Binyamin Netanyahu

All eyes turn to Washington, where Donald Trump and Binyamin Netanyahu are due to meet

Aid points are run by a US- and Israeli-backed group that largely bypasses the UN-led aid system

Warships and artillery launch one of the deadliest bombardments of territory for months

US plan includes release of 10 living hostages and return of 18 dead in five stages throughout 60-day truce

US Senator says Occupied Territories Bill would cause Ireland ‘self-inflicted economic harm’

Hamas official says militant group is ‘ready and serious regarding reaching an agreement’

Development comes after US president Donald Trump announces Israel agrees to 60-day suspension of hostilities

Israeli military has told political leaders to either end the war or order an expansion

Twenty people, including women, children and a local journalist, killed in Israeli air strike on beachfront cafe

Worldview from Israel: The EU has sent the implicit message that it is fine with what Israel is doing to Palestinians

Almost eight decades of Arab-Israeli conflict explained

Three children and their parents reported killed in Israeli strike on tent camp in Muwasi near city of Khan Younis

Every 20 years the US and Israel attempt to remake the Middle East - always with catastrophic consequences

A Syrian, a Palestinian, an Iranian and an Israeli give their views on how better times might be reached where they live

Israeli prime minister says efforts being made with US to end war and expand regional peace

Ireland must find its way through an uncomfortable world of increased defence spending

The likelihood is that much of Iran’s nuclear capabilities remain intact, and despite calls for regime change there is no sign of Iranians rising up

The party’s candidate for New York’s mayoral election will face a wily political operator in Eric Adams

A map-based guide to understand wars and conflict in the Middle East

Von der Leyen is living proof against the foolish notion that women don’t tolerate warfare

Tánaiste Simon Harris says other EU members need to bring forward their own legislation

But Spain’s prime minister accuses European Union of having ‘double standards’ on conflict

Irish pleas fall on deaf ears amid ‘incomprehensible’ opposition to collective action

Death of seven Israeli soldiers in Khan Younis leads key ally of prime minister to question war in Gaza

It remains to be seen whether the Iranian nuclear programme was obliterated or merely set back

US asks China to put pressure on Iran not to close the crucial Strait of Hormuz shipping route

‘Once the goals are achieved... the fighting will stop’ says Binyamin Netanyahu

EU had been far to slow to act in the face of genocide in Gaza, says Simon Harris

Has Iran’s programme been destroyed or simply pushed into smaller, secret facilities that are harder to find?

Israel-Iran conflict: World braces for Iranian response after US attacks on key nuclear sites

Netanyahu says he has delivered on promise to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities

Binyamin Netanyahu congratulates Donald Trump; UN head warns against ‘spiral of chaos’

Worldview: Donald Trump must steer a path between the domestic promise of no more foreign wars and Netanyahu’s serial gambles on his support in Gaza and Iran

Popular mobilisation in Iran for more than 100 years has been driven by domestic actors in pursuit of domestic agendas - never by external forces

Rival right-wing party Yisrael Beiteinu is the second most popular party with 19 seats

Dublin-based Iranian woman says contact has been lost with her brother

War could destabilise region and destroy decades of hard-won economic advancement

How Israel’s security services pulled off parallel operations in Iran may never fully become public, but early hints are trickling out

President Donald Trump headed back to Washington, amid speculation of direct US action against Iran

More than 80% of Jewish Israelis support the conflict, researchers say