The Department of Justice on Tuesday unsealed criminal charges against Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar and other leaders of the brutal organization over the “terrorist atrocities” of the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre in Israel. The criminal complaint filed in federal court in New York City includes charges of conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign...
Israeli President Isaac Herzog eulogized Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin on Monday, apologizing “on behalf of the state of Israel” after Hamas murdered six captives over the weekend. “Beloved Hersh, with a torn and broken heart, I stand here today as the President of the State of Israel, bidding you farewell and asking for your forgiveness,...
The father of an Israeli-American hostage still being held by Hamas demanded a “negotiated agreement with Satan” soon, as President Biden and Vice President Harris head into the Situation Room with the U.S. negotiating team. “It is absolutely clear, the only way to get hostages home alive is by some kind of negotiated agreement with...
President Biden claimed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not doing enough to secure a hostage deal with Hamas terrorists. Biden made the remarks to reporters before heading into the Situation Room, where he and Vice President Harris convened with a hostage deal negotiating team following the murder of 23-year-old Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin and five...
Experts worry that terrorists will find novel and problematic uses for artificial intelligence (AI), including new methods of delivering explosives and improving their online recruitment initiatives. “The reality is that AI can be extremely dangerous if used with malicious intent,” Antonia Marie De Meo, director of the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute,...
JERUSALEM – The Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, is facing a barrage of criticism for failing to explicitly condemn the Hamas terrorist movement for its murders of one American and five Israeli citizens on Saturday. Israel Defense Forces were looking to rescue the six hostages held by Hamas, including Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin,...
CNN faced a torrent of criticism, including from a Democratic lawmaker, for its headline about an American hostage being killed by Hamas. “Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin has died, family confirms via statement,” CNN’s original headline said. The original headline was quick to garner criticism, accusing the network of language that was “f—ked up” and “exonerating...
Friday marked the third anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the end of the first U.S. campaign in what has been dubbed the Global War on Terror. But the conclusion to the 20-year-long war, which saw the death of more than 6,200 American soldiers and contractors, over 1,100 allied troops, 70,000 Afghan military...
The Taliban has been in power for three years since the disastrous withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan in 2021, and the country’s only pro-Western opposition force, the National Resistance Front (NRF), tries to make gains against the increasingly extremist authorities, all without much-needed U.S. and international support. Even without external support, the NRF has...
A joint operation by American and Iraqi forces killed 15 members of the Islamic State group in western Iraq, the U.S. military announced. The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) tweeted on Friday that in the early hours of Thursday, Aug. 29, U.S. and Iraqi forces killed 15 ISIS operatives. The operatives were “armed with numerous weapons,...
