Gaza’s Rafah border crossing with Egypt is to reopen Saturday following a fourth exchange of hostages and prisoners under a truce agreement, a Hamas official and a source with knowledge of the discussions told AFP. “The mediators informed Hamas of Israel’s approval to open Rafah...

Palestinian militant group Hamas released on Friday the names of three Israeli hostages that will be released on Saturday. The hostages are Ofer Calderon, Keith Siegel and Yarden Bibas, Hamas armed wing spokesperson Abu Obeida said in a post on his telegram channel.

The two black boxes have been recovered from the plane that crashed after colliding with a military helicopter near the US capital in Washington, D.C., a government agency said Thursday. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said its investigators recovered the cockpit voice recorder...

Hamas says its top military commander Mohammed Deif has been killed. The Israeli military had said it killed Deif in an air attack in July, but the Palestinian group had not confirmed his death until Thursday. The spokesman for the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said his death...