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Oct 15, 2024 | 
brisbanetimes.com.au | Adam Taylor |Leo Sands |Kelly Kasulis Cho |Adela Suliman
By Adam Taylor, Leo Sands, Kelly Kasulis Cho and Adela Suliman October 15, 2024 — 2.45pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Washington: The United States has provided Israel with billions of dollars worth of security assistance and weapons over the past year since it began retaliating for Hamas’ October 7, 2023, attack. In addition, the Biden administration has deployed the US military in direct support of Israel.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
stuff.co.nz | Sammy Westfall |Anika Seth |Adam Taylor |Victoria Bisset
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
seattletimes.com | Adam Taylor |Anika Seth
Explosions linked to electronic devices wounded thousands of people across Lebanon, leaving at least 12 people dead Tuesday and at least 14 dead in a second spate of blasts Wednesday. Militant group Hezbollah was the apparent target. Hezbollah officials blamed Israel for the suspected attacks. On Tuesday, pagers used by the group exploded. Additional electronic devices exploded Wednesday. The thousands of injured Tuesday were taken to medical facilities across the country.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Adam Taylor
World News1 hour agoPagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria were made by a company in Budapest, Gold Apollo saysAssociated Press - By JOHNSON LAI and SIMINA MISTREANU • 1hTAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwanese company Gold Apollo said Wednesday that it authorized its brand on the pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria but that another company based in Budapest manufactured them. Pagers used by the militant group Hezbollah exploded near-simultaneously Tuesday in Lebanon …
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Mar 28, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Sufian Taha |Adam Taylor
RAMALLAH, West Bank — The Palestinian Authority named the members of a new Cabinet Thursday, pledging a new technocratic government that could help rebuild Gaza and fight endemic corruption. Muhammad Mustafa, appointed as prime minister earlier this month, announced the names of 22 new ministers who would join him in the government and outlined his vision, in a statement addressed to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
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Feb 13, 2024 | 
seattletimes.com | Adam Taylor |Jennifer Hassan |Hazem Balousha
Palestinians living in the overcrowded border city of Rafah are attempting to flee ahead of an expected military operation by Israeli forces, despite uncertainty about where to go next and dwindling resources. “We’ve been living in a state of terror for about a week now,” Anwaar al-Rai, 48, said in an interview Tuesday.
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Feb 13, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Adam Taylor |Adam Taylor
LONDON — Worldwide military spending surged by 9 percent in 2023 to hit a record $2.2 trillion as multiple conflicts ratcheted up global insecurity, according to a report by the International Institute for Strategic Studies released Tuesday. The report, the institute’s 65th annual “Military Balance” publication, also estimated that military spending would set another record this year as these conflicts continued to make their impact felt.
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
stuff.co.nz | Ruby Mellen |Toluse Olorunnipa |Adam Taylor |Hazem Balousha
US President Joe Biden has offered sharp criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s conduct of the war on Hamas in Gaza, suggesting that Israel’s closest ally and biggest donor is souring on a campaign that has killed thousands of Palestinians and sparked a humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. Biden told supporters that “the indiscriminate bombing that takes place” was beginning to cost Israel support around the world.
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Oct 10, 2023 | 
seattletimes.com | Adam Taylor |Jennifer Hassan
The Israeli military has summoned roughly 360,000 reservists to join the fight against Hamas – marking one of its largest mobilizations in history and upending lives in Israel and around the world. The mobilization calls for roughly 4 percent of Israel’s 9.8 million population to take up arms against the Palestinian militant group in the Gaza Strip, with Israelis leaving their regular jobs to join the military operation.
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Sep 14, 2023 | 
spokesman.com | Adam Taylor
For all the nefarious glamour of Kim Jong Un’s visit to Russia - bulletproof trains, a meeting at a remote spaceport, dinner of duck salad and crab dumplings - many experts believe the visit shows the reality of grim battlefield math: The Russian army is burning through artillery shells in Ukraine at a rate it can’t sustain. Whether Vladimir Putin can find a solution to this calculation or not is crucial for the next stage of the war in Ukraine.
