Update on January 16, 2025, at 8:01 am EST: Netanyahu delayed the cabinet vote on the ceasefire deal on Thursday, claiming Hamas reneged "on parts of the agreement reached with the mediators." However, Hamas reiterated its commitment to the deal that was announced...
The Biden administration announced Tuesday that it will remove Cuba from the "state sponsor of terrorism" list, a move that will likely be reversed by the incoming Trump administration. According to US officials, the move is the result of a deal brokered by the...
On Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he spoke with his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, and discussed the idea of a possible deployment of French troops to Ukraine as part of a potential future security guarantee. Zelensky said he and Macron...
CBS News reported Tuesday that both Israel and Hamas have agreed "in principle" to a draft hostage and ceasefire deal that could be finalized this week. The report, which cited US, Arab, and Israeli officials, said if the final details are worked out and the Israeli...
On Tuesday, Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir threatened to quit the government if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to a hostage and ceasefire deal that's being negotiated in Qatar and called for Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich to join him....
On Tuesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivered a speech at the Atlantic Council where he said Hamas has likely recruited as many fighters as it has lost in Gaza. Before making the comments about Hamas, Blinken was disrupted by a protester who called him the...
Amid reports that a Gaza ceasefire deal is advancing, Israeli strikes continued to pound the Strip on Tuesday, killing at least 63 Palestinians since dawn, medical sources told Al Jazeera early Wednesday morning. Among the dead were two children killed by an Israeli...
On Monday, President Biden delivered a speech at the State Department where he defended his foreign policy record despite the raging proxy war in Ukraine and Israel's genocidal war in Gaza. "The United States is winning the worldwide competition compared to four years...
President-elect Donald Trump's incoming Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, leaned hard on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to get him to agree to compromises to advance a Gaza hostage and ceasefire deal, Israeli media reported on Monday. Witkoff, a real estate...
Two rounds of Israeli airstrikes on Yemen in December killed 15 civilians and wounded 43 others, according to a monthly update from the Yemen Data Project (YDP). The YDP said that every Israeli airstrike in Yemen since July "hit non-military, civilian targets with no...
