WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump said Saturday he wants Egypt and Jordan to accept additional Palestinian refugees from the Gaza Strip while floating a plan to “just clean out” the war-torn area to bring peace to the Middle East. He suggested the relocations of Palestinians from their homes in Gaza could be either temporary or…
WASHINGTON – From the White House, President Joe Biden on Sunday called the collapse of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s brutal regime “a moment of historic opportunity” for the country’s long-suffering people. What he didn’t say: It’s also potentially good news for the United States. Assad’s fall not only ends his family’s bloody, half-century reign, it…
Tensions in the Middle East showed no signs of easing Monday as a high-ranking Iranian military official pledged that Israel will face “bitter and unimaginable consequences” for its weekend attack on military targets that killed at least four Iranian soldiers. Major General Hossein Salami, commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, said the attack showed…
Israel’s military responded to an Iranian missile attack by conducting “precise strikes on military targets” in Iran on Friday, a move that appeared to push the Middle East to a new, more dangerous and multi-front phase of conflict a year after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks on Israel. “The regime in Iran and its proxies in…