In comments in an interview with The National, US Ambassador to Turkey and special envoy to Syria Tom Barrack warned that Lebanon faces an “existential” crisis if they don’t give in to US demands to fully disarm Hezbollah and all other armed factions by November. “You...
A US shipment of Caterpillar D9 bulldozers arrived in the Israeli port of Haifa on Wednesday as Israel is conducting a record number of demolitions of Palestinian homes and structures in the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza. According to Israeli media, the...
Warning: Graphic footage below On Thursday, a US-backed Israeli airstrike hit near a medical clinic in central Gaza's Deir el-Balah as civilians gathered to receive nutritional aid, killing 16 Palestinians, including 10 children and three women. The clinic is run by...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has said she will be introducing an amendment to remove $500 million in military aid for "nuclear-armed Israel" from the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), marking a rare acknowledgement of Israel's nuclear weapons from...
Overnight, Israel continued its attacks on southern Lebanon, hitting and killing a person on a motorcycle in the village of Mansouri, near the coastal city of Tyre. Two other people were reported wounded in the strike. Details are still scant on the Mansouri strike,...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Wednesday that the US was imposing sanctions on Francesca Albanese, a UN special rapporteur who is very critical of Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories and its genocidal war in Gaza. The sanctions come after...
Gaza's Health Ministry said on Wednesday that Israeli attacks killed 105 Palestinians and wounded 530 over the previous 24-hour period, as US-backed Israeli strikes continue to pound targets across the besieged Strip despite talk of a potential ceasefire deal. Israeli...
Israel has been aggressively ignoring the ongoing ceasefire with Lebanon since it was just put in place in November, mostly with occupation of hilltop sites inside Lebanon and near daily airstrikes against Lebanese towns and villages. Overnight, they ignored it even...
President Trump hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House for a second day on Tuesday, holding a 90-minute meeting in the Oval Office. The two leaders were also joined by Vice President JD Vance. According to media reports, the purpose of the...
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz's comments about building a camp on the ruins of Rafah to concentrate the entire civilian population of Gaza are "hindering" ceasefire negotiations since Hamas is strongly against the idea, Israeli media reported on Tuesday, citing...
