"It is striking that Israel was not mentioned in the president's inauguration speech," a senior Hamas official told Newsweek.

Israel wants to annex the occupied West Bank and further weaken Iran, but Trump's other priorities may hold those back

Trump has rescinded the Biden administration’s sanctions against Israelis accused of violence in the territory.

A leader of an Israeli activist organization that was accused of disrupting the flow of aid into Gaza and subsequently sanctioned by the Biden Administration expressed her relief Tuesday that President Donald Trump had rescinded the policy.

Fighters from the Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, control the crowd while Red Cross vehicles come to collect Israeli hostages to be released under a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, in Gaza City, Jan. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Abed Hajjar, File)

Donald Trump jumped to claim credit for brokering the ceasefire moments after it was announced on Wednesday, despite the fact that he was not in office for the duration of the conflict. But his instinct may not be far off: A diplomat briefed on the negotiations credited their sudden progress to the incoming forty-seventh president, reported

On Monday evening, just hours after Donald Trump’s inauguration, the Senate passed the Laken Riley Act, an extreme bill that would allow for the deportation and detention of any undocumented immigrant merely suspected of a nonviolent crime. And they did it with the help of 12 Democrats.

Israel has confirmed that it will maintain control over the Rafah border crossing, the key passage between Egypt and the Gaza Strip.

The ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas stretched into a fifth day on Thursday. Humanitarian aid groups are working to surge food and supplies to the war-ravaged territory as

Asharq Al Awsat Israel’s ambassador to the United States says the two countries are in talks about the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon as a deadline in the ceasefire with Hezbollah militants approaches.

President Donald Trump has addressed Russia's invasion of Ukraine for the first time since his inauguration, calling on Vladimir Putin to end the war or face further sanctions. DW has more.