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WASHINGTON — As Gaza buries its dead and starves under siege, the Trump administration has quietly signed off on a 6.7 billion dollar surge of US weapons for Israel, adding new attack
Donald Trump is building a 250-foot Independence Arch on the Potomac, a White House grand ballroom, and more — a vanity construction campaign running alongside sinking approval ratings and a fractured rural base.
For nine years, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has resorted to destroying those seeking to end his family’s grip on power, but now he faces new threats that he cannot bomb with weapons
To this day, Iranian official authorities have been grappling with the repercussions of the killing of the former commander of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Qassem Soleimani, and their
A Pentagon official told the Eastern Herald Monday that Washington is heading to “start the full withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan” before the fall season at the end of September. While
At the end of May 2020, the 3rd session of the National People’s Congress (NPC) of the 13th convocation was held in Beijing. The annual sessions of the once-yearly parliament of China
US President Donald Trump criticized the mayor of the capital, Washington, describing it as “incompetent,” for calling the “Black Lives Matter” on a street near the White House, according to the Washington
Qatari media has quoted Qatar Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani as saying on Friday that there is a new initiative to end the three-year Gulf crisis and
The US State Department said that Russia should “get out” of the Middle East because of its supposedly “destructive” role. “For 45 years, this has been the cornerstone of American politics –
The Secretary of Defense United States, Mark Esper, yesterday marked a striking distance with President Donald Trump and said he disagrees with using the military to curb the wave of massive protests
Washington instructed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop the plans to annex and extend Israeli sovereignty over areas in the West Bank and the Jordan Valley, after the White House received
Pogroms and riots that began after the 46-year-old African American George Floyd died in the city of Minneapolis do not subside in the United States. The black man was the victim of
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