Month: January 1970

Read CNN Fast Facts about the 1983 bombing at a Marine compound in Beirut, Lebanon, that killed 241 US service personnel.

Five people, two minors among them, have been detained by Israeli police after an attack by Jewish settlers on a Palestinian village in the West Bank.

Five Palestinians have been killed and two arrested Saturday night as part of a days-long operation targeting Hamas in the West Bank, the Israel Defense Forces said.

Hezbollah has threatened to “usurp” the Lebanese judge investigating the Beirut port blast in a verbal message to him in recent days, a source familiar with the conversation has told … Read More

High in the Dubai mountains, where there’s little vegetation, bees struggle to survive the summer heat. But one bee farm is working on ways to breed bees that can thrive … Read More

View the Ehud Olmert Fast Facts on CNN and learn more information about the former prime minister of Israel.

LGBTQ people in Afghanistan who spoke to CNN say they need help to escape Taliban fighters before they are discovered and forced to face the new regime’s brutal laws.

New Prime Minister Najib Mikati urged Lebanon’s people to put their trust in his government as he seeks “quick fixes” to help his economically shattered country.

The new Israeli government that toppled long-serving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this summer is full of contradictions. There’s pro-peace leftists, pro-settlement right-wingers, pragmatic centrists and even for the first time … Read More