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Qatar's ties to Hamas are controversial but useful. A top Qatari official tells NPR why the Gulf Arab state hosts senior Hamas figures and why Gaza is a policy priority.

Vice President JD Vance arrives in Israel as part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to bolster a Mideast ceasefire that's already proving shaky.

Israel bombed the Syrian capital Damascus on Wednesday, saying it targeted the Syrian military headquarters and the area near the presidential palace to protect the Druze religious minority in Syria.

Antony Blinken is meeting with Israeli leaders in Tel Aviv as part of his Mideast visit aimed at containing the war in Gaza, and preventing a wider conflict.

The latest from the Israel-Lebanon border, where tensions have been rising after a Hamas leader was killed in Beirut last week and Hezbollah retaliated by firing rockets into Israel on Saturday.

In Lebanon, Israel launched more air strikes in a new front in the war with the militant group Hezbollah. Hezbollah took a group of journalists to the Bekka Valley, where Israel has been attacking.

President Biden is giving an address from the Oval about how he will 'finish the job' — without a second term in office.

A new front has opened in the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran — and it's online. From Lego soldiers to Trump Teletubbies, Iran's propaganda is trolling the president while rattling global markets.

Could president Biden do more? NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Jonah Blank a political scientist at the RAND Corporation and a former foreign policy adviser for Biden when he was in the Senate.

Israeli leaders are beginning to talk about the possibility of opening a new front in the north in Lebanon — while the Israeli offensive in Gaza sees a rising death toll.