Updated on May 11, 2025, at 7:05 pm EST Hamas said on Sunday that it would release Edan Alexander, a dual US-Israeli citizen and IDF soldier who was captured during the October 7 attack, and confirmed that it had been in direct talks with the US on a potential Gaza...
Sectarian violence against Syria’s Alawite minority became a huge matter in early March, when massacres left well over 1,300 people dead and the ruling Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) insisting the matter was over and an investigation would happen. The probe has been...
Iran said on Sunday that the fourth round of negotiations it held with the US earlier in the day were "difficult but useful," and both sides have agreed to hold more talks. "The fourth round of indirect Iran-US negotiations is concluded; difficult but useful talks to...
Pope Leo XIV called for a ceasefire in Gaza and an end to the Israeli blockade of aid on Sunday in his first Sunday blessing since being elected pontiff last week. "I am deeply pained by what is happening [in Gaza," Leo said from the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica....
Since the ceasefire began in late November, Israel has carried out enormous numbers of airstrikes against southern Lebanon. The strikes have continued in recent days, but there are signs of even further escalation as bunker-buster bombs are increasing utilized. Major...
Israeli attacks on Gaza have killed at least 68 Palestinians and wounded 290 over the past three days, according to daily death toll updates released by Gaza's Health Ministry. In that same time period, at least two bodies of Palestinians killed by previous attacks...
President Trump on Thursday called for a 30-day "unconditional" ceasefire in Ukraine and threatened sanctions if it is not "respected." Trump made the call in a post on Truth Social shortly after holding a call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. "Talks with...
Abdul Malik al-Houthi, the leader of Ansar Allah, commonly known as the Houthis, said on Thursday that the US failed to stop Yemen's support of the Palestinians in Gaza. "The Americans launched another round of aggression against our country, hoping to achieve what...
Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC), two of the most hawkish members of Congress, are working together to sabotage the Trump administration's chances of reaching a deal with Iran. On Thursday, the senators held a press conference outlining a...
The US is no longer demanding that Saudi Arabia normalize relations with Israel to move forward with talks on establishing a Saudi civil nuclear program, Reuters reported on Thursday. The Biden administration had been working on a potential Israel-Saudi normalization...
