Biden administration

Blinken denies telling Qatari emir to delay efforts for rapid Israel-Hamas hostage deal

Blinken called a conversation between him and Qatari Emir al-Thani a "complete fiction" after Haaretz claimed that he told the emir to wait to make a deal between Israel and Hamas.

 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken addresses the press in Jordan's southern city of Aqaba on December 14, 2024.
Then-US president Joe Biden speaks with UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan at the G20 summit in New Delhi, India, September 9, 2023; illustrative.

Officials in Biden admin. 'unaware' of UAE's October 7 warning to Netanyahu, sources tell 'Post'

 U.S. special envoy Amos Hochstein speaks to the media after meeting with Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, in Beirut, Lebanon November 19, 2024.

Former Biden adviser Hochstein rejects Lapid's claim Israel blocked a US-Saudi nuclear agreement

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a security assessment at the Kirya in Tel Aviv with Defense Minister Israel Katz and IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir on April 3, 2026.

Biden warned Trump that Israel 'won't miss chance' to escalate Gaza war to Iran strikes - report


Nvidia slams Biden administration's new AI export controls

The controversy comes at a time when AI technology has become increasingly central to global economic growth and technological advancement.

 Flags of China and U.S. are displayed on a printed circuit board with semiconductor chips, in this illustration picture taken February 17, 2023.

Sudan: The real genocide - opinion

Whether you call it an obsession or antisemitism, social convenience or just ignorance, the international silence on the Arab genocide in Sudan adds up to the same thing: an egregious moral outrage.

 MASALIT WOMEN gather under a tree to share stories about the deaths of their children and other family members, mostly male, at a refugee camp in Adre, Chad, in 2023. The women had fled to Chad as a result of an ethnically targeted massacre in Sudan’s West Darfur state.

Blinken’s parting words: No hostage deal? Blame Hamas, not Netanyahu - analysis

Blinken's comments in the interview Saturday were not all that predictable when nearly 20 minutes of the 50-minute conversation turned toward Israel, Hamas, and Gaza.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken attends an interview, in Brussels, Belgium December 4, 2024.

US proposes $8b. arms deal with Israel, including fighter jet munitions

The deal would need approval from House and Senate committees and includes artillery shells and air-to-air missiles for fighter jets to defend against threats such as drones.

 US President Joe Biden (Illustrative)

Biden's Jewish liaison Shelley Greenspan shares parting Shabbat message

President-elect Donald Trump has yet to announce if he'll fill Greenspan's role upon returning to the White House. 

 US PRESIDENT Joe Biden speaks at the White House after Syrian rebels announced that they had ousted Bashar al-Assad as president last Sunday.

'A feeling of a lost opportunity': Did Europe’s passivity cost lives in Hamas war? - opinion

“As an international community, we could have forced Hamas out and started working already on a future for the Gaza Strip," said a Biden aide.

 US SECRETARY of State Antony Blinken (left) is greeted by then-EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell in Brussels last month.

Brother of Hamas leader Khaled Mashal unexpectedly released from US prison - report

The US has not confirmed the release of Mashaal, but the news has been widely reported in Arab media.

 Mofid Abdel Kader Mashaal

US to work with partners in Syria to manage risk after Assad toppled, Biden says

Biden said US forces on Sunday conducted a dozen precision strikes within Syria targeting camps and operatives of the terrorist group Islamic State.

US President Joe Biden holds a press conference about his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping before the start of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Woodside, California, US, November 15, 2023.

US Supreme Court to weigh bid to sue Palestinian authorities over attacks against Americans

The law is called the Promoting Security and Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act.

 The US Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., is pictured on July 30, 2024.

White House puts pressure on Turkey to restrain Syrian rebels - report

The US noted that President Bashar al-Assad's "regime" has been part of an ongoing refusal to "engage in a political process," which has "created the conditions now unfolding."

 A Syrian rebel holds his weapon as he stands near Nubl's city in Nubl, north of Aleppo, Syria December 2, 2024.