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When Tony Blair was first tasked with forging a lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians in 2007, the White House cautioned that the former British prime minister was not "superman" and "he ...

For decades, American leaders have rolled out grand schemes to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, only to see them either collapse in catastrophe or fizzle out in disappointment and recriminations.

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has returned to the forefront of Middle East peace efforts with a U.S. proposal that he take a leading role in overseeing Gaza’s administration and ...

Robert Malley, a key diplomat in the Clinton administration, talks Oct. 7, ending the war in Gaza and the collapse of the two-state solution.

Beckett told Al Jazeera that “most fatally of all, the difficulty was that when he went to meetings in the Middle East, nobody knew which Tony Blair they were seeing—whether it was Tony Blair the ...

Donald Trump says if Hamas rejects the plan, Israel will have US backing to "finish the job of destroying the threat" from the armed group.

Trump’s new plan does appear to be the administration’s most substantive, thoughtful and broadly supported effort to end the Gaza war yet. If fully implemented, it in theory offers the promise of a ...

President Trump struck an optimistic tone announcing his peace plan for Gaza, but it wouldn't be the first time a deal fell apart.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday talks on Gaza with Middle Eastern nations were intense and that Israel and Palestinian Hamas militants were aware of the discussions, which he said would ...

The president has declared attacks on this Middle Eastern country a threat to the security of the United States.

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