Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is responsible for hindering the negotiations over a cease-fire and prisoner swap deal, said an Israeli source familiar with the talks, Israeli media reported on Wednesday. Israeli public broadcaster KAN quoted the anonymous source as saying...

About a half-dozen doctors who recently returned from providing medical care in the devastated Gaza Strip urged the Biden administration Tuesday to impose an immediate arms embargo on Israel, saying that without one, the US remains complicit in the bloodshed that has devastated the coastal...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday paid a visit to three Caucasian regions – Kabardino-Balkaria, North Ossetia, and Chechnya. During his trip to Kabardino-Balkaria, Putin met with the republic’s head, Kazbek Kokov, who informed the president about the region’s achievements,...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had accepted a new “bridging proposal” for a Gaza cease-fire and prisoner swap deal, but Hamas said the proposal in fact "meets Netanyahu's conditions” and fits his agenda. Speaking to...