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Lindsey Graham: I’m with Israel. I will be with Israel to our dying day. They’re the best ally we could hope for.

Alexander Butterfield, the White House aide who inadvertently hastened Richard Nixon’s resignation over the Watergate scandal when he revealed that the president had bugged the Oval Office and Cabinet Room and routinely recorded his conversations, has died. He was 99. His death was confirmed to The Associated Press by his wife, Kim, and John Dean, […]

I am writing this as a Lakewood mother whose daughter is currently stuck in Israel. And I know I am far from the only one. Like many heimishe families, we sent our daughters to seminary in Eretz Yisroel this year. It is not easy to send a child across the world, but we do it […]

The State Department on Monday drew down personnel at more U.S. diplomatic missions in and around the Middle East as it faces increasing, but historically familiar, criticism for not doing enough to prepare embassies, consulates and American citizens living abroad for conflict. The department ordered the departure of nonessential staff and families from Saudi Arabia […]

Trump: I will not allow a terrorist regime to hold the world hostage and attempt to stop the global oil supply and if Iran does anything to do that, they’ll get hit at a much, much harder level. I will take out those targets that were easy and that I mentioned just before.

Trump: We’ve left some of the most important targets for later in case we need to do it. If we hit them, it will take many years for them to be rebuilt having to do with electricity production and many other things… we could take them all out in one day.

Trump on Iran: Within a week, they were going to attack us. 100%. They were ready. They had all these missiles, far more than anyone thought.

President Trump on Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer: What a horrible politician. He is now a Palestinian officially. He’s registered as a Palestinian.

Footage shows the interception of an Iranian missile over northern Israel a short time ago.

U.S.–Israeli airstrikes targeted the city of Karaj, west of Tehran, a short time ago, with multiple explosions reported in the area.

Footage shows the moment a drone crashed near Erbil International Airport in Iraq.

Belarusian journalist Pavel Dabravolski was convicted Monday of treason and sentenced to nine years in a maximum-security prison, activists said, the fifth media worker to be jailed in two weeks in a relentless government crackdown on freedom of the press. Dabravolski, who has reported for international and domestic news outlets and won numerous prizes for […]

A Kentucky man who joined the Army shortly after graduating from high school is the seventh U.S. service member to die in combat during the Iran war, the Pentagon announced Monday. Army Sgt. Benjamin N. Pennington, 26, of Glendale, Kentucky, died Sunday after being wounded during a March 1 attack on the Prince Sultan Air […]

Scenes of confusion and anger erupted at Ben Gurion Airport on Monday after travelers who had purchased tickets discovered they could not board their flights despite the airport reopening for outbound travel. Passengers arriving for departures were stunned to learn that the number of travelers allowed on each flight had been abruptly reduced overnight, leaving […]

TRUMP: If we didn’t do that B-2 attack, Israel would have been wiped out. They would have had a nuclear weapon within two weeks after that.

President Donald Trump hinted Monday that the U.S.–Israeli military campaign against Iran is nearing its conclusion, asserting that Tehran’s armed forces have been largely dismantled after weeks of intense strikes. Speaking to CBS News, Trump said the operations targeting Iran — known as Operation Epic Fury and Operation Roaring Lion — are progressing far faster […]

TRUMP: “The United States of America is the greatest and most exceptional nation in human history, and will not be threatened by evil terrorists and lunatics any longer… We just can’t do that.”

TRUMP: “On Saturday, I traveled to Dover Air Force Base to be with the families of six fallen warriors… hardest thing to do… They all said one thing to me: ‘Make sure you win, sir’… We go forward more determined than ever to achieve ultimate victory that will end this long-running danger once and for […]

President Trump repeatedly refers to Operation Epic Fury as just a “short term excursion”

President Trump on Operation Epic Fury: “We’re crushing the enemy in an overwhelming display of technical skill and military force… We’ll not relent until the enemy is totally and decisively defeated.”