Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has approved the military’s plan to seize Gaza City and authorized the call-up of about 60,000 reservists to carry it out, his ministry confirmed on Wednesday.

Mediator Qatar said on Tuesday that a Gaza truce proposal given the green light by militant group Hamas was “almost identical” to an earlier version that Israel had agreed to. Hamas gave a “very positive response, and it truly was almost identical to what the Israeli side had...

One of Lebanon’s largest factories making the highly addictive amphetamine Captagon has been discovered and destroyed as part of rare security cooperation between intelligence agencies in Iraq and Lebanon, Iraq’s Interior Ministry said. The announcement late Monday came a month after...

Hamas has accepted the latest  proposal for a 60-day ceasefire with Israel  that includes the return of half the hostages the group holds in Gaza and Israel’s release of some Palestinian prisoners, an Egyptian official source said on Monday. Senior Hamas official Basem Naim wrote...