Author: Mike Brest

Hamas fired multiple unsuccessful rockets into Israel on Thursday in retaliation for the Israeli military’s resumption of ground operations inside Gaza this week. The Israeli air force intercepted one of three Hamas-fired rockets, and the other two landed in open areas, according to the Israeli military. A spokesperson for Hamas’s military wing, the Al Qassam…

The White House put the onus on Hamas for Israel’s renewed military operations in Gaza overnight due to its repeated refusal to agree to release hostages. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz instructed the Israel Defense Forces to “act against Hamas with increasing military strength,” the prime minister’s office said in…

President Donald Trump has sent a clear message to Europe in his first six weeks back in office that the era during which the continent could assume an American security blanket would cover it is over. The corollary is that Europe must bolster its own security and do more to look after itself. Trump says…

Chinese, Russian, and Iranian officials met on Friday and called for an end to U.S. sanctions on Tehran’s nuclear program and for a resumption of multinational talks on their program. The trio of countries “emphasized the necessity of terminating all unlawful unilateral sanctions,” Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu read from a joint statement with…

A Finnish court found a Russian mercenary guilty on Friday of committing war crimes in Ukraine in 2014, sentencing him to life in prison. Voislav Torden, a Russian citizen known as Yan Petrovsky, was found guilty on four of five charges related to the ambush, murder, and mutilation of Ukrainian soldiers and distributing denigrating photos…

The people of Greenland are set to vote on Tuesday in what may be their most internationally-watched election, given President Donald Trump’s frequent overtures toward acquiring the island. Voters will elect the 31 representatives to Greenland’s parliament, known as the Inatsisartut. The country, which gained self-rule in 1979, remains a Danish territory. Denmark still controls…

The ISIS-K terrorist who Pakistani officials handed over to the United States this week in connection to the Abbey Gate bombing is tied to multiple other terrorist attacks. The U.S. charged Mohammad Sharifullah, the ISIS-K terrorist, on Sunday with providing and conspiring to provide material support and resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization, which resulted…

Vice President JD Vance backed his “friend,” Elbridge Colby, at the beginning of the latter’s confirmation hearing for the Pentagon’s undersecretary of defense for policy position. There was some apprehension among Republican senators regarding Colby’s previous statements on the Middle East, particularly Iran, though Vance’s public backing of him demonstrated how seriously the administration wants…

A plan for Gaza’s long-term future created by Egypt calls for the exclusion of Hamas from the governing body once the war ends. Egyptian leaders presented the plan to Arab leaders from around the region in Cairo on Tuesday. Both the proposal and summit came in response to President Donald Trump’s plan for the besieged…

Egypt has prepared a plan for the reconstruction of Gaza that it will present on Tuesday at a summit of Arab leaders, according to Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty. The plan amounts to a counterproposal to a scenario outlined by the United States, in which Palestinians would be relocated into surrounding Arab nations while the U.S.…