President Trump's Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, said Wednesday that it was "good" that Hamas was open to talks with the United States. Witkoff was asked in an interview with Fox News about comments from Mousa Abu Marzouk, a Hamas official based in Qatar. "We’re...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that US troops must be included in a Western peacekeeping force that he wants deployed to Ukraine as part of a potential peace deal with Russia. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Zelensky called...
The Trump administration has appointed a new Middle East policy chief in the Pentagon who believes the US should scale down its military presence in the region. Michael DiMino, a former CIA analyst, was sworn in on Monday as the deputy assistant secretary of defense...
Gaza's Health Ministry said Wednesday that hospitals received another 54 bodies of people killed by Israel's onslaught as Palestinians continue to dig remains out of the rubble. The Health Ministry said that 53 of the bodies came out of the rubble, while one...
On Wednesday, President Trump called for Russian President Vladimir Putin to agree to a deal to end the war in Ukraine and threatened that if it doesn't come to an end, he will place additional tariffs and sanctions on Russian goods. "I’m not looking to hurt Russia. I...
President Trump has re-listed Cuba as a "state sponsor of terrorism" in one of the first foreign policy moves of his new administration. The move was included in an executive order Trump signed on Monday that rescinded 78 of President Biden's executive actions. Biden...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who was sworn in on Tuesday, has said the war in Ukraine needs to end and that the new Trump administration would work to bring it to a close, although it's still unclear how that will happen. On the campaign trail, President Trump...
On Monday night, President Trump said he was "not confident" that the Gaza ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas would hold through all three phases. When asked by a reporter if he thinks the deal will last, Trump said, "I'm not confident. It’s not our war. It is...
On Tuesday, Palestinians in Gaza continued digging bodies out of the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israel as the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas entered its third day. Gaza's Health Ministry said that hospitals received a total of 72 bodies over the previous...
The Israeli military launched a major offensive in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Tuesday focused on the northern city of Jenin, which came just days after the ceasefire in Gaza took effect. The Palestinian Ministry of Health said at least nine Palestinians had...
