The US’ strikes against dozens of Islamic State targets in Syria highlight the challenges Damascus’ new government faces as it restores ties with Washington.
The Israeli government approved a proposal for 19 new settlements in the occupied West Bank in a blatant violation of international humanitarian law. The country’s finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, said on X that this increases the total number of new settlements to 69 in the past three years—a new record. “On the ground, we are […]
By Ella Fassler for Truthout/TheAppeal In late September, Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) stopped Jose Bonilla Lopez, a gardener who lived in the city’s northwest. According to a police report, it was a case of mistaken identity. Instead of releasing him, they turned him over to masked federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security and the […]
The United States stopped an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela on Sunday, just a day after the Coast Guard boarded another oil vessel, according to a report from Bloomberg. The operation, which is not approved by Congress, is part of President Trump’s “blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers going into, and out of, […]