After the Gaza cease-fire, the president is aiming for a broader peace in a region transformed by two years of fighting.

Trump gave an hour-long speech to the Israeli parliament as hostages were freed and the Palestinian prisoner release began. Here are the key moments.

In 2023, global thinktank the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace concluded that Middle Eastern countries “are among the world’s most exposed states to the accelerating impacts of human-caused climate change – including soaring heatwaves, declining precipitation, extended droughts, more intense sandstorms and floods, and rising sea levels”.

Here's how President Donald Trump successfully negotiated a Gaza peace plan by building relationships with younger Gulf Arab leaders and isolating Hamas from its allies.

King Abdullah II of Jordan has warned that the Middle East is doomed unless there is a peace process leading to a Palestinian state. The king was speaking in an exclusive interview for BBC Panorama, as he prepared to attend a summit in Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh on President Donald Trump's 20-point peace plan for the region.

The Albanese government was snubbed from the Middle East peace summit chaired by US President Donald Trump in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.

Host country Austria has weighed in, urging broadcasters not to politicise the contest. The Austrian media organisation ORF, which will host Eurovision 2026 in Vienna, welcomed the EBU’s decision to delay, saying it supported “a more measured and democratic discussion”.

In a speech to Israel's parliament on a day when the country's 20 living hostages were released as part of a ceasefire agreement he helped broker, President Donald Trump was expected to tell the Knesset, "This is the historic dawn of a new Middle East," according to excerpts released by the White House.