Mediators rushed on Wednesday to clinch a deal between Israel and Hamas on a cease-fire that would release hostages held in Gaza, after more than a year of devastating war that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and destroyed much of the enclave. Neither Israel nor Hamas has publicly endorsed the agreement, and Israeli…
President Biden kicks off his final week in office on Monday with a robust defense of his foreign policy, arguing in a speech to be delivered in the afternoon that America has become stronger on his watch. With just seven days left until he hands over the White House to President-elect Donald J. Trump, Mr….
Israeli security and policy chiefs were expected to arrive in Qatar on Sunday for high-level talks about a proposed cease-fire deal in Gaza that would see hostages released in the final days of President Biden’s term and before Donald J. Trump takes office. Biden administration officials have been pressing for a deal that would become…
US President-elect Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff will meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday, an Israeli official said, amid efforts to secure a hostage deal and ceasefire in Gaza. A second Israeli official said some progress had been made in the indirect talks between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas, mediated…
Israeli soldiers have raided Syrian border villages, prompting nervous residents to huddle in their homes. They have captured the country’s highest peak, have set up roadblocks between Syrian towns and now overlook local villages from former Syrian military outposts. The stunning downfall of Syria’s longtime leader, Bashar al-Assad, closed a chapter in the country’s decade-long…
President-elect Donald J. Trump said on Tuesday that “all hell will break out in the Middle East” if the hostages being held by Hamas are not released by Inauguration Day, repeating the threat four times during a wide-ranging news conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. “If they’re not back by the time I get…
The Israeli military said on Sunday that it has been conducting “operational raids” in recent weeks on Mount Hermon in Syria, continuing a military campaign on Syrian soil that is drawing increasing international condemnation. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based Syrian war monitor, on Sunday also reported airstrikes around the Syrian capital, Damascus,…
Israel-Syria War:इजरायल के प्रधानमंत्री बेंजामिन नेतन्याहू की सरकार ने गोलान हाइट्स में बस्तियों को दोगुना करने की योजना को मंजूरी दी है. इस योजना के तहत इजरायली आबादी बढ़ाने के लिए 4 करोड़ शेकेल (करीब 95 करोड़ रुपये) का बजट पास किया गया है. इजरायल के इस कदम पर मुस्लिम देशों ने तीखी प्रतिक्रिया दी…
Israel has informed the International Criminal Court (ICC) that it will appeal against arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence minister Yoav Gallant over their conduct of the Gaza war, Netanyahu’s office said on Wednesday. Netanyahu also said that US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham had updated him “on a series of…