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[ad_1] WASHINGTON — Biden administration officials are concerned that Iran may be planning to hit targets inside Israel in retaliation for the Israeli airstrikes in Syria this week that killed several senior Iranian officials, according to two U.S. officials. The officials said any retaliation inside Israel is expected to focus on military or intelligence targets, rather…
[ad_1] LOS ANGELES — Authorities in Ventura County, California, are investigating the death of a Jewish man who was injured during a confrontation at dueling pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian rallies and who died Monday, the sheriff’s department said. Witnesses said Paul Kessler, 69, “was in a physical altercation with counter-protestor(s),” the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department said in…
[ad_1] ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Hani Almadhoun was watching his family in the Gaza Strip slowly starve and knew he had to do something. From thousands of miles away, and increasingly frustrated with the lack of humanitarian aid reaching Palestinians, he worked with his younger brother Mahmoud, trapped in the war zone, to create a small…
[ad_1] The Israeli airstrike that claimed the lives of seven World Central Kitchen aid workers has stunned and outraged Democrats in Congress, fueling a fresh effort by lawmakers to push President Joe Biden to impose conditions on U.S. military aid to Israel. Frustration has been mounting for months among Democrats in Congress over how Israeli…
[ad_1] KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian officials claimed Friday they used a barrage of drones to destroy at least six military aircraft and badly damage eight others at an airfield in Russia’s Rostov region. Russian defense officials, however, claimed they intercepted 44 Ukrainian drones and that only a power substation was damaged in the attack. NBC…
[ad_1] Few Olympic events match the coordination and grace of synchronized diving — but it can also be quite a spectacle when it goes wrong. Thankfully Frenchman Alexis Jandard also saw the funny side when he fell off his springboard Thursday at the inauguration of the Paris Aquatics Centre, one of the venues for this summer’s…
[ad_1] The families of American citizens kidnapped by Hamas in Israel nearly six months ago told NBC News’ Lester Holt on Thursday that they decry the killings of innocent civilians in Gaza but pleaded with the international community to remain focused on the plight of their loved ones still in captivity. “There’s not a single…
[ad_1] JERUSALEM — Rachel Goldberg-Polin’s mantra is the same now as it was six months ago. “I love you. Stay strong. Survive,” she urges her son, Hersh, one of the more than 130 hostages seized half a year ago by Hamas who have still not been returned from the Gaza Strip. She repeats those words…
[ad_1] World Central Kitchen has responded to the findings of the IDF probe into the killing of seven of its aid workers, saying that Israel’s military had taken “important steps forward” but that its apologies will be “cold comfort” for the victims’ families. The charity said that it is demanding “the creation of an independent…
[ad_1] HUALIEN, Taiwan — Rescuers in Taiwan combed mountains for a dozen people still missing and airlifted others to safety on Friday, as the death toll from this week’s earthquake increased to 12. Two more bodies were found in the mountains of Taiwan’s eastern Hualien county, two days after a 7.4-magnitude quake off the nearby…