Israel’s negotiating team set to travel to Qatar on Sunday is not authorized to discuss the second phase of a Gaza ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement with Hamas, according to Israeli media. The Israeli team includes Brigadier General Gal Hirsch, Israel’s coordinator for the...

Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Nawaf Salam formed a new government on Saturday, the first since 2022. President Joseph Aoun said in a statement that he had accepted the resignation of former caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati and signed a decree with Salam to form the new government....

The Palestinian resistance group, Hamas, published the names Friday of 183 Palestinian detainees who are slated to be released Saturday in exchange for three Israeli captives in the Gaza Strip. It includes 18 detainees serving life sentences and 54 serving high-term sentences in Israeli jails...

Arab nations and organizations continued to express their firm rejection of US President Donald Trump’s plan to seize Gaza and displace Palestinians. Egypt, Algeria, Iraq, Libya and the Palestinian group Hamas released statements Thursday. It followed earlier rejections from Saudi Arabia,...