Israel's military has begun a ground operation in the central Gazan city of Deir al Balah, with smoke seen rising from the city this afternoon. Follow below for the latest updates.

Donald Trump is the only person in the world who has enough leverage to break us out of this cycle.” Times Opinion writer Megan Stack lived in Jerusalem and Cairo. She reported from Gaza, and her work ...

Mediators present updated Israeli control zones in Gaza as Hamas weighs terms of proposed ceasefire, prisoner exchange deal - ...

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Hamas has agreed to a new withdrawal map presented by Israel, which includes a withdrawal from the Morag Corridor and limited ...

Turkey fears a deepening ethnic fracture in Syria could redraw the regional map — and embolden its own Kurdish population.

US President Donald Trump's Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, said on Wednesday that negotiations for a ceasefire in Gaza were going well."We have some good news on Gaza and some other things that we ...

But speculation swirled around the camp, and press reports in the Middle East were full of news leaks and guesses about Middle East maps.

Mediators struggle to balance Hamas’ rejection of wide buffer zones with Israeli hardliners’ opposition to compromise, says ...

Iran is framing the recent escalation in Syria's south as proof of its long-standing warnings about the post-Assad dynamics while deeply concerned by what it sees as Israeli plots to redraw the ...

Instability in the region has ratcheted up route challenges for global air carriers. And despite the cessation of bombing over Iran in late June, the puzzle faced by many airline operations teams ...

Dozens of flights were cancelled across Middle Eastern airports on Friday following Israeli airstrikes on military and nuclear-related sites in Iran. In response, Iran launched more than 100 ...