With glitz and glamor, Tel Aviv set for Mideast’s largest Pride parade Friday
Hundreds of thousands of people were set to take to Tel Aviv’s streets Friday, as the famously gay-friendly city puts on one of the world’s larger Pride parades.
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Saudi forces intercept 5 Houthi drones in fresh airport attack
Saudi forces on Friday intercepted five Yemeni rebel drones in the second aerial attack on an airport in the kingdom’s southwest in two days, a Riyadh-led military coalition fighting the rebels said.
Sderot rocket strike prompts calls for major military operation in Gaza
Israeli politicians on the right and center called for serious military action against Gaza Thursday, after a religious school in southern Israel was hit by a rocket launched from the Palestinian territory.
Witnesses describe ‘miracle’ as Gaza missile barely misses Sderot students
Most students had already left for the weekend, but several people at a religious school in Sderot had stuck around Thursday night. Three of them were just sitting down to study Biblical psalms when a rocket alarm rang out just before 9 p.m.
The Pentagon is battling the clock to fix serious, unreported F-35 problems
Over the past several years, U.S. Defense Department leaders have gone from citing technical problems as their biggest concern for the F-35 program to bemoaning the expense of buying and sustaining the aircraft.
Trump announces surprise exit of spokeswoman Sarah Sanders
US President Donald Trump on Thursday announced the surprise departure of his spokeswoman Sarah Sanders, after a combative tenure that saw her all-but-kill off traditional White House briefings to journalists.
Islamic Radical Ideology Sweeps Across Burkina Faso, Targeting Christians
The entire Christian population of a town in Burkina Faso was forced to flee following two attacks by radicals as the shadow of Islamism creeps across the Western African nation.
Oil tankers hit in fresh ‘attack’ in Gulf of Oman amid Iran tensions
The US Navy said it is helping the crew of two oil tankers after a ‘reported attack’ in the Gulf of Oman, just weeks after the US accused Iran of attacking other oil vessels in the same area.
US death rates from suicide, alcohol, and drug overdose skyrocket to all-time high
A new study confirms that deaths from drugs, alcohol, and/or suicide have reached record numbers.
Federal Spending Tops $3 Trillion Through May for First Time; Deficit Hits $738 Billion
For the first time in the history of the United States, the federal government has spent more than $3 trillion in the first eight months of the fiscal year, according to the Monthly Treasury Statement released today.
IAF strikes underground Hamas target after Palestinians fire rocket into Israel
Israeli aircraft hit a Hamas underground facility in the Gaza Strip early Thursday after a rocket fired at southern Israel was shot down in the first such attack since Israel and terror groups in the coastal enclave fought a vicious two-day battle last month.
The reality of persecution is ‘very, very difficult’, says American pastor imprisoned in Turkey
Pastor Andrew Brunson and his wife Norine have spoken about the hardship of persecution they endured at the hands of the Turkish government for two years.
‘If we are forced into war, we will exact a heavy price from Hezbollah’
‘The Israel Defense Force will continue and intensify its covert and overt efforts to thwart Hezbollah’s desire to undermine Israel’s security,’ GOC Northern Command Maj. Gen. Amir Baram said Tuesday.
More than half of House Democrats slam any Mideast plan without 2 states
More than half of the Democrats in the US House of Representatives say a peace plan that does not expressly have as its outcome two states would endanger the prospects of peace.
Putin says Russia-U.S. relations are getting ‘worse and worse’: Mir TV
President Vladimir Putin said in an interview published on Thursday that relations between Moscow and Washington were getting worse and worse, noting that the current U.S. administration had imposed dozens of sanctions on Russia.
Saudi Arabia says Iran behind Houthi missile attack on airport
Saudi Arabia has said it will carry out urgent reprisals as it accused Iran of being behind a late-night cruise missile attack by Houthi rebel fighters on a Saudi international airport that injured 26 people.
Palestinians urge ‘Arab masses’ to oppose US peace workshop
A senior Palestinian decision-making body has condemned the decision by Arab countries to attend a U.S.-sponsored Mideast peace conference, calling for the ‘Arab masses’ to act against the gathering.
Iraq, Lebanon to stay away from Mideast peace conference
An Iraqi foreign ministry spokesman says his government will stay away from a Mideast peace conference expected to take place in late June in the tiny Gulf Arab state of Bahrain.
After alleged Syria strike, PM says Israel acting against ‘enemy in vicinity’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday said Israel was carrying out pre-emptive attacks to prevent its ‘enemy’ from establishing military bases ‘in our vicinity,’ in an apparent acknowledgment of a strike earlier in the day on alleged Hezbollah facilities across the border in Syria.
Texas Gov. Signs ‘Save Chick-fil-A’ Bill to Stop Discrimination Against Religious Groups
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed the ‘Save Chick-fil-A’ bill into law Monday.