Towing the line between diplomat and intelligence agent, Burns's trips to the region are shrouded under a cloak of mystery.

Former chief of staff at the CIA and Pentagon Jeremy Bash explains why separating hostages and releasing them at two ...

A former CIA analyst charged with leaking highly classified ... how a hostage exchange and ceasefire between Israel and Hamas may be carried out and the terms upheld. Emily Harding of the Center ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dispatched a high-level delegation to Doha to help seal a hostage and cease-fire ...

A former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee has pleaded guilty to ... were carried out in retaliation for the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in the Iranian capital, Tehran ...

As he was packing up his office this week at CIA headquarters, the language of a cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas, which he had toiled over for the past 15 months, was at the top of ...

Washington optimistic on chances of closing agreement to release Israelis held by Hamas before end of Biden's term; Netanyahu ...

After months of deadlock, Israel and Hamas have reached a deal for a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release agreement. I spoke ...

Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff was briefed about the progress made in the Israel-Hamas mediation talks by Qatar ...

Hamas wants to “expel” Israel from the land ... President Joe Biden’s longtime Mideast adviser, CIA Director Bill Burns, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and Biden’s national security ...

As he was packing up his office this week at CIA headquarters, the language of a cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas, which he had toiled over for the past 15 months, was at the top of his ...