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News Articles: Middle East

Police scuffle with demonstrators who block a road during a protest demanding a ceasefire deal and the immediate release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by Hamas, in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Saturday.

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Netanyahu delays ceasefire vote, claiming Hamas created a 'last minute crisis'

The deal was set to be ratified by Israeli Cabinet on Thursday. But Netanyahu says, without specifying, that Hamas has gone back on several parts of the ceasefire agreement at the last minute.

January 16, 2025
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By:
  • Willem Marx
People walk past stalls selling goods amid the rubble of buildings destroyed during previous Israeli strikes, in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on January 15, 2025.

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  • World

Israel and Hamas reach a Gaza ceasefire agreement

Israel and Hamas have reached an agreement on a multiphase ceasefire that commits them to end the war in Gaza, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman James Risch said.

January 15, 2025
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By:
  • Willem Marx,
  • Jerome Socolovsky,
  • and 4 more
Syrians wait at a breadline at a bakery in the Syrian capital Damascus as the government faces a serious challenge: providing cheap bread. Men and women tend to queue up in separate lines so they don't bump into each other.

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  • Global Health

Voices from the new breadlines in Syria: Who's waiting? And why?

Syria's new rulers faces one of their first serious challenges: bread lines. For Syrians, the long wait is a struggle — but for some, bread is a business opportunity.

January 14, 2025
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By:
  • Diaa Hadid and
  • Mirna Alrached
Police scuffle with demonstrators who block a road during a protest demanding a cease-fire deal and the immediate release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by Hamas, in Tel Aviv, Israel on Saturday.

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  • Middle East

Israel and Hamas may be on the verge of a ceasefire. Here's what we know right now

Negotiators in Qatar are close to a ceasefire deal that sees an exchange of Israeli hostages for Palestinian detainees, a six-week pause in fighting and eventual troop withdrawal from Gaza.

January 14, 2025
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By:
  • Jerome Socolovsky and
  • Kat Lonsdorf
Mohammad Eid carries the body of one of his three relatives killed on Saturday in an Israeli airstrike, as they are prepared for the funeral in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

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  • Middle East

What to know about the Israel and Hamas Gaza ceasefire and hostage release talks

The basic framework, officials familiar with the talks say, is an exchange of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners, and a six-week ceasefire. Mediators are applying pressure on all parties.

January 13, 2025
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin
People gather to celebrate after Lebanese parliament elects army chief Joseph Aoun new president, on Thursday, in Beirut, Lebanon.

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  • World

Lebanon chooses a new president after two years without one

Lebanon's parliament chose the head of the country's armed forces, Joseph Aoun, to be its next president, a post that's been vacant since October 2022.

January 09, 2025
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By:
  • Emily Feng and
  • Jawad Rizkallah
A Syrian woman who arrived at a first international commercial flight since the fall of former Syrian President Bashar Assad shouts anti-Assad slogans at the arrival terminal of Damascus international airport, in Damascus, Syria on Tuesday.

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  • World

First international commercial flight since Assad's ouster lands in Syria

The Qatar Airways flight landed at Damascus International Airport. Many passengers were Syrian nationals coming come for the first time in more than a decade.

January 08, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
A woman in Kfar Saba, Israel, passes a wall on Monday covered with photos of hostages kidnapped to the Gaza Strip during the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack.

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  • World

Hamas and Israel are negotiating the release of 34 hostages from Gaza

The deal would secure release of a third of the approximately 100 hostages who remain in Gaza, including two dual U.S.-Israeli nationals. In return, Israel would release some Palestinian prisoners.

January 06, 2025
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin and
  • Abu Bakr Bashir
Fisherman Omerserik Ibragimov heads out to put his nets in the water of the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan on Aug. 7. <a href="https://www.npr.org/series/g-s1-30988/aral-sea"target="_blank"   >Click here for the full story. </a>

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  • World

NPR photos around the world that moved us in 2024

There have been touching moments — sometimes away from the headlines, and the front lines — that have moved the world this year.

January 05, 2025
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  • NPR Staff
Demonstrators chant pro-Islamic State group slogans as they carry the group's flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, Iraq, on June 16, 2014.

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  • National

The attack in New Orleans reveals ISIS' influence lingers, experts say

The man behind the New Year's Day attack in New Orleans said in videos that he was inspired by ISIS and had joined the group this summer. This attack shows ISIS' resonance and resilience persists.

January 03, 2025
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
Salim Turki al-Anteri, the commander of the Syrian Free Army, in his office in al-Tanf, Syria, Dec. 14.

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  • World

Syria's U.S.-trained opposition fighters wait to learn of their role in a new Syria

Former opposition groups — some of whom are U.S.-trained — will be knitted together into new Syrian security forces organized by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the group that led the ouster of Bashar al-Assad.

December 31, 2024
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By:
  • Jane Arraf
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO Director General, delivers his speech after inaugurating the WHO Academy campus which promotes lifelong learning across the health sector, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024, in Lyon, central France.

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  • Middle East

WHO director urges Israel to stop attacks on Gaza's medical infrastructure

World Health Organization director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who escaped an Israeli airstrike in Yemen, says Gaza's health crisis is indescribable and is calling for a ceasefire.

December 31, 2024
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By:
  • Leila Fadel and
  • Destinee Adams
Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat (back to camera) and Israeli Premier Menachem embrace each other, on Sept. 17, 1978, after signing a peace agreement in the White House with US President Jimmy Carter.

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  • World

Egyptian and Israeli leaders send condolences for Carter, who brokered their peace treaty

One of the crowning foreign policy achievements of Carter's single term as U.S. president was brokering a series of agreements that later came to be called the Camp David accords in 1978.

December 30, 2024
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By:
  • Emily Feng
Palestinians carry white sacks containing the bodies of those killed in overnight Israeli airstrikes on the Maghazi refugee camp, at Al-Aqsa Hospital, in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, on Saturday.

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  • Middle East

Israel detains a Gaza hospital director, Palestinian medical officials say

Gaza's Health Ministry said the head of Kamal Adwan Hospital was arrested along with dozens of other staff. Israel's military alleged Hamas militants were using the facility.

December 28, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters stand guard at Al Naeem Square in Raqqa, Syria, in February 2022.

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  • World

Syria's U.S.-backed Kurdish coalition faces an uncertain future after Assad's ouster

After Bashar al-Assad's ouster, there are questions about the fate of the Syrian Democratic Forces, the U.S.-backed Kurdish coalition that currently controls a third of Syrian territory.

December 27, 2024
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  • Fatma Tanis
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