Thousands of Palestinians are returning to north Gaza after Israel and Hamas reached a hostage deal.

The cameras struggled to get a steady shot as Donald Trump took his first historic steps into enemy territory with Kim Jong Un. It was 2019 and the then-45th president of the United States patted ...

On the eve of his historic return to the White House, Trump helped broker the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel that has allowed many of the Israeli (and American) hostages who were kidnapped by Hamas on October 7 to be returned. If the deal holds, more will be released over time.

Hezbollah leader Sheikh Naim Qassem said Monday that Israel should withdraw from the occupied border areas in southern Lebanon, rejecting the extension of the cease-fire arrangements to Feb. 18.

Hamas will release more Israeli hostages this week, officials said Monday, including Agam Berger, who was not released along with four of her colleagues on Saturday.

But the return of Donald Trump as president, whose actions on trade, technology and security threaten to shake up global affairs, is a reminder that history is also shaped by the agendas and personalities of leaders,

In the phone call Thursday, Saar told Rubio that Israel was grateful for Trump’s move against the International Criminal Court, his re-designation of Yemen’s Houthi rebels as a foreign terrorist organization and his removal of sanctions against Israeli settlers in the West Bank accused of violence against Palestinians.

President Trump has promised so much on his first few days back at his desk in the White House, one must wonder how much he or any other mere mortal could accomplish. Somewhere down the list comes North Korea,

I am 100 percent certain that unpredictability redounded to the benefit of the United States.” The Washington Post columnist Shadi Hamid recently argued that Trump’s madman strategy pressured Israel to accept a Gaza cease-fire.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected a facility that produces nuclear material and called for bolstering the country’s nuclear capability, state media reported on Wednesday.

Ceasefire or no ceasefire, as the occupying power in Gaza, Israel has a legal obligation to uphold the right to the highest attainable standard of health for people living in the area, including pregnant women and girls, and their children.