"We don’t accept any extension of the deadline, and we will not accept any justification to prolong it even for a second,” Sheikh Naim Qassem, the Hezbollah leader, said in a speech Monday ...

WASHINGTON — Even before the first phase is completed, the fragile cease-fire agreement that has paused 15 months of war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas faces increasingly long odds of lasting ...

A cease-fire between Israel and Hamas is a welcome reprieve from the catastrophe we have seen in the Middle East. It’s also a tragic reminder of the lives lost and the ones that the fighting has ...

Why the Gaza Cease-fire Probably Won’t LastAndrew Miller, a high-ranking State Department official under Biden, discusses the state of a fragile truce and Trump’s effect on the Middle East.

After winning the 2024 election, he dispatched his Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, to the region to help the Biden administration get the Israel-Hamas cease-fire and hostage-release deal over ...

Hostage and prisoner releases: One aspect of the cease-fire agreement was strikingly lopsided: the number of Israeli hostages released compared with the number of freed Palestinian prisoners.

JERUSALEM—Scenes of armed and uniformed Hamas terrorists could be seen in Gaza on Sunday as the first three Israeli female hostages were released as the cease-fire deal came into effect.

The first three Israeli hostages were released Sunday under a cease-fire deal in the Gaza Strip, beginning a drawn-out process that halted more than a year of war and will see 33 captives freed ...

A cease-fire between Israel and Hamas took effect three hours late on Sunday morning, during which Israeli forces killed at least 19 Palestinians and injured over 36 in Gaza. • The agreement was ...

DEIR AL BALAH, Gaza Strip — A cease-fire between Hamas and Israel took effect Sunday, silencing the guns over Gaza and renewing hopes of a possible end to a 15-month conflict that has killed ...

Aid trucks have also begun flowing through Gaza. The deal tees off an initial six-week cease-fire, during which 33 Israeli hostages (some of them deceased) and hundreds of Palestinian prisoners ...

A cease-fire in the war in Gaza went into effect on Sunday morning after an almost three-hour delay. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office announced that the cease-fire would commence ...