Israeli ultranationalist Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich is blocking a U.S.-funded flour shipment to Gaza because its recipient is the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), two Israeli and U.S. officials told Axios. Why it matters:
President Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday that in any new hostage deal, Israel will may have to release more Palestinian prisoners for each freed hostage than it did in the previous
Joe Biden is growing increasingly irritated with Benjamin Netanyahu, whom he is understood to have called an “a--hole” several times in private. Amid mounting frustration with the Israeli leader, the US president is believed to
U.S. President Joe Biden is pushing Republican lawmakers to back what the White House says is a critically needed funding bill for Ukraine's war against Russia that is opposed by former President Donald Trump. Trump's
CIA and Mossad directors William Burns & David Barnea met Qatari PM in Cairo and discussed plans for a new ceasefire amid mounting international pressure. Top officials from Israel, the US, Qatar and Egypt met
JERUSALEM — The arrival in Washington of Jordan’s King Abdullah II, accompanied by his highly prominent wife, Queen Rania, on Monday put a spotlight on the Hashemite Kingdom’s awkward position in the Middle East as
Three Palestinian Americans were detained last week by Israeli forces, but their families say the US has yet to step in. “Confirmed receipt.” That is the only message Yasmeen Elagha received from the United States
One of President Biden’s top advisers told fuming Arab and Muslim American community leaders in Michigan this week that the administration has made “missteps” in its support for Israel’s war against Hamas terrorists in Gaza.
U.S. President Joe Biden and Jordan's King Abdullah kept up pressure for a Gaza Strip ceasefire as senior mediators were to resume work on Tuesday on an Israel-Hamas truce agreement, with the threat of an
US president must do more than criticise Israeli leader behind closed doors, advocates say, as Rafah offensive looms. That is what unnamed sources have been telling media outlets in the United States, as the president
