NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben speaks to Hussein Ibish, a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute, about Hamas’ strategy for the war in Gaza. Despite months of intense negotiations ...

What Israel seems to be doing now, after 19 months of war with Hamas, is a drastically watered-down version of that, neither fighting with full conviction nor negotiating without an eye on the war.

“In the bloody arithmetic of Hamas’ leaders,” the Times reported in 2023, “the carnage is not the regrettable outcome of a ...

Hamas confirms direct negotiations with the US for a Gaza ceasefire, as American envoy Stephen Witkoff criticizes Israel.

Israel allowed some aid into Gaza on Monday, ending a two-month blockade. Coupled with equivocation over battlefield strategy ...

President Trump’s decision to engage in direct communication with Hamas seems to upend a longstanding U.S. policy of not ...

A senior Hamas official tells Newsweek that the Palestinian militant group saw "positive" potential in signs of a growing ...

About 250 mostly Israeli hostages were captured by Hamas militants in the October ... “I don’t want to comment on what the [negotiation] strategy was before the election,” Witkoff said.

The strategy works on multiple levels ... to destabilize Israeli society from within. Second, Hamas uses hostages as bargaining chips in negotiations, knowing that democracies place immense ...

President Trump’s decision to engage in direct communication with Hamas seems to upend a longstanding U.S. policy of not negotiating with terrorist organizations. In fact, his decision continues ...