Seventy Palestinian detainees arrived aboard buses in Egypt Saturday after being released from Israel as part of a Gaza cease-fire deal, state-linked Egyptian media reported. Al-Qahera News, which...
BEIRUT — Local television channel MTV informed journalist Elsy Moufarrej, who also serves as the coordinator of the Alternative Press Syndicate, of its decision to dismiss her from her job due to...
Displaced Palestinians heading back to Gaza's war-ravaged north found themselves blocked with their belongings at an Israeli-controlled patch of land where troops stood Saturday. The Netzarim...
Azzam al-Shallalta dropped to his knees and wept at his mother's feet as he arrived in the occupied West Bank's city of Ramallah with other Palestinian prisoners released under the Gaza cease-fire...
The Lebanese Army said on Saturday it was ready to deploy its forces in the country's south, accusing Israel of "procrastination" in its withdrawal under a cease-fire, a day before the pullout...
Hezbollah condemned on Saturday the decision by the new U.S. administration to re-designate the Houthi movement as a "foreign terrorist organization." The White House announced on...
The agreement between Israel and Hezbollah, which took effect on Nov. 27, 2024, stipulated a full Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon within 60 days, ending on Sunday. However, on the eve of...
70 Palestinian prisoners arrived in Egypt by bus after being released by Israel as part of the Gaza cease-fire agreement, according to an Egyptian intelligence-affiliated media outlet, Al-Qahera...
The Israeli prison administration confirmed Saturday afternoon that it had released 200 Palestinian detainees in exchange for the release earlier in the day of four Israeli female soldiers held in...
One of the major challenges facing the Gaza Strip, nearly a week after the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas took effect on Sunday, Jan. 19, is the potential return of internally displaced...
The Israeli military expressed deep concern on Saturday about the "fate" of the last two child hostages in Gaza, according to its spokesperson, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari. His televised statement...
Noor al-Yacoubi, 25, a translator and media coordinator at a research center, lives in the Gaza Strip, which has been bombarded and besieged by the Israeli army since the outbreak of a war between...
"I commit to forming the government in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution and the Taif Agreement," Prime Minister-designate Nawaf Salam said in Baabda following his...
Israel is set to release Mohammed Tous, the longest-held Palestinian prisoner without interruption, on Saturday, according to the Palestinian Prisoners' Club. Aged 69 and imprisoned since 1985,...
A Syrian national, Ramez Hamzeh, who had been hospitalized days ago at Mortada Hospital in Baalbeck after being shot in the border town of Kasr near Syria, passed away on Saturday. His body was...
It was nighttime and the only sound was the approaching sirens of the Israeli police. The trailer for No Other Land, a film first screened at the Berlin International Film Festival in February...
A residential building explodes under the fire of a missile, a shop collapses under the weight of a bulldozer, thousands of residents flee their neighborhood on army orders, a siege blocking any...
The Israelis have finally come clean. On Friday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the gradual withdrawal of troops from southern Lebanon would continue beyond the 60 days...
Four Israeli female soldiers held hostage by Hamas since Oct. 7, 2023, were handed over shortly after 11:00 a.m. (9:00 a.m. GMT) on Saturday to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)...
Israel is set to release 200 Palestinians held in its prisons on Saturday in exchange for four female soldiers taken hostage by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, as part of the truce agreement, Palestinian...
Dozens of armed Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters assembled Saturday in a square in Gaza City, where four Israeli female soldiers are to be handed over to the Red Cross as part of a new prisoner...
A ceremony for the handover of French and Cypriot equipment to the Lebanese Army took place Friday at the Port of Beirut, attended by the French Ambassador to Lebanon, Hervé Magro, and his Cypriot...
Units of the Lebanese Army began operations Saturday to regain control of military checkpoints at the entrances to the Beddawi Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon, according to...
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) has been ordered to cease its operations in Jerusalem and vacate all buildings it uses in the city by Jan. 30, according...
Hamas is expected to release four Israeli female soldiers on Saturday, held hostage in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023, in exchange for several dozen Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons. This is the...
"The Israelis came back last night and started firing randomly. The flames devoured houses, smoke rose from neighboring villages. They are still there," Yahia Jaber, head of the Bani...
Four young Israeli women, captured during their military service near the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, are scheduled to be released Saturday as part of the truce agreement between Hamas and...
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The United Arab Emirates announced Friday the reopening of its embassy in Lebanon, which had been closed since 2021, according to the Gulf nation’s official news agency, WAM. The UAE’s diplomatic...
Two senior Hamas leaders, whose deaths were announced by Israel in 2024, were buried Friday in Gaza after their remains were discovered beneath rubble during a cease-fire, AFP journalists reported....
The Palestinian Authority announced Friday that two people were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the northern occupied West Bank, where the Israeli military confirmed it targeted a vehicle...
Lebanon stuck between a rock and a hard place: A US disarmament plan, or an extended expansion to the war?
Lebanese, Israeli delegation to meet in Washington; Lebanon files UN complaint against Iran: Everything you need to know this Thursday
