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US officials are in the early stages of drawing up plans for wider evacuations of Americans across the Middle East that would potentially be carried out if conflict between Israel and Hamas forces spills out into a wider regional conflict, the White House said on Monday.

The Israel-Gaza conflict is likely to leave people in the region struggling with trauma-related mental health symptoms for a long time to come.

The flare-up in the Middle East sparked by the Hamas attack on Israel is rekindling deep tensions in France.

Once again, the Gaza Strip is at the epicentre of violence in the Middle East. This tiny 41km-by-13km band of territory on the Mediterranean, sandwiched between the often hostile neighbours of Israel and Egypt, has faced repeated rounds of violence in recent history – but the current war is the…

A Lebanese front is unlikely: it wouldn’t be in Iran’s interests, as it would probably spark US intervention, says Lina Khatib, director of the Soas Middle East Institute

Israel has ramped up airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, reducing residential buildings to rubble and crushing families

The deadly fighting between Israel and Hamas has brought the long-festering Israeli-Palestinian conflict back to the fore, fueling international calls to revive a dormant Mideast peace process. But are pleas for peace still audible amid all the trauma? FRANCE 24 spoke to Israeli peace activists and former government officials about…

Contingency force on standby if Australians in region need to be flown to safety, Richard Marles says

The state visit for Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was planned months ago. But the Middle East crisis prompted the White House to change the tenor of the event.