JTA — Hours before Monday’s expected hostage handover, Tal Shoham, who spent more than 500 days in Hamas captivity, and Ilan Dalal, father of hostage Guy Gilboa-Dalal — with whom Shoham was... Read more »
Shafaq News – Cairo Egypt convened an expanded summit in Sharm El-Sheikh on Monday to convert the first phase of the Gaza understandings into a broader political track. Framed by Egyptian stewardship... Read more »
The leaders of Egypt, Qatar, Turkiye and the United States have released a joint statement backing the Gaza ceasefire deal and committing to “enduring peace” in the region. The statement, released on... Read more »
The Trump ceasefire framework is not the end of the war; it is the opening of a political battlefield. The guns are silent, but the battle for Gaza’s future has begun –... Read more »
2025-10-13T16:57:27+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Baghdad A senior member of Iraq’s Parliamentary Foreign Relations Committee, Mukhtar al-Mousawi, revealed on Monday that several prominent political figures are... Read more »
Israel on Monday freed nearly 2,000 Palestinians — including hundreds of terror convicts serving life terms — from its prisons as part of a deal to reach a ceasefire and release the... Read more »
Shafaq News – Baghdad Iraq’s plan to launch a state-backed mobile operator with 5G capability has been suspended after a judge ordered the Communications and Media Commission (CMC) to pause the signing... Read more »
The moment we have been waiting for: Twenty living hostages are expected to be released Monday morning in two stages. The first hostages to be released were Alon Ohel, Gali and Ziv... Read more »
US President Donald Trump declared on Sunday that the war in Gaza was “over,” and appeared confident that the ceasefire and hostage release deal he arranged would hold, as he headed to... Read more »
On Sunday night, some 12 hours before Omri Miran was set to be released from captivity in Gaza after 737 days, his daughters Roni, 4, and Alma, 2, were glowing with joy,... Read more »