China called the US the "biggest disrupter of peace" in the South China Sea after a US warship sailed near Chinese-controlled islands in the disputed waters. The US Navy's Seventh Fleet said Saturday that the guided-missile destroyer USS Hopper sailed near the Paracel...
President Biden is looking to remove restrictions on Israel's access to weapons and ammunition stored in a US stockpile located in Israel, The Intercept reported on Saturday. The US military maintains a reserve stockpile of arms in Israel known as the War Reserve...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday accused the UN of not doing enough to respond to the humanitarian crisis he created in Gaza. "I have not seen yet the effort that I’d like to see from the UN and the international agencies to build shelters there...
Biden administration officials told The Times of Israel that they don't believe Israel can live up to its commitment to allow 200 aid trucks to enter Gaza per day during the pause that's part of the hostage deal with Hamas. The officials said Israel is refusing to...
The start of a short-term ceasefire to facilitate the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza and Palestinian prisoners in Israel will not start until Friday, an Israeli official said on Wednesday. "The contacts on the release of our hostages are advancing and continuing...
The US and the Philippines have launched joint air and sea patrols in the South China Sea in a provocative show of force amid rising tensions with China in the region. Washington and Manila agreed earlier this year to conduct joint patrols in the disputed waters. In...
Iraq's government on Wednesday blasted US airstrikes launched in the country against Shia militias, calling them a violation of Iraqi sovereignty. "We vehemently condemn the attack on Jurf al-Nasr, executed without the knowledge of Iraqi government agencies," said...
The White House has said it's considering redesignating Yemen's Houthis as "terrorists" after the Houthis seized an Israeli-linked vessel in the Red Sea in response to the Israeli onslaught in Gaza. "In light of this, we have begun a review of potential terrorist...
Martin Griffiths, the UN's emergency relief coordinator, said in an interview on Tuesday that the Israeli onslaught in Gaza is the worst humanitarian crisis he's ever seen, even worse than the Killing Fields in Cambodia, where the Khmer Rouge killed over one million...
There has been concern within the Biden administration that a pause in fighting in Gaza will give journalists the opportunity to expose more of the atrocities Israel has been committing, POLITICO reported on Tuesday. The concern was related to the hostage deal that...
