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As the ceasefire takes hold in the Middle East, WRAL News speaks with the North Carolina native who was released from Hamas custody earlier this year. What he endured, what he witnessed and what's next.
Attacks exchanged between Israel and Iran on Friday left dozens dead and wounded on both sides, with tensions threatening to escalate into a broader regional conflict.
Oil prices, which surged after Israel attacked Iran early Friday, could stay high as long as tensions are elevated in the Middle East.
Rebecca F. Elliott, New York Times
For more than 30 years, Stanley Robboy and Marion Meyer-Robboy have lived in the Triangle. Since October 2023, they've worried about Hamas holding Meyer-Robboy's cousin captive.
Israel's cabinet unanimously voted to sanction the nation's oldest newspaper, Haaretz, on Sunday citing its critical coverage of the war following the October 7 Hamas attacks and comments by the outlet's publisher calling for sanctions on senior government officials.
Lucas Lilieholm and Eugenia Yosef, CNN
Israel has overseen the forced mass displacement of Palestinians in Gaza in a deliberate and systematic campaign that amounts to a war crime and a crime against humanity, according to a new Human Rights Watch report.
By Mick Krever and Irene Nasser, CNN
(CNN) -- The US carried out a round of strikes in Yemen against the Iran-backed Houthis on Wednesday evening, according to three US defense officials, targeting weapons storage facilities, including underground facilities.
By Oren Liebermann, Natasha Bertrand and Haley Britzky, CNN
After nine months in the Middle East, 1,600 members of the Fort Liberty 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade are home and reunited with their families.
Ismail Haniyeh, one of the most senior Hamas leaders, was assassinated in Iran, the country's Revolutionary Guard and Hamas said Wednesday, a severe blow to the Palestinian group that threatens to engulf the region in further conflict.
Farnaz Fassihi, Adam Rasgon and Ronen Bergman, New York Times
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said Monday he is seeking arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in connection with their actions during the seven-month war between Israel and Hamas.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country's foreign minister and several other officials were killed in a helicopter crash, state media reported.
Sunday morning, all eyes are on the Middle East after Iran launched a barrage of hundreds of drones and cruise missiles at Israel Saturday night.
Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024 -- Two-state diplomacy in the Middle East has improbably been given a new lease on life by the Israel-Hamas war, the continuing possibility of Saudi Arabia and Israel normalizing their relationship, and the efforts of the Biden administration to put the pieces of the puzzle together.
The U.S. carried out dozens of strikes over the weekend in response to a deadly attack on a U.S. base in Jordan. The secretary of state is now in the region and said the U.S. is not finished.
Days after a drone strike against a U.S. Army base in Jordan killed three soldiers -- which military officials are blaming an Iranian-backed militia active in Iraq -- North Carolina politicians on both sides of the aisle are calling for action.
Will Doran, WRAL state government reporter
U.S. officials say retaliatory strikes against the Iranian-backed militias responsible for the deadly drone attack in Jordan last weekend could last weeks.
Pro-Palestinian protestors disrupted a speaking engagement at UNC featuring a speaker they said conflates anti-zionism and antisemitism.
Israel said its forces were operating still in and around Gaza's biggest hospital Thursday, a chief objective in its campaign to destroy Hamas militants that the army says stored weapons and ran a command center in tunnels beneath the buildings.
President Biden's humanitarian "pause" allowed hundreds of Palestinians with foreign passports and dozens of wounded to leave Gaza for the first time on Wednesday. Dozens more left on Thursday.
Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder spoke with reporters Thursday about how troops are being sent "to deter a broader conflict."
The Pentagon says it is sending Patriot Missile battalions to the Middle East because of attacks on U.S. Forces in Iraq and Syria. Some of those missiles will come from Fort Liberty.
Army air defense units from Fort Liberty are deploying to the Middle East amid the Israel-Hamas war, the Pentagon said Tuesday.
Fort Liberty troops are being deployed to the Middle East amid the Israel-Hamas war.
Gilbert Baez, WRAL Fayetteville reporter
