Airlines from the US, Europe, and Asia have suspended flights to Lebanon and Israel, citing security concerns following the recent developments in West Asia.
Russian military intelligence officers are believed to have been deployed to Yemen to assist the Houthis with targeting commercial vessels in the Red Sea, Middle East Eye has reported, quoting US sources.
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has revoked a plea deal that would have taken the death penalty off the table for three prisoners accused of helping to plot the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered a fighter jet squadron, Navy ships and air defenses to the Middle East amid heightened regional tensions due to Israeli attacks in Iran and Lebanon.
US President Joe Biden has privately demanded in a "tough" call Thursday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stop escalating tensions in the region and move immediately toward a Gaza ceasefire deal, two U.S. officials told Axios on Friday.
Israel has purchased $11 billion worth of US arms and military equipment since the start of its war on the Gaza Strip last October, the Defense Ministry has announced.
The United States has reached a plea agreement with three prisoners accused of helping to plan the 9/11 attacks, who are being held at the infamous Guantanamo Bay facility.
The US Department of Defense has reported that since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, more than $56.1 billion in “security assistance” has been given to Ukraine.
The US’ accusations that Russia is trying to influence the upcoming US presidential election are absurd, and Moscow resolutely refutes these allegations, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. In response to accusations recently levied by US intelligence officials, the Chinese Foreign Ministry stressed Beijing has never interfered in US elections and has no intention to do so.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar have discussed the Russia-Ukraine conflict on the sidelines of a summit in Japan, according to a statement from Washington.
Moscow will consider itself free from a moratorium on the deployment of medium and shorter-range missiles if the US places missiles in Germany, Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned in an address to sailors at the Navy Day parade in St. Petersburg.
More than 75 US non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have denounced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to the US Congress, calling upon President Joe Biden and the legislature to impose an immediate arms embargo on Tel Aviv amid the war in the Gaza Strip.
The United States has reportedly armed Israel with upwards of 25,000 bombs and missiles since October 7, 2023, which marked the onset of Tel Aviv’s yet-ongoing war against the Gaza Strip.
The US government currently imposes sanctions on one third of the world in a situation that disproportionately affects low-income countries – 60 percent of which are under US sanctions of some kind – according to an analysis of the White House’s long-standing policy of economic warfare by the Washington Post.
The US military has admitted that it ran a clandestine campaign aimed at discrediting China’s Sinovac vaccine in the Philippines and across Asia and West Asia, Reuters has reported.
Advisers for the US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump have suggested increasing the defense spending target for NATO members to 3% of GDP, Bloomberg has reported, citing unnamed sources. The revelation comes as many members of the US-led bloc have recently struggled to reach the current 2% goal.
A group of major labor unions has sent a letter to US President Joe Biden, urging him to stop military aid to Israel as its genocidal war continues in the Gaza Strip.
Spokesman for the US State Department Matthew Miller has responded to a Beijing-brokered “national unity” agreement signed between Hamas, Fatah and other Palestinian groups, ruling out any role for the Palestinian group Hamas in running the enclave after the war ends.
Democratic politicians and commentators in the United States have heaped praise on President Joe Biden since he dropped out of the 2024 presidential race on Sunday. But critics say the American leader will be remembered for his support for Israeli crimes against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
The meeting between US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, set to take place this week, will go ahead as planned despite the American leader having dropped out of the presidential race, the AP has reported, citing sources familiar with the matter.
A court in Russia has sentenced American journalist Evan Gershkovich to 16 years in prison for espionage. It's the most high-profile case against a Western journalist since the Cold War.
More than 200 anonymous staff members across 122 US Democratic and Republican congressional offices have signed a letter calling for the Congress to protest or boycott Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech next week on Capitol Hill, citing concerns about the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip.
