A senior State Department official admitted Wednesday that President Joe Biden would not be able to put a U.S. consulate in Jerusalem to liaise with Palestinians without Israel’s consent, due to existing U.S. law and international treaty obligations.
Police in Saudi Arabia arrested an American citizen in Mecca on Wednesday for wearing a shirt reading, “Pray for the end of China’s genocide & occupation in East Turkistan,” his son, the head of the East Turkistan Government in Exile, denounced.
The Bahrain Health Ministry announced Tuesday it will begin administering doses of the Chinese coronavirus vaccine “Coronavac,” by the firm Sinovac Biotech, to children aged three to 11 years old this week.
The Islamic regime in Iran blamed a massive cyberattack for disrupting Iran’s fuel distribution network on Tuesday, leaving puzzled motorists stranded in long lines as gas stations mysteriously shut down.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of NBC’s “Today,” NBC News Senior Investigative and Legal Correspondent Cynthia McFadden said the State Department is “not really monitoring” and doesn’t “have the real number” of people with legal status to live in the United States
An anonymous hacker collective revealed the names of alleged Hezbollah terrorists living in Venezuela on Tuesday, accusing them of profiting from drug and human trafficking there after arriving as “students.”
The Biden administration and the Israeli government are headed toward a diplomatic crisis, despite the Democrats’ delight at a post-Netanyahu government, based on fundamental disagreements that did not exist under the Trump administration.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said the U.S. is “relying upon the Taliban to help us prevent an attack by ISIS on the United States.” Because of the inability to conduct
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) predicted the Taliban will “extort us. They’re going to use all these Americans to extort us and the international community to get assistance to the Taliban.”
On Tuesday’s broadcast of Fox News Radio’s “Brian Kilmeade Show,” House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Michael McCaul (R-TX) said he believes “about 85%” of interpreters and people who worked with U.S. forces in Afghanistan were left behind and stated
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) on Monday announced the launch of the Middle East Green Initiative, a prospective $10.4 billion investment fund for clean energy and reduced carbon emissions.
Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) introduced a bill Tuesday to prevent President Joe Biden from creating a new consulate in Jerusalem aimed at Palestinians that would divide Israel’s capital city diplomatically, and violate U.S. law and international treaties.
Saudi Arabia’s government announced Sunday plans to nationalize 12,000 state-run marketing jobs, meaning only Saudi citizens will be hired for the positions, Al Arabiya reported.
Florida is divesting all public funds from Ben & Jerry’s over the ice cream giant’s “anti-Semitic” decision to stop sales in Israeli settlements in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem.
UNITED NATIONS — Iran executed over 250 people, including at least four child offenders, in 2020 and so far this year has carried out 230 executions that included nine women and one child who was executed in secret, the U.N. independent investigator on human rights in Iran said Monday.
On Monday’s broadcast of “Fox News Primetime,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) stated, “Joe Biden’s the most incompetent president in my lifetime” and that the administration doesn’t actually know how many Americans are left behind in Afghanistan. Graham said, “How did
The Turkish lira fell 1.6 percent to a record low against the dollar on Monday, causing fresh anxiety for nervous investors. The Turkish currency hit a few record lows last week, but plunged again to an all-time rock bottom after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared his intention to expel the ambassadors of the United States, France, Germany, and seven other Western nations.
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Varney & Co.,” Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) said that the White House “deliberately misled” on the number of Americans in Afghanistan, and that he considers the Americans still in the nation hostages,
The Israeli Air Force will begin training for an attack on Iran’s nuclear program at the start of 2022, the Times of Israel reported on Monday.
BERLIN — A German convert to Islam was sentenced to 10 years in prison Monday on charges that, as a member of the extremist Islamic State group in Iraq, she allowed a 5-year-old Yazidi girl she and her husband kept as a slave to die of thirst in the hot sun.
Israel deemed six major Palestinian “human rights” organizations as terrorist groups on Friday, prompting backlash from the Biden administration which said it wasn’t informed of the move ahead of time – a charge a senior Israeli defense official has denied.
President Joe Biden is moving ahead with plans to open a U.S. consulate in western Jerusalem despite Israeli objections that doing so would violate Israeli sovereignty and violate the rules of the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.
Iran on Thursday kicked off its annual air force drill across the country, with 50-year-old U.S.-made and supplied McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom fighter-bombers in the forefront.
A narrow majority (53 percent) of Israelis believe the Biden administration is worse for Israel than that of Donald Trump, a new poll found.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has received an invite from UAE Crown Prince Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan to make an official state visit to Abu Dhabi. It will be the premier’s first since the two countries established ties as part of the Trump-led Abraham Accords last year.
Hundreds of naked men and women painted head to toe in white stood in a stretch of desert near the Dead Sea this week, as part of the latest installation by American photographer Spencer Tunick.
A 96-year-old former Nazi concentration camp secretary who absconded before her trial was set to begin is due to appear in court in Germany on Tuesday.
JERUSALEM — An Israeli scuba diver has salvaged an ancient sword off the country’s Mediterranean coast that experts say dates back to the Crusaders.
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi insurgents continued their brutal offensive Sunday, seizing more districts in the oil-rich southern province of Shabwa and the strategically vital, gas-rich northern province of Marib.
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid misled the Biden administration on the reopening of the U.S. Consulate in East Jerusalem, sparking tension between the two allies, an Israeli media outlet reported Sunday.
Lackowski, who had worked many years to commemorate the site, expressed his satisfaction that the victims finally have a proper memorial.
The man known as the last Jew of Kabul could soon be heading to Israel, after agreeing to grant his estranged wife a religious divorce in a Zoom call — a precondition for smooth entry to the Holy Land.
The Grand Mosque in the Muslim holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia operated at full capacity Sunday, with worshippers praying shoulder-to-shoulder for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began.
Vice News reporter Isobel Yeung asked an Israeli general how it is “proportionate or justifiable” for Israel to defend itself against Hamas terrorists because fewer people were killed in Israel than in Gaza during the 2021 conflict.
During a portion of an interview set to air on Sunday’s edition of CBS’ “60 Minutes” released on Thursday, Robert Gates, who served as Secretary of Defense under former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, said that he felt
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid held a joint press conference Wednesday at which they said Iran is running out of time to return to compliance with the nuclear deal.
As Iran deal negotiations continue to stall, the Biden administration is preparing for a world where the Islamic Republic of Iran’s nuclear program has no constraints, according to U.S. special envoy for Iran Robert Malley.
At least six demonstrators were reportedly killed, and dozens more wounded, in Beirut on Thursday as tensions grew over the stalled investigation into the August 2020 explosion at the Port of Beirut.
ROME (AP) – The trial of four high-ranking members of Egypt’s security forces started Thursday without the Egyptians on hand to face charges they were involved in the abduction, torture, and killing in Cairo of an Italian doctoral student.
Iran’s armed forces launched a two-day, large-scale air defense drill in the country’s central desert region on Tuesday designed to strengthen the military’s ability to protect Iran’s “aerial borders and sensitive areas,” Mehr News Agency reported.
