Bloodshed over the weekend highlighted the brittleness of the cease-fires in both places. Still, Israel, Hamas and Hezbollah each have reasons to postpone a new escalation, at least for a few weeks.

Two weeks after Israeli President Isaac Herzog approved a ceasefire and hostage release deal with Hamas, a tentative peace ...

Sunday’s delayed start to the truce was a minor problem compared with the difficult choices and American leverage needed to ...

Israeli troops fired on people trying to return home to southern Lebanon and delayed a return home for northern Gaza ...

Militants in the Gaza Strip released eight hostages on Thursday, handing them over to the Red Cross amid chaotic crowds as ...

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Mughrabi, Maayan Lubell and Emily Rose JERUSALEM/CAIRO (Reuters) -Palestinians headed for the rubble of their former homes in ...

Israel’s defense minister has announced a series of raids that he says are targeting “terrorism” in the occupied West Bank, ...

Israel kept thousands of Palestinians from returning to their homes in northern Gaza on Sunday as it accused Hamas of ...

Israeli government spending on the war in 2024 has raised the national debt to 69% of GDP, with the overall debt reaching ...

Palestinians celebrated on the streets of Gaza as guns fell silent. Israelis gathered in Tel Aviv’s “Hostages Square” to ...

Long lines of Palestinians -- some kneeling to kiss the soil as they stepped into the northern part of the strip -- were ...