2 Americans Held in Afghanistan Are Freed in Prisoner Swap

2 Americans Held in Afghanistan Are Freed in Prisoner Swap

In one of its final acts, the Biden administration secured the release of two Americans held in Afghanistan in a prisoner swap for a Taliban member imprisoned in the United States on narcotics charges. The Taliban government freed Ryan Corbett and William Wallace McKenty in exchange for Khan Mohammed, who was released from a U.S. […]

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Mother of Missing U.S. Journalist Asks Syria’s New Leaders for Help

Mother of Missing U.S. Journalist Asks Syria’s New Leaders for Help

The mother of Austin Tice, an American journalist abducted in Syria, said on Monday that she had met with Syria’s new leader in Damascus and expressed hope that “a page will be turned” in the more than decade-long search for her son. Debra Tice gave a news conference in Damascus on Monday after the meeting […]

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As Truce Takes Hold, Gazans and Israelis Express Elation Tinged With Doubt

As Truce Takes Hold, Gazans and Israelis Express Elation Tinged With Doubt

As a truce took hold on Sunday in Gaza, potentially ending the longest and deadliest war in a century of Israeli-Palestinian conflict, two men used the same metaphor to describe how they felt. “The weight on my chest has lifted,” said Ziad Obeid, a Gazan civil servant displaced several times during the war. “We have […]

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First 3 Israeli Hostages to Be Freed Under Gaza Cease-Fire Are Named

First 3 Israeli Hostages to Be Freed Under Gaza Cease-Fire Are Named

In the early weeks of the war, her mother expressed concern that Israeli military operations in Gaza could endanger the hostages. Romi Gonen’s older sister, Yarden, told The New York Times in February that she regularly went to a plaza in Tel Aviv where families of hostages have held vigils. “None of us is doing […]

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Some Prominent Palestinian Prisoners Set to Be Released in the Israel-Hamas Cease-Fire Agreement

Some Prominent Palestinian Prisoners Set to Be Released in the Israel-Hamas Cease-Fire Agreement

Israel is due to release more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners over the course of the 42-day initial cease-fire, according to the terms of the agreement, beginning with at least 90 on Sunday in exchange for three Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza. Israelis say that many of the prisoners are terrorists and murderers. Many […]

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Israel Prepares for Return of Hostages Held in Gaza for Over a Year

Israel Prepares for Return of Hostages Held in Gaza for Over a Year

The Israeli authorities are making preparations to welcome home dozens of hostages held incommunicado by Hamas for over a year in Gaza, without knowing whether they will return starved, traumatized or dead. Thirty-three hostages are supposed to be freed in the first phase of the Gaza cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas, in the first […]

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Israeli Government Approves Cease-Fire Deal for Gaza

Israeli Government Approves Cease-Fire Deal for Gaza

The Israeli government approved a cease-fire deal with Hamas early Saturday that calls for the release of dozens of hostages and hundreds of Palestinian prisoners after hours of deliberations, setting up the first reprieve in a 15-month, devastating war in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli prime minister’s office, which announced the agreement after the full […]

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