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1 week ago | 
huffpost.com | Arthur Delaney |Kevin Robillard |Akbar Ahmed
WASHINGTON — As President Donald Trump prepares to join Israel’s war on Iran, Democrats seem split on how fiercely and on what grounds to oppose military action in the Middle East, a worrying echo of how the party approached the disastrous Iraq War more than two decades ago.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
msn.com | Akbar Ahmed
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
huffpost.com | Akbar Ahmed
Israel is committing a genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the human rights group Amnesty International said on Wednesday, in a campaign that’s benefited from huge military and diplomatic support from the United States.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
huffpost.com | Akbar Ahmed
As of Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is officially wanted for war crimes and crimes against humanity — a stunning position for the leader of one of the nations closest to the U.S., which positions itself as a champion of international humanitarian law to protect against such crimes.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
huffpost.com | Akbar Ahmed
WASHINGTON — 18 senators on Wednesday voted against sending Israel additional American military equipment — the first-ever rebuke of its kind in Congress, and a signal of how frustration has grown in Washington as Israeli forces have pummeled Gaza with near-total support from President Joe Biden. That group of senators voted against sending Israel $774 million worth of tank rounds, which its military has used in attacks on children and aid groups.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
huffpost.com | Akbar Ahmed
The Biden administration is aggressively pushing senators to bless continued U.S. weapons shipments for Israel ahead of a first-of-its-kind vote in Congress on the policy, HuffPost has learned ― and administration officials are suggesting lawmakers who vote against the arms are empowering American and Israeli foes from Iran to the militant groups Hamas and Hezbollah, which the U.S. treats as terror organizations.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
huffpost.com | Chris D'Angelo |Akbar Ahmed
TAIPEI, Taiwan — For years, Taiwan has enjoyed solid bipartisan support in Washington — a consensus that has only strengthened as China has increasingly threatened the self-governing island, which it claims as its own territory and has promised to “reunify” with the mainland.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
huffpost.com | Akbar Ahmed
When Donald Trump was president, he constantly found new ways to boost global tension. He fast-tracked bombs to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) as they massacred civilians in Yemen, repeatedly risked nuclear war with North Korea, escalated U.S. conflict with Iran, inched toward regime change in Venezuela, appointed officials who heightened tensions in the Balkans and Israel-Palestine, and turbo-charged U.S. military spending.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
huffpost.com | Akbar Ahmed
One family’s story offers a snapshot of the devastating impact of the Oct. 7, 2023, attack inside Israel — and the agonizing personal toll that choices by Hamas, Israel and the U.S. have taken in the year since. Members of the Palestinian militant group overran Kibbutz Be’eri that day, ravaging the town, killing more than 100 of the community’s 1,100 residents, including children, and kidnapping hostages to take back to the Gaza Strip.
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Oct 5, 2024 | 
huffpost.com | Akbar Ahmed
THE HAGUE/BERLIN/PARIS/WASHINGTON — In The Hague, a serious young Dutch bureaucrat works on policies that are supposed to deter violations of human rights, from Myanmar’s crackdown on its ethnic minorities to Russians directing slaughter in Ukraine. But she’s worried: If those efforts seem hypocritical or selective, they could have little impact. Her government claims it wants to promote international law everywhere.
