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Syrian president Sharaa fostered 'genocidal culture' against minorities, former hostage says

Middle East

Netanyahu says Israel and Hamas expected to begin Gaza ceasefire's second phase soon

Middle East

Gaza mediators Qatar and Egypt call for next steps of the truce

Middle East

Israeli-backed Palestinian militia leader killed while trying to resolve family dispute

Middle East

Israel identifies remains of latest returned hostage as Thai national

Middle East

Israeli forensics find Gaza remains handed over by Hamas do not match remaining hostages

Middle East

Mekelberg: Netanyahu's pardon request threatens judicial independence & Israel as liberal democracy

Middle East

Netanyahu government relies solely on force, with no clear strategy or diplomatic vision

Israeli airstrike on a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon kills 13 people

Middle East

'We have to work together to build trust, achieve peace for two states'

Middle East

Gunmen kidnap 25 girls in deadly attack on Nigerian high school

Africa

First major rains pummel Gaza and flood tents of displaced Palestinians

Middle East

Donald Trump's Gaza plan arrives at the UN Security Council

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Gazan schools reopens as struggling psychologically after the war

Middle East

South Africa to probe mystery of a plane that arrived with more than 150 Palestinians from Gaza

Africa

Israel receives body of one of the last four hostages held in Gaza

Middle East

Israel identifies returned remains as Israel-Argentine hostage killed at start of war

Middle East

Gaza ceasefire: 'Instead of just ceasing the war, we need to cease the conflict'

Middle East

Hamas hands over remains of a deceased hostage to Red Cross in Gaza

Middle East

Israel confirms remains handed over by Hamas belong to three hostages

Middle East

Israel says latest remains returned from Gaza are not bodies of hostages

Middle East

Israel returns remains of 30 Palestinians to Gaza as part of exchange deal

Middle East

Israel receives remains of two deceased hostages from Red Cross

Middle East

Israeli planes strike Gaza City after Netanyahu orders 'powerful attacks'

Middle East

Israel launches air strikes on Gaza after accusing Hamas of violating ceasefire

Middle East

Hamas returns partial hostage remains, Israel slams breach of truce

Middle East

Red Cross, Egyptian teams join search for dead hostages in Gaza

Middle East

No pillar of stability: 'Every single child in Gaza is suffering from severe, deep & intense trauma'

Middle East

'Israel turned detention facilities into torture camps where people are being held without charges'

US envoys visit Israel to bolster truce as Gaza militants hand over hostage's remains

Middle East

Gaza stabilisation force requires a 'political horizon for the manifestation of a Palestinian state'

Middle East

Israeli military official says more Gaza strikes possible, ceasefire under strain

Middle East

Israel and Hamas accuse each other of breaching Gaza truce amid strikes

Middle East

Israeli military launches attack on Gaza despite ceasefire agreement, Israeli media reports

Middle East

Israel's Netanyahu says will run again for PM in 2026 elections

Middle East

Gaza: Palestinian teams dig in search of the bodies of Israeli hostages

Middle East

Gaza awaits the reopening of the Rafah crossing, with aid ready to be deployed

Middle East

Netanyahu says Gaza war will not end until Hamas disarms

Middle East

Gazan doctors struggle to identify bodies despite ceasefire

Middle East

Gaza: a bakery reopens, a lifeline for families on the brink of starvation

Middle East
The World This Week

Governing Gaza, Ukraine, AI 'slop' and the dead internet theory

Middle East

Home but forever changed, Israel's freed hostages begin the long road to recovery

Long read
Middle East

Turkish disaster response experts await Israeli go ahead to help recover bodies in Gaza

Middle East

Hamas hands over body of Israeli hostage to Red Cross

As it happened
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Netanyahu: fight with Hamas 'not over yet'

Middle East

Rebuilding in the Rubble: Between ruin & renewal, Gaza’s ceasefire through the eyes of Bahaa Zaqout

Middle East

'Insurmountable obstacle' in peace plan (phase 2): Positions of Israel, Hamas 'cannot be reconciled'

Middle East

Stories start to emerge over Israeli hostages' detention conditions

Middle East

'We are getting more details about some of the 20 hostages who have been released'

Middle East

Yossi Beilin: 'Public call for state inquiry commission is needed' to investigate October 7 attacks

Middle East

British viceroy: Dr Hellyer warns Gaza can't be run by int'l leaders & a few Palestinian technocrats

Middle East

For Gaza plan to work, it needs Trump's 'continued commitment', former diplomat says

Middle East

Israeli hostages return home after two years in captivity

Middle East

Gaza action plan: Netanyahu has 'no incentive' to return to war

Middle East

Israel: Knesset members kicked out for heckling Trump

Middle East

'Critical question': Will there be 'full-scale' UN aid for Gaza, 'deployment of int'l peacekeepers'?

Middle East

Key Palestinian prisoners excluded from Israel’s hostage exchange list

Middle East

Israeli hostages come home amid Gaza ceasefire deal

Middle East

Israel: Thousands celebrate hostages’ return in Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square

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Gaza: Hamas begins releasing Israeli hostages

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Hamas frees all living Israeli hostages, Palestinian prisoners released under Gaza deal

Middle East

Families of hostages seek to recover loved ones’ bodies in Gaza deal

Middle East

Hostage exchange in Gaza offers hope to prisoners’ families

Middle East

Gaza ceasefire: Who are the 20 living hostages set to be freed by Hamas before Monday night?

Middle East

The architecture of ambiguity: Is the Gaza plan a peace deal or a roadmap to nowhere?

Middle East

'Relief, sadness and worry': The people of Gaza 'lost everything they had'

Gaza ceasefire: 'Clear sense of relief, jubilation, that we're moving towards an actual deal'

Israel and Hamas agree to first phase of Trump-backed peace plan

Middle East

Iran releases French-German 19 year-old cyclist Lennart Monterlos

Middle East

War in Gaza: Hamas and Israel have agreed to a ceasefire and hostage deal

Middle East

Prisoner-hostage swap, aid surge: What we know about the new Gaza deal

Middle East

Top officials from US and Qatar join third day of Gaza peace talks

Middle East