The Pentagon insists that the conflict between Israel and Hamas has not spread into a wider war yet, but experts warn just one miscalculation could change that. Today, the US has carried out further airstrikes against Houthi militants in Yemen and Israel is warning that the likelihood of war on its northern front is "much higher" than in recent times. That's the backdrop for a different escalation of hostilities, this time between Pakistan and Iran, tit for tat airstrikes that both nations claim are aimed at terror bases, as Ivan Watson reports.
Also on today's show: obstetrician Dr. Deborah Harrington; Mark Regev, Senior Advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister; Middle East specialist Dr. Elisabeth Kendall
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Former US National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien
Israel-Hezbollah Conflict Heats Up
How Technology Is Changing Us, for Better or Worse
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai
What's Happening at the G7?
The Heat is On
UN Calls For Ceasefire, But Will Israel And Hamas Approve?
What to make of the European Parliamentary Elections
D-Day, 80 Years of Defending Independence
Biden, Amanpour in France
Remembering D-Day 80 Years Later
Biden's Controversial Border Ban
Ceasefire Hopes Dwindling
Mexico Elects its First Female President
John Legend Explores Afghanistan’s Music Revolution
Former US Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal on Trump Conviction
Impact of Israeli Offensive in Rafah
US Senator Chris Van Hollen on Gaza
Israel Moves in on Central Rafah
Latvian President Edgars Rinkēvičs
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
The Daily
Today in Focus
TIME
Serial
Best of Today