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This content discusses the ongoing discussions in Paris among officials from various nations to bring Israeli hostages home and de-escalate tensions in the...

U.S. negotiators are making progress on a potential agreement for a pause in Israeli military operations in Gaza in exchange for the release of hostages.

Secretary Austin navigates tense Middle East negotiations over war aftermath and hostage releases, while balancing stalled aid talks at home.

Here’s how the negotiations involving Israel, Hamas, Qatar, the US and Egypt unfolded.

Burns knows Russia well, and warned about NATO expansion decades ago. Could he help end the Ukraine conflict?

Sag-Aftra committee decision raises prospect of first simultaneous strike by writers and actors in more than 60 years. Plus, a surfing sea otter leaves experts puzzled

Biden has tasked Burns with several sensitive diplomatic missions.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. intelligence community has concluded that a series of mysterious health incidents affecting U.S. personnel around the world since 2016 were unlikely to have been caused by a foreign adversary or by a directed energy weapon, after conducting what one intelligence official described as a “historic” investigation.

Burn’s visit was pre-planned but it takes place amid the most significant escalation of tensions in the region in months.