Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, due to visit Brussels on Thursday, will also attend a meeting of NATO defense ministers in the Belgian capital, the spokesperson for the defense alliance said.
NATO’s new chief Mark Rutte “will welcome President Zelensky to NATO HQ on 17 October during the NATO Defense Ministerial,” Farah Dakhlallah said on X, adding that the pair would then address a joint press conference at 6:20 pm (1620 GMT).
A U.S. military plane is deporting migrants to India, a U.S. official said on Monday, the farthest destination of the Trump administration’s military transport flights for migrants. President Donald Trump has increasingly turned to the military to help carry out his immigration agenda, including sending additional troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, using military aircraft to…
Five Arab foreign ministers and a senior Palestinian official sent a joint letter to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio opposing plans to displace Palestinians from Gaza, as suggested by President Donald Trump in late January. The letter was sent on Monday and signed by the foreign ministers of Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and…
A car bomb killed at least 20 people in the northern Syrian city of Manbij on Monday, the Syrian presidency said, marking the second attack there in three days and the country’s deadliest since Bashar al-Assad was toppled from power in December. The presidency’s statement said it will hold the perpetrators of what it described…
Hamas is ready to begin talks on the details of a second phase of the ongoing truce in Gaza, two officials from the Palestinian militant group told AFP on Monday. “Hamas has informed the mediators, during ongoing communications and meetings held with Egyptian mediators last week in Cairo, that we are ready to start the…
With fighting in Gaza paused, Palestinians are appealing for billions of dollars in emergency aid – from heavy machinery to clear rubble to tents and caravans to house people made homeless by Israeli bombardment. One official from the Palestinian Authority estimated immediate funding needs of $6.5 billion for temporary housing for Gaza’s population of more…
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are seen by Russia as possible venues for a summit between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, two Russian sources with knowledge of the discussions told Reuters. Trump has said he will end the war in Ukraine as soon as possible and said he is ready…
