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A view of the island of Qeshm, which oversees the strategic waterway of the Strait of Hormuz, Iran, on December 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)
March 31, 2026, 4:39 pm
Iranian media says desalination plant on Gulf island non-functional after airstrikes
Iran’s foreign minister had said a US strike took place on March 7 on Qeshm Island, a popular yet heavily militarized tourist destination for Iranians
By AFP and ToI Staff
Israeli Air Force F-35I fighter jets head to carry out strikes in Iran, in a photo published by the military on March 15, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)
March 23, 2026, 1:55 pm
Israel and US have tried to take down Iran from the air. History shows the idea lacks legs
Since the 19th century, airpower has enticed military planners with dreams of a clean, short victory using cutting-edge technology. That has proven elusive without ground troops
By Lazar Berman
The aftermath of an Israeli strike targeting a car in the Lebanese town of Majdal Anjar, February 15, 2026. (Screenshot: X)
February 16, 2026, 12:24 am
IDF strike targets Islamic Jihad operatives in Lebanon; 4 reported killed
Attack on members of Palestinian terror group occurs nearly 25 miles north of Lebanon’s border with Israel; Hezbollah operative killed in separate strike
By Emanuel Fabian
President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are seen in the Oval Office of the White House on September 29, 2025, as the prime minister calls his Qatari counterpart. A senior Qatari official is seen seated between Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and US special Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff. (White House)
October 8, 2025, 6:03 pm
Qatari PM’s close ally helped pen Netanyahu apology, was present for call – report
PM’s office rejects ‘fake news’ but confirms Qatari official was in room during apology call over Doha airstrike; report says he was there to ensure PM stayed on script
By Lazar Berman and Nava Freiberg
Staff Sgt. Chalachew Shimon Demalash, 21, of the Nahal Brigade's 932nd Battalion (Israel Defense Forces)
September 25, 2025, 8:59 am
IDF soldier killed in Hamas sniper attack on Gaza City guard post
Staff Sgt. Chalachew Shimon Demalash remembered as ‘brave, modest with a huge heart’; Hamas claims Israeli strike on home containing displaced people kills 11, including children
By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
Top row, left to right: Lt. Matan Shai Yashinovski, Staff Sgt. Ronel Ben-Moshe, Sgt. Ronen Shapiro; Bottom row, left to right: Sgt. Maayan Baruch Pearlstein, Staff Sgt. Niv Radia, Sgt. Shahar Manoav, and Staff Sgt. Alon Davidov. The IDF announced that the seven soldiers were killed amid fighting in the southern Gaza Strip on June 24, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
July 3, 2025, 4:23 pm
IDF vehicle in deadly Hamas attack had critical defects; 94 Gazans said killed
Families outraged over report that APC hatch was tied shut, cameras inoperable; 45 Gazans reported killed near aid sites amid intensified airstrike campaign
By Stav Levaton, AP and ToI Staff
Activists from 'Tzav 9' block the Kerem Shalom crossing with southern Gaza to prevent humanitarian aid from entering the Strip, January 28, 2024. (Courtesy: Tzav 9)
June 6, 2025, 11:25 pm
France opens ‘complicity in genocide’ probes against French-Israelis over blocked Gaza aid
Officials probe French members of hardline Israeli groups that blocked aid trucks; separate investigation opened after IDF strike allegedly kills French woman’s grandchildren
By AFP
Asaf Cafri (left), an IDF reservist who was killed in Gaza on April 25, 2025, and his great-grandmother, Holocaust survivor Magda Baratz, pictured on a billboard set up in Rishon Lezion in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, the day before his death. (Oren Dai/Rishon Lezion Municipality)
April 28, 2025, 2:27 pm
Daily Briefing Apr. 28: Day 570 – IDF reservist killed in Gaza as family marched at Auschwitz
Military reporter Emanuel Fabian visits Strip’s Morag Corridor, reports on rare airstrikes on Beirut; culture editor Jessica Steinberg on March of the Living, Beautiful Six rally
By Amanda Borschel-Dan, Emanuel Fabian and Jessica Steinberg
Fighters from the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror groups before the handover of hostages to the Red Cross in the south Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis, Jan. 30, 2025.(AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
April 21, 2025, 3:21 pm
Islamic Jihad terrorist who took part in October 7 assault killed in strike, IDF says
Army reports airstrikes hit over 200 targets in Gaza over weekend, including terrorist cells and weapons depots
By Stav Levaton
A Yemeni inspects the damage reportedly caused by US airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, April 7, 2025. (AP Photo)
April 10, 2025, 10:18 am
Suspected US strikes overnight in Yemen kill at least 3 people, Houthi rebels say
Bombing said to hit al-Sabeen district of capital Sanaa; toll from earlier attack on Hodeida rises to 13; US military gives no information
By AP and ToI Staff
Illustrative — An Israeli airstrike on Hezbollah targets in the area of Nabatieh in southern Lebanon on September 25, 2024. (Rabih DAHER / AFP)
January 29, 2025, 2:34 pm
Israeli strike in southern Lebanon’s Majdal Selm said to injure five people
No immediate comment from military; Beirut says 24 killed in Israeli strike Tuesday targeting what IDF said were Hezbollah vehicles moving weapons in violation of truce
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Workers walk past broken glass in Sanaa International Airport following Israeli airstrikes on Yemen the previous day, December 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)
December 28, 2024, 3:32 am
WHO chief says he didn’t know if he’d survive Israeli airstrike on Sanaa airport
Top UN official, in Yemen to try to negotiate release of staff held there, declines to engage in recriminations over attack but expresses surprise over targeting of civilian site
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Pope Francis exchanges the season's greetings with Vatican employees, in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, December 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
December 21, 2024, 3:17 pm
Pope condemns Israeli airstrikes in Gaza: ‘This is cruelty. This is not war’
Comments come day after diaspora minister published open letter in Italian newspaper saying pontiff’s earlier remarks amounted to a ‘trivialization’ of the term ‘genocide’
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Left to right: Sgt. First Class. (res.) Alexander Anosov (IDF), Maj. (res.) Moshiko (Maxim) Rozenwald, 35 (Courtesy); Both were killed in a building collapse in the southern Gaza Strip on December 16, 2024.
December 17, 2024, 4:47 pm
Two IDF soldiers killed in southern Gaza building collapse, two injured
Defense minister says Israel to retain security control of Strip post-war and maintain freedom for the military to act like it has in the West Bank
By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
A video circulating on social media purports to show an Israeli airstrike in at the Mezzeh airbase near Damascus, Syria, December 8, 2024. (Screenshot via X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
December 8, 2024, 11:19 pm
As Assad ousted, Israeli jets destroy his deadly arsenals before they fall to rebels
IAF strikes target missile depots, air defenses, chemical sites amid fears that advanced arms could fall into hands of hostile groups; IDF seizes buffer zone, in first since 1974
By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
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