Updated Jan. 16, 2024 6:45 pm ET WASHINGTON—The Biden administration plans to put the Houthi rebel group back on one of its lists of terrorist organizations, days after the U.S. launched strikes on its facilities in Yemen in retaliation for months of attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea, officials said. The placement as a … Read more
Updated Jan. 16, 2024 2:07 pm ET The U.S. military was searching for two Navy SEALs lost at sea during an operation that seized Iranian-made missile parts bound for Houthi rebels in Yemen, as the U.S. launched another series of strikes against the group. The waters off the Yemen coastline have become a zone of … Read more
Updated Jan. 15, 2024 3:19 pm ET The Israeli military is close to completing its most intensive phase of fighting against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Israel’s defense minister said Monday, warning that the lack of a plan for postwar Gaza could hurt the military campaign. In northern Gaza, the most intensive phase of fighting … Read more
Medical Properties Trust, the country’s largest hospital landlord, said it would record about $350 million of write-downs related to its largest tenant, which had fallen behind on its rent, and hired a well-known restructuring adviser. MPT, which had long supported Dallas-based Steward Health Care System, said more write-downs are possible. The news, released Thursday after … Read more
By Carrie Keller-Lynn, Saeed Shah and Anat Peled Updated Jan. 1, 2024 2:45 pm ET Listen to article (2 minutes) TEL AVIV—Israel began preparations for prolonged fighting in the Gaza Strip, reshuffling forces as it weighs how to sustain lower-intensity fighting over the long term. Israel’s top general said that it would take at least … Read more
Listen to article (2 minutes) TEL AVIV—The Israeli military said it is approaching what it calls full operational control in the northern Gaza Strip and ordered tens of thousands of residents who have already been displaced to evacuate again, to another central area. Israeli military analysts said Israel’s control over the north doesn’t mean the … Read more
Listen to article (2 minutes) TEL AVIV—The Israeli military is pouring resources into the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis to neutralize Hamas’s top brass as the death toll from the operations surpasses 20,000, according to the enclave’s authorities. Over a nearly two-month-long ground offensive, Israel has taken over much of Gaza City, eroded … Read more
Opinion | Hezbollah Has Already Opened the Northern Front The Wall Street Journal Israel and Hezbollah trade fire in escalating conflict PBS NewsHour Israeli strike kills elderly woman in southern Lebanon – state news agency Reuters Hamas, Hezbollah claim credit for attacks in south, north The Times of Israel Hezbollah’s threat to Israel is formidable Miami Herald Source link
Dec. 17, 2023 11:38 am ET Most Americans probably heard of the Harvard Corp. for the first time last week, when it issued a supercilious statement affirming its support for Harvard President Claudine Gay. The corporation, Harvard’s governing body, wrote that Ms. Gay “is the right leader to help our community heal and to address … Read more
