From The Hill: Three senators on Thursday made a bipartisan push aimed at blocking a proposed $650 million weapons sale to Saudi Arabia. Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) introduced a joint resolution disapproving of the proposed arms MORE
George and Laura Bush released a statement Monday night urging the U.S. to do more to help the refugees fleeing Afghanistan two decades after the 43rd president invaded the country following September 11 attacks. On MORE
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — American authorities took down a range of Iran’s state-linked news websites under unclear circumstances on Tuesday, the U.S. and Iran said, a move that appeared to be a far-reaching crackdown MORE
The largest warship in the Iranian Navy caught fire and sunk early Wednesday morning in the Gulf of Oman. The circumstances are unclear. The fire began around 2:25a.m. on the 207-meter (679-foot) Kharg, which was used MORE
President Biden’s unusually blunt demand Wednesday that Israel de-escalate its military attack on Gaza is creating a rare rift between the two countries and dismaying some of Israel’s supporters in the United States, while heartening MORE
Ongoing updates from the BBC:https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-57168671 Efforts to broker a truce between Israel and Palestinian militants continue, but little progress appears to have been made “The operation is continuing at full-throttle. There is still no ceasefire MORE
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli airstrike destroyed a high-rise building in Gaza City that housed offices of The Associated Press and other media outlets on Saturday, hours after another air raid on MORE
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FIVE YEARS ago Barack Obama delivered a bracing message to Saudi Arabia. “The competition between the Saudis and the Iranians,” he warned, “has helped to feed proxy wars and chaos in Syria and Iraq and MORE
Former White House senior adviser Jared Kushner and his deputy, Avi Berkowitz, have been nominated for the Nobel peace prize for their role in negotiating four normalisation deals between Israel and Arab nations known as the “Abraham Accords”. The MORE
While Israel has sprinted ahead in vaccinating its citizens against coronavirus, Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza have yet to begin a widespread immunization campaign. Israel is reportedly paying around 1 billion NIS ($305 MORE
The US flew nuclear-capable B-52 bombers to the Middle East Wednesday in the latest show of force meant to deter Iran, as defense officials remain divided over the risk posed by the regime and the Iraq-based militias MORE
Iraqis have reacted with outrage to Donald Trump’s move to pardon four security guards from the security firm Blackwater who were jailed for a 2007 massacre that sparked an outcry over the use of mercenaries in war. MORE
Former Israeli space security chief says extraterrestrials exist, and Trump knows about it. MORE
Iran will not accept preconditions from a new Biden administration over its nuclear programme and the US must return to a 2015 deal before talks can take place, its foreign minister says. Javad Zarif said MORE
If the Iranians retaliate, giving Mr. Trump a pretext to launch a return strike before he leaves office in January, Mr. Biden will be inheriting bigger problems than just the wreckage of a five-year-old diplomatic MORE
Iran has vowed retaliation after the architect of its nuclear programme was assassinated on a highway near Tehran, in a major escalation of tensions that risks placing the Middle East on a new war footing. MORE
The Israel Defense Forces have in recent weeks been instructed to prepare for the possibility that the U.S. will conduct a military strike against Iran before President Trump leaves office, senior Israeli officials tell me. MORE
Israel has agreed to allow the U.S. to sell “certain weapons” to the United Arab Emirates, opening the door to the sale of F-35 fighter jets to the Middle Eastern country. The agreement, which was MORE
The United States revealed on Thursday it had seized Iranian missiles shipped to Yemen and sold 1.1 million barrels of previously seized Iranian oil that was bound for Venezuela, in the Trump administration’s latest move MORE
“Food security crisis means acute malnutrition among under-fives at highest levels since war engulfed the country.” Almost 100,000 children under the age of five are at risk of dying in Yemen as the country slides back into MORE
“Where’s my favorite dictator?” US President Donald Trump reportedly asked while waiting for his Egyptian counterpart, former general Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, on the sidelines of the G7 summit last year. It should come as no surprise MORE
Hosted by his close ally Donald Trump, Netanyahu will on Tuesday sign agreements with Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates that, while falling short of full peace deals, allow the countries to establish open business, direct flights and diplomatic relations. MORE
In retaliation to Trump’s decision to kill a powerful Iranian general earlier this year, it appears the Iranian government is weighing an assassination attempt against the American ambassador to South Africa, U.S. intelligence reports say, according MORE
A huge fire broke out at the Port of Beirut on Thursday, triggering panic among residents traumatized by last month’s massive explosion there that killed and injured thousands of people. It was not immediately clear what caused MORE