The kingdom’s de facto leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was once shunned in diplomatic circles. Now he is playing an important role in negotiations over Gaza and Ukraine. Hamas said it ...

But Arab states have yet to tackle critical issues like who will foot the bill for Gaza's reconstruction or how the Strip will be governed. Middle Eastcategory Netanyahu says Hamas will pay for ...

President Donald Trump says he has asked Jordan to accept Palestinians from Gaza and plans to press Egypt to do the same. Trump said he spoke to Jordan’s King Abdullah II on Saturday ...

Kidnapped from Kibbutz Nahal Oz on Oct 7. Hamas filmed her bleeding as she was pushed into a truck to be taken to Gaza. She has a twin sister who serves in the Israeli military. She was released ...

Palestinians in the occupied West Bank say the Israel is using the same tactics it used in Gaza to forcibly expel them. The clock is ticking towards phase two of the Gaza ceasefire deal but there ...

The announcement came several hours after the Israeli army announced that it was retrieving bodies that might have been hostages from Gaza. Goldberg-Polin’s name was on the list of those rumored ...

The US State Department said that it was celebrating the release of Liri Albag, Daniella Gilboa, Karina Ariev, and Naama Levy in a Saturday statement. It emphasized that it is "critical that the ...

Israel does not allow foreign journalists to report independently in Gaza. To make this film, two producers based in London remotely directed two cameramen on the ground in Gaza over nine months ...

For instance, the United States, classified as “severely polarized” and ranked 3rd among 28 countries for polarization, illustrates how AI-generated propaganda exacerbates societal divisions ...

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The conflict between Israel and Palestinians — and other groups in the Middle East — goes back decades. These stories provide context for current developments and the history that led up to them.

The Israeli military received the bodies of four dead captives, handed over by Hamas to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the Gaza Strip, as stipulated in the ceasefire ...