Deif was an elusive figure who had a long and secretive career in the Palestinian group. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Israel on Thursday formally banned the main United Nations aid agency for Palestinian refugees from operating on its territory despite heavy diplomatic backlash, a move that humanitarian officials ...

Hamas is set to free three more Israeli hostages as well as five Thai captives, and Israel is to release another 110 ...

In her third feature, which premiered at Sundance, the 'Amreeka' director tells a multigenerational story of a family expelled from Jaffa in 1948.

The IDF entered the Syrian side of the Golan Heights and established a presence there. Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister ...

Five Thai hostages have been released after 15 months of captivity in the Gaza Strip. On Thursday, dozens of doctors, nurses ...

Long lines of Palestinians -- some kneeling to kiss the soil as they stepped into the northern part of the strip -- were ...

The prisoners released were all men, ranging in age from 15 to 69, with nearly two dozen serving life sentences for more ...

One of the three companies hired to run the checkpoint is seeking 96 green berets to search Palestinians’ vehicles.

Israel released 110 Palestinian prisoners on Thursday in exchange for three Israeli hostages held in Gaza. Though the chaotic ...

A 20-year-old Israeli soldier hostage featured on Cleveland billboards last fall is among those freed Thursday by Hamas.

Throngs of people eagerly waited on Thursday for more than 100 Palestinian prisoners who were released from Israel in ...