Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will start negotiations on the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire when he meets with US President Donald Trump’s Middle East Envoy, Steve Witkoff, on Monday in Washington, Netanyahu’s office said late on Saturday. Netanyahu is scheduled to depart Israel on Sunday for Washington, where he is to meet next…
The United States military on Saturday conducted air strikes on ISIS group targets in Somalia, President Donald Trump announced. “This morning I ordered precision Military air strikes on the Senior ISIS Attack Planner and other terrorists he recruited and led in Somalia,” Trump said on Truth Social. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the strikes targeted…
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi told his US counterpart Donald Trump on Saturday that the world was relying on him “to reach a permanent and historic peace agreement” to end the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. Saturday’s phone call was the first between the two leaders since Trump repeatedly floated a plan to relocate Palestinians…
An explosion at a Ukrainian army recruitment center in the western city of Rivne on Saturday killed one person and wounded six, police said. Authorities did not say what caused the explosion or reveal details on the casualties. The center handles and maintains military records and is responsible for drafting men into the army as…
Artillery shelling and airstrikes killed at least 56 people across greater Khartoum on Saturday, according to a medical source and Sudanese activists. Sudan’s regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been locked in a battle for power since April 2023 that has intensified this month as the army fights to take all…
Political parties in Belgium agreed on Friday to form a new government, the office of Belgian King Philippe said, ending almost eight months of complicated talks that followed the election victory of Flemish nationalist party N-VA. N-VA leader Bart De Wever, 54, is expected to become prime minister and lead a broad five-party coalition, which…
Arab foreign ministers on Saturday rejected the transfer of Palestinians from their land under any circumstances, presenting a unified stance against US President Donald Trump’s call for Egypt and Jordan to take in residents of the Gaza Strip. In a joint statement following a meeting in Cairo, the foreign ministers and officials from Egypt, Jordan,…
Three buses carrying Palestinian prisoners released by Israel as part of a ceasefire deal arrived in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis on Saturday, an AFP correspondent reported. The prisoners, many wearing gray prison uniforms, were greeted by hundreds of Gazans who gathered around the buses as they approached the city’s European Hospital. The…
FBI agents who participated in the investigations that led to now-abandoned criminal charges against President Donald Trump are expected to be fired in a sweeping purge of the top US law enforcement organization, US media reported Friday. Dozens of FBI agents involved in the probe of Trump supporters who stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021,…
Palestinian militant group Hamas said on Friday it would free the father of the youngest hostages seized in its Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel and two others including a dual US citizen in the next exchange of hostages for Palestinian prisoners. Yarden Bibas, Keith Siegel and Ofer Kalderon will be handed over on Saturday,…
US President Donald Trump said on Friday the military helicopter involved in the crash in Washington, DC, was flying too high at the time of the accident that killed 67 people. “The Blackhawk helicopter was flying too high, by a lot. It was far above the 200-foot limit. That’s not really too complicated to understand,…
A pro-Palestinian group at the University of Michigan has been suspended for two years and will lose its funding in connection with protesters’ demands for divestiture from companies doing business with Israel. Students Allied for Freedom and Equality, also known as SAFE, was accused of violating the university’s standards of conduct for recognized student organizations…
Israel is set to release 183 prisoners on Saturday in the fourth hostage-prisoner exchange under the Gaza ceasefire deal, a Palestinian advocacy group said, more than doubling the previous reported figure. “The updated number of prisoners to be released tomorrow is 183,” said Palestinian Prisoners’ Club spokeswoman Amani Sarahneh on Friday, after previously announcing that…
US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet at the White House on Tuesday, a US official said on Friday. The meeting, confirmed this week by the two leaders’ respective governments, is set to take place amid a fragile six-week ceasefire that has brought a temporary pause to 15 months of…
