Iranian-backed Houthis in hunger-stricken Yemen recruited an estimated 50,000 children in the past three months, including orphans and girls, to fight in the country’s bloody conflict, the information minister for the country’s internationally-recognized government reportedly declared this week.
While speaking to reporters on Thursday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) expressed concern that the Trump administration could “bumble into a war” with Iran, and said that Democrats believe there must be Congressional approval to fund any conflict with
The Republican-led Senate voted Thursday to block the Trump administration’s proposed $8.1 billion arms sales to Saudi Arabia and other allied countries.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) took issue with former Vice President Joe Biden’s categorization of U.S. President Donald Trump’s Iran strategy as a “self-inflicted disaster” Thursday, hours after an Iranian missile shot down an American Navy drone over the Strait of Hormuz.
Thursday on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) spoke out against a U.S. strike on Iran as tensions are escalating due to incidents in the Persian Gulf over the last several days. Brooks primarily
A former MP who was suspended from Labour for accusing Jews of conspiring with “Blairite plotters” to destroy the party has been appointed deputy leader of Renfrewshire council’s Labour group.
TEL AVIV – Six Israeli media outlets have been given permission to attend and cover next week’s U.S.-led economic peace workshop in Bahrain, days after the White House’s announcement that no Israeli government officials would be allowed to attend.
TEL AVIV – Armed security guards should be deployed at every synagogue and Jewish community center across the United States, the U.S. Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism Elan Carr said on Wednesday
Thursday on CNN’s “New Day,” Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) commented on the news Iran shot down an American drone in international waters. Hirono seemingly defended Iran’s viewpoint, saying “there is a mistrust of the United States” since President Donald Trump
NEW YORK — Nations that have been reluctant to finger Iran for alleged attacks on oil tankers and other acts of escalation may be motivated by their own financial interests, including billions in deals with Tehran, argued Breitbart Jerusalem bureau chief and senior investigative reporter Aaron Klein.
President Donald Trump reacted Thursday to the news that Iran had shot down a United States drone in international waters.
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — On a high school trip to Jordan’s ancient city of Petra, a group of teenagers sneak out at night to drink beer, smoke weed and gossip around a bonfire. A girl asks her frisky boyfriend to take things slow.
The commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Thursday his forces shot down an American reconnaissance drone in international airspace to send a “clear, decisive, firm, and accurate message” to the United States and boasted his forces are “completely ready for war.”
House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY), one of the most prominent Jewish lawmakers on Capitol Hill, defended freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Wednesday as the self-avowed Democratic-socialist faces intense backlash for comparing migrant holding facilities to “concentration camps.”
The World Holocaust Remembrance Center — Yad Vashem — in Israel is schooling Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on the truth about the Nazi concentration camps where millions of people were incarcerated and murdered during World War II.
A court in Colombo, Sri Lanka, this week ordered the continued detention of nine Iranians caught with 107 kg of heroin this year, the local news outlet Ada Derana reported.
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) announced that one of his first actions as president, if elected in 2020, would be firing Jared Kushner to improve Israeli-Palestinian relations.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said Thursday it had shot down a U.S. “spy drone” over its territory, sending “a clear message” to America in doing so.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has imposed an “unprecedented” economic pressure campaign on Iran that is forcing its proxy Hezbollah to beg for spare change, a top Department of State (DOS) official told House lawmakers on Wednesday.
The U.N. refugee agency published a report for World Refugee Day (June 20) that found a record 71 million people around the world forced from their homes by war and persecution. 26 million of those people were driven out of their home countries entirely, while the rest were “internally displaced” or are currently in search of asylum.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared on Wednesday that the Egyptian government murdered former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and vowed to “do whatever it takes to prosecute Egypt in international courts.”
TEL AVIV – Ahead of the U.S.-led Bahrain economic peace workshop, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ spokesman vowed that the PA leadership would do everything to “thwart all conspiracies and workshops” aimed at resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said Israel maintains covert ties with “most Arab countries.”
TEL AVIV – The Israeli Air Force on Wednesday ended a large-scale drill simulating multi-front combat action which for the first time included the U.S.-made F-35 fighter.
The editor-in-chief of the pro-government Turkish newspaper Yeni Safak accused, among others, the crown princes of United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia, Israel, the U.S. government, and “those who crucified Christ” of murdering former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi in a column Wednesday.
Wednesday on CNN’s “New Day,” Sen. Angus King (I-ME) warned of the issues surrounding the dust-up in the Persian Gulf with Iran, explaining that with all the confusion there is such a scenario that could lead the country into war.
Limpet mine fragments and a magnet were displayed by a U.S. Navy expert Wednesday who said they carried a striking resemblance to Iran-issue munitions.
The Islamic cleric invited to appear on the BBC-hosted Tory leadership debate to grill Boris Johnson over past face veil remarks is an anti-Semitic Jeremy Corbyn supporter, reports suggest.
A U.N. human rights expert investigating the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi wants the possible role of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to be officially examined, citing “credible evidence.”
Jewish and advocacy groups are fighting plans for developers to build a housing property on the site of a mass grave from the Holocaust in Ukraine.
Three missiles struck a military base housing local and American troops north of Baghdad late on Monday, the Iraqi armed forces confirmed, without elaborating further.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) said that National Security Adviser John Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo “are itching for a war with Iran, pure and simple.” Durbin stated, “John Bolton
Islamist leaders from various countries, including some that house operations by the terror-linked Muslim Brotherhood (MB), this week mourned the death of Egypt’s toppled President Mohamed Morsi who died from a heart attack during a court appearance in Cairo on Monday.
The DOD is expecting reconnaissance-type aircraft to be part of the forces headed to the Middle East in response to actions taken by Iran.
(AP) — Actor John Cusack is apologizing for tweeting an anti-Semitic cartoon and quotation after defending the post, then deleting it.
The Iranian government published a report on Sunday showing the national Gross Domestic Product (GDP) contracted by 4.9 percent over the fiscal year ending March 21. The announcement revealed Iran’s economy contracted much more sharply than anticipated after U.S. sanctions were reimposed by President Donald Trump.
Tuesday while speaking to reporters after meeting with U.S. Central Command leaders at the command’s headquarters in Tampa, FL, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said President Donald Trump did not want to go to war with Iran. Pompeo said, “President Trump
The latest talking point from Democrats is that President Donald Trump is maneuvering the United States into a war with Iran — but ironically, it may be Democrats themselves who are making war more likely by defending the Iranian regime and encouraging it to stand firm against the president.
TEL AVIV – The White House announced on Monday that no Israeli government representative will be invited to take part in next week’s US-led peace workshop in Bahrain, in which the Trump administration is set to unveil the economic part of its long-anticipated proposal.
The Egyptian government denied a request for a public funeral from the family of former President Mohamed Morsi on Tuesday, quickly interring Morsi’s remains in the Nasr City district of Cairo.
