Hezbollah picks cleric Naim Kassem to lead the Lebanese militant group
The cleric takes over after Israel killed Hezbollah's longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, in an airstrike in a Beirut suburb in late September.
Iran-backed groups
Israel's military fights Hezbollah in Lebanon, as it vows to respond to Iran's missiles
The Middle East is bracing for a wider war as Israel fights in Gaza and Lebanon, and as Israel promises a strong response to Iran's missile strikes.
Israel launches a 'limited' ground offensive in southern Lebanon
The Israeli military has launched what it called a "limited, localized" ground offensive in southern Lebanon against the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.
Netanyahu defies calls for a cease-fire at the U.N., as Israel strikes Lebanon
In a fiery speech at the United Nations General Assembly, the Israeli prime minister said his country would is "winning" and would attack Iran and its proxies anywhere in the Middle East.
U.N. peacekeepers take cover as Lebanon's Hezbollah and Israel trade attacks
“The situation is really quite volatile,” Capt. Alessandro Crepy, with the Italian contingent of the peacekeeping group UNIFIL, says of the fighting between forces in Israel and Lebanon.
China is mostly quiet on Houthi attacks in the Red Sea
China's charting its own course, distancing itself from the U.S. in the Middle East, refusing to condemn the Houthis and looking to capitalize on ties with regional players to help solve the crisis.
U.S. drone strike kills a leader of an Iran-backed militia in Iraq
A U.S. drone strike in the Iraqi capital has killed at least one leader of an Iran-backed militia, Kataib Hezbollah.
Iran's regional flashpoints are increasing. Here's what to know
Pakistan and Iran have traded cross-border rocket attacks, stoking fears of widening conflict even farther.