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 ...

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

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 ...

The first three Israeli hostages were released from Gaza on Sunday under a ceasefire deal that includes the release of ...

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

Fighting in Gaza halted on Sunday as the negotiated ceasefire deal went into effect, ending the 15-month-long war between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. Residents in Gaza said ...

The UN has said that people in Gaza are “effectively starving.” Before the war, the territory was “largely self-sufficient” ...

The Israeli government has approved a ceasefire and hostage deal with Hamas, leading to a possible end to 15 months of a ...

I'm a natural born cynic, of course, but I can't help but think that this ceasefire, this lull in the killing, is meant to erase, if not the memory of, at least the responsibility for, the killing ...

Follow NBC News' live coverage as Israel and Hamas agree to a ceasefire deal to halt the Gaza war and release hostages, while ...