The Trump administration has rejected a $53 billion reconstruction proposal for Gaza by Arab states, calling it unrealistic due to Gaza’s “uninhabitable” conditions, Hamas’s control, and the lack of clarity on who would fund the billions needed for rebuilding.
Egypt is hosting a summit on Tuesday of Arab nations intended to finalize the provisions for a comprehensive plan to rebuild the Gaza Strip.
Syria’s “interim president,” Ahmad al-Sharaa, a former al-Qaeda leader and head of the jihadi insurgent group that deposed dictator Bashar Assad in December, visited Jordan on Wednesday for security talks with King Abdullah II.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman welcomed a host of regional Arab leaders to Riyadh on Friday for what Saudi media described as an “informal brotherly gathering” to discuss “cooperation and coordination.”
Egypt is reportedly pushing for a special meeting of the 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to solidify opposition to President Donald Trump’s proposal for moving the Palestinians out of Gaza to facilitate reconstruction.
Egyptian Assistant Foreign Minister Mohamed Hegazy on Wednesday unveiled his country’s proposal for rebuilding Gaza – and, implicitly, Egypt’s counter to President Donald Trump’s plan to take over the territory and rebuild it as “the Riviera of the Middle East.”
Egyptian strongman Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is refusing to visit President Donald Trump in Washington unless he agrees to not discuss his plan for America to “take over” Gaza, an anonymously sourced report in Reuters indicated on Wednesday.
King Abdullah II of Jordan told President Trump at the White House on Tuesday that his country would give refuge to 2,000 children from Gaza who are sick with cancer or other illnesses.
President Donald Trump discussed with King Abdullah II of Jordan his plan to take control of Gaza and relocate the Palestinians.
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, the leader of the jihadist terrorist organization Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), dismissed President Donald Trump’s plan for America to take over the Gaza Strip as a guaranteed failure, comparing it to Trump “pushing Mexicans out of America.”
President Donald Trump said on Sunday he remains “committed to buying and owning Gaza,” despite considerable pushback from U.S. allies in Europe and the Middle East.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio will immediately follow up his first travel since assuming the position of America’s top diplomat – a tour of Central America and the Caribbean – with travel to the Middle East, multiple outlets reported on Friday.
The jihadist terror organization Hamas reacted with outrage to President Donald Trump’s unprecedented proposal on Tuesday for the United States to seize the Gaza Strip and turn it into a global resort destination, calling Trump “irresponsible.”
Fresh surveys released ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit as the first foreign leader to meet President Donald Trump at the White House show that an overwhelming majority of Israelis support the emigration of Gaza’s population — an idea recently suggested on several occasions by President Trump — while most also oppose a Palestinian state, a failed policy long pushed by former Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama.
Calls to recognize Jordan as a Palestinian state have intensified recently, spurred by President Donald Trump’s suggestion that Amman accommodate displaced Gazans — a proposal that has been met with growing support from many who see it as the “only real way to achieve peace.”
A growing number of young Gazans have long sought to leave the enclave due to political repression under Hamas, economic collapse, and lack of basic freedoms, a trend that has gained renewed attention following President Donald Trump’s call for other countries to take in displaced Palestinians, especially as more than a year of war has left Gaza in ruins and intensified the desire to emigrate.
Egypt and Jordan rejected the possibility of offering shelter to Palestinians after President Donald Trump lamented the state of Gaza.
Many are applauding President Donald Trump’s “bold” proposal that Egypt and Jordan play a central role in resolving the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict by absorbing refugees from war-torn Gaza, with some calling it the “only real way to achieve peace.”
President Donald Trump suggested Saturday that he would like to “clean out” Gaza after the devastation of the war started by Hamas on October 7, 2023, sending residents to Egypt and Jordan for humanitarian reasons.
A Jordanian national, who violated the terms of his admission to the United States, is accused of making a bomb threat to a South Carolina Highway Patrolman after having been pulled over for missing a license plate.
The Italian government on Thursday summoned the Iranian ambassador to demand the release of journalist Cecilia Sala, who was arrested without due process or clear charges in Tehran on December 19.
Syrian insurgent leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, formerly known as Abu Mohammed al-Jolani when he was a high-ranking al-Qaeda member, on Sunday repeated his promise that the new Syria would be inclusive and respectful of minority groups.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken will begin a brief trip to the Middle East on Wednesday with stops in Jordan and Turkey.
A gunman was killed after firing shots outside the Israeli embassy in Amman, Jordan, early Sunday morning, according to news reports.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi arrived in Istanbul, Turkey, on Friday, the last leg of an extensive Mideast tour meant to shore of support for Tehran in the face of an expected Israeli counterattack.
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers killed two Palestinian terrorists who infiltrated into the country on Friday across the eastern border, wearing Jordanian military uniforms. Two Israeli soldiers were wounded in the exchange.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi held meetings in Egypt on Thursday as part of a broader Middle East tour meant to solidify opposition to Israel’s self-defense operations against Iranian-backed terror organizations that saw him stop in Jordan on Wednesday and includes a planned visit to Turkey by the end of the week.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on Wednesday that it has rescued a 21-year-old Yazidi woman named Fawzia Amin Sido from captivity by the terrorists of Hamas.
King Abdullah II of Jordan rejected at the U.N. the possibility of Jordan taking in Palestinians fleeing war.
Three Israelis were shot and killed by a terrorist Sunday at the border crossing between the West Bank and Jordan, Israeli officials said.
An incident report, obtained by Judicial Watch, reveals that one of the two Jordanian illegal aliens — accused of trying to breach Marine Corps Base Quantico in Prince William County, Virginia, in May — “was on a terror watch list.”
Multiple reports on Tuesday indicated that the governments of Jordan and Saudi Arabia communicated to rogue terror sponsor Iran that it could not use their airspace to attack Israel in response to the elimination of Hamas “political” chief Ismail Haniyeh.
Biden falsely said he was the “only” president this century with no American troop deaths during the first 2024 presidential debate.
At least 550 Muslims have died during 2024’s hajj pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia, most of them from “heat-related illnesses.”
Egypt and Jordan, two countries that have peace treaties with Israel, condemned the Israeli rescue of four hostages on Saturday — as did officials from the European Union (EU) and United Nations (UN) — over Palestinian casualties.
Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee are opening an investigation into how a pair of Jordanian nationals, who reportedly attempted to breach Marine Corps Base Quantico in Prince William County, Virginia this month, ended up in the United States.
Syrian dictator Bashar Assad was welcomed Thursday in the capital of Bahrain for an Arab League Council meeting focused on the war in Gaza.
Two foreign nationals reportedly pretended to be Amazon workers in an attempt to breach the Quantico Marine Corps Base in Virginia, located 36 miles outside of Washington, DC.
The IRGC of Iran claimed on Monday that Israel counted on the support of ten nations to block an unprecedented missile attack from Tehran.
Abu Ubaida, a spokesman for Hamas’s paramilitary al-Qassam Brigades, on Tuesday praised the Iranian missile attack on Israel and called for “escalation” on every front of the conflict.
