President Donald Trump on Wednesday hosted African leaders at the White House for lunch.As the administration continues its tariff negotiations with international trading partners, the president on Monday signed an executive order again extending the pause on many of those duties.

Thirteen women and two men who survived captivity by Hamas said they experienced or witnessed sexual violence while held hostage in Gaza, according to a new report by a group of Israeli researchers known as the Dinah Project.

An Israeli report released Tuesday said that Hamas used sexual violence as a “tactical weapon of war” in its Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, building on other investigations by international and Israeli rights groups and the United Nations into the militant group’s assault.

A U.N. Commission of Inquiry into sexual assault on October 7 found that Israeli women were subjected "to gender-based violence such as physical, sexual and psychological violence, including threats of such acts, coercion and arbitrary deprivation of liberty."

The Israeli military said on Tuesday it had struck a "key" figure from Palestinian militant group Hamas near the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, the first targeted killing in the area for several months.

An Israeli man’s memoir about being held captive by Hamas is set for U.S. release. Eli Sharabi's *Hostage," originally written in Hebrew, has already become a bestseller in Israel.

Shalom Lipner, non-resident Senior Fellow, Middle East Programs at the Atlantic Council and a former advisor at Israel's Prime Minister's Office says while Israel's Gaza war has both "substantive" and "self-serving" objectives,

The officer says Israeli strikes have devastated the group's leadership and structure, and that armed clans are filling the void.