War in the Middle East

Pager Blasts Kill Seven and Wound Fourteen in Syria

Seven people have died as a result of pager explosions in the Sayyida Zaynab Area in Damascus while fourteen were wounded, according to The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-affiliated Saberin News. Reports had initially surfaced wounded Hezbollah operatives arriving in hospitals in Damascus and its ...

US Says Still Seeking Israel-Palestinian Deal

The United States said Thursday it was still working for a landmark normalization deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia, whose de facto ruler stood firm on creation of a Palestinian state. With four months left in President Joe Biden's term, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said Wednesday that Saudi Arabia will work "to establish an independent ...

US Touts 'Robust' Military Presence in Mideast as Crisis Grows

The United States said Sunday that it had a strong military presence in the Middle East after deploying reinforcements amid Israel's widening of the war to include hundreds of targets in Lebanon. With Israel pressing on with a bombing campaign against Hezbollah and with its campaign in Gaza, White House national security spokesman John Kirby ...