Israel’s government has approved “phase one” of a ceasefire agreement, which will see captives exchanged and Israel withdraw from parts of Gaza, but details of how it fits into a wider plan to bring lasting peace remain unclear. Khalil al-Hayya, the head of Hamas’s negotiating team,...

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that another US team left to take part in negotiations on Gaza, voicing hope for a deal. "We'll certainly be talking about Gaza. We're in very serious negotiations," Trump said in the Oval Office alongside Mark Carney, Canada’s visiting prime minister. "I...

Violent clashes with heavy weapons erupted on Monday between the Syrian army and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) around the Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh neighborhoods of Aleppo city, resulting in deaths and injuries among security personnel and civilians. The clashes closed...

Security forces in central Homs province on Saturday exhumed two mass graves in the towns of Al-Mukharram and Talkalakh, containing the remains of unidentified persons, the state-run news agency reported. The graves were found in the village of Abu Hakfa al-Shamali, located in the...