Tag: Middle East
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US spends a record $17.9b on military aid to Israel since last Oct. 7
The United States has spent a record of at least $17.9 billion on military aid to Israel since the war in Gaza began and led to ... -
Hamas leader Haniyeh killed in Iran by an alleged Israeli strike
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed by a predawn airstrike in the Iranian capital yesterday, Iran and the militant group said, blaming Israel for a shock ... -
Middle East at momentous crossroad
Tensions between Israel and Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah were effectively eased last week thanks to the mediation efforts that successfully hammered home the point that an all-out ... -
Report claims Yemen’s Houthis have hypersonic missile
Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim to have a new, hypersonic missile in their arsenal, Russia’s state media reported yesterday, potentially raising the stakes in their ongoing attacks ... -
Religious freedom group ends trip early after rabbi ordered to remove his kippah
A U.S. Congress-mandated group cut short a fact-finding mission to Saudi Arabia after officials in the kingdom ordered a Jewish rabbi to remove his kippah in ... -
US destroyer shoots down missile and drones launched by Yemen’s Houthi rebels
A U.S. destroyer shot down drones and a missile launched by Yemen’s Houthi rebels toward it in the Red Sea, officials said yesterday, as the Indian navy ... -
Israel’s air force strikes deep inside Lebanon, killing two people, after Hezbollah downs a drone
The Israeli military said its air force yesterday struck targets of the militant Hezbollah group “deep inside Lebanon,” where residents reported explosions near the northeastern city ... -
On the IKE, four months of combat at sea facing Houthi missiles
Sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and its accompanying warships have spent four months straight at sea defending against ballistic missiles and flying ... -
US, British launch new round of joint strikes against multiple Houthi sites in Yemen
The U.S. and British militaries bombed multiple targets in eight locations used by the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen on Monday night (yesterday, Macau time), the second ... -
Timing for the Israel-Hamas pause in fighting to be announced in the next 24 hours
A cease-fire agreement between the Hamas militant group and Israel has been confirmed by both parties, along with Washington and Qatar, which helped broker the deal that ... -
Yemen’s Houthi rebels hijack Israeli-linked ship in the Red Sea, take 25 hostages
Yemen’s Houthi rebels seized an Israeli-linked cargo ship in a crucial Red Sea shipping route yesterday [Macau time] and took its 25 crew members hostage, officials ... -
Dubai air chiefs summit, sponsored by Israeli firm, avoids discussing strikes as Hamas war rages
As Israel unleashes one of the most-intense aerial bombing campaigns the Middle East has ever seen, leaders from the world’s top air forces met yesterday [Macau ... -
Israel-Hamas war crowds crisis-heavy agenda as foreign ministers meet in Japan
Fresh from a whirlwind tour of the Middle East, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken shifted his intense diplomacy on the Israel-Hamas war to Asia yesterday, ... -
Aid is held up for Gaza on the verge of total collapse
The U.S. worked Tuesday to break a deadlock over delivering aid to millions of increasingly desperate civilians in the Gaza Strip, which has been besieged and ... -
Israel-Hamas war may ‘serve’ Beijing in the end
In June, Chinese President Xi Jinping hosted the Palestinian president in Beijing and invited the Israeli prime minister for an official state visit. Benjamin Netanyahu accepted, ... -
Targeting Iran, US tightens Iraq’s dollar flow, causing pain
For months, the United States has restricted Iraq’s access to its own dollars, trying to stamp out what Iraqi officials describe as rampant money laundering that ... -
Blinken visit highlights US limitations in region
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken yesterday [Macau time] wrapped up a two-day visit to Israel and the occupied West Bank with no visible signs of ...
