A U.S. official said the proposed package contains 20,000 MK-84 bombs and 20,000 BLU-117 bombs. The administration has informally presented the plan to the congressional committees that review major weapons sales, but the agreement has not yet been formally announced.
A U.S. official said the proposed package contains 20,000 MK-84 bombs and 20,000 BLU-117 bombs. The administration has informally presented the plan to the congressional committees that review major weapons sales, but the agreement has not yet been formally announced.
A U.S. official said the proposed package contains 20,000 MK-84 bombs and 20,000 BLU-117 bombs. The administration has informally presented the plan to the congressional committees that review major weapons sales, but the agreement has not yet been formally announced.
A record 68,944 Jewish visitors ascended the Temple Mount during the Hebrew year 5786, continuing a steady rise in Jewish visitation to Judaism’s holiest site despite months of closures and security restrictions.
“We struck it twice, and when necessary, we will strike it a third time to continue thwarting the threats,” Katz said while visiting Israeli military positions on the Syrian side of Mount Hermon alongside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Katz said Israel had severely damaged Iran’s strategic capabilities and would continue confronting both Tehran’s Shiite proxy network and Hamas-linked Islamist forces across the region.
Syria’s former Bashar Assad regime was secretly constructing a nuclear reactor designed in a configuration capable of efficiently producing fissile material for nuclear weapons, International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi revealed Monday.
Tens of thousands of Spaniards poured into streets and public squares across the country Wednesday, protesting the government’s handling of the migrant crisis in Ceuta and demanding stronger protection of Spain’s borders.
House Speaker Mike Johnson said the vote was meant to draw a clear line against court-packing efforts, warning that expanding the bench would turn the judiciary into another political battleground. “We will keep the nine,” Johnson said ahead of the vote, arguing that the nine-justice model has served the country well and should not be altered to satisfy partisan frustrations with recent Supreme Court rulings.
Israel’s military is raising its readiness level amid growing concern over Turkish naval movements in the eastern Mediterranean, as tensions between Jerusalem and Ankara continue to sharpen over Syria, Gaza, and Turkey’s expanding regional posture.
Taiwan’s parliament approved a nearly $7.6 billion plan Thursday to expand the island’s military drone and other unmanned systems as it prepares for a potential Chinese attack.
Democratic socialist Angie Nixon scored a surprise victory Tuesday in Florida’s Democratic U.S. Senate primary, defeating heavily funded establishment favorite Alex Vindman and adding to a growing series of socialist and far-left victories reshaping Democratic politics across the country.
Nuclear material has been discovered in Syria and placed under International Atomic Energy Agency oversight, reviving attention on a clandestine nuclear program that Israel destroyed nearly two decades ago.
British businessman Samuel Leeds has pledged to fund legal representation for Christian street preachers who face police action for publicly sharing their faith. Leeds said he was “outraged and shocked” by reports of Christians being arrested for preaching in a nation with deep Christian roots. He argued that Britain increasingly applies a double standard—celebrating expression in many forms while treating biblical teaching as inherently offensive.
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Monday rejected an emergency request from the Palestinian Authority and Palestine Liberation Organization to halt enforcement of a $655.5 million terrorism judgment while they pursue an appeal.
President Donald Trump announced Thursday that Hamas has agreed to a phased process leading to the “complete disarmament” of the terrorist organization and other armed factions in the Gaza Strip, calling the reported agreement a historic step toward lasting peace.
Antisemitic violence worldwide reached its deadliest level in more than three decades during 2025, according to a new report documenting a sharp escalation in threats and attacks against Jewish communities.
Outspoken Christians and other government critics are expected to face mounting pressure after Nicaragua’s long-serving President Daniel Ortega said the Central American nation will no longer hold elections, eliminating any possibility of an electoral challenge when his current term ends next year and further consolidating the power he shares with his wife, Rosario Murillo.
The Senate on Thursday rejected an effort to force an end to U.S. military operations against Iran, blocking the measure only hours after the House of Representatives approved a similar war powers resolution.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun pledged Tuesday that his country would work to permanently end hostilities with Israel, appealing to President Donald Trump for political and military support as Beirut seeks to disarm the Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorist organization. Meeting at the White House, Aoun said a U.S.-brokered framework agreement had the “ultimate objective of ending the state of hostility between Lebanon and Israel forever.”
Germany’s Bundesrat, the upper house of parliament, has approved legislation that would criminalize the public denial of Israel’s right to exist, amid a sharp rise in antisemitic incidents since the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on Israel. The bill, introduced by the western state of Hesse, now moves to the Bundestag, the lower house, where lawmakers are expected to consider it after the summer recess.
The long-simmering war on the Arabian Peninsula erupted again Monday as Saudi forces struck Yemen’s Houthi-controlled capital and the Iranian-backed rebels answered within hours with ballistic missiles and drones aimed at southern Saudi Arabia.
The statement marks a significant acknowledgment by the United Nations after years of disputes over Israeli claims that Hamas and other armed groups were interfering with humanitarian aid in Gaza. “The U.N. at last states the obvious on systemic Hamas theft and diversion of aid in Gaza,” a senior U.S. official told the Jewish News Syndicate. The official said investigators from the inspector general’s office at the U.S. Agency for International Development had repeatedly documented Hamas interference with aid deliveries during the past two years.
The massive anti-Israel protest movement that swept Britain after Hamas’ October 7 attack has been driven largely by a coordinated and internationally financed network of activist organizations, according to a major new report presented Wednesday at the House of Lords. The 129-page NGO Monitor investigation mapped 40 organizations involved in post-October 7 demonstrations and mobilization campaigns across the United Kingdom. Researchers concluded that roughly 80% of the protests were organized by NGOs rather than emerging spontaneously from grassroots activists. The report, titled Imported Influence, found that at least 11 of the organizations had alleged links to extremist groups or officials who had met or cooperated with figures connected to Iran, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, or the Muslim Brotherhood.
President Donald Trump used the closing press conference of the NATO summit in Ankara to deliver one of his sharpest warnings yet about communism, saying the ideology is gaining ground in the United States and abroad and poses a grave danger to American liberty.
Turkey has condemned Israel for recognizing the Armenian Genocide, the systematic killing of some 1.5 million Armenian Christians by the Ottoman Empire during World War I, ahead of hosting next week’s NATO summit. The dispute comes as Turkey faces renewed scrutiny over its human rights record and an ongoing crackdown on opposition politicians and independent media. Israel’s government recently approved a resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide, a move that still requires parliamentary approval before becoming official policy but has already triggered sharp condemnation from Ankara.
But human rights groups say the regime is using the charge of espionage as a weapon against critics, protesters, dissidents, and ordinary citizens caught in the machinery of the Islamic Republic’s security state. Rights groups have also accused Iranian authorities of using pressure, intimidation, and torture to extract false confessions, a long-standing practice in politically sensitive cases before Iran’s Revolutionary Courts.
Antisemitic hate crimes in London surged sharply in May, rising 72 percent from the previous month, according to new Metropolitan Police figures. Police recorded 255 antisemitic hate crimes in May, up from 148 in April. The figure also marks a 172 percent increase compared with the same month last year, when 91 incidents were reported.
New NYPD data shows that hate crimes jumped 74.4% year over year in May, rising to 68 confirmed incidents compared with 39 in May 2025. Of those, 41 targeted Jewish New Yorkers — representing 60.3% of all confirmed hate crimes in the city and a 71% increase over the 24 anti-Jewish incidents recorded in the same month last year.
The remarks underscore Israel’s growing frustration with the stalled ceasefire framework, which secured the release of hostages held by Hamas and other terror groups but left Hamas in de facto control of parts of the enclave. The agreement was intended to move toward the disarmament of Hamas and the demilitarization of Gaza, but that process has remained frozen as the terror group has refused to lay down its weapons.
Somaliland’s emergence as a potential U.S. and Israeli partner marks a major strategic shift in the Red Sea region, offering Washington and Jerusalem a new foothold near the vital Bab el-Mandeb Strait as Iran-backed Houthi threats continue to menace global shipping.
Christian persecution monitors have also warned that pastors and Christian community workers in Mexico are often targeted because their ministry, anti-drug work, and youth outreach can undermine cartel control. Open Doors says criminal violence remains a major danger for Mexican Christians, particularly church leaders who confront evil with good in cartel-dominated areas. Yet even amid violence and intimidation, the evangelical witness in Mexico continues to grow.
Castro, 94, has been indicted on charges of conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals, citing a 30-year-old incident, alleging Castro, Lorenzo Alberto Perez-Perez, Emilio Jose Palacio Blanco, Jose Fidel Gual Barzaga, Raul Simanca Cardenas, and Luis Raul Gonzalez-Pardo Rodriguez played roles in the “shoot-down” of two “unarmed” American civilian aircraft over international waters in Feb. 1996. The incident led to the deaths of four Americans, Carlos Costa, Armando Alejandre Jr., Mario de la Pena and Pablo Morales.
The effort gained national attention after federal prosecutors charged more than 70 people in a massive COVID-era food program fraud case in Minnesota. Many of the defendants were connected to the state’s Somali immigrant community and were accused of siphoning federal nutrition funds meant to feed children. But officials now say Minnesota was only the beginning.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that Israel remains in constant coordination with the United States regarding Iran, emphasizing that there are “no surprises” between Jerusalem and Washington as reports swirl about a possible U.S.-Iran agreement aimed at ending the war before fully dismantling Tehran’s nuclear program.
Israeli forces have dismantled eight Hamas tunnel routes and killed dozens of terrorists in the Gaza Strip, according to the Israel Defense Forces. The operation concluded a two-month deployment by reservists from the 205th Brigade in northern Gaza.