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There are fears of wider conflict in the Middle East after Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh, who was in Iran for the inauguration of the country's new president, was killed in Tehran. Merissa Khurma, the Middle East Program director at the Wilson Center, joins CBS News with her analysis.
Global crude prices jumped more than $2 a barrel after Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in an air strike.
The U.S. says it was an Israeli operation that killed Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said they had not been informed of the strike in advance. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Charlie D'Agata has more on the U.S. reaction to the killing and how it may affect negotiations for a cease-fire in Gaza.
A U.S. official tells CBS News' Margaret Brennan that the U.S. assesses it was an Israeli airstrike that killed Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh overnight. Haniyeh's killing came hours after the assassination of a top Hezbollah commander in Lebanon, with both deaths stoking fears that the Middle East is at the precipice of all-out war. CBS News' Imtiaz Tyab and Debora Patta have the latest from the region.
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh has been killed in Iran's capital city, Tehran, where he attended the swearing-in of Iran's new president Tuesday. Hamas announced the news early Wednesday, blaming an Israeli airstrike for the death and vowing to make Israel regret the assassination. Haniyeh's death came hours after Israel confirmed it killed a top Hezbollah commander in a suburb of Beirut, Lebanon. CBS News' Imtiaz Tyab and Ian Lee have more.
There are about 40 militant groups backed by Iran in the region, including one that claimed the deadly drone strike on a U.S. base in Jordan.
Israel launched a strike against Hezbollah Tuesday in Lebanon's capital city of Beirut. The Israeli military says the strike was in response to a weekend attack that killed 12 children and teenagers in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights. CBS News foreign correspondent Imtiaz Tyab is at the scene in Beirut.
The Israeli military struck the Lebanese capital city of Beirut on Tuesday. The strike targeted a Hezbollah military commander that Israel believes was behind a weekend rocket attack that killed 12 teens and children in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights. CBS News foreign correspondent Debora Patta has more from Jerusalem.
Vice President Kamala Harris said "Israel has a right to defend itself" after it conducted a strike Tuesday in a suburb of Beirut. The Israeli military says it was targeting the man allegedly behind an attack in the Golan Heights that killed multiple children and teens. CBS News intelligence and national security reporter Olivia Gazis has more.
Israeli forces struck a suburb of Beirut, saying they were targeting a senior Hezbollah leader. The strike was in retaliation for an attack in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights that killed 12 children, as many fear the conflict could escalate into a full-scale war. Imtiaz Tyab reports.
Israel's military says it carried out a strike in Lebanon targeting the Hezbollah leader who may have been behind the Golan Heights rocket attack in Israel. CBS News contributor Andrew Boyd, the former chief of operations in the CIA's Counterterrorism Mission Center, joins CBS News with more details.
Israel's military says it struck multiple Hezbollah targets in Lebanon overnight as fears grow of a wider conflict in the Middle East. Also, several Israeli soldiers have been reportedly arrested over their apparent abuse of a Palestinian prisoner. CBS News' Debora Patta is following the latest developments.
Fears of a wider war in the Middle East are growing after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised a severe response to the rocket strike that killed 12 children and teenagers in the Golan Heights Saturday. Israel is blaming Lebanon's Hezbollah for the attack, but the militant group denies responsibility. CBS News foreign correspondent Imtiaz Tyab reports from the Lebanese capital of Beirut.
Far-right Israelis try to storm military base and lawmaker defends rape of Hamas suspects as 9 IDF reservists face questioning over alleged prisoner abuse.
Right-wing Israeli nationalists stormed two military facilities Monday in protest of the arrest of nine IDF reservists accused of abusing a Palestinian prisoner who was a Hamas operative. CBS News foreign correspondent Debora Patta has more.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the site of a rocket attack that killed at least 12 children and teens in the Golan Heights. Israel and the U.S. blamed Hezbollah for the strike. Hezbollah denied carrying out the attack. CBS News' Debora Patta reports.
Some flights into Bierut suspended as the world waits to see how Israel will respond to a deadly rocket strike in the Golan Heights.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday in Florida. The meeting took place just one day after the Israeli leader met with President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris separately at the White House. Jon Alterman, senior vice president and director of the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, joins to examine how the high-stakes talks could shape American foreign policy in the Middle East.
Former President Donald Trump commented on his relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after the pair met in Florida Friday, taking a few questions from the press after the closed-door meeting. CBS News campaign reporter Katrina Kaufman reports.
The president and vice president pressured Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu to reach a cease-fire deal for Gaza, but the truce talks may have suffered a new blow.
291 days into his Israel's war on Hamas, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing waves of outrage at home and in Washington.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in Washington, D.C., where he will meet with American lawmakers, including President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. Netanyahu will also reportedly meet with former President Donald Trump in Florida. CBS News chief White House correspondent Nancy Cordes reports.
Beijing says rivals Hamas and Fatah agree to form a Palestinian unity government. Israel says it "won't happen."
Israeli strikes on oil storage facilities at a Houthi-held port in Yemen sparked a fire that crews have been unable to control.
Israel said it carried out airstrikes Saturday on a city in Yemen controlled by the Houthi militant group. The airstrikes came one day after the Iranian-backed Houthis claimed responsible for a drone attack in Tel Aviv. Debora Patta reports.
The murder of Charlie Kirk last week follows a litany of violent acts against political targets. Historian Jon Meacham talks about the existential questions now facing America.
Tyler Robinson, 22, was arrested on charges of aggravated murder, obstruction of justice and felony discharge of a firearm for the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
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Desmond Holly and several school shooters in the past year were active on the same website, the ADL says.
In a joint segment with Republican Sen. James Lankford, Democratic Sen. Chris Coons said amid efforts to foster bipartisan discourse, the internet "is driving extremism in our country."
The strike on the Kirishi refinery, in Russia's northwestern Leningrad region, follows weeks of Ukrainian attacks on Russian oil infrastructure that Kyiv says fuels Moscow's war effort.
Rep. Michael McCaul, a foreign policy leader who had strongly supported Ukraine, warned Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin is "testing the resolve of NATO."
No injuries have been reported but there have been at least 27 reports of the mini fridges overheating and catching on fire, the recall announcement said.
Venezuela's foreign ministry said nine fishermen were "illegally and hostilely" detained on Friday by the USS Jason Dunham.