The Biden administration in its final days is shifting more than $100 million in military aid from Israel and Egypt to Lebanon as it tries to bolster a ceasefire agreement it helped mediate between Israel and Hezbollah.
President Biden was presented scenario and response options on how to handle Iran should it make advances in developing a nuclear weapon, though the president has not signed off on hitting Tehran's program.
A State Department notification to Congress of the plan calls the Lebanese army 'a key partner' in upholding the Israel-Lebanon cessation of hostilities.
Americans tend to have a soft spot for our former presidents. Even the bad ones. By the time Richard Nixon died in 1994, his presidency was as likely to be lauded for the opening to China or the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency as it was to be damned for Watergate.
Israel’s leader ensured a better legacy for the U.S. president by ignoring his advice.
Lebanon’s Parliament chose a U.S.-trained general as president, ending a two-year vacancy in a sign of Hezbollah’s waning influence.
HANNITY: So Republicans now have the House. There was an 80% prediction that Republicans would lose the House. They have a slim majority. Mike Johnson will be Speaker. John Thune is Majority Leader. Are you confident that this agenda,
Netanyahu accused of endangering soldiers to stay in office, as official insists no progress in Doha while feting arrival of Trump aide Witkoff; Hamas claims war toll tops 46,000
Lebanon will try to elect new state head on Thursday, with officials seeing better chance of success in political landscape shaken by Israel's assault
The Israeli Defense Forces and the Shin Bet "located and returned the kidnapped body" of hostage Yosef Al-Zaydani on Tuesday "from an underground tunnel in the Rafah area," the army said in a release Wednesday. Israel said it has also recovered another body and are working to determine whether it is Al-Zaydani's son, Hamza.
President-elect Donald Trump's incoming Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, told reporters that President Joe Biden's team has been "very collaborative" on working towards a Gaza hostage release deal, with renewed talks ongoing in Qatar.