Editor’s note: A previous version of this article and an accompanying chart misstated the dimensions of the “buffer zone” used to evaluate umpires before this year. That buffer zone should ...

Israel's military is expanding buffer zones inside the Gaza Strip and taking over more areas of the territory, shrinking land ...

Israel’s military has transformed every bit of Gazan territory within about half a mile of the Israeli border into a wasteland.

Russian forces are trying to create a “buffer zone” in Ukraine’s northeastern Sumy region, its regional governor claimed.

When Israel resumed the war last month, it doubled the size of the buffer zone, pushing it as far as 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) into Gaza in some places, according to a map issued by the military.

This month, Israel said the buffer zone now extends north to the city of Khan Younis and the newly declared Morag Corridor. These significant changes in the Gaza map have occurred since Israel ...