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A new Human Rights Watch report found Hamas committed numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity during the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel. Human Rights Watch also tells CBS News that due to lack of access, they have been unable to do a comprehensive report on Israel's conduct in Gaza. CBS News correspondent Debora Patta has more.
Speakers taking the stage for the third day of the Republican National Convention will spotlight national security and foreign policy, including the ongoing wars in Ukraine and the Middle East. Seth Jones, senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, joined CBS News to discuss how Republicans have recently approached those conflicts.
The U.S. State Department says it's troubled by the recent deaths of civilians in Gaza and says the number of civilian casualties is still unacceptably high as the Israeli military continues its offensive in the enclave. Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressed those feelings to two senior Israeli officials in his ongoing push for a cease-fire in Gaza and hostage release deal. CBS News foreign correspondent Debora Patta has more.
Hamas rejected the idea that mediated cease-fire discussions had been suspended after the strike.
The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier strike group, which includes three other warships, was protecting merchant vessels and allied warships under fire in a vital Red Sea corridor.
Several squadrons of U.S. fighter jets made a hero's homecoming Friday, arriving in Virginia after a tense nine-month deployment in the Middle East. They were part of a strike group with the USS Eisenhower aircraft carrier confronting Iranian-backed Houthi militants. Charlie D'Agata has details.
Dozens of bodies have reportedly been found in the rubble of Gaza City in the midst of Israel's latest offensive there. The discovery comes as both Israel and Hamas blame each other for undercutting cease-fire talks and President Biden calls for an immediate end to the fighting. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Holly Williams has more.
A U.S. official says the Biden administration will release a shipment of 500-pound bombs to Israel that they've withheld since May over concerns about how the munitions could be used. The move comes as Israel issues a new evacuation order for Gaza City as part of another offensive there. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Holly Williams has more.
Israel has been dropping leaflets on Gaza City telling residents there to evacuate as the new IDF ground invasion in the city continues. The evacuation order comes after dozens in southern Gaza were reportedly killed in a strike on a school that had been converted into a shelter. BBC News correspondent Nick Beake joined CBS News with more.
An Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter in southern Gaza killed at least 25 Palestinians on Tuesday. Israel is continuing to hit Gaza with deadly air and ground assaults as CIA Director Bill Burns arrives in Qatar to discuss a potential hostage and cease-fire deal. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Holly Williams is on the ground in Tel Aviv.
Israeli forces are advancing into Gaza City with what residents are calling some of the heaviest airstrikes and artillery barrages since the conflict began. Hamas says the new offensive could have dire consequences on cease-fire talks. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Holly Williams has more.
A panel of rights experts appointed by the U.N. has accused Israel of "genocidal violence" with a "targeted starvation campaign" in Gaza.
A heart surgeon is now Iran's next president. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer and Florida International University professor Eric Lob join to discuss how reformist Masoud Pezeshkian was able to beat his ultraconservative opponent, and what his win might mean for the future of Iran.
Top U.S. officials have arrived in Cairo to discuss a cease-fire and hostage deal between Israel and Hamas. CBS News' Holly Williams has the latest on where negotiations stand and a look at some of the destruction in the city of Rafah.
With more Israelis calling for a cease-fire deal in the war against Hamas in Gaza, CBS News traveled with the IDF into Rafah, where Israel recently carried out a widely criticized ground offensive. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Holly Williams has more.
Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian will be Iran's new president after topping hard-liner Saeed Jalili in this weekend's runoff election marked by low voter turnout. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer has more.
Israel's military brings journalists to Rafah to see what it says it has accomplished there. The city is destroyed, but the fight goes on.
The militant group – which controlled Gaza before triggering the war with an Oct. 7 attack on Israel – has reportedly given initial approval of the cease-fire deal.
A senior U.S. official said Saturday that the response from the militant group Hamas to an existing cease-fire proposal in the war with Israel "may provide the basis for closing the deal." The details of the cease-fire plan were initially outlined by President Biden in May and include the release of female, elderly and wounded hostages in stage one, and the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza in stage two. Holly Williams has details.
It's been five weeks since President Biden announced a cease-fire proposal to attempt to end the war in Gaza. Now, there are new signs that progress might be being made as Israel and Hamas attempt to make a deal through their intermediaries.
The Biden administration has voiced concern over the prospect of a full-scale war between Israel and Hamas ally Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and China's Xi Jinping met Wednesday for the second time in two months. Markus Garlauskas, director of the Atlantic Council's Indo-Pacific Security Initiative, joins to discuss.
Fighting along Israel's northern border with Lebanon is intensifying, while the IDF continues airstrikes in southern Gaza after ordering more evacuations. CBS News foreign correspondent Holly Williams has the latest.
Israel's strikes across its northern border on Lebanon have killed a senior Hezbollah field commander, according to a new Reuters report. Sebastian Usher, Middle East analyst for BBC News, joined CBS News with more on the situation.
Masoud Pezeshkian and Saeed Jalili are headed to a runoff presidential election on Friday to replace the late hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash in May.
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."
The device had been lit but "failed to function as designed," a Unified Fire Authority Investigations officer wrote in affidavits of probable cause.
Venezuela's foreign ministry said nine fishermen were "illegally and hostilely" detained on Friday by the USS Jason Dunham.