The start of a short-term ceasefire to facilitate the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza and Palestinian prisoners in Israel will not start until Friday, an Israeli official said on Wednesday. "The contacts on the release of our hostages are advancing and continuing...
The US and the Philippines have launched joint air and sea patrols in the South China Sea in a provocative show of force amid rising tensions with China in the region. Washington and Manila agreed earlier this year to conduct joint patrols in the disputed waters. In...
Iraq's government on Wednesday blasted US airstrikes launched in the country against Shia militias, calling them a violation of Iraqi sovereignty. "We vehemently condemn the attack on Jurf al-Nasr, executed without the knowledge of Iraqi government agencies," said...
The White House has said it's considering redesignating Yemen's Houthis as "terrorists" after the Houthis seized an Israeli-linked vessel in the Red Sea in response to the Israeli onslaught in Gaza. "In light of this, we have begun a review of potential terrorist...
Martin Griffiths, the UN's emergency relief coordinator, said in an interview on Tuesday that the Israeli onslaught in Gaza is the worst humanitarian crisis he's ever seen, even worse than the Killing Fields in Cambodia, where the Khmer Rouge killed over one million...
There has been concern within the Biden administration that a pause in fighting in Gaza will give journalists the opportunity to expose more of the atrocities Israel has been committing, POLITICO reported on Tuesday. The concern was related to the hostage deal that...
US warplanes hit targets in Iraq early Wednesday morning, marking the second round of US airstrikes in the country in just over 24 hours as the situation in the region continues to escalate. Pentagon officials said the airstrikes hit two facilities south of Baghdad...
The Israeli cabinet voted early Wednesday morning to approve a Qatar-brokered hostage deal with Hamas that will free at least 50 Israelis in exchange for a four-day ceasefire and other steps. According to Axios, the first phase of the deal will involve Hamas releasing...
A former member of the Obama administration's National Security Council was caught on camera harassing a food truck vendor in New York City, saying that killing 4,000 Palestinian children "wasn't enough." Stuart Seldowitz was identified online after videos of him...
POLITICO reported Tuesday that the US has been sharing with Israel the location of humanitarian groups in Gaza in an attempt to prevent strikes on the sites. But Israel has been bombing them anyway. The information has included GPS coordinates of a number of medical...
