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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has refused to call off a major ground offensive against the southern tip of the Gaza Strip, shrugging off a US warning that the operation will kill more civilians and worsen a humanitarian crisis in the besieged enclave.

Ukraine’s very survival in fighting Russia could be at stake unless the western states send more military aid, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has warned.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has confirmed that Gaza's entire population is "at severe levels of acute food insecurity".

The White House knew since late October that Israel was regularly bombing civilian targets in Gaza, but President Joe Biden continued to publicly defend the Israeli military’s conduct, the Washington Post has reported.

US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan has become the first government official outside Israel to confirm reports that Tel Aviv has killed Marwan Issa, the third-highest-ranking military commander of Hamas.

US President Joe Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday that a major ground offensive in Gaza's Rafah would be a "mistake", as the two leaders spoke on the phone for the first time in a month amid growing tensions.

US President Joe Biden began to shout and swear after learning that his poll numbers in the battleground states of Michigan and Georgia had dropped over his handling of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, according to NBC News.

Almost half of the American respondents in a new survey want US President Joe Biden to put more pressure on Israel to ease the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

The US State Department has announced new sanctions on three Israeli settlers and two farms in the occupied West Bank. Washington remains Israel's staunch supporter in its genocidal campaign against Gaza.

A report from US news site Politico says that senior American officials have told their Israeli counterparts that the administration of President Joe Biden will support hitting “high-value Hamas targets in and underneath Rafah” in the besieged Gaza Strip.

Washington has asked Tehran to rein in Yemen's Houthi attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea during secret indirect talks held in Oman earlier this year. The talks marked the first time the US and Iran have held negotiations in 10 months, according to a report by the Financial Times.

The White House has attempted to walk back comments US President Joe Biden made over the weekend saying that an Israeli offensive of Rafah in the Gaza Strip would be a red line.

White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has announced a new $300 million security assistance package for Ukraine.

A group of Senate Democrats led by Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) have demanded President Joe Biden comply with the Foreign Assistance Act and cut off military aid to Tel Aviv. More than 31,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli onslaught against Gaza.

Russia doesn’t want a direct conflict either with the United States or NATO, according to a report presented by Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines during US Senate Intelligence Committee hearings.

US President Joe Biden has stated that there are no plans "at this moment" for his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or for him to address the Israeli parliament.

The majority of Americans do not believe that President Joe Biden is held in high esteem by other world leaders, a poll by Gallup has revealed.

United States President Joe Biden has warned that there are “red lines” Israel should not cross in its war in the Gaza Strip while insisting he would never abandon Washington's ally.

NATO could face a serious risk of the US leaving the alliance if Donald Trump is re-elected as the US president in November, the Telegraph has reported, citing several diplomats from the bloc’s member states. Europe’s NATO countries should develop some strategy to deal with the consequences of such an eventuality and reconsider the bloc’s defense capabilities, they warned.

A spokesperson for the Palestinian group Hamas has told Al Jazeera that the US plan to build a temporary port off Gaza's coast to deliver humanitarian aid to the besieged enclave “is a step in the right direction”.

The United States is in the process of preparing to deploy forces for the Gaza pier mission to increase the flow of humanitarian aid to the besieged enclave, Defense Department spokesperson Pat Ryder has stated.

US President Joe Biden has warned that it would be "tough" to reach a ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip by the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Negative attitudes towards the United States in West Asia have reached a record-high level amid Washington's support for Israel’s ongoing military onslaught against the Gaza Strip, The Financial Times (FT) has reported, citing data from the Arab Opinion Index.

US diplomats working in Russia who would seek to work with certain non-governmental organizations (NGOs) designated by Moscow as undesirable may be expelled from the country, the Russian Foreign Ministry warned US Ambassador Lynne Tracy on Thursday.

A new report has revealed that Washington has quietly authorized over 100 separate weapons sales to Tel Aviv since the start of the Gaza war in early October last year, despite mounting alarm over Israel's military campaign against the besieged territory.