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Turkish police shot dead two assailants from a leftist organisation, branded “terrorists” by authorities, who attacked a security checkpoint.

Argentine President Javier Milei arrived in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Tuesday afternoon (local time) as part of a three-day visit to the country.

Whitney Wright, an American porn actor who has advocated for Palestinians online during Israel’s war on Hamas, traveled to Iran and visited the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran.

Sir Keir Starmer’s broadly supportive stance of Israel has seen the Labour Party’s support among British Muslims cut in half.

President Joe Biden would veto a standalone bill to aid Israel during its war against Hamas terrorists, according to the White House, which insists on linking Israel aid to spending on the war in Ukraine, as well as Democrats’ immigration funding bill.

JERUSALEM, Israel — President Joe Biden reportedly wants to use hostage talks with Hamas to force Israel to stop its war against the Palestinian terror group in Gaza, defeating Israel’s primary goal in responding to the unprovoked terror attack of October 7.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday during a visit to Israel Defense Forces (IDF) troops that half of Hamas’s terrorists had been killed or wounded, and that 18 of its 24 battalions had been destroyed thus far.

On Monday, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), one of the negotiators of the Senate’s border and foreign policy package, stated that stripping funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in the bill “was a demand

The Iran-backed Houthi insurgents of Yemen may be considering an attack on undersea Internet cables in the Red Sea.

South Korea and Saudi Arabia signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly research and develop new weapons technology.

A senior member of the Yemeni Houthi terrorist organization declared that the group’s ongoing jihad in the Red Sea, which he described as “spillover” in the conflict between Israel and the terrorist organization Hamas, would “inevitably result in an end to US hegemony.”

A group of Dutch shipowners have approached the Ministry of Defence in Amsterdam to get permission to embark armed teams onboard cargo ships.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has continued pressing its attack on Hamas in the stronghold of Khan Yunis, making advances both above and below the ground in the southern Gaza town where the terrorist leaders are thought to be hiding, with hostages.

An Israeli court in Tel Aviv ruled Sunday that Palestinians who are seeking refuge in Israel due to their lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or other sexual identity can be granted asylum because their lives may be in danger under Palestinian rule.

The Grammy Awards aired pro-Hamas propaganda on Sunday, with CBS producers allowing Annie Lennox to shout “ceasefire” from the stage during the live broadcast.

The MEK Iranian dissident organization “poses the greatest internal existential danger to the oppressive Iranian Regime.”

A far-left activist professor has been fired from her third teaching gig in less than a year after a pattern of extreme behavior — this time for making Jewish students uncomfortable with comments about “Zionists.”

National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that it was the Biden administration’s belief long-term peace in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict can only be accomplished by a two-state solution.

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said on this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday” that President Joe Biden’s military strikes to dozens of sites in Iraq and Syria used by Iranian-backed militias only killed “some dumbass.”

National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that the United States will take additional action after earlier airstrikes targeting Iran-backed militant groups, but he would not specify where including ruling out Iran.

Recording artists Robyn, Fever Ray, Viagra Boys, and 1,000 more members of Sweden’s music community are demanding that Israel be excluded from Eurovision 2024.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a veiled criticism of U.S. President Joe Biden on Sunday, ahead of a visit by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, warning the administration that Israel “will not agree to every deal, and not at any price.”

Pope Francis has written to his “Jewish brothers and sisters in Israel,” exhorting them to break the “incessant cycles” of war and hatred in the Holy Land.

A proposal to free some of the remaining 130 or so Israeli hostages has stalled because different groups of Hamas leaders cannot agree on whether to accept a proposal that stops short of fully ending the war, which some have said is a core demand in any deal.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) will bring a new Israel aid bill to the floor without spending cuts or offsets.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and Britain struck 36 Houthi targets in Yemen on Saturday in a second wave of assaults meant to further disable Iran-backed groups that have relentlessly attacked American and international interests in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war.

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Chris Jansing Reports,” Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) said that she supports a two-state solution in the Middle East, but “it’s pretty understandable that perhaps Israelis are not quite ready to take the step of

A top employee at the BBC reportedly has made numerous racist remarks about white European people and Jews, branding them both as “parasites”.

Friday on FNC’s “Special Report,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) expressed his doubt about the efficacy of the U.S. strikes in Iraq and Syria earlier in the day.

Belgian Foreign Minister Hadja Lahbib, whose country currently holds the EU’s presidency, warned of a “risk of spillover of the conflict”.

On Friday’s broadcast of NBC’s “The Last Word,” NBC News National Security Correspondent Dan De Luce stated that Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) “had several days” to hide and move resources because the White House telegraphed the strikes it launched on

During CNN’s coverage of Friday’s American strikes in the Middle East, CNN Military Analyst and former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Gen. Wesley Clark (Ret.) argued that the telegraphing of the strikes by the Biden administration was to “avoid excessive casualties among

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Friday on CNN’s “NewsNight” that the Biden administration shouldn’t have said we would not target Iran in the latest military strikes in response to attacks on U.S. bases in the Middle East.

On Friday’s “CBS Evening News,” CBS News National Security Correspondent David Martin reported that the U.S. military “was perplexed by the degree to which” the Biden administration “telegraphed these strikes” in response to the fatal drone attack on U.S. soldiers, because

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” CNN Chief International Security Correspondent Nick Paton Walsh stated that the U.S. strikes in response to the fatal drone attack on U.S. soldiers “seem to be essentially telegraphed enough to give those on

During CBS’s coverage of Friday’s American strikes in response to the fatal drone attack on U.S. soldiers, CBS News National Security Correspondent David Martin stated that because the Biden administration “has done such a job of telegraphing this strike” it’s