Author: paranzonn

• Father of American Teen Killed in West Bank Rails Against US Support for Israel

  

  Saturday, 20 January 2024 02:55 PM EST The father of an American teen killed by Israeli fire in the occupied West Bank railed against Washington’s military support for Israel, as hundreds of mourners buried the 17-year-old in the family’s ancestral Palestinian village Saturday. The death of Tawfiq Ajaq on Friday drew an immediate expression of…

• Penélope Cruz won’t give her kids phones, fears they’ll be ‘manipulated’: ‘A cruel experiment on children’

  

  Spanish actress Cruz has two children with actor Javier Bardem By Caroline Thayer Fox News Published January 18, 2024 2:33pm EST Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. Two years ago, Spanish actress Penélope Cruzadmitted that she felt “part of a minority” in wanting to shield her children from social media. With her kids now 10…

• Hostage Families Protest outside Netanyahu’s Home, Ramping up Pressure for a Truce-for-hostages Deal

  

  Saturday, 20 January 2024 07:00 AM EST JERUSALEM (AP) — Relatives of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza protested Saturday outside the home of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, expressing frustration over his government’s seeming lack of progress in getting the more than 100 captives released as the war in Gaza drags on. A group…

• Hezbollah Warns Israel Against Continued ‘Aggression’

  

  Friday, 19 January 2024 04:20 PM EST A top official from Lebanon’s Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah on Friday warned Israel would “receive a real slap in the face” if it expanded the conflict along the Lebanon-Israel border. Since the surprise October 7 attack by Hamas on southern Israel, there have been near daily exchanges of…

• Israeli missile strike kills four Iranian military advisers in Damascus, Syrian state TV says

  

  Four Iranian military advisers and several members of Syrian forces have been killed in an Israeli missile strike on a building in Damascus, Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency reported citing the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).  Syrian state TV, which also accused Israel of the attack, said earlier that several people were killed and injured in…

• NATO Holds Biggest Exercises in Decades

  

  Friday, 19 January 2024 07:44 AM EST NATO will launch its biggest military exercises in decades next week with around 90,000 personnel set to take part in months of drills aimed at showing the alliance can defend all of its territory up to its border with Russia, top officers said Thursday. The exercises come as…

• Ukrainian drone attack on Russian oil depot causes massive blaze

  

  By Euronews with AP Published on 19/01/2024 – 14:36•Updated 16:12  Officials say four oil reservoirs in the west of Russia were set ablaze as Ukraine step up their attacks as the conflict approaches its second anniversary. A Ukrainian drone has struck an oil storage depot in western Russia, causing a massive blaze, officials said, as Kyiv’s forces apparently…

• As Iran Escalates, Rising Risk of a Wider Regional War

  

  Wednesday, 17 January 2024 03:14 PM EST Pakistan recalled its ambassador to Tehran on Wednesday, a day after Iran conducted airstrikes inside Pakistan that it claimed targeted bases for a militant Sunni separatist group. Islamabad denounced the attack as a “blatant violation” of its airspace and said it killed two children. Tuesday’s airstrikes in Pakistan’s…

• Pentagon: ‘We Are Not at War With the Houthis’

  

  Thursday, 18 January 2024 04:11 PM EST The United States is not at war with Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis, the Pentagon said on Thursday, even as it detailed its fifth round of strikes against the group in the past week. Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh said the strikes, including Thursday’s targeting of anti-ship missiles, were purely defensive…

• Trump offers defense of presidential immunity, cites Obama civilian drone deaths: ‘He meant well’

  

  Obama was criticized for reported civilian casualties from drone strikes ordered during his presidency By Charles Creitz Fox News Published January 18, 2024 10:57pm EST Trump details plan for ‘unity’ within the GOP and America Former President Trump joins ‘Hannity’ for his first interview since his historic Iowa win to discuss his vision for America and previews the…