Former Libyan foreign minister Najla Mangoush insisted in a recent podcast interview that an August 2023 meeting she held with Israel’s then-foreign minister Eli Cohen — an encounter that ...

Since Israel and Hamas went to war, reporters and editors at The New York Times have closely covered the conflict. Our coverage includes the Hamas-led attack on Israel, the plight of hostages ...

In the interview, Mangoush explained that the informal and secret meeting had been coordinated by both the Israeli government and Libya’s Tripoli-based Government of National Unity, led by ...

Hamas is still holding about 100 hostages, including seven Americans, in Gaza following the group’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, where extreme violence and bloodshed claimed the lives of at ...

An Israeli drone attack on a vehicle near the occupied West Bank town of Qabatiya has killed two people, the Palestinian Ministry of Health says on the fourth day of a large-scale Israeli ...

The group's military spokesman Yahya Saree said in a televised statement that the strike was the third by the Houthis on Israel in a 12-hour period, vowing that attacks would continue until the ...

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Israeli forces have killed two Palestinian militants who carried out a deadly attack on a bus in the West Bank earlier this month ...