Lebanese rescue workers clear rubble at the site of an airstrike on a day of intense assaults in Beirut, Lebanon, on April 9, 2026. Israel’s strikes against the Hezbollah militant group in Lebanon are ...

Americans continue to increasingly view Israel negatively amid ongoing conflicts in the Middle East, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. The results published April 7 found 60% of all ...

U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands during a press conference at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, on Dec. 29, 2025. (Joe Raedle/Getty ...

"I was in love with him from just the idea of who he would be, what he would be like," the star tells PEOPLE of her and husband Israel Houghton's son Ever James Jack Irvin has worked at PEOPLE since ...

Soon after the United States and Israel attacked Iran, Hezbollah—a paramilitary group and a political party that wields tremendous power in Lebanon, and is an Iranian proxy—struck back, firing ...

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have claimed responsibility for a strike in Lebanon on Christmas Day that killed a member of Iran’s elite Quds Force. The individual, identified as Hussein Mahmoud ...

For the first time in two years, Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank is hosting a large public Christmas celebration. The festivities have either been pared down or canceled since the Israel-Hamas war ...

Thousands flocked to Bethlehem to celebrate Christmas for the first time since the implementation of the U.S.-brokered Israel-Hamas peace deal. Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, who has served as the ...

A Christmas parade returned to Nazareth, the town where Christians believe Jesus grew up, on Wednesday after being canceled for the past two years due to the Israel-Hamas war. Large crowds packed the ...

Attallah Tarazi recently received Christmas presents that included socks and a scarf to shield him against the Gaza winter, and he joined some fellow Palestinian Christians in a round of hymns.

JERUSALEM (RNS) — Decades ago, the notion that a store in predominately Jewish West Jerusalem would conspicuously sell Christmas-themed merchandise would have caused discomfort, perhaps even outrage, ...