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Analysis: While stopping short of declaring all-out war on Israel, Hezbollah is keeping its options open.

As the toll mounts in the Israel-Hamas war, crucial Biden allies at home and abroad are alleging hypocrisy. Does the U.S. prioritize humanitarian aims only when convenient? It is scrambling to prove otherwise.

Hezbollah and other Iran-backed groups support Hamas, but haven’t opened new fronts

While the world’s attention was turned to Israel vs. Hamas, there was a major development in that other war raging in eastern Europe: Ukraine’s top general said his forces won’t have a “beautiful breakthrough” against Russia any time soon.

Repeated attacks on American troops in the Middle East risk drawing the United States into a conflict with Iran even as Washington strives to prevent fighting between Israel and Hamas from spiraling into a regional war.The United States has repeatedly said it wants to keep the Israel-Hamas war from becoming a broader conflict and has bolstered its forces in the region -- including with one carrier strike group that is there and another in transit -- as part of its deterrence efforts.

Repeated attacks on American troops in the Middle East risk drawing the United States into a conflict with Iran even as Washington strives to prevent fighting between Israel and Hamas from spiraling into a regional war.

Repeated attacks on American troops in the Middle East risk drawing the United States into a conflict with Iran even as Washington strives to prevent fighting between Israel and Hamas from spiraling into a regional war. The United States has blamed the spike in rocket and drone attacks -- at least 14 in Iraq and nine in Syria since October 17 -- on Iran-backed forces, and carried out strikes last week in Syria on sites the Pentagon said were linked to Tehran, AFP reported.

Repeated attacks on American troops in the Middle East risk drawing the United States into a conflict with Iran even as Washington strives to prevent fighting between Israel and Hamas from spiralling into a regional war.

“Israel is not deliberately trying to kill civilians,” NSC spokesperson John Kirby said.

When the US military entered Iraq on March 20, 2003, newspapers around the world left no room to question what was going on. "WAR," a half-page headline of the San Francisco Chronicle authoritatively declared. "Major offensive underway," Germanys Rheinische Post newspaper...