Ireland's Micheál Martin was elected prime minister for the second time by a coalition of the country's two large ...

Israel's security cabinet voted to approve a ceasefire deal to end the fighting in Gaza. Full cabinet approval is expected later Friday, a statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office ...

Michael Oren, former Israeli ambassador to the U.S., joins NPR's Michel Martin to discuss Israel's security cabinet approving a Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal. The agreement still needs the full ...

And that was the change dynamic here." A day after the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal was announced, NPR's Michel Martin spoke ...

During the rally, participants called on the government: "Don't abandon the hostages, don't abandon Israel's security." Tzvika Mor, chairman of the Tikva Forum, whose son Eitan was kidnapped by ...

Israel and Hamas appear close to a cease-fire deal to end more than 15 months of devastating fighting in Gaza, though it's facing something of a last-minute crisis. The agreement, which has hit a ...

The Director General of the Israel Ministry of Defense (IMOD), Maj. Gen. (Res.) Eyal Zamir, and Rafael CEO, Yoav Tourgeman, signed today (Thursday) the first contract under the US aid package ...

Ten IDF soldiers were moderately and lightly injured in a weapons explosion on a training base in southern Israel, the IDF confirmed. The IDF reported that "three soldiers were moderately injured ...

It has been Israel’s longest war – the longest single conventional war of the entire Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In intensity and concentration of violence in the 25-mile-long Gaza Strip ...

We begin in the Middle East. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: There are questions this morning about whether a ceasefire deal just clinched between Israel and Hamas will actually begin on Sunday, as hoped.

DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Israel and Hamas have agreed to pause the devastating war in the Gaza Strip, mediators announced Wednesday, raising the possibility of winding down the deadliest and most ...

Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich (Religious Zionists) strongly condemned the hostage and ceasefire deal that was reached on Wednesday between Israel and the Hamas ...