White House threatens Fed's Powell with criminal indictment

The Trump administration has ramped up its pressure campaign on the U.S. central bank, threatening to indict Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell over comments he made to Congress about a building r...

Death toll from Iran protests surpasses 500, rights group says

Unrest in Iran has killed over 500 people, a rights group said Sunday—as Tehran threatened to target U.S. military bases if President Donald Trump carries out his renewed threats to intervene on be...

Israeli strikes kill 11 in Gaza, violating ceasefire

Israeli strikes killed at least 11 Palestinians in separate strikes in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, medics said—in what the Israeli military said came in response to a failed rocket attack by milita...

Kurdish groups reject Aleppo withdrawal order from Syrian government

Kurdish groups in Aleppo vowed to defend their neighborhoods on Friday from government forces—rejecting ceasefire terms from Damascus demanding Kurdish fighters withdraw from the Syrian city where ...

Iran shuts off internet as protesters start fires in widening unrest

Rights groups have already documented dozens of deaths of protesters in nearly two weeks and—with Iranian state TV showing clashes and fires, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported that seve...

US seizes Olina tanker in Caribbean, fifth vessel taken in Venezuela blockade

The U.S. has seized the Olina tanker in the Caribbean, the fifth vessel targeted in recent weeks as Washington steps up efforts to curb Venezuelan oil exports, U.S. officials said on Friday. Tap fo...

Trump supporter and oil magnate Harry Sargeant advising US on Venezuela, sources say

Billionaire and donor Harry Sargeant III and his team are advising the Trump administration on how the U.S. can return American oil companies to Venezuela, according to four sources. Tap for the fu...

US Senate advances measure curbing Trump's Venezuela war powers

The U.S. Senate advanced a resolution on Thursday that would bar President Donald Trump from further military action against Venezuela without congressional authorization—in a rare rebuke of the Re...

Saudi coalition says separatist leader fled Yemen with UAE help, advances to Aden

The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen said on Thursday that the United Arab Emirates had spirited a separatist leader out of the country by boat in a dramatic twist to a rift between the Gulf powers, as...

Lebanese army takes control of south, Israel says Hezbollah still must disarm

The Lebanese army said on Thursday it had taken operational control in the south of the country, but Israel said efforts to disarm Hezbollah fighters were insufficient, raising pressure on Lebanese...

Russia says foreign troops in Ukraine would be targets after UK, France pledge post-truce deployment

Russia said Thursday that any troops sent to Ukraine by Western governments would be "legitimate combat targets", after Britain and France announced plans to deploy a multinational force there in t...

Syrian forces launch new strikes in Aleppo as clashes with SDF enter third day

The Syrian army launched new strikes in parts of Aleppo on Thursday after ordering residents to evacuate—accusing the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) of using Kurdish-majority areas to l...

Federal agent involved in Minneapolis shooting amid immigration crackdown, city says

A U.S. federal agent was involved in a shooting in Minneapolis on Wednesday during a large-scale immigration surge, a city spokesperson said—in the latest violent incident during President Donald T...

US seizes Russian-flagged tanker linked to Venezuela

The U.S. Coast Guard also intercepted another fully-loaded Venezuela-linked tanker, Sophia, near the northeast coast of South America, the officials said, in the fourth such case of recent weeks. T...

US eyes Venezuela interior minister as potential target, sources say

The Trump administration has put Venezuela's interior minister on notice that he could be next—unless he helps Interim President Delcy Rodriguez meet U.S. demands and keep order after the toppling ...