American commandos and intelligence officers began helping Israel soon after the Oct. 7 attacks last year. Days after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, the Pentagon quietly dispatched several dozen commandos to Israel to help advise on hostage recovery…
Vulnerable time for Europe as clock ticks down for Biden Reuters(from left) UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, US President Joe Biden, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron in Berlin US President Joe Biden’s state visit to Germany…
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An assailant tried to breach security at the office of the new prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba, a public broadcaster reported. A man was arrested in Tokyo on Saturday and accused of throwing several incendiary devices at the headquarters of the…
Donald J. Trump amplified a conspiracy theory that the federal government had staged the Capitol attack and compared jailed rioters to Japanese Americans in internment camps during World War II. Share full article Rioters storm the Capitol in Washington, D.C.,…
Israel has demanded that the force, known as UNIFIL, pull out. But all the countries contributing troops and the U.N. Security Council decided unanimously that UNIFIL should stay. U.N. peacekeepers in Lebanon have experienced a series of deliberate attacks by…
Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati, summoned Tehran’s envoy over reported comments by a senior Iranian official on a U.N. resolution deemed a precondition for a cease-fire. Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister accused Iran on Friday of meddling in the country’s…
Israeli forces had been steadily closing in on Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader, for weeks before he was cornered and killed in a ruined house in the Gaza Strip. At the end, the fearsome militant leader who had helped unleash…
A top deputy to the killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar vowed that his “banner will not fall” and that the group would hold to its cease-fire conditions. A top Hamas official vowed on Friday that the killing of the group’s…
Uncertainty surrounds the fate of the Hamas leader’s corpse as experts say Israel will likely try to avoid having his resting place become a shrine. The death of the Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was confirmed Thursday by Israeli authorities, but…