More than 900,000 bottles of instant infant formula are also blocked

Syria’s jihadist-turned-president caps extraordinary transformation with White House visit

While US says ‘historic’ effort is underway to meet needs of Gazans, aid groups say less than a quarter of promised supplies have arrived

Six Muslim countries have so far indicated that they will provide troops

Masked Israeli settler is filmed clubbing a 55-year-old Palestinian woman while she was picking olives

A total of 250 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails and 1,700 Gazan detainees have been released under peace deal

Aid supplies ‘way below what is needed’, says UN Palestinian refugee agency

Turkish Cypriot president-elect has pledged to resume talks with Greek Cypriots over forming a federation

Militant group has extended its reach over Gaza and taken on rival militias and armed clans

About 200 US troops are being deployed in a support role but will not enter Gaza

Resistance movements have lost popular support they had once enjoyed

Jared Kushner is deeply mistrusted by Hamas, given links to controversial West Bank settlements

New reports shed light on the scale of death and destruction in the embattled enclave

Israel and Hamas are edging towards fragile ceasefire in enclave despite continuing strikes

Gaza envisaged as ‘deradicalized terror-free zone’, no governance role for Hamas – yet little detail on execution of key points