By AFPRubble and plumes of smoke were all that was left Sunday of Nabatiyeh marketplace, once the beating heart of the city in south Lebanon where Israel has intensified its bombardment.Late Saturday, state media reported Israeli air strikes on the m...

By AFP/Sarah BenhaidaUN peacekeepers in south Lebanon will not move from the border area despite five of their members being wounded and damage to facilities during the Israel-Hezbollah war, their spokesperson told AFP on Saturday.Andrea Tenenti, spo...

By AFP/Sarah Benhaida with Jay DeshmukhUN peacekeepers in Lebanon warned Saturday against a "catastrophic" regional conflict as Israeli forces battled Hezbollah and Hamas on two fronts, on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar.Israel has faced a fie...

By AFPIsrael is deliberately targeting health facilities and killing and torturing medical personnel in Gaza, UN investigators said Thursday, accusing the country of "crimes against humanity"."Israel has perpetrated a concerted policy to destroy Gaza...

By AFP/Pierre-Henry DESHAYESThe Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Japan's Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors pushing for a nuclear weapons ban, as states like Russia threaten to use them.The group, also kn...

By AFP/Aya IskandaraniIsrael's bombardment of Hezbollah's south Beirut stronghold has forced tens of thousands to flee to the city centre, but many in sectarian Lebanon view the newcomers with suspicion, worried they too might become targets.For week...

By AFP/Cecile FeuillatreAsk a Lebanese person how they are, and you're likely to be met with a heavy pause or a pained smile. Years of crisis have drained them, and now Israeli air strikes are pushing many to breaking point.Cartoonist Bernard Hage, w...

By UN NewsA Palestinian man living in a refugee camp in northern Gaza has talked of the ‘indescribable’ pain he has experienced over the past year as the conflict in the beleaguered enclave continues.The war in Gaza was sparked following a brutal att...

By AFP/Haitham al-TabeiWhen Ali al-Akbar returned to school in Lebanon this year after the summer holidays, it wasn't to study his favourite subject maths but to seek refuge from Israeli air strikes."I miss my friends and teachers," the 14-year-old w...

By AFP/Youssef HassounaOne year after Hamas's attack on Israel unleashed war in Gaza, the Palestinian territory is unrecognisable and its residents are exhausted by displacement and shortages, with no end in sight."It felt like the first day of the w...

By AFP/Alice HackmanIn a south Lebanon hospital, Norwegian doctor Mads Gilbert peered out of the window after bombardment near the Israeli border, four decades after he first worked in the country."It's a horrible experience," he said in a video call...

By UN News/Ziad TalebSome Palestinian orphans in Gaza have gotten a glimmer of hope as the tragedies triggered by the grinding year-long war continue to deplete the Strip.The latest death toll has surpassed more than 41,000 people, according to the P...