Secretary of State Antony Blinken held his final press conference on Thursday and was confronted about his support for Israel's genocidal war in Gaza by two veteran reporters, including independent journalist Sam Husseini, who was dragged out of the room while telling...
Israeli strikes on Gaza have been relentless since it was announced on Wednesday that Israel and Hamas had reached a ceasefire deal, which is expected to take effect on Sunday. Al Jazeera reported that as of Thursday night in Gaza, at least 87 Palestinians had been...
According to a report from Haaretz, the Israeli security cabinet will now convene on Friday to approve the Gaza ceasefire deal after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delayed the vote. Netanyahu claimed on Thursday that Hamas had "reneged" on parts of the deal, an...
US Special Envoy Amos Hochstein offered a “guarantee” over the weekend that Israel would fully withdraw from Lebanon by the 60-day ceasefire deadline. The official US maintains this is still the plan, and with just 10 days left in that ceasefire, Maj. Gen. Jasper...
Israeli strikes killed dozens of Palestinians in Gaza on Wednesday after the news that Israel and Hamas had reached a ceasefire deal, which still needs final approval by the Israeli government and is expected to take effect on Sunday. Medical sources told Al Jazeera...
During Senate confirmation hearings this week, senior members of the incoming Trump administration named China as the "biggest threat" facing the US, which has been the official position of the Pentagon for several years. "The Communist Party of China … is the most...
President-elect Donald Trump's incoming Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, did more to pressure Israel to agree to a hostage and ceasefire deal in one meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu than President Biden did in an entire year, two Arab officials have...
On Wednesday, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich slammed the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal and said his Religious Zionism party would quit the coalition government unless they were sure Israel's genocidal war would resume at "full force." Smotrich wrote on X, "A...
Concerns about Israel’s newfound hostility toward Syria’s new Islamist government, run by al-Qaeda-linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) grew substantially today after an Israeli drone attacked a military convoy belonging to the new government in the southern Quneitra...
Advisers to President-elect Donald Trump have conceded that a deal to end the war in Ukraine will likely take months or potentially even longer, Reuters reported on Wednesday. Two unnamed Trump "associates" who spoke with Reuters described Trump's promise to end the...
