During a joint news conference on Wednesday with Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, US President Donald Trump pledged to meet North Korea’s dictator, Kim Jong-un, “in the coming weeks.” Mr. Trump said that he hoped “to have a very successful meeting” and before warning that if he thought that meeting […]
On Wednesday, an estimated 3,500 Ghanaians took to the streets of the capital Accra to protest against Ghana’s expansion of its defense cooperation with the United States—a rare public display of opposition to the growing foreign military presence in West Africa. Demonstrators blowing vuvuzelas and beating drums filled Accra’s business […]
“…a humanitarian disaster that has so far claimed 13,500 lives and left roughly 20 million Yemenis in need of humanitarian assistance”
On Sunday, Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said that Israel will act directly against Iran, a country that he believes is the world’s greatest threat. In what was his first address at the annual Munich Security Conference, which brings together security, defense officials, and diplomats from across Europe and the […]
This past Friday, U.S. President Donald Trump told Israel that it too would need to make “significant compromises” for peace with the Palestinians. All of this comes amid accusations of pro-Israeli bias against one of his Middle East envoys, US Ambassador David Friedman. Several months after the initial outrage caused […]
After speaking to reporters at the Word Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland, US President Donald Trump threatened to cut aid to the Palestinian Authority for having “disrespected” Vice-President Mike Pence during his visit to the Middle East. He told reporters, “respect has to be shown to the US or we’re […]
On Monday, during his annual New Year’s Day address, which was broadcast live on North Korean state TV, Kim Jong-un, warned the United States that his country’s nuclear forces are now “completed.” After a year in which he ordered a string of missile launches—including three intercontinental ballistic missiles—and the regime’s […]
This Monday, the Israeli Air Force said it attacked a Hamas training compound to the north of the Gaza Strip. The strikes were carried out in response to recent rocket strikes from the Palestinian enclave, which have intensified in the two weeks since U.S. President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as […]
US President Donald Trump is due to decide whether to sign a legal waiver delaying plans to move the US embassy to Jerusalem—something that successive administrations have done at regular intervals for more than two decades. By law, US presidents are required to relocate the embassy to Jerusalem. The original […]
A day after returning to Beirut, Lebanese Prime Minister, Saad Hariri, has said he is suspending his resignation—temporarily halting what would have effectively brought down his 11-month-old government. Speaking during Lebanon’s Independence Day celebrations on Wednesday, Hariri said what Lebanon “needs at this sensitive time [is] exceptional efforts from everyone […]
