The United States said on Tuesday it has reached separate agreements with Ukraine and Russia to ensure safe navigation in the Black Sea and to implement a ban on attacks by the two countries on each other’s energy facilities. The White House said in a statement that Washington would help restore Russia’s access to the…
The health ministry in Gaza said Tuesday that 792 people had been killed in the week since Israel resumed bombardments on the Palestinian territory, including 62 in the past 24 hours. The ministry said in a statement that it recorded “792 martyrs and 1,663 injuries” since strikes resumed, bringing the total death toll since the…
Russia said on Tuesday it was willing to strike a new agreement on the safety of shipping in the Black Sea – a possible stepping stone towards a ceasefire with Ukraine – but only if the United States ordered President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to respect it. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said only such an order would…
Top Trump administration officials mistakenly disclosed war plans in a messaging group that included a journalist shortly before the US attacked Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis, the White House said on Monday, following a first-hand account by The Atlantic. Democratic lawmakers swiftly blasted the misstep, saying it was a breach of US national security and a violation…
US and Russian officials held talks in Saudi Arabia on Monday aimed at making progress towards a broad ceasefire in Ukraine with Washington eyeing a separate Black Sea maritime ceasefire deal before securing a wider agreement. The talks, which followed US negotiations with Ukraine in Saudi Arabia on Sunday, come as US President Donald Trump…
The US has lifted bounties on three senior Taliban figures, including the interior minister who also heads a powerful network blamed for bloody attacks against Afghanistan’s former Western-backed government, officials in Kabul said Sunday. Sirajuddin Haqqani, who acknowledged planning a January 2008 attack on the Serena Hotel in Kabul, which killed six people, including US…
Houthi media in Yemen accused the United States Saturday of attacking the airport in Hodeida, the latest such claim since Washington announced heavy strikes against the militant group one week ago. Al-Masirah TV, blaming “American aggression,” said three attacks had targeted the airport in Hodeida on the Red Sea coast. Between Wednesday and Friday the…
The US is still hoping a broad ceasefire in Russia’s war in Ukraine can be reached within weeks, even as the warring sides continue attacks and there are signs ahead of talks scheduled for the coming days that the Kremlin is in no hurry to reach a deal. The White House aims for a truce agreement by…
Prince William this week visited British troops in Estonia, which borders Russia, and drew the scorn of several people in the Kremlin who made threats against the heir to the throne A crony of Vladimir Putin who heads a specialist military drone unit has made a veiled threat against Prince William after he took a ride in a tank as he…
Meanwhile, the US leader also effectively indicated that it is premature to discuss tightening Washington’s sanctions against Moscow US President Donald Trump firmly dismissed claims that Russia has rejected US proposals for a ceasefire in Ukraine. Meanwhile, the US leader also effectively indicated that it is premature to discuss tightening Washington’s sanctions against Moscow. Russian…
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un expressed his unwavering support for Russia’s war in Ukraine during a meeting with a top Russian security official in Pyongyang, North Korean state media said Saturday. Friday’s meeting between Kim and Sergei Shoigu, Russia’s Security Council secretary, followed a South Korean intelligence assessment in late February that North Korea had likely…
U.S. Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff makes a number of eyebrow-raising statements in an in-depth interview with Tucker Carlson The genocidal Palestinian jihadists of Hamas are not as intractable “as they’re often portrayed,” U.S. Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff said in an in-depth interview published on Friday. “We need to understand what Hamas wants and…
The idea that Moscow would attack NATO is “preposterous,” Steve Witkoff has said Russia has no desire to invade other European countries, US special envoy for the Middle East Steve Witkoff has said, dismissing such fears as “preposterous.” He made the remarks in an interview with American journalist Tucker Carlson on Friday. Asked to comment on…
Yemeni group warns all airlines that ‘Ben Gurion Airport is no longer safe for air traffic and will remain so until aggression on Gaza stops’ The Yemeni Houthi group reported on Saturday that it had targeted Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport with a hypersonic missile for the third time in 48 hours. In a statement, the…
The head of the US Social Security Administration has backed down from “shutting down the agency” after a federal judge rebuked him for misinterpreting a court ruling that limited billionaire Elon Musk’s access to agency information. The agency’s leader, Leland Dudek, who has been cooperating with a Musk-led group tasked with reducing government waste, said in a statement…
