The Palestinian militant movement Hamas released four female Israeli soldier hostages on Saturday, in return for some 200 Palestinian prisoners, in keeping with a ceasefire agreement aimed at ending the 15-month-old war in Gaza. The four were led onto a podium in Gaza City amid a large...

Doctors Without Borders said that more than 70 percent of the Syrian population needs "urgent" humanitarian aid, and confirmed its efforts to expand its activities in areas that were "impossible" to reach during the era of the ousted regime of President Bashar al-Assad. In an interview with...

Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian teenager and wounded two others during a raid late Sunday in the West Bank. The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced in a brief statement that 14-year-old Ahmad Rashid Rushdi Jazar was shot to death in the town of Sebastia northwest of Nablus. In the...

An Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal expected to take effect on Sunday has sparked hope for life-saving aid to reach Palestinians, but aid agencies warn of obstacles from destroyed infrastructure, massive need and collapsed law and order. Announcing the truce, United States President Joe Biden...