NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben speaks to Hussein Ibish, a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute, about Hamas’ strategy for the war in Gaza. Despite months of intense negotiations ...

“In the bloody arithmetic of Hamas’ leaders,” the Times reported in 2023, “the carnage is not the regrettable outcome of a ...

What Israel seems to be doing now, after 19 months of war with Hamas, is a drastically watered-down version of that, neither fighting with full conviction nor negotiating without an eye on the war.

According to BILD, the document lists several factors that Hamas wanted to consider when negotiating a hostage ... against the hostages' families is a strategy developed to increase pressure ...

President Trump’s decision to engage in direct communication with Hamas seems to upend a longstanding U.S. policy of not ...

Hamas confirms direct negotiations with the US for a Gaza ceasefire, as American envoy Stephen Witkoff criticizes Israel.

Israel allowed some aid into Gaza on Monday, ending a two-month blockade. Coupled with equivocation over battlefield strategy ...

A senior Hamas official tells Newsweek that the Palestinian militant group saw "positive" potential in signs of a growing ...

The strategy works on multiple levels ... to destabilize Israeli society from within. Second, Hamas uses hostages as bargaining chips in negotiations, knowing that democracies place immense ...

Trump this week marked his 100th day in office, and the families of the five Americans still held hostage urged him to reflect on his strategy and apply pressure on both Israel and Hamas ...

President Trump’s decision to engage in direct communication with Hamas seems to upend a longstanding U.S. policy of not negotiating with terrorist organizations. In fact, his decision continues ...