US intelligence officials met with officials of the new government in Syria and passed secret information. The Syrian government is now controlled by Hayʼat Tahrir al-Sham, a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization. The Washington Post reports, “In the chaotic days...
President Donald Trump put some blame on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for choosing to fight Russia rather than make a deal. In April of 2022, Zelensky had nearly completed negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin when members of NATO pushed Kiev to...
Surprising few people except perhaps Amos Hochstein, who guaranteed this wouldn’t happen, Israel confirmed Friday that they will, in fact, not be withdrawing from Lebanon by the deadline set out in the ceasefire, which was 60 days and arrives overnight Sunday into...
The head of Israel's Shin Bet security agency said Thursday that Israel's "multi-front war" is now focused on the occupied West Bank amid a new Israeli siege on the northern Palestinian city of Jenin. "We are in a multi-front war, and now it is the turn of Samaria,"...
The Israeli Defense Ministry announced last week that it had signed its first deal using an $8.7 billion military aid package it received from the US to purchase munitions for its Iron Dome missile defense system. The Defense Ministry said it signed a contract with...
On Thursday, President Trump delivered a virtual address to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and said he wanted to discuss the idea of "denuclearization" with Russia and China. The president claimed that during his last term in office, he discussed the...
President Trump is expected to put his Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, in charge of the Iran file, signaling the administration will try diplomacy with the Islamic Republic, Financial Times reported on Thursday. Sources told FT that Witkoff, who put pressure on...
Gaza's Health Ministry said Thursday that hospitals received 122 more bodies as Palestinians continue to dig the remains of people killed by Israel's bombing campaign out of the rubble on the fifth day of the ceasefire. The Health Ministry said that 120 of the bodies...
Armed US private security contractors will begin operating a checkpoint in Gaza in the coming days, Axios reported on Thursday, citing Israeli officials. The report said the US contractors will be deployed to Gaza as part of a multinational group that's been...
On Monday, President Trump signed an executive order re-designating Yemen's Houthis, also known as Ansar Allah, as a "Foreign Terrorist Organization," a move that will impede aid deliveries to Yemen and complicate the chances of a lasting peace deal between the Saudis...
