The White House said Friday that ceasefire talks in Cairo have been constructive and will continue over the weekend as the US and Mideast allies continue to press Israel and Hamas to forge an agreement. CIA Director William Burns and Brett McGurk, a senior adviser on the Middle East to...

Negotiations to secure a cease-fire in the besieged Gaza Strip and free hostages who remain there are "moving forward," the White House said Friday. National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said US officials held "constructive discussions" Thursday night in Cairo with talks...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu still insists on maintaining control over the Philadelphi Corridor in the southern Gaza Strip on the border with Egypt, the public broadcaster KAN said Thursday. "The prime minister has not changed his position on the need for Israeli control and...

At least 22 Palestinians were killed and many others injured in a series of overnight Israeli raids across the Gaza Strip, as the onslaught entered day 321 on Thursday. As many as 11 Palestinians, most of them children and women, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a house in the town of...