Idit Silman, the Israeli minister of environmental protection, said on Tuesday that God had sent the Trump administration to advance the goal of ethnic cleansing in Gaza and the building of Jewish settlements in the Strip. According to Haaretz, Silman, a member of...
An Israeli airstrike in Gaza near the Netzarim Corridor killed four Palestinians, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing Gaza's Civil Defense agency. The report said relatives and medical staff at the Al-Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital said the four men who were killed were...
On Monday, the US-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) signed a deal to merge into the new Syrian government, which is led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, an offshoot of al-Qaeda. The deal was signed between SDF chief Mazloum Abdi and Syria's de-facto leader,...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Monday that after a six-week review, the Trump administration will be canceling 83% of programs at the US Agency for International Development (USAID). "The 5200 contracts that are now cancelled spent tens of billions of dollars...
President Trump on Monday vowed that the arrest of a green card holder over his involvement in protests critical of Israel was the first of "many to come" as civil liberties groups are pushing back against the campaign that has chilling implications for the First...
A Hamas official said on Monday that the group has been showing "flexibility" in Gaza ceasefire deal talks with Qatari and Egyptian mediators as well as in its direct talks with the US. "We have shown flexibility in dealing with the efforts of mediators and Trump's...
Starting on Thursday, the Syrian Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s (HTS) brutal anti-Alawite crackdown raged throughout the weekend, with in excess to 1,300 people killed, more than 1,000 of them civilians by some accountings. The HTS government has declared the operations over....
Iran on Monday denounced the US decision not to renew a sanctions waiver for Iraq that allowed it to purchase electricity from neighboring Iran, a move that's part of the Trump administration's so-called "maximum pressure campaign" against Tehran. "Such statements are...
After a weekend of fighting between the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) government and Alawite militias in northwestern Syria, and the subsequent massacres of Alawite civilians that left well over 1,000 people dead, Israel is expressing newfound outrage against...
President Trump said in an interview that aired Sunday that he would like to cut military spending but couldn't do it now. The president denied that he said he wanted to cut military spending despite his recent suggestions that the US, Russia, and China could work out...
