Middle East

The remains of Israeli hostage Shiri Bibas has reportedly been collected by Red Cross officials after a body wrongly identified as hers was handed over by Hamas militants in a macabre spectacle.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the IDF to carry out attacks after three public buses exploded in a suspected terror attack on Israel.

Israel has revealed one of the bodies handed over by Hamas after a macabre spectacle overnight is not that of Shiri Bibas, as the militants had claimed. 

Hamas on Thursday released the bodies of four Israeli hostages, said to include a mother and her two children who have long been feared dead.

Archaeologists have discovered the first ancient pharaoh's tomb to be found in Egypt in more than 100 years.

The body of the youngest Israeli hostage taken by Hamas, aged just nine months old when captured, is set to be returned to Israel along with the bodies of the infant’s mother and young sibling.

Israel will keep troops in several posts in southern Lebanon past a deadline for them to withdraw.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky will reportedly not attend US-Russia peace talks in Saudi Arabia, claiming he was not invited, as scrutiny over an agreement made without Ukraine continues. 

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Hamas ‘must be eradicated,’ throwing the future of a shaky ceasefire into further doubt.

Foreign governments have joined Lebanon in condemning a violent attack on a UN peacekeeper convoy in Beirut that injured the mission's deputy commander.

Hamas have released three Israeli hostages from captivity in Gaza while Israel handed over 369 Palestinian prisoners as the fragile ceasefire hangs in the balance.

The Israeli influencer at the centre of a video showing two NSW nurses making vile anti-Semitic threats has released the full, unedited version of the sickening exchange, saying he had ‘nothing to hide’.

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: I can say with confidence that Donald Trump’s Gaza proposal is the single most idiotic and dangerous Middle East ‘peace’ initiative ever put out by an American president.

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says fighting will resume if Hamas does not free more hostages as US President Donald Trump met Jordan's King Abdullah.

‘Highest level of readiness’: Troops prepare after Hamas delays next hostage release and accuses Israel of violating a ceasefire agreement.