TEL AVIV – Israel had been following the killer drones that Iran planned to use against it on Saturday night since they were flown into Syria from Tehran several weeks ago along with four members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the IDF said Sunday.
TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas threatened that “millions of fighters” would enter Jerusalem, and promised that “martyrs” — convicted terrorists — would continue to get every penny of the so-called pay-for-slay scheme because they are the most “sacred” thing the Palestinians have.
President Donald Trump admitted Sunday he had “second thoughts” about escalating the trade fight with China, but reaffirmed his position that it was the right thing to do.
American leaders “lack wisdom” and the country itself is “all brawn and no brains,” the Commander-in-Chief of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), General Hossein Salami, said in an address that aired on Iran television Saturday night.
(AFP) — A British consulate employee detained in China has returned to Hong Kong, his family said Saturday, ending a two-week ordeal during which Beijing’s state media smeared him with lurid allegations.
Israeli defense leaders held a high-level middle of the night meeting early Sunday as the military girded for a possible response to its strikes in Syria against Iran-backed fighters plotting to attack the Jewish state with armed drones.
In a rare confirmation, the Israel Defense Forces acknowledged striking Iranian targets in Syria to prevent a “pending, large-scale attack of multiple killer drones on Israel.”
Applying tariffs to China’s exports is “key to bringing China to heel” and achieving U.S. victory in a trade war, determined Steven Mosher.
“China is not safe for foreigners,” warned Gordon Chang, “especially for Americans and for people who are Canadians [or] British.”
Trump’s tariffs drive a U.S-China “decoupling,” said Gordon Chang, as major U.S. companies move parts of their supply chains out of China.
BERLIN (AP) – Austria is preparing to repatriate two sons of an Austrian Islamic State group supporter believed to have died in Syria after she headed there in 2014.
(AFP) — Hong Kong riot police fired tear gas and baton-charged protesters who retaliated with a barrage of stones, bottles and bamboo poles, as a stand-off in a working-class district on Saturday descended into violence, breaking an uneasy peace that had lasted several days.
Hong Kong protesters joined hands on Friday and formed a 28-mile-long human chain linking 39 railroad stations, with an American flag raised at the center.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) “demands” to be the “arbiter” who decides if a Center for Security Policy (CSP) official is allowed to continue to own a minor league baseball team in Connecticut, Frank Gaffney revealed this week.
An immigration expert said a government program encourages U.S. employers to hire foreign-born college grads over U.S. citizen graduates.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has urged French leader Emmanuel Macron to “keep [his] nose out” of his country’s affairs as fires continue to ravage the Amazon rainforest at alarming intensity.
A Chinese military official warned that Beijing will not sit “idly by” if the United States proceeds to sell F-16 fighter jets to Taiwan, suggesting China may consider action beyond sanctioning firms associated with the deal.
The North Korean government on Friday declared it is ready for either “dialogue or stand-off” with the United States on denuclearization, warned Washington not to impose any further sanctions against the regime, and demanded “diehard toxin” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo be taken out of the loop for any further negotiations.
Authorities intensified the weeks-long security lockdown in New Delhi-administered Kashmir ahead of protests Friday incited by separatists after India stripped the Muslim-majority area of statehood.
Ongoing Syrian regime efforts to push al-Qaeda-linked jihadis allied with Turkey-backed rebels out of the last opposition stronghold in Syria’s Idlib province is causing a humanitarian crisis, the Turkish president reportedly said Friday.
The editor of China’s state-run Global Times responded to U.S. President Donald Trump’s “order” for American companies to “immediately start looking for an alternative to China” on Friday by promising the U.S. side of the trade war will “feel the pain” from Chinese retaliation.
Israel was responsible for the bombing of an Iranian weapons depot in Iraq last month, U.S. officials have confirmed, an attack that would mark a significant escalation in Israel’s years-long campaign against Iranian military entrenchment across the region.
On the eve of a major joint military exercise between the U.S. and Southeast Asian nations, the U.S. State Department accused China of deliberately blocking access to trillions of dollars in oil and natural gas resources that rightly belong to other nations.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday revealed that he had ordered the Kremlin “to prepare a reciprocal response” to the recent U.S. test of a land-based nuclear missile.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo promised Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday that the United States is working to secure the freedom of two Canadians held prisoner by Communist China. Pompeo stressed that Meng Wanzhou, an executive of China’s Huawei telecom company held by Canada for rendition to the U.S. to face fraud charges, will not be used as a bargaining chip in the American trade war with China. China, meanwhile, ordered Canada to release Meng if it wants relations with Beijing to improve in any meaningful way.
A terrorist bombing attack at a natural spring outside the West Bank settlement of Dolev on Friday morning claimed the life of teenage girl while leaving her father and brother seriously injured, Israeli officials said.
TEL AVIV – Two Arab-Israelis have been arrested and charged with terrorist training and conspiracy to commit murder on behalf of the Islamic State terror group, Israel’s Shin Bet security agency said on Wednesday.
NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball is banning players from participating in the Venezuelan Winter League in one of the first public repercussions of new U.S. economic sanctions against the Venezuelan government.
Thursday on CNN’s “The Situation Room,” Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said President Donald Trump was so aliening our allies, as evidenced by his back-and-forth with Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, they might not help America if we are attacked. Host
The United States has condemned Cuba’s communist regime for the “outrageous” jailing of journalist Roberto Quiñones, who was arrested while covering a trial in Guantanamo Bay for the anti-communist website CubaNet.
