While the primary focus, and success, of President Donald Trump’s Middle East visit to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE during 13-16 May was investment, concurrent regional peace-making attempts were a mixed success. But the challenges ahead for peace between Palestine and Israel are very significant for all stakeholders, including Australia.

Sen. John Fetterman, (D-PA) talks with reporters after the Senate luncheons in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, March 11, 2025.

The Lebanese and Palestinian presidents agreed Wednesday that Palestinian factions won't use Lebanon as a launchpad for any attacks against Israel, and to remove weapons that aren't under the authority of the Lebanese state.

Federal prosecutors are investigating the fatal shootings of a couple leaving a reception for young diplomats at a Jewish museum in Washington as a hate crime and an act of terrorism. The suspect told police officers,

The perverse incentive of recognizing a Palestinian state after the worst terrorist attack on Israel in its history cannot be ignored.

Here’s your guide to understanding the conflict between the US-backed Israel and the Iran-backed Hamas. Nationalism grew among both Arabs and Jews in the Holy Land — which encompasses what today is Israel,

The UK, along with Canada, is determined to take the step at the conference organized by France in June at the United Nations. The intensification of Israeli attacks and the blockade of food aid to Gaza have overtaken the British government's reluctance.

The Lebanese and Palestinian presidents agreed Wednesday to support Beirut's efforts to enforce the state's monopoly on weapons by disarming Palestinian factions, among other pacts.

However, most West European countries, the UK, Israel and the US do not officially consider it a sovereign entity. Some analysts claim that if Trump does recognize a Palestinian state, it will not ...