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


Biden says he is pardoning his son, Hunter Biden

The White House had said repeatedly that Biden would not pardon or commute the sentences of his son.

 U.S. President Joe Biden, accompanied by Hunter Biden and Beau Jr., walks out of a bookstore in downtown Nantucket, Massachusetts, U.S., November 29, 2024.

Biden announces Israel's truce with Lebanon with hope of paving pathway for Gaza ceasefire

The US President said that the deal will let Israel retain the right to defend itself while still giving the Lebanese government sovereignty.

 US President Joe Biden delivers remarks at the White House

Biden's shift on missiles for Ukraine, North Korean troops in Kursk, Trump's election victory

The relaxation of the restrictions on US weapons may have come too late to alter the course of the conflict, but it could help Ukraine defend its foothold in Kursk.

 President Joe Biden walks to deliver remarks on the 2024 election results and the upcoming presidential transition of power, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, US, November 7, 2024.

DOJ to ask judge to force Google to sell off Chrome, Bloomberg reports

The move would be one of the most aggressive attempts by the Biden administration to curb what it alleges are Big Tech monopolies.

 The seal of the US Justice Department is seen on the podium in the Department's headquarters briefing room before a news conference with the Attorney General in Washington, January 24, 2023.

Biden allows Ukraine to use US arms to strike inside Russia

 UKRAINE’S PRESIDENT Volodymyr Zelensky and US President Joe Biden hold a bilateral meeting, as the NATO summit takes place in Vilnius, last month.

Netanyahu hints he would hit Iranian oil fields if Tehran attacks

Netanyahu urged Iranians to imagine their free lives without 'the tyrants of Tehran' in an unusual English message.

 (Illustrative) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the backdrop of an Iranian oil field.

Muslim advocacy groups may have moved the needle in the US election - analysis

CAIR, the largest Muslim advocacy group in the US, declined to endorse either of the major candidates, while Emgage endorsed Harris despite ‘strong disagreement’ with her Israel policy

US President Joe Biden greets Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, at a dinner in Washington, last month. The administration is faced with the critical dilemma of whether to join Israel in retaliating against Iran, says the writer.

Detroit Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib gets easily reelected

Tlaib has sharply criticized the Biden administration's support of and arming of Israel in its war with Hamas in Gaza following the Hamas Oct. 7, 2023 attack.

 FTX Group CEO John J. Ray III listens while U.S. Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) speaks, at a U.S. House Financial Services Committee hearing investigating the collapse of the now-bankrupt crypto exchange FTX after the arrest of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S.

Biden receives hundreds of reports that US weapons caused 'unnecessary harm' in Gaza - report

A US State Department spokesperson said that it is “reasonable” to assess that Israel may have violated international law but that reaching such a conclusion is “incredibly difficult.”

 U.S. President Joe Biden, flanked by Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, makes a statement to the news media ahead of a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, U.S., October 2, 2023.

Through the looking glass, Israel is on the right side, the US in the wrong - opinion

Israel’s war is America’s war. The US should be aiding Israel without condition or reservation. And if there are conditions and reservations, they should be expressed behind closed doors. 

A man opens a store adorned with the flags of Israel and the United States in the Florentin neighbourhood of Tel Aviv, Israel, May 12, 2024