Danylo Hawaleshka

The lat­est pris­on­er ex­change, while promis­ing, is only the start to what is ex­pect­ed to be a long, dif­fi­cult ne­go­ti­a­tion

Is­raeli gov­ern­ment tries to de­flect re­spon­si­bil­i­ty, sow doubt as it seeks to de­fine the nar­ra­tive in the war on Gaza.

Pales­tini­ans in the be­sieged en­clave have had to en­dure decades of vi­o­lence and op­pres­sion — and now it’s even worse.

Hamas blames Is­raeli set­tlers for the ‘des­e­cra­tion’ of Al-Aqsa Mosque com­pound, part of a se­ries of provo­ca­tions.

From its in­cep­tion, Hamas has cho­sen armed re­sis­tance in its ef­forts to lib­er­ate Pales­tine from Is­raeli oc­cu­pa­tion.

Egypt and Syr­ia were de­ter­mined to re­cap­ture land pre­vi­ous­ly tak­en by Is­rael. Things did not go ac­cord­ing to plan.

The red-beard­ed ad­mi­ral proved in­valu­able to the Ot­tomans in the Mediter­ranean bat­tle be­tween Mus­lims and Chris­tians.

Chi­na, US de­ploy war­ships over Tai­wan and South Chi­na Sea in what risks a mil­i­tary con­fronta­tion.

Pres­i­dent Gabriel Boric’s search for those who dis­ap­peared un­der Au­gus­to Pinochet laud­ed but also seen as falling short.

The Apache leader and med­i­cine man was one of the last Na­tive Amer­i­can re­sis­tance fight­ers to sur­ren­der.