Former deputy national security adviser KT McFarland discusses the latest news from the Israel-Hamas war as Hamas releases the bodies of four Israeli hostages.

What happened in the White House with Zelensky shows that the U.S. doesn’t have a constant policy or permanent allies,’ Chatham House senior fellow and former Knesset member Ksenia Svetlova said

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President Trump met with President Emmanuel Macron of France at the White House yesterday at a head-spinning time for Western alliances. It was the third anniversary of the war in Ukraine, and peace talks with Russia have sidelined Kyiv and European leaders. Here’s the latest.

The British prime minister, Keir Starmer, declared yesterday that “we are at a crossroads in history,” and announced that European countries would assemble a “coalition of the willing” to defend Ukraine against Russia. Read more here.

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After six weeks of calm in Gaza, Israel and Hamas would be under enormous pressure not to resume fighting. Negotiations over phase two would be hard—but they would happen. That was the idea, at least.

An Israeli hostage who was held by Hamas for more than a year described his captivity, saying the treatment of hostages was tied to how Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody were treated, according to Israeli media.