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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 called the Turkish president a 'tyrant' who "calls for Israel's destruction almost every single day”

Goodnight Baghdad: US troops leave Iraq after 23 years
Middle East

Goodnight Baghdad: US troops leave Iraq after 23 years

Had anyone told me while I was dodging IEDs in 2007 that I'd be writing about the final withdrawal at age 48, I would have rightly questioned the entire project

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.

Mohammed bin Salman Donald Trump
Middle East

Clock ticking on Democrat effort to kill flawed US-Saudi nuke deal

Members will have a limited time after the midterms to bring a resolution to a vote. Then again, Trump's own conditions might spoil the pact anyway.

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

He lobbied for Saudis after 9/11. Now he's repping them on Yemen
Washington Politics

He lobbied for Saudis after 9/11. Now he's repping them on Yemen

DC-based Michael Petruzzello has worked for years to promote Riyadh's interests, even when no one else wanted to