Archived Antiwar.com News from May 03, 2025

News

Updated May 3, 2025 - 4:17 PM EDT

Israeli Drones Bomb Gaza Aid Ship Near Malta

Hegseth Threatens Iran Over Yemen

		WaPo: Trump Fired Waltz Because He Wanted to Attack Iran
		Trump Threatens Major Sanctions on Nations Purchasing Iranian Oil
		Next Round of US-Iran Nuclear Talks Is Postponed

Netanyahu: Freeing Hostages Is Not the Priority

		Israeli Strikes Kill 17 in Gaza as Children Starve Under Blockade
		Israel Preparing Major Mobilization To Ramp Up Gaza Operations

US Used GBU-39 To Bomb Yemen Migrant Facility

		Pentagon May Have Used Social Media Posts for Deadly Yemen Attack
		Animated Maps Show US-Led Attacks on Yemen

Syria: 100 Killed in Sectarian Fighting Around Druze

Israeli Drone Strikes Kill Four in South Lebanon

Israel Sets Up New Outposts in S. Syria Overlooking Lebanon

US Military Aid to Ukraine Will Count as Investment

Trump Nominates Waltz as UN Ambassador

Viewpoints

	The Drip-Drip of Slanted Gaza Reporting Erodes Our Sense of Right and Wrong by Jonathan Cook
	US Navy Accidentally Throws $64 Million Jet Overboard Off the Coast of Yemen by Matthew Petti

	The United States Can and Should Reduce Its Defense Spending by Doug Bandow
	The Vietnam War Is Still Killing People, 50 Years Later by Nick Turse
More Viewpoints

Israel Openly Declares Starvation as a Weapon
by Belén Fernández

Frontline

	China Hawk David Perdue Confirmed as US Ambassador to Beijing
	Federal Judge Rejects Use of Alien Enemies Act in Venezuelan Deportations
	Gaza Rescuers Risk Death To Continue Rescues Under Israeli Fire

The War at Home

	Hegseth Wields Axe to Brass, HQs, Formations To Fashion Leaner Army
	A Year Later, Demonstrators Arrested at UCLA Are Finally Getting Their Phones Back, but It Might Not Be Easy
	UCLA Police Detain Three Pro-Palestine Protesters During Encampment Attack Anniversary Rally
	Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court To Strip Legal Protections From 350,000 Venezuelan Migrants
	Navy Awards Up to $18.5 Billion in Contracts for Two Virginia-Class Attack Subs, Workforce Development
	US Plans To Eliminate Security Office Coordinating With Palestinian Authority
	A Quarter of US Adults See Chinese Americans as a 'Threat': Poll
	Rubio First Since Kissinger To Be Secretary of State and National Security Adviser

Russia

	Russia Says 288 Civilians Died in Ukraine's Kursk Incursion
	Ukrainian Drone Strike on Russian-Occupied Town Kills Seven
	US State Department Not Denying Option of Secondary Sanctions Against Russia

Ukraine

	Russia's Medvedev Says Ukraine Minerals Deal Means Trump Has Forced Kyiv To Pay for US Aid
	Zelensky Hails US-Ukraine Mineral Deal as 'Truly Equal'
	What Is in the US-Ukraine Minerals Deal?

France

	France To Compensate More Harki Families for Mistreatment After Algerian War
	France Warns of 'Chaos' if New Caledonia Independence Deal Not Reached

Europe

	Pro-Palestine Activist Arrested in Belgium After Attending Protest
	Estonia Receives First HIMARS Launchers
	RT Journalist Detained in Romania
	Irish Rap Group Kneecap Denies Support for Hamas, Hezbollah as UK Terror Police Investigate Videos

India/Pakistan

	India Closes Airspace to Pakistan Airplanes
	'What Was Our Fault?': India Razes Homes, Sparking Anger and Despair in Kashmir
	Fears of Attack in Pakistan-Administered Kashmir Amid Acute India Tensions
	Three Pakistani Security Personnel Killed in Raid on a Militant Hideout

Palestine/Israel

	'Deprivation by Design': Israel Intensifies Mass Killing Campaign in Gaza With Starvation and Daily Strikes
	Over 423,000 People in Gaza Displaced 'With No Safe Place To Go': UN
	'We Are the People of This Land,' Palestinians Mark 'Nakba'
	Poland Tells ICJ Israel Must Lift Blockade on Life-Saving Aid, Calls Deaths From Delayed Relief 'Unacceptable'
	Looting in Gaza Signals Worsening Hunger Crisis Due to Blockade
	Israel Is on a Home Demolition Rampage in the West Bank. Its Aim Is To Force Palestinians To Leave
	UK 'in Discussion' With France and Saudi Arabia Over Palestinian Statehood
	Wildfires Ravage Israel as Politicians Scramble To Assign Blame
	UNRWA Warns Palestinian Children in Danger From Israeli Siege
	Israel Breaks Records in Killing Journalists

Syria

	Syria Signs 30-Year Deal With French Shipping Giant To Operate Latakia Port
	Over 1.4 Million Syrians Have Gone Home Since Fall of Assad, Says UN

Middle East

	US-Led Coalition Airstrikes Hit Yemen's Sanaa Governorate
	UAE's Ruling Family Agrees to $2 Billion Transaction With Trump Crypto Firm
	Iraq's Top Court Delays Ruling on Key Maritime Pact With Kuwait

Sudan

	At Least 542 Killed in North Darfur in Past Three Weeks: UN
	Sudan 'Horror Knows No Bounds', Says UN, as Deaths in Darfur Rise
	RSF Shelling Hits Sudan's Presidential Palace: Army Source
	Thousands More Displaced by Fighting in Sudan's El Fasher, IOM Says

Africa

	On May Day, Morocco's Unions March Against Israel Normalization
	Kenya MP's Killing Appears 'Targeted and Premeditated', Police Say
	South Sudan Resumes Oil Exports Via Sudan After Pipeline Repair
	Tunisia Leader Saied's Opponents, Supporters Stage Rival Rallies