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Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and two other Americans were freed from Russia in a prisoner exchange on Aug. 1, 2024. In total, 24 prisoners, including 12 German nationals and eight Russians, as well as two children – who were not prisoners – were exchanged in Ankara, Turkey.

An Israeli strike on Hezbollah’s stronghold in the southern suburb of Beirut earlier this week killed Fuad Shukr

Iran and armed groups backed by it are preparing coordinated action meant to deter Israel but avert all-out war, sources and analysts said, after the killings of top Hamas and Hezbollah figures.

Chief of the political bureau of Hamas, former prime minister of Gaza and ceasefire negotiator

Iran held a funeral ceremony on Thursday with calls for revenge after the killing in Tehran of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh in a strike blamed on Israel.

Vadim Krasikov, the Russian at the center of a massive prisoner swap, has long topped the Kremlin’s list for an exchange

The United States and Russia have made their biggest prisoner swap in post-Soviet history

Haniyeh, spoken of as Tehran’s ‘guest’, was assassinated in the Iranian capital as Israel’s war on Gaza rages.

Numerous foreigners and Russian political prisoners released as Germany frees hitman Vadim Krasikov as part of exchange