WASHINGTON — Outgoing Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday defended Biden administration policies on Israel’s war with Hamas after a ceasefire agreement in Gaza was reached, facing protests that interrupted his final news conference at the State Department. What You Need To Know Secretary of State Antony Blinken has defended Biden administration policies on…
Washington: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said there would be “hell to pay” in the Middle East if hostages held in the Gaza Strip were not released prior to his Jan. 20 inauguration. “Those responsible will be hit harder than anybody has been hit in the long and storied History of the United States of America,”…
Retiring President Biden hit the shops on Black Friday and surprised onlookers by picking up a copy of a book describing the establishment of Israel as “colonialism” that’s been met with Palestinian “resistance” — an acquisition its author bemoaned was “4 years too late.” Biden, 82, left Nantucket Bookworks holding in full view of the…
Oil pumping jacks, also known as “nodding donkeys”, operate in an oilfield near Almetyevsk, Tatarstan, Russia, on Wednesday, March 11, 2020. Andrey Rudakov | Bloomberg via Getty Images Oil prices were mixed on Friday following a potential renewal of supply risk as Israel and Hezbollah traded accusations of ceasefire violations, and as a delay to…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The United Arab Emirates said Monday police arrested three Uzbek nationals for the killing of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi. The statement from the country’s Interior Ministry offered no motive for the slaying of Zvi Kogan. Kogan, 28, an ultra-Orthodox rabbi who went missing on Thursday, ran a kosher grocery store in…
Donald Trump, the former and now president-elect, has never been shy about his desire to be recognized on the world stage. A Nobel Peace Prize, he once hinted, would be the pinnacle of that recognition. But let’s face it: the skewed global narrative often pits America—and especially its more conservative leaders—against the odds of…
An Israeli strike in Beirut took down an 11-story building in a flurry of fire and ash as the Jewish state increased its deadly bombardments against Hezbollah in the Lebanese capital on Friday. The Israeli military issued a new wave of evacuation orders for southern Beirut Friday morning, with the subsequent strikes taking out suspected Hezbollah…
From October 2023 – this August, the IDF invaded multiple parts of Gaza and successfully took apart all of Hamas’s 24 battalions. From mid-September of this year until mid-October last month, the IDF ripped apart Hezbollah’s top three levels of commander, including its chief Hassan Nasrallah, destroyed approximately 70% of its long-range and most…
Several people fired flares at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s private home Sunday morning, igniting a fire next to it. Shocking video of the incident shows the moment one of the two flares is fired at the house in Caesarea, landing in the yard and starting a fire beside a central air unit. Three people…
It was the latest targeted killing of a senior Hezbollah official. On Sunday night, another strike in central Beirut hit a computer shop, killing two people and wounding 22, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said. There was no immediate comment from Israel’s military. The strikes happened as Lebanese officials considered a United States-led cease-fire proposal. “This confirms…