The website and X account for the US Agency International Development (USAID) went offline on Saturday amid President Trump's pause on foreign aid as reports say his administration may bring USAID under the State Department. Funding to USAID has been paused for a...
On Friday, Israeli soldiers inside the newly occupied part of the Golan Heights came under fire. There were no injuries, but it may be a sign of growing unrest over the new occupations within the southern Quneitra and Daraa Governorates of Syria. Those concerns are...
On Sunday, the Israeli military blew up a neighborhood in the Jenin refugee camp as its stepped-up assault on the northern West Bank city continues. According to the Palestinian news agency WAFA, the Israeli military rigged residential buildings in the refugee camp...
As it does virtually weekly, Israel reiterated today that civilians are not to return to their homes in any areas of southern Lebanon Israel currently occupies. This apparently includes not just villages, but the Mediterranean Sea as well, as an Israeli military boat...
Updated 2/2/05 12:11 PM EST On Saturday, the United States launched multiple airstrikes against northwestern Somalia’s Golis Mountain range. Details are still coming in, but President Trump, in announcing the attack on Truth Social, said that “many” were killed. The...
Former a government in a multi-party parliamentary system is often a complex matter, particularly when very few parties of any substantial size are available to include. That’s the case in Lebanon, with the Trump Administration adding some difficulties by meddling in...
With the ceasefire extension in Lebanon still in place until February 18, Israel continues to violate it on every pretext and often no pretext at all. The multiple violations reported on Friday included airstrikes by Israeli fighter jets in both eastern and northern...
Update 2/1/25 – 2:40pm EST: US envoy Richard Grenell returned to the US with six US citizens released from Venezuelan prisons. The White House spokeswoman said two issues were on the agenda (the repatriation of Tren de Aragua gang members jailed in the US as well as...
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich praised the Trump administration on Thursday after he held a meeting with Steve Witkoff, the US envoy for the Middle East. Witkoff has been pushing for full implementation of the Gaza ceasefire deal, an idea strongly opposed...
The US-led coalition in Syria launched a drone strike in the Idlib province, targeting a car, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on Thursday. US Central Command later confirmed that its forces launched a strike targeting a "senior operative" of...
