Israel welcomed a U.S. aid package signed by President Biden on Wednesday that provides about $15 billion in military aid to Israel, increasing American support for its closest Middle East ally despite tensions in their relations over the continuation of the war in Gaza increased by Israel. “Our alliance is ironclad,” Israel Katz, the country’s…
The United States is considering imposing sanctions on one or more Israeli battalions accused of human rights abuses during operations in the occupied West Bank, according to a person familiar with the deliberations. Israeli leaders, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on Saturday called the possibility that the Biden administration might impose such sanctions “the height…
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (l) and China’s Foreign Minister Qin Gang shake hands before a meeting at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on June 18, 2023. Leah Millis | AFP | Getty Images US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will warn China about its support for the Russian military during his visit…
More than 1,000 American military personnel will leave Niger in the coming months, Biden administration officials said Friday, upending U.S. counterterrorism and security policies in Africa’s turbulent Sahel region. At the second of two meetings this week in Washington, Deputy Secretary of State Kurt M. Campbell told Nigerian Prime Minister Ali Lamine Zeine that the…
A coalition of a dozen liberal organizations and unions sent a letter to the White House on Thursday evening calling on President Biden to halt military aid to Israel until his administration lifts restrictions on humanitarian aid to Gaza. The group includes not only progressive groups like MoveOn and the Working Families Party, but also…
The United States has historically used its military to provide food, water and other humanitarian assistance to civilians during wars or natural disasters. The Pentagon’s walls are decorated with photos of such missions in Haiti, Liberia, Indonesia and countless other countries. But it is rare for the United States, with tacit U.S. support, to try…
A JAS 39 Gripen C/D fighter aircraft takes off from Sweden’s Lulea-Kallax Airport March 4, 2024, during the NATO military exercise Nordic Response 24, a Norwegian national exercise conducted in northern Sweden, Norway and Finland with associated airspace and waters . Anders Wiklund | AFP | Getty Images Sweden officially joined NATO as the 32nd…
