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Benjamin Netanyahu
Middle East

What did Netanyahu know before Oct. 7?

His re-election prospects are threatened as recent investigations detail alerts from abroad in the days and weeks before the 2023 Hamas attack

benezel smotrich natcon
Washington Politics

NatCon 2026 in Israel: Coming home?

The annual confab, ostensibly launched for American conservatives in 2019, is in Jerusalem this week, largely focused on shoring up US support for the Jewish state

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a speech during the 2026 UN General Assembly session
Middle East

Is Bibi cruising for a bruising by trolling Erdogan over Syria?

Last week, the Israeli prime minister said the Turkish president is a 'tyrant' who 'calls for Israel's destruction almost every single day'

 Abdel Fattah al-Burhan Sudan
Africa

Gen. Burhan digs in as Trump's visa-for-ceasefire scheme blows up

US attempts at ending the conflict in Sudan are questioned as tactics appear uneven, leaves UAE off the hook, and lacks attention due to Iran war

Chris van Hollen
QiOSK

Record number vote to raise hell over settler violence in West Bank

Forty-six Democratic Senators vote in favor, but resolution fails in near party-line vote.

UNIFIL lebanon
Middle East

Israel wants US-led force to disarm Lebanon's Hezbollah

Lebanon prefers the UN to continue to provide peacekeeping functions at the fraught southern border but its mandate expires in three months