The US is circulating its own Gaza-related UN Security Council resolution after threatening to veto one being drafted by Algeria that calls for a humanitarian ceasefire. The new US version calls for the Security Council to express support for a "temporary ceasefire in...
Benny Gantz, a member of Israel's war cabinet, threatened on Sunday that Israel will launch an assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah if Hamas does not release the remaining Israeli hostages by Ramadan, which begins on March 10 this year. "The world must know, and...
Israel has once again conducted two major airstrikes, now against the town of Ghaziyeh, near Lebanon’s third largest city of Sidon. The strike on Monday went much deeper into Lebanon than usual, about 40 miles. The Israeli military said this was retaliation for an...
The wife of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is warning that her husband will die if he is extradited to the US as a hearing for what will likely be his final chance at appeal is set to begin at London's High Court on Tuesday. Stella Assange told BBC that the stress...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday boasted that he had worked "for decades" to block the establishment of a Palestinian state. "Everyone knows that I am the one who for decades blocked the establishment of a Palestinian state that would endanger our...
A visit from an Iranian general to the Shia militias in Iraq led to a pause in attacks on US forces, Reuters reported on Sunday, citing Iranian and Iraqi sources. Brig. Gen. Esmail Qaani made the trip to Iraq on January 29, one day after three US troops were killed in...
Yemen's Houthis said on Monday that their forces downed an American MQ-9 Reaper Drone that was flying over Yemen. US officials have acknowledged that a US drone crashed and say they're investigating the cause. "Yemeni air defenses were able to shoot down an American...
The US on Friday formally re-designated Yemen's Houthis as "Specially Designated Global Terrorists," a step that imposes new sanctions that make the implementation of a Saudi-Houthi peace deal impossible. The US announced its plans to impose the new sanctions last...
Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani said Saturday that hostage deal talks Qatar and Egypt are mediating between Israel and Hamas are "not very promising" but vowed his country would continue the effort. "The pattern in the last few days is...
Israel's cabinet on Sunday unanimously approved a declaration rejecting "international diktats" on a future Palestinian state amid reports the US is preparing to unveil an outline for a potential peace deal that includes establishing a timeline for a two-state...
