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Turkiye says to apply to intervene in ICJ genocide case against Israel

Ankara steps up measures against Israel over its assault on Gaza, which has killed more than 35,000 people Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Tuesday...

Hamas releases video of Israeli-British hostage held in Gaza

The video posted on the group’s Telegram channel and showing the hostage speaking under duress Hamas’s armed wing, the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades, on Saturday released...

Powerful Iraqi pro-Iran group says US troops must leave

“We also haven’t seen the necessary seriousness from the Iraqi government to remove them,” the spokesman, Abu Ali Al-Askari, added in a statement Iraq’s powerful...

Israel launches fresh Gaza strikes as negotiators work toward truce

The White House condemned the interruption to humanitarian deliveries One strike on an apartment in devastated Gaza City killed seven members of the same family and wounded...

Biden meets Jordan’s King Abdullah as Gaza ceasefire hopes dim

Monday’s meeting between two leaders is not a formal bilateral meeting but an informal private meeting US president Biden faces increasing pressure politically to convince Israel to...

Lebanon’s Hezbollah says fired dozens of rockets at Israeli base

The Israeli army said its warplanes “struck a Hezbollah military structure... deep inside Lebanon,” The Iran-backed Hezbollah group said it fired “dozens of Katyusha rockets”...

Hamas negotiators arrive in Egypt for Gaza truce talks: media

A top Hamas official earlier accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of trying to derail a proposed Gaza truce Palestinian Territories/CAIRO: A Hamas delegation arrived...

Hamas is sending a delegation to Egypt for further cease-fire talks in the latest...

Hamas said Thursday that it was sending a delegation to Egypt for further cease-fire talks, in a new sign of progress in attempts by international mediators to hammer out an agreement between Israel...

Blinken urges Hamas to agree Gaza truce as he meets Israel leaders

Washington has heightened pressure on all sides to reach a ceasefire Israel said it would wait for Hamas’ response to the truce before sending delegation to Cairo

Blinken heads to Jordan to push Gaza aid

Blinken flew to Amman after talks with Gulf Arab leaders in Riyadh The US top diplomat will meet Jordan’s King Abdullah II and Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi