Cease-fire talks mediated by the United States, Qatar and Egypt have repeatedly stalled, as have parallel efforts by the U.S. and others to halt the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Joe Biden reportedly asked Donald Trump to work with him to secure a hostage deal in the Middle East when they met at the White House. The two men spoke on Wednesday when Mr Trump returned to the White House for the first time in four years,

the White House said in its readout. American-Israeli hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen’s father Jonathan told The Times of Israel that Biden discussed a number of initiatives that his administration is pursuing to try and reach a deal. The families used the ...

The meeting between the sitting president and his successor is a longstanding tradition in US democracy, but the courtesy was never extended to Joe Biden when Donald Trump lost the White House to him in 2020.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Donald Trump spent his first day as president-elect receiving congratulatory phone calls from his defeated opponent, world leaders and President Joe Biden as he began the process of turning his election victory into a government.

Biden, 81, portrayed Trump as a threat to democracy, but his rival branded him “sleepy Joe”, and claimed that he and Kamala Harris were responsible for failing on two key issues for voters - the cost of living and immigration.

Families of Israeli hostages taken captive to Gaza by Islamist group Hamas urged U.S. President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday to work on a deal to free those still being held before winter.

President Biden asked President-elect Trump during their two-hour meeting on Wednesday to work together in order to push for a ceasefire and hostage deal between Israel and Hamas. Why it matters: Biden wants to use the two months he has left in office to break the prolonged deadlock in the negotiations over a Gaza deal.