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Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in Gaza, will be remembered as the fighter whose war ultimately cost him his life. It would be premature to suggest that Sinwar’s death means the war in Gaza is ...

After the last Israel-Hamas war in 2021, Sinwar dared Israel to assassinate him, and walked openly in the streets of Gaza. Today, as the 2023 war is not yet complete, Sinwar is on Israel's hit list.

As Hamas’ leader inside Gaza since 2017, Sinwar rarely appeared in public but kept an iron grip on Hamas’ rule over the territory. Close to Deif and Qassam Brigades, he worked to build up the ...

Yahya Sinwar was on Israel's most wanted list since the deadly October 7 attack last year. The Hamas leader was killed by chance Thursday when Israeli troops fired at a masked militant in a building.

Hamas chief and Oct. 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar has re-emerged after going off the grid for days — leading to speculation that he had been killed, according to a report.

Yahya Sinwar, leader of the Palestinian Hamas Islamist movement takes part in a rally organized to mark the movement's 35th founding anniversary, in Gaza City, Palestine, Dec. 14, 2022.

Sinwar is accused by Israel of masterminding the Oct. 7 attack. For Michael Koubi, Yahya Sinwar has the eyes of a murderer. Few Israelis know the leader of Hamas in Gaza as well as Koubi, who, as ...

Sinwar is the younger brother of Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader who helped mastermind the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that started the Israel-Hamas war, and who was killed by Israeli forces in October 2024.

Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader driven by religious zeal and the “necessary sacrifice” of killed Palestinians, will never be easy to negotiate or contend with, writes Peter Bergen.

Mr. Sinwar was released in 2011, the most senior of 1,100 Palestinian prisoners that Israel exchanged for one of its soldiers, Gilad Shalit, who had been captured by Hamas in a cross-border raid ...