{"id":8225,"date":"2026-03-18T19:00:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T19:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/have-america-and-israel-escalated-the-war-in-the-middle-east-world-news\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T19:00:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T19:00:51","slug":"have-america-and-israel-escalated-the-war-in-the-middle-east-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/have-america-and-israel-escalated-the-war-in-the-middle-east-world-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Have America and Israel escalated the war in the Middle East? | world News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-component-name=\"ui-article-body\" data-testid=\"article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\" https:\/\/podfollow.com\/the-world-with-richard-and-yalda\">\ud83d\udc49Listen to The World with Richard Engel and Yalda Hakim on your podcast app\ud83d\udc48<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is Israel going to occupy Lebanon? Why is Donald Trump sending more troops to the Middle East? And what&#8217;s it really like reporting from an active war zone?<\/p>\n<p>Yalda and Richard discuss the latest developments in Iran and what the assassination of the country&#8217;s security chief Ali Larijani could mean for any peace process.<\/p>\n<p>They assess the Gulf states&#8217; response to the war and see what impact deploying troops on the ground can have on the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Israel says its forces have launched a &#8220;limited and targeted&#8221; ground operation against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. What is the justification for this? The pair investigate the possible cause and talk about when they were both there in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ll both be answering listener questions, so write them here<strong> theworld@sky.uk<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can also watch the podcast on our YouTube channel <strong><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@TheWorldwithRichardandYalda\">Here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\udc49Listen to The World with Richard Engel and Yalda Hakim on your podcast app\ud83d\udc48 Is Israel going to occupy Lebanon? Why is Donald Trump sending more troops to the Middle East? And what&#8217;s it really like reporting from an active war zone? Yalda and Richard discuss the latest developments in Iran and what the assassination<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[445,1012,3041,528,1011,615,367,166],"class_list":{"0":"post-8225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bible-news","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-east","10":"tag-escalated","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-middle","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-war","15":"tag-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8227,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8225\/revisions\/8227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}