With tensions rising across the region, The Independent explores the history of the conflict below and explains why Israel and Iran are attacking each other. Israel and Iran have been engaged in ...

through a history of shadow wars and clandestine attacks by land, sea, air and cyberspace. 1979 - Iran's pro-Western leader Mohammed Reza Shah, who regarded Israel as an ally, is swept from power ...

President Donald Trump told reporters that if Iran does not give up its nuclear weapons program, military action led by Israel is a real ... about the nature of the timeline.

A letter was published a while back claiming that Israel is a “squatter” nation with no rights to that land. The writer, whom I will not embarrass by naming, also ...

The latest attack on al-Ahli Arab Hospital on Sunday comes as Israel seized a corridor south of the war-battered Palestinian territory and said it planned to expand its military offensive after ...

So, instead of my normal column complaining about the mischief and mayhem within the current government, I have compiled a neat and tidy timeline ... of media reports in Israel allege commercial ...

While Israel has not formally declared an end to the January ceasefire agreement with Hamas, Tuesday marked a turning point in the region, threatening to renew full-scale warfare. Here's a timeline of ...

Israel has repeatedly used food and international humanitarian aid as a tool of collective pressure against Palestinians over 17 months of its devastating war on the Gaza Strip. Civilians in the ...

The first phase of a fragile ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas in Gaza crumbled earlier this week after Israel pounded the enclave with heavy airstrikes — the deadliest since the ...