Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) said it carried out strikes Thursday morning targeting a U.S. air base in response to early U.S. attacks against the southern Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas. The IRGC said in a statement posted on its official news outlet Sepah News that a U.S. air b
A U.S. judge on Friday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's administration from setting up a nearly $1.8 billion fund to compensate victims of what Trump has called government “weaponization." The order by U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema of the Eastern District of Vir
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday he had directed Israel's military to take more of Gaza, initially by seizing 70 percent of the Palestinian territory, where the population is already penned into a tiny strip of land along the coast. Israel effectively controls an estimated 64 per
Aqqaluk Lynge, Greenland’s champion of independence, has undergone a radical conversion. Half a century ago, the Inuit activist and poet co-founded one of the island’s biggest pro-independence parties, urging fellow Greenlanders to break away from Denmark, which he denounced as an expl
A bill has been introduced in the US Congress seeking to make both Eid-ul-Fitr and Eid-ul-Azha official federal holidays, reviving a push that failed to gather enough support when it was first tabled in 2024. Democratic Congresswoman Grace Meng of New York and Indiana Congressman Andre Carson join
