Waiting for news this week of whether a ceasefire deal between Hamas and the Israeli government must have been agonising for the people of Gaza and for the families of hostages taken in the attack of ...

We asked Scott Lucas, an expert in the Middle East conflict at University College Dublin, to explain the key issues that have led to the agreement and what it means for the future of the region.

If President-elect Donald Trump wants Mideast peace he will have to godfather a Palestinian state alongside Israel.

I think that there are four words that each, in their own way, bear some significance to Wednesday’s happy news that the guns ...

British wartime leader Winston Churchill once said he was an optimist, as there was no point being anything else. The year ...

US national security adviser Jake Sullivan said talks were at a pivotal point ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration on 20 ...

Privacy pods were being operated at American Dream mall in the Meadowlands without the necessary permits and subsequently ...

Donald Trump is still more than a week from being sworn in for his second term but is already confirming that he remains a ...

A Ukrainian mother taking refuge in Montana is being forced to send her toddler daughter back to the war-ridden country. Zhanna Kulahina, 26, and her three-year-old, Maria evacuated to Bozeman through ...

The nation's 39th president is buried alongside his late wife in the same town where they were born, lived most of their ...

If Ukraine falls, it will be hard to spin as anything but a debacle for the United States, and for its president.

The United States and China appear destined for a military conflict, with bellicose rhetoric on both sides, an escalating ...