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The UK government on Saturday named two Britons detained in Iran as Craig and Lindsay Foreman, with their family saying they are determined to ensure the pair’s “safe return”.

Egypt is reportedly pushing for a special meeting of the 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to solidify opposition to President Donald Trump’s proposal for moving the Palestinians out of Gaza to facilitate reconstruction.

The Foreign Ministry of Saudi Arabia confirmed on Friday it is interested in hosting a summit between President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in the near future after Trump floated the possibility.

Keith Siegel, 65, an American and Israeli citizen who was released from Hamas captivity in Gaza two weeks ago, released a video on Friday thanking President Donald Trump and urging him to bring other hostages home.

Danielle Sassoon, the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, resigned Thursday, just days after President Donald Trump’s Justice Department ordered her office to drop its case against New York Mayor Eric Adams, according to a report.

Future plans for Gaza can only be implemented after Hamas’ defeat, according to Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli, who praised U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposal for the United States to take control of the coastal enclave, resettle its population, and rebuild it into a thriving economic hub; calling it a “bold,” “outside the box” and “credible” shift away from past failed peace strategies.

Egyptian Assistant Foreign Minister Mohamed Hegazy on Wednesday unveiled his country’s proposal for rebuilding Gaza – and, implicitly, Egypt’s counter to President Donald Trump’s plan to take over the territory and rebuild it as “the Riviera of the Middle East.”

The aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman was involved in a collision at sea Wednesday night, according to reports.

The University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) has suspended two “Students for Justice in Palestine” (SJP) groups after they threatened a pro-Israel member of the University of California Board of Regents at his family residence.

Egyptian strongman Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is refusing to visit President Donald Trump in Washington unless he agrees to not discuss his plan for America to “take over” Gaza, an anonymously sourced report in Reuters indicated on Wednesday.

Israel reiterated Thursday that it would end the current ceasefire and return to war in Gaza if Hamas did not release  “hostages” by noon on Saturday — but it appeared to back away from a threat to act if “all” hostages are not released.

The Hamas terrorist group said Thursday it would reverse its previous threat of non-compliance and will now continue freeing Israeli hostages as set out in the Gaza agreement.

A family of six Palestinians from Gaza slipped through what British Prime Minister Keir Starmer described as a “loophole” this week and immigrated to the United Kingdom using a program designed for Ukrainian refugees.

Ahmad Bakhshayesh Ardestani, a member of the National Security Committee in the Iranian parliament, said on Wednesday that some of his fellow lawmakers are urging the Iranian regime to rapidly develop nuclear weapons to halt President Donald Trump’s agenda for the Middle East.

Rebuilding Gaza is impossible without Hamas’s complete removal, according to urban warfare specialists John Spencer and Liam Collins, who argue that any reconstruction effort will be futile if the terror group remains in control.

Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi pressured United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to “push back” against President Donald Trump’s plan for America to rehabilitate the Gaza Strip during a phone call with the global agency leader on Monday.

A video featuring a string of celebrities wearing an anti-Kanye West t-shirt is going viral, but it isn’t what it seems. And star Scarlett Johansson is not at all happy about it.

A cadre of protesters waved signs while shouting “free Palestine” and “boycott Disney” at the premiere for Captain America: Brave New World on Tuesday night.

Two Australian nurses have been suspended after a viral video showed them threatening to kill Israeli patients and boasting about refusing them treatment. The pair face criminal and health prosecutions over their “sickening and shameful” boasts of weaponizing the healthcare system against Jews.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that President Donald Trump’s Gaza plan is the only one at the moment, and so if Arab countries don’t like the Trump plan and “think

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” host Chris Hayes stated that “There are reasons, I think, for Hamas to be skeptical” about the second phase of the ceasefire deal and that President Donald Trump’s Gaza proposal gives them no

On Tuesday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Elizabeth Vargas Reports,” Ronen and Orna Neutra, the parents of deceased Hamas hostage Omer Neutra, stated that they appreciate the strength and leadership of President Donald Trump on demanding the release of the Hamas hostages. Ronen said,

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said Tuesday that if Hamas did not release all 73 of the remaining hostages still in Gaza by noon on Saturday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) would resume attacking “until the final defeat of Hamas.”

King Abdullah II of Jordan told President Trump at the White House on Tuesday that his country would give refuge to 2,000 children from Gaza who are sick with cancer or other illnesses.

President Donald Trump discussed with King Abdullah II of Jordan his plan to take control of Gaza and relocate the Palestinians.

Syriac Orthodox Patriarch Moran Mor Ignatius Aphrem II told the International Religious Freedom Summit in Washington, DC, last week that Christians remain apprehensive about the new jihadi regime in Damascus, but they hope to play a “vital and pivotal role” in rebuilding their homeland.

The United Nations announced a temporary pause in humanitarian work in Yemen after the Houthis kidnapped eight more staffers.

A Swedish court on Tuesday sentenced Lina Ishaq to 12 years in prison on genocide charges, in the country’s first court case over crimes by the Islamic State group against the Yazidi minority.

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, the leader of the jihadist terrorist organization Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), dismissed President Donald Trump’s plan for America to take over the Gaza Strip as a guaranteed failure, comparing it to Trump “pushing Mexicans out of America.”

A southern Iranian city organized a dramatization of President Donald Trump being arrested by Iranian soldiers as part of festivities to celebrate the anniversary of the barbaric Islamic regime seizing power on Monday.

The Palestinian Authority agreed Monday to end the so-called “Pay to Slay” policy of paying stipends to Palestinian terrorists, alive or dead — though Israel said that the Palestinian government was simply trying to reroute the funds.

The Hamas terrorist group on Tuesday dismissed U.S. President Donald Trump’s demand for the release of all remaining Israeli and American hostages from Gaza by noon on Saturday, or the ceasefire deal is over — and Israel can respond as it wants.

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) reacted to President Donald Trump stating that “all hell” should break out if all of the hostages held by Hamas aren’t released by noon on Saturday by stating that

President Donald Trump issued an ultimatum to Hamas on Monday: it must release all of the remaining Israeli and America hostages from Gaza by noon on Saturday, or the ceasefire deal is over — and Israel can respond as it wants.