As a pause in fighting came into effect, displaced Gazans took stock of how destroyed their cities were after 15 months of a devastating war.

Hamas remained in power through four previous wars with Israel. With help from Iran it steadily enhanced its capabilities, ...

Israeli officials say that if the PA returns to Gaza and Hamas remains in any capacity, there’s a risk of a repeat of the ...

As the Gaza ceasefire takes hold, aid workers caution that the toughest challenges are yet to come, describing the truce as ...

Sunday’s delayed start to the truce was a minor problem compared with the difficult choices and American leverage needed to ...

Even before the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas was fully in place, Palestinians in the war-battered Gaza Strip began to return to the remains of the homes they had evacuated during the 15-mon ...

The skies over Gaza fell silent for the first time in 14 months, bringing both relief and a sharper understanding of all that ...

P EOPLE IN GAZA and Israel celebrated the start of a ceasefire and the return of three young women held hostage by Hamas on ...

For the Islamist militant group, armed struggle now looks like a dead end. Its future in Gaza depends on the civilian ...

Once the guns fell silent, Palestinians celebrated in the streets of Gaza while Israelis streamed into Tel Aviv’s “Hostages ...

The Israel-Hamas war has devastated the Gaza Strip. Satellite photos offer some sense of the destruction in the territory.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office says ceasefire deal with Hamas has still not been reached and that the final details were still being sorted out ...