JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel decided on Wednesday to withhold the body of a Palestinian detainee who died while in custody a day earlier. Naser Abu Hamid, 50, died at the Israeli Assaf Harofeh Hospital on Tuesday, with Palestinians saying medical negligence caused his death. Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz decided not to release Abu Hamid’s [&...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army claimed Tuesday it had downed a suspected Hezbollah drone near the border with Lebanon. A military statement said the drone was monitored and downed as it was crossing from Lebanon into Israel. “We will continue to prevent any attempts to violate Israeli sovereignty,” it added. There was no comment […]...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has reaffirmed Tehran’s support for the new government in Iraq, linking regional peace and security with stability in Iran. Amir-Abdollahian made the remarks on Tuesday at the Baghdad II Conference held in Jordan, which follows the August 2021 summit in the Iraqi capit...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) urged fully funded and sustained life-saving and livelihood support in Somalia on Tuesday to pull residents from the brink of famine. The UN agency said large-scale investments for resilience and rural livelihoods are “urgently” needed to break the hunge...
A federal investigation into former President Donald Trump appeared to enter a new phase this month, according to reporting Tuesday that the U.S. House panel probing the January 6 attack on the Capitol is “extensively cooperating” with Jack Smith, the special counsel appointed to lead Trump investigations. Punchbowl News reported t...
As U.S. military forces continue to kill and wound civilians in multiple countries during the ongoing 21-year War on Terror while chronically undercounting such casualties, a pair of Democratic lawmakers on Monday asked the Pentagon to explain discrepancies in noncombatant casualty reporting and detail steps they are taking to address the issu...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Talks to return the US and Iran to a key accord that restricted Tehran’s nuclear activities remain at a deadlock and show no signs of resuming anytime soon, the White House said Tuesday. “There is no progress happening with respect to the Iran deal now. We don’t anticipate any progress anytime in [&hel...
After an hourslong debate behind closed doors on Tuesday, the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee voted 24-16 along party lines to publicly release six years of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns. Democrats on the committee supported sending a panel report related to Trump’s tax documents from 2015 to 2020 to the full cham...
The Biden administration is likely going to announce a roughly $2 billion military assistance package for Ukraine on Wednesday—one that includes Patriot missile systems and misleadingly named “precision bomb kits”—as the war-ravaged nation’s president visits Washington, D.C. in his first trip outside of his country since the ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US sharply rebuked the Taliban on Tuesday for expanding restrictions on women’s education, most recently banning women from university study indefinitely. “The United States condemns in the strongest terms the Taliban’s indefensible decision to ban women from universities, to keep secondary schools...
