Multiple Israeli bombs targeted medical facilities in Gaza City, killing at least 19 people. The IDF recently ramped up its operations in Gaza City. On Thursday, Israeli strikes hit near the al-Shifa Hospital, killing 15 people, and the al-Ahli Hospital, killing four...
Amid Fear of Further Escalation, Israel Pounds Villages Across Southern Lebanon
With just over a week until the one-year anniversary of the Israeli assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah during last year’s war, there were already concerns that Israel might start again escalating attacks against Lebanon. In practice Israel never really...
Discussions Before Iran War Indicate Nuclear Weapons Issue Was Less Pressing Than Netanyahu Claimed
Private discussions between Israeli officials before launching the war against Iran in June indicate that Tehran's development of nuclear weapons was not an immediate concern. At the time, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Iran's nuclear program was an...
Trump Says He Is Trying to Get Bagram Air Base Back from the Taliban
President Donald Trump said he was working to reestablish America's largest military base in Afghanistan. While Trump negotiated an agreement with the Taliban to end the Afghan War, he has argued that President Joe Biden made a mistake by withdrawing from the Bagram...
Half of Americans Believe Israel ‘Has Gone Too Far’ in Gaza
A new poll shows that half of Americans say Israel's onslaught in Gaza has gone too far. Israel has killed at least 65,000 Palestinians, and hundreds of thousands of people have been pushed into a state of famine. The AP-NORC survey asked Americans if Israel's...
Syrian FM Visits DC in Bid to Get US Sanctions Permanently Lifted
For the first time in 25 years, Syria’s top diplomat, Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani, is visiting the United States. The visit has a singular goal in mind, getting the US to permanently remove sanctions from Syria. The bulk of the sanctions against Syria come in...
Trump’s Ukraine Envoy Says the US Could ‘Kick Russia’s Ass’
Keith Kellogg, President Trump's special envoy for Ukraine, had strong words for Russia at a conference held in Ukraine, saying that the US could "kick Russia's ass," Remix News has reported. Kellogg made the comments in the context of a conversation he had in the...
Netanyahu Justifies Bombing Qatar By Pointing to Qatari Payments to Hamas He Helped Facilitate
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has attempted to justify the Israeli bombing of Qatar by pointing to the country's previous funding of Hamas, despite the fact that he facilitated and encouraged the payments. "Qatar is connected to Hamas, it bolsters Hamas,...
US Takes Credit for Somalia Airstrike That Locals Say Killed Prominent Clan Elder
US Africa Command on Wednesday announced that its forces conducted an airstrike in Somalia's northern Sanag region on September 13, the same day locals say a prominent clan elder was killed by a drone strike in the area. According to Somali media reports, Abdullahi...
Thousands Rally for Decentralization in Syrian Kurdistan
In cities and towns across Kurdish-controlled northeast Syria, thousands took to the streets in favor of the idea of retaining a decentralized system of governance in Syria, rejecting the calls of the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) for full centralized control of...