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16.10.2025 02:42 Syria's leader suggested he would continue to allow Russia access to its military bases in Syria.

15.10.2025 21:42 Palestinians in Gaza are reported to be stockpiling food, amid anxiety that the ceasefire will unravel.

15.10.2025 21:42 Under the Gaza ceasefire deal, Israel has agreed to hand over the bodies of 15 Palestinians in return for every dead Israeli hostage.

15.10.2025 21:42 BBC Verify investigates the damage done by two years of war, which could take $70bn and decades to repair.

15.10.2025 16:33 BBC Verify analyses footage of Hamas fighters in Gaza, including one of an execution in the centre of Gaza City.

15.10.2025 16:33 Avinatan Or and Noa Argamani were kidnapped from the Nova music festival on 7 October2023 but held in separate locations.

15.10.2025 16:33 Shadi Abu Sido told the BBC an Israeli prison officer said his family had been killed.

15.10.2025 11:31 Hamas has yet to return 21 hostages' bodies as agreed under a ceasefire deal brokered by the US.

15.10.2025 11:31 Rotem Cooper, whose father Amiram's body has not been returned, calls on mediators to put pressure on Hamas to release the remaining bodies.

15.10.2025 11:31 The United Nations Development Programme says over 80% of all buildings in the territory are destroyed or damaged.

15.10.2025 11:31 The US president's single-day tour was a victory lap rather than an exercise in setting out detail, writes the BBC's Tom Bateman.

15.10.2025 11:31 The first four deceased hostages to be returned are Guy Illouz, Bipin Joshi, Yossi Sharabi and Daniel Peretz.

15.10.2025 11:31 In an exclusive interview with BBC Panorama, the king says a two-state solution is the only answer.

15.10.2025 11:31 Bipin Joshi tried to save fellow Nepalese students before being taken hostage, his mourning friend tells the BBC.

15.10.2025 11:31 CBS News, the BBC's US partner, conducted an exclusive interview with the Israeli prime minister in a hospital tending to freed hostages.