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​Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian meets with Hamas leader Khaled Mashal, in Doha, Qatar, on Oct. 2, 2024.
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Qatar suspends Hamas-Israel mediation efforts

The Gulf Arab emirate announced this weekend it would stop mediating efforts to broker a cease-fire and hostage release deal between Hamas and Israel until “the parties show their willingness and seriousness to end the brutal war.”

​Smoke rises following an Israeli strike on a residential building, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip, in this screen grab taken from a video, August 18, 2024.
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Biden and Hamas disagree over cease-fire progress

A senior Hamas official dismissed suggestions of progress in cease-fire talks with Israel on Saturday, saying mediators are “selling illusions.”

Ian Explains: What's blocking an Israel-Hamas cease-fire?
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Ian Explains: What's blocking an Israel-Hamas cease-fire?

Ian Bremmer explains what's at stake in the Isael-Hamas ceasefire deal and why political incentives on both sides of the conflict make a peace plan for Gaza difficult to achieve.

Will Ukrainian airstrikes inside Russia shift the war?
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Will Ukrainian airstrikes inside Russia shift the war?

Will Ukrainian airstrikes inside Russia shift the war? What is the likelihood that Israel and Hamas will agree to Biden's proposed cease-fire deal? What is the likelihood that Israel and Hamas will agree to Biden's proposed cease-fire deal? Ian Bremmer shares his insights on global politics this week on World In :60.

​An Israeli medic walks near soldiers and an ambulance after Hamas claimed responsibility for an attack on the Kerem Shalom crossing near Israel's border with Gaza in southern Israel, on May 5, 2024.
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Israel and Hamas deal up in smoke?

Hope for a cease-fire faded again Sunday as Hamas left the talks in Cairo. This came just days after the group said it saw the latest proposal – thought to have included a 40-day pause in fighting in exchange for the release of hostages – “in a positive light.” But Hamas’ insistence that a deal for the hostages bring an end to the war was a non-starter for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

​US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Greenfield-Thomas addresses a meeting of the Security Council as they consider a US-sponsored resolution calling for a cease-fire in Gaza, on March 22, 2024.
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China and Russia veto US cease-fire resolution for Gaza

Beijing and Moscow’s ambassadors seemingly took issue with the language of the resolution, contending it didn’t go far enough to demand a cease-fire.

President Joe Biden walks on the South Lawn to Marine One to start his trip from the White House to New York City.
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Biden says cease-fire deal is just around the corner

​Palestinians leave Rafah in fear of an Israeli military operation in the southern Gaza Strip, on Feb. 13, 2024.
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Israeli strikes in Lebanon revive concerns about widening war

Israel launched airstrikes in Lebanon on Wednesday, killing at least 10 civilians, in response to a suspected Hezbollah rocket attack that killed an Israeli soldier. Hezbollah on Thursday said Israel would "pay the price for these crimes."

Graphic Truth: What would Ukrainians give up for peace?
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Graphic Truth: What would Ukrainians give up for peace?

New polling from the Munich Security Conference shows that Ukrainians are strongly opposed to any cease-fire framework that would require Kyiv to cede territory to Russia — particularly Crimea, which Moscow annexed in 2014.

​US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is welcomed upon arriving at King Khalid International Airport, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Monday, Feb. 5, 2024.
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Blinken swims against current to push for Gaza truce

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is touring the Middle East this week – his fifth visit since Oct. 7 – to continue Washington’s push for a new truce in the Gaza war. The US and its Arab partners back a deal that would involve a temporary pause in the fighting to open the door for the release of more hostages from Gaza.