Middle East

CNN  —  Warships from China, Russia and Iran have held live-fire exercises in a key Middle Eastern waterway this week…

Editor’s Note: A version of this story appears in CNN’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, a three-times-a-week look inside…

Most of their days are filled with the hardship of searching for food. Two million hungry residents of Gaza, on…

Ayman Al-Zanat, 28, worries that his young nephew, Fadi, will not make it through the night. The Palestinian boy, age…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini has said that a truck loaded with aid…

Qatar Foreign Ministry spokesperson Majed al-Ansari said Wednesday that he hopes a truce agreement will be reached between Israel and…

CNN  —  A 12-year-old Palestinian boy was shot and killed by a border police officer in Shuafat refugee camp in…

Children in Gaza are experiencing “relentless mental harm” after five months of war, hunger, displacement and years of a blockade,…

World Central Kitchen, the nongovernmental organization that launched an aid ship from Cyprus to Gaza on Tuesday, says it plans to distribute aid itself once the…

CNN  —  The US intelligence community assesses Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “viability as a leader” to be “in jeopardy,”…