While genetic tests can reveal the ancestry of enslaved individuals, strontium analysis can now home in on where they actually grew up.

Archaeologists have uncovered a rare Roman-era boundary stone at the ancient site of Abel Beth Maacah, in northern Israel, shedding light on lost settlements and the meticulous land administration of ...

Preliminary maps from Los Angeles County provide detailed, building-by-building assessments of damage within the Eaton and Palisades fire perimeters. Updated daily, these maps provide information ...

open image in gallery Hamas took around 250 Israeli hostages into Gaza on 7 October. Israel says 94 remain, with over half believed to be dead (AP) The Israeli military has claimed to have hit ...

Israel and Hamas have agreed to a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal, the US and mediators Qatar have said. After the Israeli cabinet and government formally approved the agreement, the first ...

Hostages taken by militant group Hamas, which controls Gaza, would be freed in exchange for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. At a news conference in Doha, Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin ...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that a “last-minute crisis” with Hamas was holding up Israeli approval of a long-awaited ceasefire that would pause ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday accused Hamas of reneging on parts of a ceasefire and hostage release agreement announced the day before. In a statement, Netanyahu said his ...

Less than a day after Qatar's prime minister announced a ceasefire in Gaza, Israel's cabinet has put off a key vote on whether to approve the deal. The deal between Hamas and Israel was set to ...

Israel and Hamas have reached a ceasefire and hostage release agreement to halt more than a year of fighting in the Gaza Strip, President Biden and Qatar's prime minister announced separately on ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. After 15 months of devastating war, Israel and Hamas on Wednesday agreed a ceasefire deal that would halt ...

The moods must match. By this standard, the deal between Israel and Hamas is good but not great: Both groups are relishing what they are getting, and choking a bit on what they have given up.