The OIC, based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, broadly aligns itself with the thinking of Saudi Arabia's rulers. That suggests the ongoing war likely will affect the ongoing efforts by the United States to broker a deal that could see Saudi Arabia diplomatically recognize Israel. By The Associated Pr...
The United States, Israel’s closest ally, says a ground operation into Rafah would be a mistake and has demanded to see a credible plan to protect civilians. Rafah is filled with around 1.4 million Palestinians, most of whom are displaced from other parts of the Gaza Strip. Israel’s...
The United States, Israel, and the Yom Kippur war.At the end of the 1969-1970 War of Attrition, the Arab-Israeli conflict settled briefly into a...Rodman, David
March 25, 2024: The United Nations Security Council passes for the first time a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire, after the United States, which had previously vetoed such resolutions, abstained. The decision has caused tensions between the two close allies. "This resolution must be impl...
The United Nations Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has warned that its shelters in the Gaza Strip are four times over their capacity after an influx of refugees from the Israeli-Hamas war. In a social media poston Wednesday, the agency said that it is sheltering nearly 600,000 internal...
And that leads back to the condition that makes all this possible: a war to degrade Hamas enough to enable something better to take its place.How Israel fights this war matters. It must live up to its pledge to honour international law. Not only is that the right thing to do, but Isra...
UNITED NATIONS —The U.N. General Assembly approved a nonbinding resolution Friday calling for a “humanitarian truce” in Gaza leading to a cessation ofhostilities between Israel and Gaza’s Hamasrulers, the first United Nations responseto the war. ...
the only long-term solution in the Gaza Strip beyond the current conflict is the creation of two independent Israeli and Palestinian states. U.S. Secretary Antony Blinken has previously said a transition period may be required, but that Israel cannot reoccupy the Gaza Strip after the war. ...
Bill Whitaker: Does this war in the Middle East put Ukraine on a back burner? Kamala Harris: Not for us, no. It does not put us-, put them on a back burner at all. Vice President Harris has visited 19 countries and met with more than 100 world leaders. But lately, she has been...
Top US general casts doubt on idea Iran wants war with the United States From CNN's Haley Britzky Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. CQ Brown Jr. cast doubt on Monday on the idea that Iran wants war with the United States, telling NBC’s Lestor Holt, “I don’t know that...