On Tuesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivered a speech at the Atlantic Council where he said Hamas has likely recruited as many fighters as it has lost in Gaza. Before making the comments about Hamas, Blinken was disrupted by a protester who called him the...
Amid reports that a Gaza ceasefire deal is advancing, Israeli strikes continued to pound the Strip on Tuesday, killing at least 63 Palestinians since dawn, medical sources told Al Jazeera early Wednesday morning. Among the dead were two children killed by an Israeli...
On Monday, President Biden delivered a speech at the State Department where he defended his foreign policy record despite the raging proxy war in Ukraine and Israel's genocidal war in Gaza. "The United States is winning the worldwide competition compared to four years...
President-elect Donald Trump's incoming Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, leaned hard on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to get him to agree to compromises to advance a Gaza hostage and ceasefire deal, Israeli media reported on Monday. Witkoff, a real estate...
Two rounds of Israeli airstrikes on Yemen in December killed 15 civilians and wounded 43 others, according to a monthly update from the Yemen Data Project (YDP). The YDP said that every Israeli airstrike in Yemen since July "hit non-military, civilian targets with no...
Keith Kellog, who will serve as an envoy for the Ukraine war in the incoming Trump administration, spoke at an event in Paris over the weekend hosted by the National Council of Resistance of Iran, an organization led by the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), a cult that seeks...
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Monday expressed strong opposition to a hostage and ceasefire deal with Hamas amid reports negotiations are making progress and said it was time for Israel to "occupy and cleanse" the entire Gaza Strip. "The emerging deal...
Just months ago the western media was panning International Court of Justice (ICJ) President Nawaf Salam as having an “anti-Israel” bias. Today he’s been concurrently named Prime Minister-Designate in Lebanon, although the media’s focus today is less on his Israel...
The Israeli military continued its relentless bombing of Gaza on Monday, killing at least 45 more Palestinians across the Strip, medical sources told Al Jazeera. Israeli strikes on Monday included heavy attacks on Gaza City, including a strike on a...
Denmark has told President-elect Donald Trump's transition team that it's willing to discuss the idea of boosting security in Greenland or increasing the US military presence on the island, Axios reported on Saturday. The report comes after Trump said he would not...
