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The Iran-backed Houthi insurgents of Yemen issued a warning to international shipping companies on Wednesday that they intend to resume missile and drone attacks against “any Israeli vessel” passing through the Red Sea. The Houthis suspended their attacks in January after Israel announced a ceasefire in Gaza.

Israel has sent humanitarian aid to Druze Arabs in Syria who are under threat from the country’s new Islamist rulers.

Israel slammed the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) after it produced a report claiming, falsely, that Israel tried to harm Palestinian fertility during the recent war in Gaza, and used sexual violence against Palestinians.

Six Americans, consisting of veterans and military contractors, who had been imprisoned on drug charges were released by Kuwait, according a recent report from the Associated Press.

New York State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani (D) shouted at border czar Tom Homan in response to the arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian activist and former Columbia University student.

In less than a week, Democrat politicians and the regime media have exposed themselves as so morally broken that they snubbed a 13-year-old kid with cancer and desperately embraced an antisemitic terrorist sympathizer.  

Israel and Lebanon are holding the first direct talks that could lead to normalization and peace between the two nations, following Israel’s victory over Hezbollah in the recent war and Lebanon’s election of a new president.

Democrats and media allies are defending an arrested Syrian who led university protests denouncing Israel’s post-October 7 counter-attack.

Actor Michael Rapaport was thrilled after the Trump administration arrested a Palestinian migrant who has organized anti-Israel protests on several American college campuses and took to his X account to celebrate the arrest and pending deportation.

Jihadist terrorist Ahmed al-Sharaa, the president of Syria, signed an agreement on Monday to integrate the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) into the Syrian military – arguably his biggest success since toppling the regime of Bashar Assad in December, as the SDF is one of Syria’s most effective and professional militias.

Talks to determine whether Ukraine is ready to engage with President Trump’s peace process started on Tuesday morning.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto ruler of the country, on Monday in anticipation of a summit on Tuesday to discuss an end to the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Thousands of terrified Alawite Muslims fled across the border from Syria into Lebanon over the weekend as Syria’s new jihadi rulers began hunting them down and murdering them for allegedly collaborating with the regime of deposed dictator Bashar Assad.

Iran, Russia, and China are scheduled to hold joint naval exercises beginning on Tuesday near the southeastern Iranian port of Chabahar, according to Iranian state media.

Middle Eastern news outlets and monitor groups have documented the massacre of hundreds of civilians in western Syria this weekend, most of them members of the Alawite sect of Shia Islam, at the hands of roving jihadist gangs.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist who graduated from Columbia University and led radical protests there, on Saturday, a sign of a Trump administration crackdown.

Iranian opposition leaders and supporters gathered in Washington, DC, calling for a firm U.S. stance against Iran’s theocratic regime and backing for its overthrow.

One of President Donald Trump’s golf courses in Scotland was vandalised by a group of “pro-Palestinian” protesters, defacing the property with graffiti and digging up the greens. 

The Trump administration has reportedly revoked the visa of a student who protested in favor of Hamas, the Islamic terrorist organization which attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, according to Fox News.

King Salman bin Abdulaziz expressed strong support for the President’s efforts to create a “new world order” based on coexistence and cooperation.

President of Argentina Javier Milei reportedly plans to have the South American nation sign a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Israel.

The government of Syria under the control of jihadist terror organization Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) imposed curfews on multiple western regions of the country on Thursday and Friday following what is believed to have been an armed uprising by fighters loyal to deposed dictator Bashar Assad, who fled to Russia in December.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry declared its support on Wednesday for Egypt’s attempt to galvanize the Arab world into supporting a plan for the reconstruction of Gaza, intended to prevent President Donald Trump from taking the territory over.

President Donald Trump met with eight freed Israeli and American-Israeli hostages in the Oval Office on Wednesday, saying he was deeply moved by the experience and vowing to punish Hamas and Gaza generally if all are not released.

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened further destruction of Gaza if all remaining hostages are not released, and issued an ultimatum to Hamas leaders to flee.

Palestinians are looking at the Arab plan for rebuilding Gaza with “cautious optimism,” but they apparently lack faith in Arab leaders to follow through.

An affidavit released Wednesday revealed that an alleged architect of the 2021 Abbey Gate suicide bombing that killed 13 American service members in Afghanistan was released from prison just two weeks before the attack — which coincides with when thousands of prisoners were released from the Bagram Air Base after the Biden administration abandoned it.

President Donald Trump has decided to bypass Egypt and Qatar as middlemen, and negotiate directly with Hamas for the release of the remaining hostages, breaking a taboo against negotiating with terrorists in order to achieve a result.

A recent study in the medical journal The Lancet found a dramatic rise in obesity and overweight status, particularly among young people, in the Middle East, The National reported on Monday, highlighting the contrasts in a region also suffering significant malnutrition.

The Senate Judiciary Committee holds a hearing on addressing the rise of antisemitism in America on Wednesday, March 5.

The Trump administration has rejected a $53 billion reconstruction proposal for Gaza by Arab states, calling it unrealistic due to Gaza’s “uninhabitable” conditions, Hamas’s control, and the lack of clarity on who would fund the billions needed for rebuilding.

During CNN’s coverage of President Donald Trump’s speech before Congress, CNN host and Chief National Security Analyst Jim Scuitto stated that the arrest of one of the terrorists involved in the 2021 Kabul airport bombing is a “significant arrest” of a

President Donald Trump mentioned the hostages in Gaza, however briefly, in his address to a special joint session of Congress on Tuesday night.

Egypt is hosting a summit on Tuesday of Arab nations intended to finalize the provisions for a comprehensive plan to rebuild the Gaza Strip.

Egypt has proposed its alternative to President Donald Trump’s idea of annexing Gaza and moving its inhabitants: spend $53 billion to remove the rubble and rebuild Gaza, in the same place, with the same people, next to Israel.