleak reckoning — a tale of failure.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s comments were the strongest yet from a U.S. official after the Israeli military said it was “highly likely” it “unintentionally” killed Aysenur Eygi.