Are Trump’s Middle East Envoys Pushing Lebanon Into Another Civil War?
Deputy Special Envoy to the Middle East Morgan Ortagus speaks with U.S. Ambassador to Turkey and Special Envoy for Syria...
Middle East
A year after Hamas tunnel executions, Israel honors ‘Beautiful Six’ as hostage debate intensifies
TEL AVIV, Israel — Israelis on Saturday marked one year since IDF soldiers recovered the bodies of six hostages executed by...
What The Intercept Is Reading
Nonfiction “Proof: The Uncertain Science of Certainty Book,” Adam Kucharski (2025) My summer reading was a little unusual this year,...
Trump on what it will take to bring Israeli hostages home: Hamas must be ‘confronted and destroyed’
President Donald Trump said Monday that the remaining Israeli hostages will only be returned once Hamas is "confronted and destroyed,"...
New U.S. Report on Israel’s Human Rights Abuses Is 91 Percent Shorter
The United States published its annual report on Israeli human rights abuses on Tuesday. Last year, the State Department published...
French-drafted UNIFIL resolution could shield Hezbollah as US stays silent
FIRST ON FOX — The U.S. may allow a controversial draft United Nations Security Council resolution to pass that some...
US, UK ‘disagree’ on Gaza plan but ‘share’ same goal Vance says ahead of Lammy meeting
Vice President JD Vance struck a conciliatory tone on Friday after touching down in London when he told reporters the...
Hamas endgame is ‘long-term’ and is playing out for all to see as Israel pushes deeper into Gaza
Israel’s security cabinet overnight Thursday approved Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposal to defeat Hamas, including taking control of Gaza City,...
How Columbia’s Leadership Refashioned the University in Trump’s Image
Shortly after Columbia University made broad concessions to the Trump administration, the school’s acting president Claire Shipman struck a triumphant...
ISIS soldiers behead Christians in Mozambique, burning church and homes: ‘Silent genocide’
International observers are reporting that ISIS-aligned soldiers are beheading Christians and burning churches and homes in central and southern Africa...
The Week the World Woke Up to the Genocide in Gaza
After 22 months of Israel’s war on Palestinians in Gaza, something changed in the last week. Israeli human rights groups...
U.S. Security Contractors in Gaza Risk War Crimes Charges, Democrats Say
Security firms employing U.S. military veterans for a controversial food distribution operation in Gaza have exposed them to the risk...
US sanctions Palestinian Authority officials after rejecting global push to give it control of Gaza
The U.S. announced it would impose sanctions on Palestinian Authority (PA) officials just days after it disavowed a United Nations...
As Gaza Starves, Republicans Take Aim at Another Lifeline. Almost No One Noticed.
As the world watches Gaza starve, Republicans in Congress quietly advanced a new ban on funding a United Nations agency...
Iran’s Africa activities pose ‘significant threats to US national security’
The State Department and the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee have joined a chorus of analysts this week...
