Idrees Ali
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DAMASCUS/JERUSALEM - Israel's military said it struck the entrance to the Syrian defence ministry in Damascus on Wednesday, stepping up attacks on the Islamist-led authorities with the declared aim of protecting the Druze minority from harm by government forces.
(Reuters)-At least 67 people were killed by Israeli fire while they waited for U.N. aid trucks in northern Gaza on Sunday, the territory's health ministry said, as Israel issued new evacuation orders for areas packed with displaced Gazans.
July 18 (Reuters) - President Trump's appointees to a Washington project review board pushed the Federal Reserve five years ago to use more marble for a renovation project at its headquarters campus that the White House is now using as the basis for attacks on Jerome Powell.
Is trump the first U.S. official to publicly give a number of jets shot down during India-Pakistan conflict?
#WATCH | Washington, D.C.: US President Donald Trump says, "We stopped a lot of wars. And these were serious, India and Pakistan, that was going on. Planes were being shot out of there. I think five jets were shot down, actually. These are two serious nuclear countries, and they…
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The U.S. government designated the Resistance Front, considered an offshoot of the Pakistani extremist group Lashkar-e-Taiba, as a "foreign terrorist organization" over the April 22 militant attack in India-administered Kashmir that killed 26.
U.S. Defense Secretary Hegseth is expected to be virtually attending the Ukraine Contact group meeting next week, an official says. He skipped the last one in June.
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Archbishop Alexios stands in front of the bodies of Palestinian Christians Saad Salama and Foumia Ayyad, who were killed in an Israeli strike on the Holy Family Church, according to medics, in Gaza City, July 17, 2025. REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas
July 16 (Reuters) - A U.S. citizen and Army veteran who works as a security guard at a California cannabis farm said on Wednesday that U.S. officials arrested him during an immigration raid last week and held him for three days without explanation.
BREAKING via NYT “President Trump showed off a draft of a letter firing the chair of Federal Reserve, Jerome H. Powell, during a meeting with roughly a dozen House Republicans on Tuesday night, polling them as to whether he should do it and indicating that he likely would.”
An Israeli airstrike hit next to the presidential palace in Syria's capital Damascus on Wednesday, according to a Reuters witness.
Bodies of Palestinians, who were seeking aid on Wednesday in Khan Younis, are placed at Nasser hospital in the southern Gaza Strip July 16, 2025. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled
CAIRO/JERUSALEM - At least 20 Palestinians were killed on Wednesday at an aid distribution site run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, in what the U.S.-backed group said was a crowd surge instigated by armed agitators.
CAIRO/JERUSALEM - At least 20 Palestinians were killed on Wednesday at an aid distribution site run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, in what the U.S.-backed group said was a crowd surge instigated by armed agitators.
LONDON, (Reuters)- Britain set up a secret scheme to bring thousands of Afghans to the UK after their personal details were disclosed in one of the country's worst ever data breaches, putting them at risk of reprisals from the Taliban after their return to power.
Mr. Tata has previously called former President Barack Obama a "terrorist leader” and Congresswoman Maxine Waters, an African American, a "race-baiting racist.” The Trump admin withdrew his nomination for a senior Pentagon post in 2020.
Mr. Anthony J. Tata has been confirmed as the next Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness. His leadership in and out of uniform in the Department, as well as in other fields, gives him the critical experience needed to help build and retain the Force we need.
Even with the removal of 2,000 troops from Los Angeles, another 2,000 National Guard troops remain along with 700 Marines.
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the release of 2,000 National Guard troops from their federal protection who had been sent to Los Angeles.