WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Friday sought to downplay sharp criticism levied against Israel by President Joe Biden and a senior national security official over how Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has conducted Israel’s four-month-old war aimed at rooting out Hamas militants from Gaza. Biden, speaking to reporters Thursday evening, called Israel’s military […]
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Iranian-backed militia official downplays US strikes in Iraq after base attack
An Iraqi militia official has hinted at a desire to de-escalate tensions in the Middle East following retaliatory strikes launched by the US against dozens of sites in Iraq and Syria used by Iranian-backed militias and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. Hussein al-Mosawi, spokesman for Harakat al-Nujaba, one of the main Iranian-backed militias in Iraq, condemned […]
Zelenskyy downplays need to conscript 500,000 reservists but says mobilization law still critical
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy sees no need to mobilize half a million people in Ukraine, he said in an interview with the British TV Channel 4 News, published on Jan. 21. At the same time, he called the mobilization bill very important, both for the military and for civilians who may be drafted into […]
Trump downplays Jan. 6 on the anniversary of the Capitol siege and calls jailed rioters ‘hostages’
NEWTON, Iowa (AP) — Former President Donald Trump, campaigning in Iowa Saturday, marked the third anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol by casting the migrant surge on the southern border as the “real” insurrection. Just over a week before the Republican nomination process begins with Iowa’s kickoff caucuses, Trump continued […]
Trump downplays Capitol siege and calls jailed rioters ‘hostages’
Former US president Donald Trump has marked the third anniversary of the assault on the US Capitol on January 6 2021 by casting the migrant surge on the southern border as the “real” insurrection. Just over a week before the Republican nomination process begins with Iowa’s caucuses, Mr Trump continued to claim that countries have […]