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

CIA director nominee John Ratcliffe said the agency needs to focus on its mission in the face of growing challenges from ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Former CIA analyst Asif William Rahman pleads guilty to leaking classified documents about Israel's military plans against ...

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 ...

Ex-CIA analyst Asif Rahman pleaded guilty Friday ... to release additional information to sway the Israeli’s war with Hamas. The Israel military documents Rahman divulged didn’t include ...

WASHINGTON — Former Texas congressman John Ratcliffe, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the CIA, vowed to make the ...