Palestinian militant group Hamas handed over three Israeli hostages on Saturday, and dozens of Palestinian prisoners and detainees were released in exchange, in the latest stage of a truce aimed at ending the 15-month war in Gaza. Ofer Kalderon, a French-Israeli dual national, and Yarden...

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...

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...

Baden-Württemberg Justice Minister Marion Jentings has called for reconstruction aid in Syria to be linked to the new Syrian government's cooperation in returning refugees. "Any support for reconstruction must be conditional on the new authorities' commitment to creating suitable...