Jane Arraf

With hunger growing in Gaza and aid down to a trickle, donor countries are increasingly resorting to air drops to help desperate Palestinians.

The war in Gaza is creating tensions across the Middle East, nowhere more so than Iraq, where Iran-backed militias are attacking US bases and forcing a dangerous confrontation.

Iraq's annual book fair opens today in Baghdad. But even when indulging in their favorite diversion, for Iraqis, war is always in the subtext

The war in Gaza is creating tensions across the Middle East. Nowhere more so than Iraq, where Iran-backed militias are attacking U.S. bases and forcing a dangerous confrontation.

A trans woman's harrowing journey to Australia from Iraqi Kurdistan through Lebanon and her struggle for a happier life.

Anti-U.S. sentiment is growing in Iraq as Iran-backed militia buries leader killed in U.S. strike.

The airstrike that killed a leader of an Iran-backed militia in Baghdad has stoked tensions in the region.

After a weekend of U.S. air strikes targeting Iranian-backed militias, Iraq buries fighters killed in the attacks, as pressure grows for U.S. withdrawal.

The U.S. has conducted a series of retaliatory strikes against Iran-backed militants in Iraq and Syria. Our correspondent in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, has the latest.

A group called the "Islamic Resistance in Iraq" has claimed responsibility for a drone attack that killed three U.S. service members in Jordan. It creates a threat to the U.S. military in the region.

A drone attack over the weekend that killed three U.S. soldiers at a remote base in Jordan was attributed to Iran-backed militias. President Biden says the U.S. "shall respond" to the attack

We look at the deadly Saturday night strike on the border of Syria and Jordan. It struck barracks housing U.S. troops.

The U.S. military is being drawn into dangerous flashpoints in the Middle East after Israel invaded Gaza. Iraq faces pressure to expel U.S. forces, which have been attacked by Iran-backed militias.

Iran has launched missile strikes against what they claim were an Israeli "spy headquarters" in Iraq's Kurdistan Region - raising fears about a widening conflict in the Middle East

In Yemen, the Houthi are responding to the U.S.-U.K. air strikes, vowing their actions will not go without "punishment or retaliation." All of this is raising fears of a wider regional war.

In Beirut, thousands attend the funeral of the top Hamas official, assassinated in what some claim was an Israeli drone strike.

In 1982, local militias allied with Israel killed hundreds in Lebanon's Shatila camp. While much has changed in the camp in the last four decades, Palestinians still hold the memory.

Since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel and Israel's offensive in Gaza, there has been fighting on Israel's northern border too, where Hezbollah and Iran are eager to avoid all-out war.

People in southern Lebanon got a brief respite from the recent fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, but that ended when the fighting in Gaza fighting.

Two Lebanese TV journalists have been killed covering shelling across the border between Israel and the Lebanese based militia Hezbollah. The network says they were targeted, a charge Israel denies.