On Thursday, the US Treasury Department announced it had imposed sanctions on Karim Khan, a British lawyer who is the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), an action taken on behalf of Israel. The sanctions came after President Trump signed an...
A group of UN experts have issued a statement on the ceasefire in Lebanon today, expressing outrage at Israel’s flagrant violations, including the killing of civilians trying to return to their homes, and the systematic destruction of those homes during the nominal...
The fighting between the Kurdish SDF and the forces of Turkey and its proxy the SNA continues apace in northern Syria with no signs of ending. Turkey targeted civilian infrastructure, leading to power outages and water cutoffs for some 100 Kurdish villages around...
Ukrainian President Voldomyr Zelensky said Thursday that it was "not very pleasant" that President Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin a day earlier before calling him. "We've already had three conversations with President Trump, so I don't take this...
On Wednesday, a Senate committee in the state of Virginia voted down the Defend the Guard Act, legislation that would prohibit the deployment of the state’s National Guard to combat zones without a declaration of war from Congress, as required by the Constitution. The...
The Washington Post reported on Wednesday that Israel will likely attempt to bomb Iran in the coming months, a move that would risk a major war in the region involving the US. The report, which cited US intelligence, said the idea would be to bomb Iran's nuclear...
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on Wednesday to discuss President Trump's idea for a deal to give the US access to Ukraine's rare earth minerals and other natural resources in exchange for continued US...
Israel has sent a message to Hamas through Qatar and Egypt that if three Israeli hostages are released this Saturday, the ceasefire deal can continue, Axios reported on Wednesday, citing a senior Israeli official. The position is a climb down from a day earlier when...
The Trump administration has frozen funding to the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a US-funded organization that meddles in elections and pushes regime change around the world in the name of "promoting democracy." According to The Free Press, an order from...
Two US Navy ships transited the Taiwan Strait this week, marking the first US naval passage through the sensitive waterway under the new Trump administration, which drew a rebuke from China. US Indo-Pacific Command said the guided-missile destroyer USS Ralph Johnson...
