Syria's Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad said Wednesday that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will attend an Arab League summit this Friday in Saudi Arabia for the first time in over a decade. Earlier this week, Mekdad attended a preparatory meeting for the summit,...
Axios reported Wednesday that the Biden administration wants to make a strong diplomatic push for a normalization deal between Saudi Arabia and Israel before the end of the year. Any potential deal could come at a steep cost to the US as Riyadh is seeking stronger...
The US has proposed to Israel to conduct joint military planning on potential attacks on Iran, Axios reported Wednesday. The report cited US and Israeli officials who said the idea was proposed a few weeks ago during recent visits to Israel by Chairman of the Joint...
North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said Wednesday that it "detected and tracked" a Russian military aircraft operating in Alaska's Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) on May 15. An ADIZ is an area that extends far beyond territorial waters and...
Hungary on Wednesday said it would continue to block EU aid to Ukraine due to Kyiv's "increasingly belligerent" attitude. Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said Ukraine won't receive a $543 million tranche of aid until it removes Hungary's OTP Bank from a...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Wednesday that Moscow is ready to look at peace proposals for the conflict in Ukraine from African leaders and Brazil. "In both cases we responded to initiatives from Latin American and African friends that we were ready to...
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte have agreed to work to form an "international coalition" to ship American-made F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine. A spokesperson for Sunak said Tuesday that the two leaders would "work to build an...
On Monday, the CIA published a video on YouTube and Telegram urging Russians to contact the agency in an effort to recruit intelligence assets inside Russia. Text at the end of the short video said: "Contact us. Perhaps the people around you don’t want to hear the...
President Biden has canceled planned visits to Papua New Guinea and Australia to focus on the debt ceiling debate that's ongoing in Washington, The Associated Press reported on Tuesday. Biden was planning to visit the two nations after the Group of Seven summit that...
Russia's military said Tuesday that it hit a US-made Patriot air defense system in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv with a hypersonic missile, which was later confirmed by a US official. "A high-precision strike by a Kinzhal hypersonic missile system hit a US-made...
