A cease-fire between Israel and Hamas is a welcome reprieve from the catastrophe we have seen in the Middle East. It’s also a tragic reminder of the lives lost and the ones that the fighting has ...

After winning the 2024 election, he dispatched his Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, to the region to help the Biden administration get the Israel-Hamas cease-fire and hostage-release deal over ...

Some continued violence is typical after cease-fire agreements, according to experts. In the case of the parallel war between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon, in which a truce went into effect in ...

The first three Israeli hostages were released Sunday under a cease-fire deal in the Gaza Strip, beginning a drawn-out process that halted more than a year of war and will see 33 captives freed ...

DEIR AL BALAH, Gaza Strip — A cease-fire between Hamas and Israel took effect Sunday, silencing the guns over Gaza and renewing hopes of a possible end to a 15-month conflict that has killed ...

Aid trucks have also begun flowing through Gaza. The deal tees off an initial six-week cease-fire, during which 33 Israeli hostages (some of them deceased) and hundreds of Palestinian prisoners ...

A cease-fire in the war in Gaza went into effect on Sunday morning after an almost three-hour delay. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office announced that the cease-fire would commence ...

Israeli officials were scrambling. They had just been told that Steve Witkoff, President-elect Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy, was on his way to Jerusalem. It was Saturday, Jan. 11, and Prime ...

The terrorist group Hamas released three hostages from Gaza hours after a cease-fire deal with Israel took effect after a brief delay Sunday. Romi Gonen, 24, Emily Demari, 27, and Doron ...

The second phase of the cease-fire still needs to be worked out, and the deal doesn’t begin to address long-term questions about Gaza’s recovery. Editor’s note: This editorial has been ...

Israel's government approved a cease-fire and hostage deal with Hamas this week. The cease-fire began on Sunday as Hamas released its first few hostages. 3 hostages returned to Israel, where they were ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday there will be “hell to pay” if the Palestinian militant group Hamas violates any of the terms of its cease-fire deal with Israel. “You cannot allow ...