Category: Middle East

NATO Launches Large-Scale Crisis Response Exercise in Mediterranean Sea

The United States and 11 members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have begun large-scale navy exercises this week in the eastern Mediterranean Sea in a crisis-response exercise dubbed “Dynamic Mariner.” According to a statement from officials, Dynamic Mariner is “held in conjunction with the Turkish Navy’s Exercise Mavi Balina, which brings together 12 Allied…


NATO Begins Large-Scale Crisis Response Exercise in Mediterranean Sea

The United States and 11 other members of the NATO alliance have begun large-scale naval exercises in the eastern Mediterranean Sea in a crisis-response exercise dubbed “Dynamic Mariner.” Dynamic Mariner is “held in conjunction with the Turkish Navy’s Exercise Mavi Balina, which brings together 12 Allied nations off the coast of Turkiye,” according to a…


Trump’s Approach to Foreign Policy Allowed the Abraham Accords to Succeed: Special Envoy to Middle East

After having spent almost two decades with the Trump organization, Jason Greenblatt was tapped by President Donald Trump to be the White House Special Envoy to the Middle East. He played a key role in the Peace to Prosperity Plan, which aimed to resolve the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, and Israel and the…


US Returns Looted Ancient Jewish Coin to Israel

JERUSALEM—American authorities have returned a rare, 2,000-year-old Jewish coin to Israel nearly two decades after it was looted, smuggled and put up for auction in the United States, Israel’s antiquities authority announced Tuesday. The quarter shekel silver coin, made in the year 69, is one of just two confirmed to exist. The other has been…


Four-Story Building Collapses in Jordan’s Capital, People Rescued From Debris

Jordan’s civil defense began on Tuesday evacuating several people trapped after a four-story residential building in the capital collapsed, witnesses said. Prime Minister Bisher al Khasawneh and senior members of the government were seen at the site as a major rescue operation was under way to evacuate people caught under the debris, they said. …


Residential Building Collapses in Jordan, 1 Dead

A four-story residential building collapsed in the Jordanian capital on Tuesday, killing at least one person and wounding 11 others, officials said. It was not immediately clear what brought down the building in Amman, which state media said was an older structure. The Health Ministry confirmed the toll, and authorities said rescuers were still searching…


ISIS Terrorists Kill 6 US-Backed Fighters in Eastern Syria

BEIRUT—The ISIS terrorist group killed six U.S.-backed Syrian fighters in eastern Syria saying on Monday that the killing was in retaliation for an ongoing operation inside a sprawling camp housing tens of thousands of family members of the extremist group. The ISIS-linked Aamaq news agency released a video showing the shooting of the six members…


McCarthy Voices ‘Real Concern’ Over Biden’s Foreign Policies

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) criticized President Joe Biden’s foreign policies in the wake of the 21st anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks that killed almost 3,000 people, urging for a firm stand for freedom, not fear. “If you want to know about 21 years ago today, you’ve got to pay attention to what…


US-Iran Nuclear Talks Are Overshadowing Iran Backed Target Attacks: Experts

The U.S.-Iran nuclear talks that continue to hang by a thread have disrupted the world’s focus on Iran’s various malign activities, particularly the alleged recent targeted attacks against noted Americans on American soil and Iranian dissidents around the world, according to experts. While the West has for decades condemned Iran’s global terrorism apparatus, including its…


3 Dead in Afghanistan After Taliban Crashes US Black Hawk Helicopter Left Behind During Withdrawal

Three people have died in Afghanistan’s capital city of Kabul after the Taliban crashed a Black Hawk helicopter left behind by U.S. troops who withdrew from the country in 2021. The Taliban’s defense ministry confirmed the crash, which happened during a Taliban training exercise, in a statement on Sept. 10. “An American Black Hawk helicopter, which was flown … for…