It involved no terms other than a commitment to diplomatic ... first “stop the killing,” then hold negotiations under a cease-fire, according to the special envoy to Ukraine, Gen.

What prompted it is that for two and a half weeks, Hamas had a free ceasefire in exchange for nothing, not giving up any hostages, merely sitting down at US-led talks, but saying no to US offers ...

While there was no indication that a breakthrough was imminent ... received a proposal two days earlier from Egyptian and ...

There was no immediate comment from Ukraine’s military ... But the emergence of a joint cease-fire proposal from the United States and Ukraine complicates things for Mr. Putin, deepening ...

Vladimir Putin has rejected an immediate and full ceasefire in Ukraine, agreeing only to halt attacks on energy ...

Of course, Putin didn’t say “no” outright — at least, not according to either the Kremlin's or the White House’s read-outs of the two-hour conversation between Donald Trump and his ...

Two months in, this confluence of interests has come apart, and so has the cease-fire. The deal had been on life support for weeks, with no hostages coming out of Gaza and no humanitarian aid ...

Photo: Brian Cahn/Zuma Press Israel took Hamas by surprise, but no one can say it wasn’t warned ... release hostages for 2½ weeks after the cease-fire ended? It was never tenable to give ...