The seeds of a forever war are being planted in the coastal strip. They must not be allowed to take rootIsrael’s war turned much of northern Gaza into an uninhabitable moonscape. Palestinians returning to their homes in the southern part of the coastal strip this week...
Donald Trump has spoke with Saudi Arabia’s Prince Mohammed bin Salman in what is thought to be their first meeting since he left the White House in 2021....
Speaking at a groundbreaking ceremony for a new munitions factory run by German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall in Unterluess, Olaf Scholz called for Europe to ‘urgently’ arm itself...
The Abraham Accords, clinched in 2020 but now undermined by the war in Gaza, show how Trump might manage the Middle East crisis if voters return him to power....
A U.N.-backed process to end Yemen’s nine-year conflict appeared to be moving forward recently. But then the war in Gaza began and tensions spilled over....
Donald Trump was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize by Republican Congresswoman Claudia Tenney (NY), citing the Abraham Accords the former president helped sign while in office, making it the fourth time he has been nominated. What do you think?Read more…...
The president got interrupted more than 10 times as he tried to defend abortion rights and attack Donald Trump Tuesday. He backs people’s right to ‘speak out,’ the White House said Wednesday....
Former President Donald Trump marked the third anniversary of the January 6 Capitol attack by again demanding that the ‘hostages’ be released by President Joe Biden ....
Readers discuss the conflict in Gaza and ending the violence between Israel and the PalestiniansI usually admire Nesrine Malik’s excellent writing, but found her latest article troubling (What does it mean to erase a people – a nation, culture, identity? In Gaza, we...
The Israeli government and Palestinian Authority cannot bring about true change – so the international community mustRoee Kibrik is director of research at Mitvim – the Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign PoliciesWith a deal on the release of hostages and a pause...
The US president’s support for Israel’s PM is damaging America’s reputation abroad, hurting his own chances of re-election and prolonging the suffering in GazaIsrael-Hamas war: latest updatesThe devastating, deeply distressing and unrelenting human suffering in Gaza...
Israel’s dilemma is that destroying Hamas would leave a power vacuumFor two weeks Israel has pounded Gaza with missiles, as it gathers tanks and troops for a ground invasion with one stated goal, to destroy Hamas.It is a deceptively simple target, one which sounds...
The stakes couldn’t be higher. A wider war in the Middle East could embolden Russia in Ukraine and encourage China over TaiwanThe White House’s collective stress level must have gone up several notches as Joe Biden and his entourage sat on the runway waiting to leave...
In this massacre of its youth, Israel’s 75-year-old quest for some carefree normalcy met the murderous fury of those long-oppressed Palestinians who deny the state’s right to exist....
Zelensky said: ‘He can publicly share his idea now, not waste time, not to lose people, and say, “My formula is to stop the war and stop all this tragedy and stop Russian aggression”.’...
Dr Anthony Isaacs, Rae Street and Dennis Fitzgerald criticise President Biden’s decision to supply the weapons, but Per G Bilse argues that any weapon can be indiscriminate if misusedThe use of cluster bombs, banned by 123 countries, has not helped the Russians...
G7 leaders have laid flowers at a memorial to the victims of the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima in a sombre opening to a summit overshadowed by fears of a potential nuclear conflict in Ukraine. As the heavy early-morning rain began to ease, the summit’s host, the...
The coronavirus public health emergency, declared by the Trump administration in 2020, will expire on Thursday. Interviews with senior health officials suggest the nation is not ready for a new pandemic....
The US president, Joe Biden, called for a permanent end to political violence in Ireland during an address to the Irish parliament on Thursday. Biden told Irish MPs: ‘The Good Friday agreement didn’t just change lives for the better in Northern Ireland, it has...
President Biden celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, which ended sectarian violence in Northern Ireland, during remarks in Belfast....
While the Good Friday Agreement brought undeniable progress, some of the most deprived communities remain disillusioned about the opportunities that failed to materialize....
Twenty-five years after the Good Friday Agreement ended an era of bloodshed, this is a moment to celebrate reconciliation across Northern Ireland. But for many, the past is not always easy to leave behind....
Twenty-five years after the Good Friday Agreement ended an era of bloodshed, this is a moment to celebrate reconciliation across Northern Ireland. But for many, the past is not always easy to leave behind....
“OUR COUNTRY IS BEING DESTROYED, AS THEY TELL US TO BE PEACEFUL!” Trump says, in one of his most significant allusions to potential violence by his supporters....
US president dismisses Chinese peace plan and rules out sending F-16 jets to Ukraine ‘for now’, saying other military support is needed firstAt a glance: what we know on day 367 of the invasion Russia appears to have run done its current stock of Iranian-made drones...
Bill Burns says US is not ‘discussing settlement of war’ in Ukraine as Zelenskiy visits KhersonThe CIA director, Bill Burns, has met his Russian counterpart in Ankara on Monday in a rare high-level meeting, but the US insists it is not engaged in secret peace talks...
President Biden and European leaders say they cannot push Ukraine and Russia into negotiations, though some U.S. lawmakers are questioning aid for an open-ended war....
Over 450 settlements in the Kharkiv region, 1 of 4 being annexed by Russia, have been liberated in the last month, Ukraine President Zelenskyy said. ...
Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said as recently as Sunday that Biden has not been briefed on the situation nor has he discussed it with anyone in the White House....
President Biden’s comments Friday about a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict drew a mixed response. He cautioned Palestinians on starting new peace talks after announcing new steps toward Israeli integration within the Middle East....
President Biden said that Israel “must remain an independent, democratic Jewish state” and reiterated his calls for a two-state solution to the conflict during a news conference in Jerusalem....
US president’s visit to Saudi Arabia comes at a moment of great upheaval as Russia and China compete for influenceAcross the battlefields of the Middle East, the ground is shifting. New alliances mitigate old enmities. Revised calculations of national advantage,...
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is proceeding as planned and peace talks have reached a “dead end,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said. Latest news. ...
