Trager, a Senate Armed Services Committee staffer and former Washington Institute fellow, has focused his research on Egypt ...

Press Democrat readers comment on half-staff flags, and more.

On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas and other Iranian proxies invaded Israel, massacring more than 1200 people and taking hundreds of ...

The festival will take place Jan. 9–23, and will include both in-person and virtual events. Many of the films tackle the aftermath of the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023.

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip expressed much fear of further bloody violence and more death by Israel as US President-elect ...

President-elect Donald J. Trump said “all hell will break out in the Middle East” if hostages captured in the Hamas-led ...

What's needed, to state the obvious, is an arrangement under which the hostages can be freed without Hamas leveraging their ...

Attorney and guest columnist Brooke Goldstein offers a suggestion to President-elect Trump for combating antisemitism: Appoint an "antisemitism czar." This office would, among other things, crack down ...

The former St. Louis County prosecutor beat former Rep. Cori Bush in the Democratic primary, and takes office as the party looks to adapt for the future.

President-elect Donald Trump has reiterated his warning that severe consequences await if hostages held by Hamas are not ...

President-elect Donald Trump's incoming Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, told reporters that President Joe Biden's team has been "very collaborative" on working towards a Gaza hostage release deal, ...

Trump shared a blistering critique of Netanyahu by economics professor Jeffrey Sachs that blasts the leader for having dragged the US into “phony wars.” ...