The news in the Middle East is so good, it looks as if peace might break out any moment. Israel and Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire. They have already exchanged three Israeli hostages for 90 ...

Palestinians returned home in Gaza amid a ceasefire, while Israeli forces launched a major operation in Jenin, killing two ...

Reports say US security contractors, Egyptian firm to be tasked with monitoring Netzarim corridor to ensure Palestinians traveling between southern and northern Gaza aren't armed The post Trump’s ...

Israeli troops have pulled back to the edges of Gaza, the first hostages have been released and many Palestinians have returned to what remains of their homes in the first few days of the Israel-Hamas ...

Slifer's cousin, Carmel Gat, was among six hostages killed in Gaza last spring, a loss that she lives with daily. There's nothing she prays harder for than the safe return of all hostages, but ...

Houthis in Yemen have released the 25 crew members of the cargo ship Galaxy Leader, which it seized in November 2023 when an organized campaign of attacks on ships in the Red Sea began, linked to the ...

Life expectancy in the Gaza Strip was nearly cut in half in the first year of the war between Israel and Hamas, a new study has estimated.

The Al Jazeera news network says the Palestinian Authority arrested one of its reporters after preventing him from covering ...

Thousands of Palestinians are returning home with hope, as the ceasefire and hostage agreement between Israel and Hamas enters its fifth day. According to the United Nations, about 1.9 million of Gaza ...

The Israeli professor whose class was interrupted thinks the incident could mark a ‘turning point’ not just for Columbia, but for ‘the academic sphere ...

Israeli forces raided a terror cell in the West Bank while diplomats began pushing back on its cease-fire deal with Hezbollah to the north – two shows of force after the cease-fire in Gaza halted ...

January 23, 2025; Washington, D.C. — NPR has won a 2025 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award for its coverage of the war in Gaza. The prestigious duPont-Columbia Award honors outstanding public service in ...