Israel’s ban on the UN’s refugee agency for Palestinians, UNRWA, has come into force. Soraya Lennie explains why it matters and what happens next.

Palestinian militant group Hamas on Thursday handed over Israeli woman hostage Agam Berger, a soldier, as a third hostage-prisoner exchange got under way, an AFP journalist reported.Three Israelis and ...

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

The first of eight hostages to be released Thursday, Agam Berger, was set free by Hamas in the Gaza Strip as part of the deal ...

President Donald Trump has invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House next week as the first ...

Thursday's exchange is the third since the start of a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip that has held for over a week.

Hamas on Thursday is expected to free three Israeli hostages and five Thai hostages in exchange for Israel’s release of 110 Palestinian prisoners.

Hamas is set to free three more Israeli hostages as well as five Thai captives on Thursday, and Israel is to release another ...

In the Shuafat refugee camp, a hardscrabble district in east Jerusalem surrounded by a concrete wall, cars inched their way ...

Friedman’s dreamscape for the Middle East makes no sense on any level.  Even former secretary of state Antony Blinken eventually recognized that Israel has “systematically undermined the capacity and ...

Israel and Hamas were set to carry out their third hostage-prisoner exchange on Thursday, with three Israelis and five Thai captives slated for release as part of a ceasefire deal aimed at ending the ...