Arab leaders on Tuesday endorsed Egypt’s postwar plan for the Gaza Strip that would allow its roughly 2 million Palestinians to remain, in a counterproposal to U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to depopulate the territory and redevelop it as a beach destination.

U.S. President Donald Trump relayed his interest in communicating with Iran on its nuclear program directly to Russian President Vladimir Putin in February and administration officials discussed the matter with their Russian counterparts at talks in Saudi Arabia days later, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg.

A withdrawal of American troops from Syria raises the risk of thousands of ISIS fighters escaping from sprawling prison camps guarded by Kurdish forces, analysts and former defense officials said.

A former Iranian foreign minister who was key to the country’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers reportedly tendered his resignation Monday from the government of reformist President Masoud Pezeshkian, caving in to pressure from hard-liners.

Israel this week introduced what it said was a new U.S. ceasefire plan — different from the one it agreed to in January — and is trying to force Hamas to accept it by imposing a siege on the Gaza Strip.

An airstrike conducted by U.S. Central Command forces on Feb. 23 in northwest Syria killed a senior military leader in an al-Qaida affiliate.

Israel faced sharp criticism as it stopped the entry of all food and other supplies into Gaza on Sunday and warned of “additional consequences” for Hamas if a fragile ceasefire isn’t extended.

Israel’s government said early Sunday it supports a proposal to extend the first phase of the ceasefire in Gaza through Ramadan and Passover, though Hamas has insisted on negotiating the truce’s second phase instead.

A senior Turkish official on Friday called for the dissolution of the banned Kurdistan Workers Party’s affiliates in Iraq and Syria, a day after the PKK’s imprisoned leader urged his militant group to disarm and disband in a bid to end a four-decade conflict with Turkey.

The appeal of imprisoned Abdullah Ocalan came a decade after the last negotiations between Turkey and the Kurdish militant group PKK broke down. Signs of a new opening between Turkey and the PKK began emerging last fall. Since the 1980s the conflict has killed an estimated 40,000 people.