President Joe Biden said he was discussing possible Israeli strikes on Iranian oil facilities, in comments that sent oil prices spiking Thursday just a month before the US presidential election. US President Joe Biden. (Reuters) President Joe Biden said he was discussing possible Israeli strikes on Iranian oil facilities, in comments that sent oil prices spiking Thursday […]
Continue reading …Two ships were damaged in separate attacks off Yemen on Tuesday, a British maritime agency said, as regional tensions soared during Israel’s offensive on Lebanon. A picture taken during an organized tour by Yemen’s Houthis on Nov. 22, 2023 shows the Galaxy Leader cargo ship, right, seized by Houthi fighters approaching the port in the […]
Continue reading …Safieddine bears a striking resemblance to his charismatic maternal cousin Nasrallah but is several years his junior, aged in his late 50s or early 60s. Sayyed Hashem Safieddine, a potential successor to his slain cousin Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, is one of Hezbollah’s most prominent figures and has deep religious and family ties to group’s patron […]
Continue reading …Israeli airstrikes continued to target Lebanon on Sunday regardless of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s assassination earlier Friday. Smoke rises following Israeli airstrikes in the Chiyah area in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Sept. 28, 2024. (EPA Pho Nasrallah’s killing and the past week’s waves of strikes on Hezbollah strongholds around Lebanon have plunged the […]
Continue reading …The U.S. is sending additional troops to the Middle East in response to a sharp spike in violence between Israel and Hezbollah forces in Lebanon that has raised the risk of a greater regional war, the Pentagon said Monday. Pentagon press secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder would provide no details on how many additional forces […]
Continue reading …Lebanese health minister says three children and seven women among those killed Rescuers clear the rubble as they look for survivors at the site of Friday’s Israeli strike in Beirut’s southern suburbs. AP The death toll from an Israeli strike on the south Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh rose to 31, including three children and seven women, Lebanon’s […]
Continue reading …The UN Security Council (UNSC) on Thursday highlighted the urgent crisis in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank, cautioning about the potential for a regional war amid escalating tensions in Lebanon. Israeli army soldiers detain a topless blindfolded man during an army raid in Qabatiyah south of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, […]
Continue reading …Vice President Kamala Harris said Americans “deserve better” than the Springfield, Ohio online conspiracy theory that Haitians are eating pets in an interview on Tuesday hosted by the National Association of Black Journalists. “The American people deserve — and I believe, do want better than this,”Harris said on Tuesday at the WHYY studio in Philadelphia. […]
Continue reading …The U.S. envoy to the United Nations on Monday criticized Israel’s military for targeting schools, humanitarian workers and civilians in Gaza. A vehicle moves past the rubble of collapsed buildings in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestine, Sept. 16, 2024. (AFP Photo) The finger-pointing comes as a sign of growing American frustration with […]
Continue reading …Cell phone location data obtained by the FBI shows Ryan Routh’s phone was near the Trump International Golf Course just before 2 a.m. Sunday. A vehicle with the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s office is parked outside of Trump International Golf Club after the apparent assassination attempt of Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump, […]
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