WAR IS SPREADING

China is the world's largest diplomatic power, with a wider presence across the globe than the United States, according to a new report shared with Newsweek.Though the lead is slim, the report highlights the product of Beijing's efforts to expand...

The post-war Gaza plan furtively released by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday is a list of unilateral statements that barely deserves serious review

Diplomatic officials in Israel gave a relatively optimistic briefing to correspondents after the Israeli delegation returned from the summit in Paris. If, unlike the last rounds of negotiations, Netanyahu stays relatively silent, the deal might have a chan...

U.S. and British forces carried out more than a dozen strikes against several Houthi sites in Yemen on Saturday, officials said, the latest response to the Iran-backed rebel group's recent attacks on commercial and naval ships in the Red Sea and The G...

Pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel demonstrators staged simultaneous rallies in Ardmore on Saturday afternoon that — although unusual in the Philadelphia region — underscored the deeply emotional and persistently polarized divide over the Israel-Hamas war.

Some observers believe a mass exodus of young talent is taking place and could become a social problem, with their exit heightening the instability that followed the military takeover that now amounts to a civil war.

The long-awaited counteroffensive last year failed. Russia has recaptured Avdiivka, its biggest war gain in nine months. President Volodymyr Zelensky has been forced to quietly acknowledge the new military reality. The Biden Administration’s strategy is no...

The soldiers insisted the settlers get back in their car and leave, but they ignored them. One of them shoved a soldier, who in response fired into the air as a warning. Another settler yelled at him in reply, 'Did you shoot? Traitorous son of a bitch...

Washington should take a page out of Beijing’s playbook and rebalance its investments and energy towards economic and diplomatic interactions while at the same time moving toward a smaller but still robust defensive capability.

ARGUMENT An expert's point of view on a current event. -- The ICC should prosecute Israelis responsible for bombing hospitals, denying access to medicines and vaccines, and causing excessive civilian harm.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military launched an air assault on dozens of sites in Iraq and Syria used by Iranian-backed militias and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Friday, in the opening salvo of retaliation for the drone strike that killed three U.S. tro...

The president's Gaza policy is isolating the United States internationally and threatening his reelection prospects.

Ukraine and some of its strongest supporters are pushing NATO to formally invite Kyiv to become a member of the military alliance during a major upcoming summit, but their efforts are facing significant behind-the-scenes pushback from the United States and...

WITHIN MOMENTS OF the International Court of Justice issuing a preliminary finding on Friday morning that South Africa had made a plausible genocide case against Israel, Western media was suddenly gripped by a new storyline: 12 employees of the United Nati...

Strikes in Iraq, YemenThe U.S. military carried out more airstrikes inside both Iraq and Yemen overnight Tuesday and into Wednesday morning. 

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS:UNRWA says at least 9 dead, 75 wounded after tank shells hit its facility in Khan YounisIsraeli spokesman pours cold water on report of talks about 30-day ceasefire with HamasEgypt's Sisi accuses Israel of restricting aid access t...

WASHINGTON ― A growing number of bipartisan lawmakers is questioning President Joe Biden’s legal authorities to conduct strikes on Yemen’s Houthis.

The Pentagon did not properly track $1 billion worth of military equipment sent to Ukraine, according to a watchdog report released on Thursday.The report from the Pentagon Inspector General says that while the Defense Department has improved its ability t...

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell argues ‘actors too opposed to reach an agreement autonomously’; US says ‘no way’ to ensure Israeli security without a Palestinian state after Netanyahu rejects notion

The Pentagon will be getting fewer new F-35s again this year because already-tardy software won’t be ready until the third quarter of 2024, Lockheed officials said on Tuesday.

JERUSALEM (AP) — A member of Israel’s War Cabinet cast doubt on the country’s strategy for releasing hostages held by Hamas, saying only a cease-fire can free them, as the prime minister rejected the United States’ calls to scale back its offensive.

The Iran-backed Houthi rebel movement vowed to continue attacking ships in the Red Sea on Friday, hours after the U.S. and U.K. carried out strikes targeting the group in Yemen in retaliation for stepped-up Houthi attacks on shipping in the vital Middle E...

The attacks against the Iran-backed Houthis stoked fears of U.S. involvement in a regional conflagration.

Rep. Ilhan Omar introduced the resolutions in an effort to hold the countries accountable for human rights abuses.

A militia Tehran helped build may be dragging the country to war.

For two years, Biden and Zelenskyy have been focused on driving Russia from Ukraine. Now Washington is discussing a move to a more defensive posture.

On the final day of the COP28 climate conference in Dubai last fall, the Washington Post updated their live blog of events at the conference with the title “Countries clinch unprecedented deal to transition away from fossil fuels.” The triumphalism procee...

Rep. Ilhan Omar introduced the resolutions in an effort to hold the countries accountable for human rights abuses.

Jon Schwarz, The Intercept; November 28 2023, 1:42 p.m Israel prefers endless conflict to a Palestinian state. Israel should do what it has never done before: agree to the establishment of a Palestinian state, based on international law.

DECEMBER 5, 2023 New Data for Progress polling finds that a majority of U.S. likely voters support a permanent ceasefire and de-escalation of violence in Gaza — and most prefer that the U.S. prioritize diplomacy and humanitarian aid ...

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Updated 9:56 PM EST, December 6, 2023 The center of Gaza’s second-largest city has seen fighting amid Israel’s widening air and ground offensive in the southern part of the territory displacing tens of thousands more Palestinians....

DEFENSE ONE BY AUDREY DECKER STAFF WRITER DECEMBER 6, 2023; Lockheed is suing a key supplier of titanium structural parts.

For close to three years, Myanmar’s junta has held down the fort. It interrupted the country’s fledgling, imperfect exercise in democracy with its Feb. 1, 2021, coup that threw out a civilian-led government and saw the detention of myriad elected leaders,...