On Sunday, President Trump acknowledged that his plan to impose tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China will likely cause "pain" for Americans but insisted it will be worth it to bring about a "golden age" in America. The president wrote on Truth Social: "THIS WILL BE...
The website and X account for the US Agency International Development (USAID) went offline on Saturday amid President Trump's pause on foreign aid as reports say his administration may bring USAID under the State Department. Funding to USAID has been paused for a...
On Sunday, the Israeli military blew up a neighborhood in the Jenin refugee camp as its stepped-up assault on the northern West Bank city continues. According to the Palestinian news agency WAFA, the Israeli military rigged residential buildings in the refugee camp...
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich praised the Trump administration on Thursday after he held a meeting with Steve Witkoff, the US envoy for the Middle East. Witkoff has been pushing for full implementation of the Gaza ceasefire deal, an idea strongly opposed...
The US-led coalition in Syria launched a drone strike in the Idlib province, targeting a car, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on Thursday. US Central Command later confirmed that its forces launched a strike targeting a "senior operative" of...
President Trump on Thursday insisted Jordan and Egypt will take in Palestinian refugees from Gaza despite fierce objections from the two Arab nations. Trump's recent suggestion to "clean out" Gaza of its Palestinian population and send them to Jordan and Egypt raised...
Russia may expand its arsenal of nuclear weapons if the US goes ahead with a major missile defense program that's been ordered by President Trump, Russia's TASS news agency reported on Thursday. Trump signed an executive order on Monday to develop an "Iron Dome for...
Gaza's Health Ministry said Thursday that over the previous 24-hour period, hospitals in Gaza received 43 more bodies of Palestinians killed by "Israeli aggression," including 42 that were recovered from the rubble and one who died of previously sustained wounds. The...
On Thursday, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad released three more Israeli hostages and five Thai nationals who were captured during the October 7 attack in exchange for the freeing of 110 Palestinians from Israeli jails. The first Israeli hostage to be released,...
President Trump's Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Wednesday and pushed for a full implementation of the Gaza ceasefire deal, according to Israeli media reports on the meeting. According to Haaretz,...
