The future is "uncertain and unclear" in Gaza after a long-awaited ceasefire between Israel and Hamas began, BBC Middle East Correspondent Rushdi Abualouf has said. "People don't know if...

Two senior Iranian judges have been shot dead in an apparent assassination in the country's supreme court.Ali Razini and Mohammad Moghiseh were killed after an armed man entered the...

ReutersThe first six-week phase of the deal would see 33 Israeli hostages exchanged for Palestinian prisonersThe office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says a "deal to release the...

Guy Gilboa-Dalal, 23, attended the festival with his brother. In June, an unnamed released hostage was reported as saying they had been held in a room with Guy after...

Getty ImagesHostages' families want the Israeli government to agree a deal that will secure their releaseNegotiators from Israel and Hamas are making a final push to seal a Gaza...

Qatar says it is hopeful that a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal could be agreed "very soon", with negotiators from Israel and Hamas beginning a "final stage" of...

AFPUS President-elect Donald Trump has threatened that "all hell" will break loose if the hostages are not released before he takes officeThe outline of the Gaza ceasefire and hostage...

The Palestinian death toll from the war in Gaza could be substantially higher than official figures reported by the Hamas-run health ministry, research published in The Lancet medical journal...

Caroline Bazzi/Jinha AgencyHania coded a chatbot to use on WhatsApp that helps displaced people in Lebanon Last autumn Hania Zataari, a mechanical engineer who works for Lebanon's Ministry of...

EPAIsrael continues to build settlements in the occupied West BankOn a clear day, the skyscrapers of Tel Aviv are visible from the hill above Karnei Shomron, an Israeli settlement...

Submitted photoRocky Sickmann met Jimmy Carter the day after he landed in Germany after being held in Iran for over a yearOut of the many mourning former President Jimmy...

At least 19 Palestinians, including eight children, were killed in Israeli air strikes in southern Gaza overnight, local health officials say.A mother and her four children were reportedly killed...