US President Joe Biden will address the nation on Thursday at 11:00 a.m. (1600 GMT), the White House said on Wednesday. This comes after Biden’s Vice President Kamala Harris lost the 2024 election to former President Donald Trump. Harris rose to the top of the Democratic ticket in July...

Israeli strikes on Lebanon killed 40 people around the eastern city of Baalbek in the Bekaa Valley on Wednesday, according to the country’s health ministry, and at dusk more strikes hit Beirut’s southern suburbs. Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah have exchanged fire for over a year in...

Vice President Kamala Harris called on her supporters Wednesday to accept her electoral defeat, vowing to engage in a "peaceful transfer of power" after President-elect Donald Trump secured a second White House term. Harris acknowledged the deep disappointment being felt by many of her...

Donald Trump will be the first president to take office while several criminal cases against him are pending. His ascent to the highest office in the US while facing dozens of criminal charges has left the country in uncharted territory. Many of his legal problems will go away when he steps...

The leader of the far-right Freedom Party in the Dutch parliament has called on the government to seek to strengthen diplomatic relations with the Bashar al-Assad regime in order to facilitate the return of Syrian refugees to areas it considers "safe" in Syria, according to the website of...

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman called US President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday to congratulate him on winning the presidential election, according to Saudi state news agency SPA. During the call, MBS “expressed the Kingdom’s aspiration to strengthen the historical and...

Republican Donald Trump claimed victory in the 2024 presidential contest after Fox News projected that he had defeated Democrat Kamala Harris, which would cap a stunning political comeback four years after he left the White House. “America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate,”...

The Israeli army on early Wednesday raided the Jenin city and its refugee camp in the occupied northern West Bank, triggering clashes with Palestinians. Witnesses told Anadolu that the Israeli army stormed Jenin from several directions and was escorted by bulldozers which embarked on...

Trump’s speech itself was a bit rambling, pulling on some of the themes he used in his campaign. He says he is going to make the economy great again, the country great again, the environment great again. But he didn’t give any real details. One of the first things he said he will do is to...

Qatar's citizens overwhelmingly backed constitutional amendments in a referendum Tuesday, with most voters supporting the changes in the constitution. Of the total votes cast, 89% favored the amendments, while 9.2% opposed them, with 1.8% declared invalid with an 84% voter turnout, Qatar News...

At least 34 Palestinians were killed in a series of Israeli airstrikes on refugee tents and homes across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday as the army stepped up its ground assault north of the enclave, according to medical sources. Israeli warplanes struck two tents for displaced people in the...

Democratic candidate Kamala Harris and the Republican nominee Donald Trump tied in an iconic midnight vote, marking the official start of US Election Day 2024. According to ABC News, with six registered voters in Dixville Notch, a small town in New Hampshire, a northeastern US state of about...

The Palestinian group Hamas said Monday that it held discussions with the Fatah movement on the establishment of a committee to address Gaza's needs and issues during a meeting in Cairo. “Following ongoing discussions with various Palestinian factions, we held a meeting with our brothers in...

The United States on Monday urged Israel to take action over violence by settlers in the West Bank, voicing alarm after the torching of nearly 20 cars near Ramallah. “The United States is deeply concerned by these and other recent reports of increasing extremist settler violence in the West...

Israel’s Air Force said on Monday it had struck Hezbollah intelligence assets near Damascus in an attack on key infrastructure in Syria that Syria said had targeted civilian sites. “Hezbollah’s intelligence headquarters has a branch in Syria, which includes an independent intelligence...

The health ministry in Gaza said on Monday that at least 43,374 people have been killed in the year-long war between Israel and Palestinian militants. The toll includes 33 deaths in the previous 24 hours, according to the ministry, which said 102,261 people have been wounded in the Gaza...

A senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander said on Sunday Iran will “certainly” launch a new attack against Israel, a day after Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei vowed a harsh retaliation. “Details cannot be discussed, but it will certainly be carried out,” Ali Fadavi, the...

At least 31 people were killed during Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip on Sunday, Palestinian medics said, with nearly half of the deaths in northern areas where the army has waged a month-long campaign it says aims to prevent Hamas regrouping. Palestinians said the new aerial and...

An Israeli settler died Sunday from wounds sustained from a Hezbollah rocket attack in the northern city of Nahariya last week, according to local media. Israel’s Army Radio said a man, 57, was injured due to shrapnel from a rocket fired by Hezbollah into the city on Oct. 23. On that day,...

The father of a Lebanese sea captain kidnapped in a suspected Israeli naval operation has denied any ties for his son with Hezbollah. A Lebanese citizen was kidnapped on Friday by armed men in Batroun, about 30 kilometers north of Beirut. Lebanese authorities said that they were investigating...