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4 weeks ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Osman Mirghani |Yousef Al-Dayni |David Sanger |Julian Barnes
The liberation of Khartoum and expulsion of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) was a decisive and game-changing victory for the Sudanese army. It changed the course of the war, as key symbols of sovereignty, the Republican Palace, cabinet headquarters, and the country’s most significant institutions under state control.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Julian Barnes |Ephrat Livni
Top Biden administration negotiators were back in the Middle East on Thursday for a last diplomatic drive before the US election, though hopes were not high for quick agreements to pause the fighting. With Israel battling Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Hezbollah in Lebanon, CIA Director William Burns, the top US negotiator, was expected to meet with officials in Cairo on Thursday, according to a US official who spoke anonymously to discuss sensitive negotiations.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Liam Stack |Christina Goldbaum |Julian Barnes
TEL AVIV — The Israeli military widened its campaign against the militant group Hezbollah on Wednesday, launching airstrikes around the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbek and forcing large numbers of people to flee. Israel’s strikes against Hezbollah, initially focused on smaller, border villages in the south, are expanding beyond the country’s periphery to port towns and urban centers where the group has supporters, including Baalbek, Tyre, and Sidon.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
miamiherald.com | Liam Stack |Christina Goldbaum |Julian Barnes
TEL AVIV, Israel — The Israeli military widened its campaign against the militant group Hezbollah on Wednesday, launching airstrikes around the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbek and forcing large numbers of people to flee. Israel’s strikes against Hezbollah, initially focused on smaller, border villages in the south, are expanding beyond the country’s periphery to port towns and urban centers where the group has supporters, including Baalbek, Tyre and Sidon.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
gvwire.com | Julian Barnes
WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence agencies have assessed that Russia could provide targeting information to Houthi rebels in Yemen, whose attacks in the Red Sea have disrupted global shipping, but do not believe Moscow has taken such a step, according to U.S. officials. Russia has provided small arms and limited assistance to the Houthis. And for weeks, U.S. officials have said Russia is considering providing the group with missiles should the West escalate the war in Ukraine.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
economictimes.indiatimes.com | Ronen Bergman |David Sanger |Julian Barnes
ReutersA billboard with a picture of the late Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar is displayed on a building in Tehran. The two documents were prepared in recent days by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, which is responsible for analyzing images and information collected by American spy satellites. They began circulating Friday on the Telegram app and were being discussed by largely pro-Iran accounts.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
economictimes.indiatimes.com | Glenn Thrush |Julian Barnes
The United States on Wednesday announced a broad effort to push back on Russian influence campaigns in the 2024 election, as it tries to curb the Kremlin 's use of state-run media and fake news sites to sway American voters.The actions include sanctions indictments and seizing of web domains that U.S. officials say the Kremlin uses to spread propaganda and disinformation about Ukraine, which Russia invaded more than two years ago.Attorney General Merrick Garland detailed the actions taken by...
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Julian Barnes |Adam Rasgon
Some US officials have grown more optimistic that a deal to release Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip in return for a cease-fire is at hand. But people briefed on the talks say it will be days until it is clear whether a breakthrough has been achieved because of difficulties in communication between Hamas officials in Qatar and the group’s leaders in Gaza.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
spokesman.com | Julian Barnes |David Sanger
WASHINGTON — A senior Biden administration official warned Friday that “absent a change” in nuclear strategy by China and Russia, the United States may be forced to expand its nuclear arsenal, after decades of cutting back through now largely abandoned arms control agreements.
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Feb 14, 2024 | 
startribune.com | Julian Barnes |Karoun Demirjian |Eric Schmitt |David Sanger |Julian Barnes
WASHINGTON — The United States has informed Congress and its allies in Europe of new intelligence about Russian nuclear capabilities that could pose an international threat, according to officials briefed on the matter. Officials said that the new intelligence was serious — but that the capability was still under development, and Russia had not deployed it. Consequently, it did not pose an urgent threat to the United States, Ukraine or America's European allies, they said.
