Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Saturday that the US has been in direct contact with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a US-designated terror organization that grew out of al-Qaeda in Syria and recently led the offensive that overthrew former Syrian President Bashar...
On Thursday, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte called for the alliance to significantly increase military spending up to Cold War levels and adopt a "wartime mindset." "It is true that we spend more on defense now than we did a decade ago.But we are still spending far...
The Israeli military believes there is now an opportunity to bomb Iran due to the weakening of its allies in the region following the ousting of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, The Times of Israel reported on Thursday. Israeli military officials said in the...
On Thursday, French President Emmanuel Macron and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk discussed the idea of sending troops to Ukraine if a ceasefire is reached, an idea reportedly favored by President-elect Donald Trump. Tusk said that while the idea of sending troops...
President-elect Donald Trump has said that he "vehemently" disagrees with the US supporting long-range missile strikes inside Russian territory, which President Biden authorized last month. "I disagree very vehemently with sending missiles hundreds of miles into...
Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip killed dozens more Palestinians on Thursday, including an orthopedic surgeon in northern Gaza who was traveling between hospitals. Gaza's Health Ministry said an Israeli quadcopter drone shot and killed Dr. Saeed Joda while he was...
The monitoring group Airwars released a new report on Thursday that found Israeli forces killed a minimum of 5,139 civilians during the first 25 days of its bombing campaign in Gaza starting on October 7, 2023. Airwars examined 606 incidents of civilian harm and found...
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Wednesday that he had proposed the idea of Ukraine and Russia establishing a Christmas truce, but it was rejected by Ukrainian President Voldomyr Zelensky. "At the end of the Hungarian EU Presidency, we made new efforts for...
On Wednesday, the House passed the mammoth $895 billion 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the annual military spending bill that includes funding for the Pentagon and some military-related funding for other government agencies. The bill passed in a vote...
The US had to give the Kurdish-led SDF an ultimatum to withdraw from the northern Syrian city of Manbij and cede it to the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA), Al-Monitor reported on Wednesday. According to the report, the US brokered a ceasefire deal between...
