A small U.S. security firm is hiring nearly 100 U.S. special forces veterans to help run a checkpoint in Gaza during the Israel-Hamas truce, according to a company spokesperson and a recruitment email seen by Reuters,

Dozens of people celebrated today in Baghdad the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Camera: AHMED JALIL. [Restrictions: Spain, Latin America, or the U.S. Hispanic market]

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Palestine’s ambassador to Iraq on Saturday thanked the country for its humanitarian and financial support to Gaza, a week after a ceasefire with Israel came into effect and with the enclave ravaged by war.

Before their release, the hostages, four female soldiers, were led onto a stage in Gaza City, surrounded by masked, uniformed fighters.

Iraq looms as a complex test for the new Trump ... "The Iranian regime cannot afford another domino to fall after Hamas and Hezbollah and Assad," Knights said. "This is why the US needs to fight ...

Iraq will not be negatively affected by the weakening of Iran's influence in the Middle East, Iraq's deputy parliament speaker said, with Baghdad looking to chart its own diplomatic path in the region and limit the power of armed groups.

America needs to rebuild itself, not Gaza. It needs to police its own streets, not Gaza streets. In his first year in office, President Trump vowed, we are “not nation-building again; we are killing terrorists.” America needs to stop nation-building in Gaza and start letting Israel kill terrorists.

Since the horrific Hamas terrorist attacks of Oct. 7, 2023, Israel has been at war in the Middle East. The conflict has stretched across borders, spanning Gaza to Lebanon to Iran. Over the course of 15 months,

Former CIA official Sarah Adams has made some startling observations in her investigative report, suggesting that the Hamas attacks resulted from a highly layered, planned, and complex conspiracy planned over a year and a half by Al Qaeda,

Under the terms of the fragile Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal , fighting will be halted in Gaza for at least six weeks. Dozens of Israeli hostages and hundreds of Palestinian prisoners will be freed, while more aid flows in .

Iran-allied groups Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon were ... which typically attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors from across Iraq and beyond. In al-Kadhimiyah, vehicle traffic was ...

After more than a year hiding in tunnels and dodging air strikes, uniformed Hamas fighters returned to the ruined streets of Gaza hours into a ceasefire, defying Israel's vow to crush them.