Axios reported on Monday that the US told Iran it had no involvement or advanced knowledge of the Israeli airstrike that targeted a consulate building next to the Iranian embassy in Damascus, Syria. A senior US official said the US had sent the message "directly to...
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed on Tuesday that Israel will be "punished" for bombing Iran's consulate building in Damascus, which killed senior members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). "The evil Zionist regime will be punished...
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said in an interview on Sunday that he supports the idea of giving frozen Russian Central Bank funds to Ukraine to fuel the proxy war, a step that would significantly escalate the US economic campaign against Russia. Johnson expressed...
The Biden administration is close to approving a massive $18 billion arms deal for Israel that includes 50 F-15 fighter jets, CNN reported on Monday. The news is the latest sign that the administration still strongly supports Israel's slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza...
At least one person was killed in a reported Israeli drone strike against the southern Lebanon town of Kunin on Sunday. Lebanese security sources were quoted in the media as reporting that the driver of the targeted vehicle was killed. He was identified as Ismail Ali...
The US increased intelligence sharing with Israel to "unprecedented" levels under a secret memorandum issued in the wake of the October 7 Hamas attack on southern Israel, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. The intelligence sharing and US weapons shipments...
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown has claimed arming Ukraine with long-range Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMs) isn't as risky now as it was earlier in the war. "The risk of escalation is not as high as maybe it was at the beginning,"...
On Monday, the Israeli Knesset passed a law that gives the government the authority to ban any foreign news organization from operating inside Israel. The law was designed to target Al Jazeera, a Qatari state-funded media outlet. The law passed by a slim margin in a...
Updated 4/1/24 at 6:00 pm EST On Monday, an Israeli airstrike leveled an Iranian consulate building that's next to the Iranian embassy in the Syrian capital of Damascus, marking a significant escalation in Israeli attacks on Iranians in the region. At least seven...
The US, Japan, and the Philippines will launch joint patrols in the South China Sea later this year in a move sure to escalate tensions with China, POLITICO reported on Friday. The joint patrols will be announced in April when President Biden, Japanese Prime Minister...
