Secretary of State Marco Rubio will immediately follow up his first travel since assuming the position of America’s top diplomat – a tour of Central America and the Caribbean – with travel to the Middle East, multiple outlets reported on Friday.
The jihadist terror organization Hamas reacted with outrage to President Donald Trump’s unprecedented proposal on Tuesday for the United States to seize the Gaza Strip and turn it into a global resort destination, calling Trump “irresponsible.”
Fresh surveys released ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit as the first foreign leader to meet President Donald Trump at the White House show that an overwhelming majority of Israelis support the emigration of Gaza’s population — an idea recently suggested on several occasions by President Trump — while most also oppose a Palestinian state, a failed policy long pushed by former Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama.
Former Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for his proven corruption, after being found guilty of 16 federal charges in July 2024.
A growing number of young Gazans have long sought to leave the enclave due to political repression under Hamas, economic collapse, and lack of basic freedoms, a trend that has gained renewed attention following President Donald Trump’s call for other countries to take in displaced Palestinians, especially as more than a year of war has left Gaza in ruins and intensified the desire to emigrate.
Egypt and Jordan rejected the possibility of offering shelter to Palestinians after President Donald Trump lamented the state of Gaza.
Many are applauding President Donald Trump’s “bold” proposal that Egypt and Jordan play a central role in resolving the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict by absorbing refugees from war-torn Gaza, with some calling it the “only real way to achieve peace.”
President Donald Trump suggested Saturday that he would like to “clean out” Gaza after the devastation of the war started by Hamas on October 7, 2023, sending residents to Egypt and Jordan for humanitarian reasons.
The Iran-backed Houthi insurgents of Yemen said on Sunday they will begin limiting their wanton attacks on civilian ships in the Red Sea to Israeli vessels, but added they could resume attacking ships from other countries if the Gaza ceasefire agreement does not hold.
Leaders of the Hamas terrorist organization have reportedly accepted a draft agreement that would bring a ceasefire in Gaza if Hamas agrees to release its Israeli hostages.
An FBI official told reporters on Sunday that the bureau will investigate New Orleans terrorism suspect Shamsud-Din Jabbar’s past visits to Egypt and Canada in 2023 for clues to his radicalization and possible contacts with the Islamic State.
A group of families of Israeli hostages said Tuesday at a press conference in Tel Aviv, Israel, that their government should strive to achieve an agreement in which all 100 captives remaining in Gaza are freed, not just a few.
U.S. Special Envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking said on Thursday that leaders of the Iran-backed Houthi terrorists in Yemen have decided to keep lower profiles following the devastation of Iran’s other regional proxies, Hezbollah and Hamas, at the hands of Israel, followed by the overthrow of Iran’s client Bashar Assad in Syria by a Sunni Islamist insurgency.
The Foreign Ministry of Saudi Arabia on Monday accused Israel of “sabotaging chances for Syria to reclaim its security, stability and its territorial integrity” by controlling territory in the Golan Heights after the fall of dictator Bashar Assad.
Tuesday marked the one-year anniversary of the Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen seizing the car carrier MV Galaxy Leader and taking its crew hostage.
Dr. Hanan Hamdan, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR) representative for Egypt, said this weekend the burden of more than 1.2 million refugees from the brutal civil war in Sudan is “unsustainable.”
The China-led BRICS coalition published a declaration from its annual summit on Wednesday focused heavily on the alleged threat of “climate change,” condemnation of human rights sanctions on its rogue members states, and controlling “misinformation.”
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi arrived in Istanbul, Turkey, on Friday, the last leg of an extensive Mideast tour meant to shore of support for Tehran in the face of an expected Israeli counterattack.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi held meetings in Egypt on Thursday as part of a broader Middle East tour meant to solidify opposition to Israel’s self-defense operations against Iranian-backed terror organizations that saw him stop in Jordan on Wednesday and includes a planned visit to Turkey by the end of the week.
Mexican Army soldiers mistook a fleeing convoy of vehicles that was moving a large group of Middle Eastern migrants for cartel gunmen in the state of Chiapas. The subsequent chase and shooting killed at least four migrants, while some accounts point to six dying.
Around 60 women have now come forward to allege they were sexually abused by former Harrods owner Mohamed Al-Fayed, lawyers representing them said on Friday.
An ancient sword that may have belonged to the army of the Egyptian pharaoh whom Moses liberated the Israelites from in the Old Testament was unearthed by archaeologists, officials say.
Hamas has announced it would unleash a “flood of martyrdom operations,” or suicide attacks, against Israel.
Multiple women have accused Egyptian billionaire Mohamed Al-Fayed of rape and sexual assault, the BBC said on Thursday.
The Biden-Harris administration said Tuesday that it opposed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to hold onto the Gaza-Egypt border — known as the Philadelphi Corridor — to ensure weapons cannot be smuggled into Gaza.
The chairman of the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) warned on Thursday that the pivotal shipping passage lost nearly 25 percent of its revenue in the 2023-2024 fiscal year, largely as a result of attacks on civilian commercial ships by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi terrorists.
The prime minister of Egypt announced this weekend that the government of strongman Abdel Fattah al-Sisi would shut down at least 16 travel companies implicated in sending Egyptians to the Hajj pilgrimage without proper registration, resulting in hundreds dead from heat illness this month.
Authorities say more than 1,000 Muslims died during the recent Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia as the area suffered extreme temperatures.
The death toll in Sudan’s conflict regions continues to rise as junta forces block civilians from receiving food and medical equipment.
Over 1,000 people participating in the Hajj, the Islamic mandatory pilgrimage to Mecca, have reportedly died this year as of Friday, prompting growing outrage at authorities in Saudi Arabia for allegedly failing to offer proper safety protocol, access to water, and other services.
At least 550 Muslims have died during 2024’s hajj pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia, most of them from “heat-related illnesses.”
Egypt and Jordan, two countries that have peace treaties with Israel, condemned the Israeli rescue of four hostages on Saturday — as did officials from the European Union (EU) and United Nations (UN) — over Palestinian casualties.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) operation in Rafah has exposed the existence of a secret overpass between Egypt and Gaza, which Hamas could use to import anything without international supervision, according to the Jerusalem Post.
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping used a speech to Arab leaders on Thursday to demand the establishment of a state of Palestine, with East Jerusalem as its capital, and pledged $3 million in funding to a Hamas-affiliated U.N. agency.
The Chinese Communist Party will begin welcoming on Tuesday a parade of Arab heads of state for a multilateral summit to discuss Mideast issues, including the presidents of Egypt, Tunisia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Egypt is preventing Palestinian civilians from escaping the war zone by blocking Gazan emigration, according to Caroline Glick.
Egypt confirmed Monday that one of its soldiers had been killed near the border with Gaza in a “shooting incident,” apparently with Israeli soldiers on the other side of the boundary, in the city of Rafah.
An Egyptian government official angrily threatened to abandon Cairo’s mediator role in negotiations between Israel and the jihadist organization Hamas on Wednesday, responding to a report that Egyptian intervention led to the failure of the last round of negotiations in early May.
The home of a New Jersey Democrat, who has been accused of accepting bribes and using his power as an elected official to benefit the Egyptian government, was searched and discovered to be holding more than $600,000 in cash and gold bars.
Over 500 thought to have died on people smuggler boat but case against nine Egyptians collapses because sinking was in international waters.
