The deal Trump sparked was no small achievement, but it wasn’t the first negotiated pause in the war that began on Oct. 7, 2023, after Hamas militias crashed across the Israeli border and killed 1,200 Jews, most of them civilians.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and other lawmakers warned U.S. strikes on Iran could trigger World War III, but the region has since seen relative peace.

President Donald Trump called for a new era of harmony in the Middle East on Monday during a global summit on Gaza's future, trying to advance broader peace in the region after visiting Israel to celebrate a U.

Trump gave an hour-long speech to the Israeli parliament as hostages were freed and the Palestinian prisoner release began. Here are the key moments.

In an emotional and historic exchange on Monday, Hamas released the final 20 living hostages held since the Oct. 7 terror attack, while Israel freed almost 2,000 Palestinian prisoners under a U.S.-brokered cease-fire deal that President Donald Trump called “the dawn of a new Middle East.

The U.S. military has stepped into the Gaza conflict, issuing a direct warning to Hamas to disarm and halt violence under President Trump’s plan. CENTCOM chief Adm. Brad Cooper condemned public executions of alleged collaborators in Gaza City,