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April 16th, 2026

Hegseth Shares Air Rescue Group's 'Pulp Fiction' Prayer at Pentagon Service US Statement on Lebanon Ceasefire Leaves Major Loophole That Israel May Exploit to Continue Attacks
Trump Argues Warrantless Surveillance Is Needed to Secure America UK Minister Misled Parliament Over Arms Exports to Israel
Army Chief Firing Hovers Over Driscoll Hearing: Five Takeaways Sectarian Fears Increase as a Beirut Area Says No to Displacement Center
No Permit, No Work, No Future: Inside the Lives of West Bank Workers Crushed by Israel's Labor Ban US Says It Will Pursue Ships in Pacific and Indian Oceans Supporting Iran
Saudi Arabia Pressed US To Secure a Lebanon Ceasefire To Preserve Iran Negotiations, Sources Say Pope Leo Slams 'Those Who Manipulate Religion' for War, as White House Invokes Divine Calling
Iraqi Kurdistan Region Hit by 16 Drones, Missiles Since US-Iran Ceasefire Mass Graves Exhumed in Mosul Contain Remains of Peshmerga: Officials
'Illegal Precedent': Palestinian Authority Transfers Palestinian Detainee to France Amid Secrecy, Legal Concerns Spain's Repsol Returns to Venezuela With Ambitious Oil Production Plan
IEA Chief Says Oil, Gas Recovery Could Take Two Years After War Damage India's Central Bank Tells Oil Refiners To Stop Buying Dollars on Spot Market
Israeli Border Police Officers Sent to Jail for Barbecuing on Base Over Shabbat 'My Daughter Went Out To Learn, Not To Fight': Gaza Grieves More Children Killed by Israel
China Urges Travelers To Avoid Seattle Airport After 20 Scholars Were Denied Entry to the US Three Soldiers Killed in Explosion in Southern Syria
UN Sudan Chief Says Country 'Abandoned' After Three Years of War US Military Widens Blockade on Iran To Include Contraband Shipments, Advisory Says
Merz Says Germany Ready To Help Secure Hormuz Transit After End of Hostilities Saudi Arabia Extends $8 Billion Support to Pakistan, Boosting Economic Stability
Arrest Lifted: Suspected Russian 'Shadow Fleet' Tanker Leaves French Territorial Waters France, UK To Host Talks on Potential Multinational Mission to Hormuz
Ukraine Launches 207 Drones at Russian Regions, Strikes Kill Two Children Report: US Has Completed Full Withdrawal From Syria
Congress Pushes Army Leaders for Answers on Top General's Ouster 'One Million People Have Spoken': Petition Triggers Formal Review of EU-Israel Trade Deal
'God Gave US This Land': Retired Israeli Officials Recount 'State-Funded' Ethnic Cleansing Campaign in West Bank 'No Single Soldier Will Be Left Alive': Iran Issues Stern Warning Amid Reports of Possible US-Israeli Ground Op
House Narrowly Defeats Iran War Powers Resolution as Thousands More US Troops Head to Middle East Netherlands, Ukraine Sign Framework for Joint Drone Production Deal
French Municipality Raises Palestinian Flag in Response to Proposed Antisemitism Bill Israeli Strike Kills Eight, Injures Dozens in Southern Lebanon After Ceasefire Announcement
US Military Rolls Out Concussion Card To Standardize Response, Care Access 'Whose Is He?': A Gaza Father's Fight for a Child Who Might Not Be His
Israel Says It's West's Defender, but Cares Little for European Critics Jet Fuel Shortage: Why Iran War Could Ground Flights in Europe
UK Police Arrest Three After Attempted Arson at Persian-Language Media Center Russian Attacks on Ukraine Kill 16 People, Including a Child
Brazil's Police Open a Probe Into Presidential Candidate Flavio Bolsonaro Israel Destroys Last Bridge to Southern Lebanon Ahead of Ceasefire
Brazil's Fugitive Ex-Spy Chief Freed in the US After ICE Detention Mass Destruction in Southern Lebanon as Israeli Forces Use 'Gaza Tactics,' Level Villages
Forced To Drop Out: Yemen's Children Trade School for Survival Sudan Power Crisis: Studying Using Candles, Counting Gas Station Trips
DR Congo and M23 Rebels Eye Peace Monitoring Agreement in Switzerland 'Iran Has To Come' to the US for the World Cup, FIFA's Infantino Says
Why Are Fuel Price Protests Sweeping the Republic of Ireland? Hegseth Says US 'Locked and Loaded' To Bomb Iran's Power Plants and Energy Industry
Muslims the Target? Fury as Millions Lose Voting Rights in India's Bengal Who Is Roelf Meyer, South Africa's New Ambassador to the US?
After Three Years of War, Sudan Army and RSF Locked in Military Impasse UK's Mandelson Failed Security Vetting - But Was Given Ambassador Job Anyway
Turkey's Roketsan Eyes Top 10 Defense Exporter Rank Amid Middle East Conflict US Dramatically Ramps Up Bombing Campaign Against Small Boats in the Waters of Latin America
Iran War: What Has the War Done to the Cost of Humanitarian Aid? How Jewish Heritage Projects in Morocco Are Being Used To Push Pro-Israel Politics
Israeli Soldiers Suspected of Raping Palestinian Detainee Allowed To Return to Service Vance Criticized for 'Inaccurate' Claim That Gaza Aid Is Highest in Five Years
US Launches Airstrike in Somalia as US-Backed Government Claims Major Al-Shabaab Casualties Israeli Strike in Gaza Kills Two Brothers as IDF Continues Its Constant Ceasefire Violations
Hezbollah Engages Enemy Force, Destroys Six Israeli Military Vehicles US Has Become 'Israel's Seventh District': Iranian VP
Israeli Army Prepares for Full Occupation of South Lebanon: Report New DoD Leader Connected to Firm That Trained Khashoggi's Killers
US & Israel Bomb 307+ Medical Facilities in Iran Iranian President Slams US and Israel as 'Real Terrorists'
At Least 72,345 Palestinians Dead in Gaza Genocide: Health Ministry A Dispatch From Inside the Vatican Bubble During a Remarkable Exchange Between Pope and President

April 15th, 2026

'Cowardly Bullshit': Handful of Dems Join With Senate GOP to Block Ban on US Bombs, Bulldozers to Israel
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