On the one hand, the deal freed three innocent Israeli men from a 16-month nightmare, further torment and possibly death. The ...

Just over three weeks into a cease-fire that has brought the Gaza Strip relative peace, Israel and Hamas are already bracing ...

Years ago, when I visited Pelican Bay State Prison on the northern coast of California, prison staff explained the rules. They gave me a stab vest and a handy piece of information: If I were taken ...

He was first released in 2011 under an agreement by which Israel released more than 1,000 Palestinians in exchange for Gilad Shalit, a soldier abducted by Hamas militants in 2006. After his ...

Shragai noted that Yahya Sinwar had been released by a 2011 deal that traded more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners for one ...

One of the Palestinian prisoners released in the fifth hostage-prisoner swap under the Gaza ceasefire deal holds an assault ...

Gaza: As Hamas released a new batch of Israeli captives on Saturday, sources within and close to the movement revealed that a senior leader played a crucial yet largely unseen role in the negotiations ...

Fakhri Barghouti grimaced in pain as an exultant crowd lifted him onto their shoulders next to his son Shadi, released from ...

Crowds in Ramallah greet those freed to West Bank; among those released is key planner of 2004 suicide bombing in Beersheba ...

One of the last things Oran Almog saw was broken glass, blood and bodies after a suicide bombing in Israel rendered him blind ...

Malki Roth was a 15-year-old American girl enjoying a day out in Jerusalem. On Aug. 9, 2001, she was one of 16 people, including three other Americans, killed in the bombing of a Sbarro pizzeria. Her ...

Was the release of Sinwar in 2011, in exchange for Gilad Shalit, worth it? To answer that question with “no” is excruciatingly difficult, for it is the same as saying that the Shalit family should not ...