A Gaza ceasefire agreement has been reached, Qatar has confirmed - as President Joe Biden announced the imminent release of US and Israeli hostages.

The two were exchanged for a man arrested in eastern Afghanistan two decades ago who has been serving a life sentence in a California prison.

A ceasefire agreement has been reached between Israel and Hamas, involving a halt of the fighting and the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza. Following the announcement, both US President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump claimed credit for the Gaza ceasefire.

President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that a Gaza ceasefire deal 'has been reached' between Israel and Hamas.

Hamas has accepted a draft agreement for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip whilst Israel insists details are still being finalised

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden bid goodbye to the American people Wednesday ... The Biden administration brokered the deal, along with Qatar and Egypt. Biden started his speech by reflecting for a few minutes on that agreement, which he said had ...

As world leaders grapple with the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, Brazil, the host of this year’s COP30 global climate summit, sees an opportunity to amplify the voices of developing nations in what will be a fierce dispute over who will pay for the global transition to cleaner energy sources.

Israel and Hamas reached a ceasefire agreement just days ahead of Trump taking office. The conflict had raged in the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, 2023, in the wake of a Hamas raid on Israel that saw it seize roughly 250 hostages and kill more than 1,200 civilians.

As news broke that the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas had finally been reached after seven months of high-stakes negotiations in Qatar, President Joe Biden was preparing to make his farewell address to the American people from the Oval Office. President-elect Donald Trump was getting ready to redecorate the room.

Afghanistan’s Taliban government has announced the release of two Americans in a prisoner exchange. In a statement Tuesday, the Taliban’s Foreign Ministry in Kabul did not name the two U.S. citizens,

The deal to release two Americans, Ryan Corbett and William McKenty, was brokered by Joe Biden 's administration ... negotiations in Qatar, according to a former senior Biden administration ...

Joe Biden had previously issued his unprecedented ... James Biden in 2018 apparently made a pitch to Qatar to invest $30 million into a troubled rural hospital provider and directly mentioned ...