prisoner exchange

 Lebanese Deputy Prime Minister Tarek Mitri holds a press conference following his meeting with President Joseph Aoun at the Baabda Presidential Palace, east of the capital Beirut, on December 19, 2025.
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Lebanon and Syria sign an agreement to transfer more than 300 Syrian prisoners from Lebanese jails to serve their sentences in Syria.

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
06 February, 2026
People walk past a mural created by artist Isaac Campbell in Georgetown that features US women's basketball star Brittney Griner and other Americans detained abroad as part of the Bring Our Families Home Campaign in Washington, DC on December 8, 2022
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Masked Palestinian militants stand next to one of the coffins on stage, with an altered portrait of Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu in the background, before handing over the bodies of four Israeli hostages to the Red Cross in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza on February 20, 2025.
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 Senior Hamas official Zaher Jabarin, the chairman of the group's consultative council Mohammed Ismail Darwish, known as Abu Omar Hassan, and the Palestinian movement's senior official Khaled Mashaal
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A truce between Hamas and Israel has held for seven days [Getty]
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