In an impassioned speech on the Senate floor on Monday, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) called the Israelis "war criminals" for intentionally withholding food from Gaza as children are starving. But on Tuesday morning, Van Hollen voted "yes" on a $95 billion foreign...
The Senate on Tuesday morning passed the $95 billion foreign military aid bill that includes money for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan after a rare overnight session where Republican opponents of the legislation argued against it. The bill passed in a vote of 70-29, with...
A yacht belonging to a Russian billionaire that was seized by the US under the pretext of sanctions enforcement in May 2022 is costing the US $7 million per year to maintain. According to Reuters, the US seized the $300 million Amadea in Fiji under a warrant alleging...
CIA Director William Burns is headed to Egypt, where he will meet with Egyptian and Qatari intelligence officials to discuss work on a potential hostage deal between Israel and Hamas. Israel has been resisting the idea of more hostage negotiations since Hamas' latest...
A Dutch court ruled on Monday that the Netherlands must halt the export of spare parts for F-35 fighter jets to Israel since they're likely to be used to kill civilians in Gaza. The Netherlands hosts a warehouse of US-owned F-35 parts and exports them to countries...
Josep Borrell, the European Union’s top foreign policy official, took a swipe at the US on Monday for claiming it's concerned about civilian casualties in Gaza while still supplying weapons to Israel to support the slaughter of Palestinians. Borrell was referencing...
President Biden has no plans to alter his policy of "unequivocal" support for Israel's slaughter in Gaza despite claiming in private conversations that he's frustrated with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, NBC News reported on Monday. Sources told NBC that...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday doubled down on his vow to attack the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah despite growing criticism of the plan. It's estimated that about 1.5 million Palestinians are packed into Rafah, which has a pre-war population...
The Houthis held a funeral on Saturday for 17 of its members who were killed by recent US and British strikes on Yemen. "In a dignified funeral procession, the bodies of several martyrs of the nation, armed forces, and security forces who were martyred in the...
The Iraqi government said on Sunday that it had resumed talks with the US on the future of the US military presence in Iraq amid outrage over US airstrikes in the country. "The supreme Iraqi military commission resumed on Sunday its meetings with international...
