A long-awaited ceasefire in Gaza began after a three-hour delay as Hamas named the three female hostages it plans to free ...

The World Monuments Fund list seeks to raise awareness and funds to help preserve the sites it spotlights. Africa's Swahili ...

Hundreds of people marched from Portland's Monument Square to City Hall, calling for equal rights Saturday as a part of the ...

On Thursday, dozens of people took part in funeral prayers outside the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central Gaza city of Deir al-Balah for people killed in Israeli strikes the day before. In the ...

It was wise of the University of Maine System administration to refuse ... Will Jewish students be refused admission? Just as the City of Portland’s City Council vote to divest could be the ...

Israeli airstrikes on Sunday killed five people in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, four in the southern city of Khan Younis and three in Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, according to ...

Rabbi Moshe Wilansky soared above Portland’s City Hall Plaza Wednesday evening ... director of Chabad of Maine, led the more than 100 gathered in prayer as he sparked the wicks a few minutes ...

Even before the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas was fully in place, Palestinians in the war-battered Gaza Strip began ...

The UN has said that people in Gaza are “effectively starving.” Before the war, the territory was “largely self-sufficient” ...

The Israel-Hamas war has devastated the Gaza Strip. Satellite photos offer some sense of the destruction in the territory.

Thirty-three people were set to be released during the first phase of the agreement, including female soldiers and civilians, ...

A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza came into effect on Sunday morning. Hostages held in the strip and Palestinian ...