The US on Wednesday officially opened a new consulate in Erbil, the capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, that is said to be the largest US consulate building in the world. The compound sits on 206,000 square meters, or about 50 acres, and cost about $800...
A bipartisan group of senators has reintroduced a War Powers Resolution aimed at blocking President Trump from launching a war with Venezuela without congressional authorization. The bill was introduced by Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), Rand Paul (R-KY), and Adam Schiff...
Israeli strikes hit the al-Mawasi tent camp near Khan Younis in southern Gaza on Wednesday, as Israel continues its attacks on Palestinians in the Strip despite the US-backed ceasefire deal. According to the Palestinian news agency WAFA, Israeli warplanes launched a...
US Central Command announced on Wednesday that it was launching the US military's "first one-way-attack drone squadron based in the Middle East" as President Trump's Department of War continues to get further entrenched in the region. "CENTCOM launched Task Force...
Egypt on Wednesday denied that it reached an understanding with Israel on a deal to open Gaza's Rafah border crossing to just allow Palestinians to exit the Strip and not return. "If an agreement is reached to open the crossing, it will be in both directions, for...
President Trump sent a short handwritten letter to Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, the former al-Qaeda leader who took power in Damascus with his group of jihadists, known as Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), nearly one year ago. "Ahmed, you will be a great leader — and...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed conditional willingness to consider a deal with Syria, but today the IDF is back to carrying out offensive operations into the country’s west and southwest. As usual, the military was active on the ground in Quneitra...
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth told reporters on Tuesday that he wasn't in the room when the order was given to launch a second strike that killed survivors on an alleged drug boat on September 2, as the Trump administration has shifted the responsibility for the order...
Pope Leo XIV has warned the US against invading Venezuela to oust President Nicolas Maduro amid a major US military buildup in the Caribbean and threats of the US launching a regime change war. Leo was asked about the US threats against Venezuela during a press...
US envoy Steve Witkoff and President Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, held five hours of talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and his advisers at the Kremlin on Tuesday to discuss a potential peace plan to end the war in Ukraine, but the meeting ended with no...
