Vivian Yee

The top U.S. diplomat spoke with Saudi Arabia’s de factor ruler as he sought to broker a pause in the fighting. His visit came the same day a drone struck a Syrian base used by U.S. forces and their allies.

US secretary of state discussed ‘enduring end' to the conflict during talks with Saudi Arabia's crown prince

Israel, Hamas, the United States, Qatar and Egypt are involved in negotiations, which will go on for days. Officials called them promising, but an accord did not seem imminent.

The U.S. military said an anti-ship missile launched from Yemen damaged the ship, the Rubymar.

With the approach of Ramadan, as well as protests by hostage families and a threatened Palestinian march on the Aqsa mosque, pressure is rising to reach a deal.

The military said Hamas had regrouped at the hospital complex in northern Gaza. Hamas has denied repeatedly that it operates from beneath the hospital.

A curly-haired young man shakes as he bends over the mound of smashed concrete that used to be his friend’s home. He clutches his rain-spotted iPhone in his trembling hands, but there is no answer. “Please God, Ahmed,” he sobs in a video posted on social media. “Please God.” A father crawls over a mountain of gray concrete shards, his right ear pressed to the dust. “I can’t hear you, love,” he tells his absent children in a different video shared on Instagram and verified by The New York Times.

Israel and the Biden administration have increasingly clashed over the war against Hamas in Gaza, including a possible offensive in Rafah.

Egyptian state media says negotiators are convening in Cairo to resume stalled talks on a temporary cease-fire and an exchange of hostages for Palestinian prisoners.

Samantha Power, the head of the U.S. Agency for International Development, is the first American official to classify the extreme hunger in parts of Gaza as a famine.