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January 18th, 2026

Syria: SDF Left Weakened, Short of Territory and Oil After Ceasefire, Experts Say New Air Force Helicopter Flies Its First ICBM Security Mission
UK Plotted 'Covert' Measures Against Irish Republican Hunger Strikers Sudan: 18,000 Displaced, 100 Dead in RSF Attacks on Darfur Towns
Minneapolis Mayor Says Sending Soldiers to Minneapolis for Immigration Crackdown Would Be Unconstitutional The Past Year Has Seen an Unprecedented Displacement of Palestinian Communities in the West Bank
Libya Signs $2.7 Billion Deal To Expand Misurata Free Zone, in Diversification Push First Trump-Class Battleship Could Cost Over $20 Billion: CBO
No Longer 'Experimental': Navy To Deploy Drone Boats This Year, Official Says EU Urges Israel To Immediately Halt West Bank Settlement Project, Calls It 'Obstacle to Peace'
Israeli Army Preparing New Campaign To Occupy Gaza in Full Videos: Schools Shut, Homes Burned in Israeli and Settler Assaults From Ramallah to Jerusalem
Child Among Injured as Israeli Attacks Continue From Rafah to Gaza City South Africa Probes Unauthorized Iranian Participation in Naval Exercise
Trump Orders Emergency Power Auction for Big Tech AI Data Center Chevron Greenlights Major Expansion of Israel's Leviathan Gas Field
Azerbaijan Begins Natural Gas Deliveries to Germany and Austria Oil Majors Tell Washington They Want PDVSA Out of the Way
German Industry Lashes Out at Trump's 'Ludicrous' Demands Pentagon Wants Major Improvements to Greenland Base Runways
US Troops Fully Depart Al-Asad Air Base in Iraq Sen. Lindsey Graham Threatens To Reinstate Syria Sanctions Over Attacks on Kurds
Video Shows Fires in Palestinian Village in West Bank During Israeli Settler Attack Police Arrest Dozens; Seize Weapons, Eggs, and Contraband in East Jerusalem Operation
Government Says Israeli High Court Has No Authority To Force State Inquiry Into October 7 The Calculated Erasure of Ras Ein Al-Auja by Settler Violence
'Dumbest Thing I've Ever Heard': Republicans Amp Up Their Resistance to Trump's Greenland Push FAA Warns of Military Activity Over Mexico, South America
Guard Troops To Stay on DC Streets Through 2026 Israeli Settlers Target Wells, Disrupt Water Supply to 19 Palestinian Areas Near Ramallah
UN Rights Chief Shocked by 'Unbearable' Darfur Atrocities UK Veterans Are 'Ticking Time Bomb' After Iraq War Chemical Exposure
Israel Declares Mission Accomplished in Southern Lebanon, Kills Two in Strikes Trump Slaps Tariffs on European States Opposed to US Takeover of Greenland
Estonia Opens First Military Explosives Factory Sharaa Issues Decree Granting Syrian Kurds Rights, but Kurds Want a Constitutional Guarantee
Ceasefire Reached Between Syria and Kurdish SDF: Sharaa Vows Integration of Kurds Trump: It's Time To Look for New Leadership in Iran
EU, Mercosur Bloc Sign Free Trade Deal After 25 Years of Negotiations US-Backed Palestinian Committee Shares Mission Statement on Gaza Governance
US Says It Killed Al-Qaeda-Affiliated Leader Tied to Deadly Syria Ambush Trump's 'Board of Peace' Appears To Seek Wider Mandate Beyond Gaza
'Enormous Pain in My Heart': Palestinian Evictions Mount in East Jerusalem Syrian Forces Capture Oilfields, Dam as Allied Tribal Fighters Inside Raqqa
Trump's Latest Western Hemisphere Fixation: Canada Benin's Opposition Loses All Parliamentary Seats, Provisional Results Show
Sudan's People Endure 'Horror and Hell' in War, Says UN Rights Chief Israeli Attacks Wound Civilians Across Gaza in Latest Ceasefire Violations
Protests Explode in Greenland Amid Trump Takeover Push: 'We Are Not Interested in Being Americans' Photos: Syrian Government Forces Seize Strategic Town in Raqqa as SDF Retreats
Two Killed, Dozens Wounded in Large Russian Drone Attacks Across Ukraine Iran's Supreme Leader Says 'Thousands Killed' in Unrest, Blames Trump and Israel
New York Pension Fund May Invest in Israel Despite Gaza Genocide, Defying Mamdani New Scrutiny of Nigeria Strikes as Activist's Data Unravels
Jerusalem Christian Leaders Warn Against Christian Zionist 'Interference' How a Patrice Lumumba Tribute Revived Pan-Africanism at AFCON
Israel Opposes Trump's Advancing Gaza Peace Plan Netanyahu's Warning Was a Significant Factor in Trump's Decision Not To Attack Iran
Pakistan's War With India Led to a Boom in Arms Sales and Defense Ties Iraqi Army Fully Takes Over Key Base Following US Withdrawal
Trump Wants Nations To Pay $1 Billion To Stay on Peace Board Who Is Yakir Gabay, the Israeli Billionaire Named to Trump's Gaza Executive Council
Pentagon Readies 1,500 Soldiers To Possibly Deploy to Minnesota Israeli Troops Kill Palestinians for Crossing a Vague Ceasefire Line That's Sometimes Unmarked
Trump Digs in as Europe Sends Troops to Greenland

January 17th, 2026

Yoweri Museveni Wins Ugandan Election as Opponent Condemns 'Fake Result' Egyptian President Sissi Thanks Trump for Offer To Mediate With Ethiopia
Trump to Politico: 'It's Time To Look for New Leadership in Iran' Yemen Separatist Chief Defiant in First Comments Since Disappearance
Israel Demands Hamas Disarm Within Two Months as US Ushers in Ceasefire Second Phase Copenhagen: Thousands Join 'Hands Off Greenland' Protests Amid Trump's Takeover Threats
Nearly 50 Venezuelan Soldiers Were Killed in US Abduction of President Maduro Iran's Khamenei Says US, Israel Links Behind 'Thousands Killed' in Protests
UAE's Energy Company Weighs Investing in Venezuela as Trump Scours for Partners: Report US Invites Erdogan To Join Gaza 'Board of Peace'
US Congressional Delegation Seeks To Reassure Denmark and Greenland After Trump's Threats Palestine Action Hunger Strike Ends After UK Scraps Elbit Systems Contract
Kurdish Separatist Militia Admits Targeting Iranian Security Forces During Recent Riots One Third of Canadians Fear Possible US Invasion: Poll
Canada PM Hails Strategic Partnership With China to Adapt to 'New Global Realities' Chad Says Seven Soldiers Killed in Clash at Sudanese Border
Antiwar Russians in Europe Learn That They Must Watch Their Words Ugandan Opposition MP Says Security Forces Stormed Home Killing 10 People
Cuba Launches Mass Demonstration To Decry US Attack on Venezuela and Demand Maduro's Release Mossad Chief Arrives in Florida To Discuss Iran Strategy With Top US Officials
Witkoff Indicates US Prefers To Resolve Iran Tensions With Diplomacy, Not Military Action Sharaa To Meet With German Chancellor as Berlin Seeks To Deport Syrian Refugees
Israel Sees Spike in PTSD and Suicide Among Troops Following Gaza Genocide Saudi Arabia Announces New Financial Support to the Yemeni Government
US Declares Phase Two of Gaza Ceasefire, but What Did Phase One Deliver? Why Gambia Wants Myanmar Punished for Rohingya Genocide
Palestinian Child Shot Dead by Israeli Troops in Occupied West Bank Trump Threatens Tariffs Over Greenland, Calls It Vital for Security
Saudi Arabia Finalizes Moving Towards Military Coalition With Somalia and Egypt 'Utensils for Olive Oil': Inside the West Bank's Deepening Economic Collapse
Trump Administration Is Holding Millions of Dollars From Venezuelan Oil Sales in a Qatari Bank Yemen Appoints New Prime Minister Amid Saudi-UAE Tensions
Israeli Troops Steal 250 Goats From Syria and Smuggle Them to Occupied West Bank US Warns Iran That 'All Options Are on the Table' in Emergency UN Meeting
Moscow Rejects Trump Claim of Russian Plan To 'Control' Greenland Somalia Permits UAE Military Exit From Mogadishu
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