US Air Force Looks to Upgrade Cyprus Air Base as Humanitarian Staging Post for the Middle East Cyprus, which is only 114 miles from the Lebanese capital, Beirut, has acted as a transit point for the repatriation of...
How the Israel-Hamas Ceasefire Deal Will Unfold — and Why It Is So Precarious Israeli troops have pulled back to the edges of Gaza, the first hostages have been released and many Palestinians have...
Suspected Settlers Attacked Palestinian Villages Hours Before Trump Rescinded Biden Sanctions The reversal of the Biden administration's sanctions, which were meant to punish radical settlers, could set the tone for a...
Israel's Top General Resigns over Oct. 7 Failures as It Launches Major Operation in West Bank Israel's top general resigned, citing the security and intelligence failures related to Hamas' surprise attack that triggered...
Qatar Says Ceasefire Between Israel and Hamas Will Go into Effect at 8:30 A.M. on Sunday Under the first phase of the ceasefire, 33 hostages are set to be released over the next six weeks, in exchange for hundreds...
Who Is Itamar Ben-Gvir, the Far-Right Minister Who Resigned from Netanyahu's Cabinet? Ben-Gvir has been a magnet of controversy throughout his tenure.
After 15 Months of War, Hamas Still Rules over What Remains of Gaza For all the military might Israel deployed in Gaza, it failed to remove Hamas from power, one of its central war aims.
Yemen's Houthis Signal They'll Now Limit Their Attacks in the Red Sea Corridor to Israeli Ships The Houthis' announcement, made in an email sent to shippers, likely won't be enough to encourage global firms to reenter the...
Gaza Ceasefire Takes Hold After Another Delay, Raising Hopes of Ending the War and Freeing Hostages The truce, which started at 11:15 a.m. local time, is just the first step toward ultimately ending the conflict and returning...
Israel's Cabinet Approves a Deal for a Ceasefire in Gaza and the Release of Dozens of Hostages Israel's Cabinet approved a deal for a ceasefire in Gaza that would release dozens of hostages held there and pause the 15...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...