Three hostages were handed over to Israeli forces — the first of 33 expected to be freed over the next six weeks in exchange for some 1,900 Palestinians. The deal follows months of negotiations.

Hamas commander Hussein Fayyad, whom the Israeli military claimed to have killed last May, has appeared in a newly surfaced video, according to the Palestinian media outlet Arab48. The footage ...

To get an understanding of just how much Hamas ruined the place, I’ll break down the following into two parts. First, what Gaza looked like before October 7 th. Second, what further concessions Israel was poised to make to the Palestinians before Hamas attacked Israel.

Migrants expressed their dismay and sense of betrayal on Wednesday over Italy's decision last week to release a Libyan policeman wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes and human rights abuses and allow him to return home.

It appeared, as if to adhere to the January 20th deadline, the immense pressure has achieved a half-baked solution with several loose ends. But a good beginning has been made and must be held to the h

This week, Israel and Hamas began implementing a complex ceasefire ... Just as we entered Karabakh and Libya, we will do the same to Israel. There's nothing left to do, we must be strong."

The Gaza war that began on 7 October 2023 was suspended with a 42-day ceasefire on 19 January 2025. Hamas’s October surprise resulted in the worst loss of lives of Jews in one attack since

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez praised Egypt's central role in securing the ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel in Gaza during a phone call with President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi on.

Tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians began returning home to northern Gaza on Monday, bracing for what awaits them in a region that has been reduced to rubble by months of brutal bombardment and fighting.

The ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon and regime change in Syria are being touted as ending the conflicts in the Middle East, but the obstacles to peace remain daunting

As Israel and Hamas inched precariously towards the first stage of their ceasefire deal, memories of the years I spent travelling to, working in and reporting from Gaza were resurfacing.

The US-brokered agreement with Israel of the United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Sudan and Bahrain in 2020 is called the ‘Abraham Accord’. Through this agreement, UAE and Bahrain restored their diplomatic relations with Israel. The deal ended decades of Israeli boycott of the Gulf countries.