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The scene of a truck bombing on Oct. 22, 1983, at a U.S. Marine base near Beirut Airport that resulted in a huge death toll. Forty years after one of the deadliest attacks against U.S. troops in the Middle East, some warn that Washington could be sliding toward a new conflict in the region. (AP Photo/File)

40 years after Beirut’s deadly Marines bombing, U.S. troops again deploy east of the Mediterranean

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

People help evacuate a Palestinian woman following Israeli airstrikes that targeted her neighbourhood in Gaza City, Monday, Oct. 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Abed Khaled)

Two weeks ago she was thriving. Now, a middle-class mom in Gaza struggles to survive

By Samya Kullab and Najib Jobain - Associated Press

Palestinians look for survivors of the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip in Rafah on Monday, Oct. 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)

AOC says cease-fire with Hamas in charge is needed to save civilian lives

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

Photographs of over one thousand persons killed, missing or abducted in the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7 are displayed on empty seats in an exhibit held under the motto "UNITED AGAINST TERRORISM" in the Smolarz Auditorium at Tel Aviv University, Sunday Oct. 22, 2023, in Tel Aviv. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Israel strikes across Gaza after allowing another small aid convoy into the besieged enclave

By Wafaa Shurafa, Samy Magdy and Joseph Krauss - Associated Press

Illustration on anti-white racial hatred from the left in America by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

‘Woke’ liberals aren’t hiding their hatred anymore

By Everett Piper

Palestinians look for survivers in buildings destroyed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip in Rafah, Sunday, Oct. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)

Israel says it’s stepping up attacks on the Gaza Strip

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Palestinians inspect the damage after an Israeli strike hit a compound beneath a mosque in Jenin refugee camp, West Bank, Sunday, Oct. 22, 2023. The Israeli army said it was being used by militants planning an imminent attack. The Palestinian Ministry of health said two people were killed. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Escalation of Middle East war appears inevitable; more U.S. troops get ‘prepare to deploy’ orders

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

A truck carrying humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip crosses the Rafah border gate in Rafah, Egypt, Sunday, Oct. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Mohammed Asad)

Media reports a convoy of 17 trucks bringing aid to Palestinians crosses into Gaza

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Illustration on Gazans and Hamas by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Gazans aren’t innocent; they are the swamp Hamas swims in

By Don Feder

Palestinian mourners carry the body of Oday Mansour, 17, during his funeral in the West Bank village of Kafr Qallil, Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023. Mansour was killed in clashes with Israeli forces Friday during a protest in support of the Gaza Strip, at a military checkpoint in the flash point town of Hawara, West Bank. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Palestinian death toll in West Bank surges as Israel pursues militants following Hamas rampage

By Amy Teibel - Associated Press

Palestinians rescue a woman after an Israeli airstrike on buildings of the Abu Asad family in Deir el-Balah, southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Eslaiah)

Israel strikes Gaza, Syria and West Bank as war against Hamas threatens to ignite other fronts

By Najib Jobain, Samy Magdy and Ravi Nessman - Associated Press

A Palestinian girl reacts as a child is carried from the rubble of a building after an airstrike in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Live updates | Israel says it’s stepping up attacks on the Gaza Strip

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Smoke rises from inside an Israeli army position which was hit by Hezbollah fighters as seen from Tair Harfa village, a Lebanese border village with Israel, south Lebanon, Friday, Oct. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Hezbollah official says his group already ‘is in the heart’ of Israel-Hamas war

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

In this photo provided by Egypt's presidency media office, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, right, greets Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, during the International peace summit pose for a group picture at the New Administrative Capital, just outside Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023. (Egyptian Presidency Media Office via AP)

At Cairo summit, even Arab leaders at peace with Israel expressed growing anger over the Gaza war

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Palestinians celebrate by a burning Israeli tank at the border fence of the Gaza Strip on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. The militant Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip carried out an unprecedented, multi-front attack on Israel at daybreak Saturday, firing thousands of rockets as dozens of Hamas fighters infiltrated the heavily fortified border in several locations by air, land, and sea and catching the country off-guard on a major holiday. (AP Photo)

In killing Israelis, Hamas may have also targeted Saudi diplomatic deal

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Trucks with humanitarian aid for the 'Gaza Strip enter from Egypt in Rafah on Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Aid trucks enter Gaza as Arab leaders decry ‘injustice’ of Israeli strikes

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Jehad Adwan holds a hand-written list of the names and ages of his wife's relatives – with the word "killed" or "K" next to five of the names, and the word "injured" or "I" beside another five – inside his home in Blaine, Minn., on Monday, Oct. 16, 2023. With every news report, social media post and conversation with a relative, he's keeping track of the toll the Israel-Hamas war is taking on his family, and his wife's family, in Gaza. (AP Photo/Trisha Ahmed)

5 dead and 5 injured — names on a scrap of paper show impact of Gaza war on a U.S. family

By Trisha Ahmed - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the Government of Israel, Judith Raanan, right, and her 17-year-old daughter Natalie are escorted by Israeli soldiers and Gal Hirsch, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's special coordinator for returning the hostages, as they return to Israel from captivity in the Gaza Strip, Friday, Oct. 20, 2023. Hamas released the pair in what it said was a goodwill gesture late Friday, nearly two weeks after they were captured in a bloody cross-border raid by the Islamic militant group. The Hamas attack sparked a war that is entering its third week, and Hamas is believed to still be holding some 200 people hostage. (Government of Israel via AP Photo)

Live updates | Aid starts moving into the Gaza Strip after 2 weeks of war

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Palestinian worshippers pray outside Jerusalem's Old City while Israeli forces stand guard, Friday, Oct. 20, 2023. Israeli police limited access to the Al-Aqsa Mosque inside the Old City only to older men, women and children, trying to limit the potential for demonstrations against Israel's war against Hamas militants. Tens of thousands of worshippers attend on a typical Friday. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Egypt’s border crossing opens to let a trickle of desperately needed aid into besieged Gaza

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People attend a vigil coined "Palestine Lives," to show support for the Palestinians in the latest Israel-Hamas war, in Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

Colombian president’s statements on Gaza jeopardize close military ties with Israel

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