Israel and Hamas have agreed to stop the war for six weeks, but now the hard part begins for all sides.
After 14 months of talks, Trump’s threats and his special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, played a major role in helping Biden officials reach the finish line.
The Houthis have been running roughshod over the United States and its allies in the Middle East. Washington should respond by unleashing its chief regional pillar, Israel, against the Yemen-based terrorist group.
The Israeli military also moved into dozens of new positions across southern Lebanon in the first 40 days of the ceasefire.
The Biden administration called for a final push before the president leaves office, with many seeing the Trump inauguration as an unofficial deadline.
Michael Herzog, the Israeli envoy who largely operated behind the scenes, was praised as a “supremely efficient” ambassador admired on both sides of the aisle.
President Joe Biden touted a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, a goal his administration has been working toward for more than a year now.
Israel began releasing Palestinian prisoners Sunday as part of the latest ceasefire between Hamas and the Jewish nation. The Israeli Prison Service announced the first group of Palestinian prisoners have been released from the West Bank’s Ofer Prison.
David Abrams got the federal government to charge a trio of organizations with fraud, but pro-Israel groups may have violated the same rules.
An ex-CIA analyst pleaded guilty to leaking top secret documents about Israel’s plans to retaliate against Iran last year, forcing the attack to be delayed.
President-elect Donald Trump is spending the eve of his inauguration in a series of Washington events that celebrate his return to power as he prepares to move back into the White House at a time of deep national political divisions.