A hostage and ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas won't happen unless the US puts pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, The Times of Israel reported on Wednesday. The report cited unnamed Arab officials from Egypt and Qatar, the countries that...
US Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel will boycott Friday's memorial service in Nagasaki commemorating the 79th anniversary of the US dropping a nuclear bomb on the city because Israel was not invited to attend. Emanuel said the ceremony had become "politicized" by the...
On Wednesday, the FBI raided the home of Scott Ritter, a former UN weapons inspector and outspoken critic of the NATO proxy war in Ukraine and Israel's genocidal campaign in Gaza. Ritter told reporters outside of his New York home that the raid was related to a...
The US is ready to guarantee that it would allow Israel to restart the genocidal war in Gaza after the first phase of any hostage and ceasefire deal that might be reached with Hamas, according to Israeli media reports. Hostage deal talks have been stalled since the...
On Wednesday, Arab tribesmen launched a major attack on the US-backed Kurdish SDF in eastern Syria's Deir Ezzor province, and reports say US helicopters helped defend the Kurdish forces. According to Turkey's Daily Sabah, the Arab tribes attacked seven villages,...
A Hamas official has said the Palestinian group will continue ceasefire negotiations with Israel after it appointed Yahya Sinwar as the head of the political bureau following the Israeli assassination of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran. Sinwar is Hamas's leader in Gaza, and...
Russia said Wednesday that its forces were fighting off a Ukrainian ground incursion into Russia's Kursk Oblast, an attack President Vladimir Putin called a "large-scale provocation." So far, Ukrainian officials have been quiet about the cross-border attack, which was...
The US is eyeing remote Australian islands as a potential location for a new military base as part of its buildup against China in the region. According to Defense One, the US Navy recently published a construction tender that says the Cocos Islands, which are located...
US missile strikes continue to pound Yemen as the Middle East is on edge awaiting Iran's response to the Israeli assassination of Hamas's political chief in Tehran. The Yemeni news agency Saba reported two US-British strikes in the Taiz province, which is on the...
Sergey Shoigu, the head of Russia's Security Council, warned Tuesday that the longer the war in Ukraine goes on, the higher the cost will be for Ukraine to achieve peace. "Each day it waits to make this decision [to settle the conflict] results in the loss of control...
