Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered Israel's military to conduct an operation in the occupied West Bank after three empty buses exploded in a suspected terror attack near Tel Aviv on Thursday.
No casualties were reported and there was no (...)
One of four bodies returned from Gaza to Israel on Thursday is not hostage Shiri Bibas, as claimed by Hamas, the Israeli military said.
The news that Shiri Bibas, 33, and her two sons, Ariel and Kfir, who would now be aged five and two, were dead (...)
Arab leaders are set to meet in Saudi Arabia on Friday for the first time to formulate a response to US President Donald Trump's plan for the US to take ownership of Gaza, expel its Palestinian population and turn it into a Middle Eastern (...)
Hamas on Thursday handed over the bodies of four Israeli hostages held in Gaza — the first time the group has released deceased captives since October 7, 2023.
They are said to include the bodies of Shiri Bibas, who was aged 32 when she and her sons (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman will hold an informal fraternal meeting with leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, King Abdullah II of Jordan, and Egypt's President Abdel Fattah El Sisi in Riyadh (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia's evolving role in global diplomacy and its commitment to fostering peace took center stage at the Saudi Media Forum on Thursday.
During a panel discussion, experts examined how the Kingdom is increasingly shaping international (...)
Hamas says it will hand over the bodies of four hostages on Thursday, including the two youngest people held by the Palestinian armed group.
The group's negotiator Khalil al-Hayya said the bodies to be released would include those of the Bibas (...)
Israel has kept troops at five strategic locations inside Lebanon, despite Tuesday's deadline to withdraw from the country as part of a ceasefire deal with Hezbollah.
The move highlights the fragility of the truce, whose terms Hezbollah accuse (...)
When US President Donald Trump wanted someone to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin last week to open negotiations for a potential deal to end the Russia-Ukraine war, he didn't dispatch his secretary of state.
The man he sent to the Kremlin to (...)
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said his country is developing a plan to rebuild Gaza without forcing Palestinians out of the strip in a counter to President Donald Trump's proposal to depopulate the territory so the US can take it over. (...)
US President Donald Trump's approach to ending Russia's almost three-year-long war against Ukraine has left European allies and Ukrainian officials concerned they are being sidelined by the new US administration's plans for direct negotiations over (...)
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday to "finish the job" against Iran with the support of US President Donald Trump.
Netanyahu was speaking alongside US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is visiting Israel on his first (...)
Pro-Palestinian NGO the Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) has filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar, seeking a warrant for his arrest, the group said on Sunday.
In a statement, HRF (...)
Israel's prime minister has said he is working to make US President Donald Trump's plan to remove and resettle Gaza's population "a reality".
Benjamin Netanyahu said he was cooperating with the US on a "common strategy" for the Palestinian territory (...)
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in Israel late Saturday, marking his first visit to the Middle East since assuming office.
Upon landing at Ben Gurion International Airport, he was welcomed by Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar, who (...)
A shipment of US-made heavy bombs that had been delayed by the administration of former US President Joe Biden has arrived in Israel, the Israeli Defense Ministry announced on Sunday.
According to the ministry, a vessel carrying MK-84 2,000-pound (...)
The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, and Saraya Al-Quds, the armed faction of Islamic Jihad, handed over three Israeli captives on Saturday, including a dual U.S. national and a dual Russian national, as part of the sixth phase of the (...)
The first of two vessels carrying 1,000 tons of a Chinese-made chemical that could be a key component in fuel for Iran's military missile program has anchored outside the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas on Thursday, ship tracking data shows. It could (...)
Hamas has released the names of three hostages due to be freed on Saturday in exchange for Palestinian prisoners in Israel, after days of fears over the future of the ceasefire.
They are Russian-Israeli Alexander Troufanov, Argentine-Israeli Yair (...)
The Gaza ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas has looked shaky since it came into force on 19 January but now looks the closest yet to totally falling apart.
A senior Egyptian source told the BBC that regional mediators Egypt and Qatar were (...)
Hamas said it will release Israeli hostages as initially planned after holding "positive" talks with mediators, following a dispute with Israel over the Gaza ceasefire deal.
The militant group had postponed the release of more hostages this weekend, (...)
Israel's prime minister has warned Hamas it will end the ceasefire in Gaza and resume intense fighting if the Palestinian group "does not return our hostages by Saturday noon [10:00 GMT]".
Benjamin Netanyahu said he had ordered Israeli forces to (...)
US President Donald Trump has once again insisted the US will take control of the Gaza Strip, as he met Jordan's King Abdullah at the White House on Tuesday.
It was their first meeting since Trump announced his proposal to take over the enclave and (...)
When Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Washington and meets President Donald Trump later this week, there will be some warm hugs and shared laughs. But that will not be all.
Trump and Modi have developed a strong personal rapport over the (...)
Two Australian nurses have been suspended after a video appeared to show them threatening to kill Israeli patients and boasting about refusing to treat them.
The man and woman — both employees at a Sydney hospital — are now being investigated by (...)
