Chen, whose son Sagui is believed to be alive and among the Israeli hostages seized by Hamas in the Oct. 7 attacks, says the ...

For Shaymaa Ahmed, a 21-year-old engineering student in Gaza, a cease-fire means she can finally mourn her own family.

NPR's Leila Fadel asks longtime diplomat and former Mideast peace negotiator Aaron David Miller about the U.S. role in a phased execution of the Gaza ceasefire agreement.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with 22-year-old engineering student Shaimaa Ahmed in Gaza about how she feels about the news of the ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel.

As cease-fire talks continue, NPR's Leila Fadel talks with Jonathan Dekel-Chen, whose son Sagui is believed to be alive and among the Israeli hostages who were seized by Hamas in the Oct. 7 attacks.

As cease-fire talks continue, NPR's Leila Fadel talks with Jonathan Dekel-Chen, whose son Sagui is believed to be alive among the Israeli hostages who were seized by Hamas in the Oct. 7 attacks.

After barely escaping an Israeli airstrike, the head of the World Health Organization is urging Israel to stop attacking health care facilities in Gaza. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and a United ...

Leaders in Syria and Israel are navigating a transformed Middle East. In Syria, new leaders are settling in, working out relations with their neighbors and, just recently, dealing with a ...

People in the Middle East have spent this whole year waiting on a cease-fire, from combatants to civilians under fire in tents to hostages at locations unknown. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: And so as the ...