CIPHER BRIEF REPORTING – As supporters of Lebanon’s Shiite Muslim political party Hezbollah bury dozens of militants killed in small-scale clashes with Israeli soldiers since Hamas’s bloody terrorist attack in Israel on October 7, leaders of multiple militant groups backed by Iran, are weighing their next move. Lebanese Hezbollah’s armed wing is vowing to escalate
Do today’s headlines make you feel like you’ve jumped in the wayback machine and landed in 1973? There’s a reason for that. This is what the world looks like without firm American leadership that doesn’t put America’s interests first. Welcome to a world on fire. At the nadir of American power after the humiliation in
Israeli Hostages Released 85-year-old and 79-year-old Israeli women who were held hostage by Hamas spoke of the terror they experienced Tuesday upon their release, as the NYT reports. Israel Intensifies Strikes The Israeli military intensified airstrikes on Gaza, saying Tuesday that it hit hundreds of targets in the besieged Palestinian territory, as The Washington Post reports. Iranian-Backed Militias Mount
October 25, 2023 | Part Of U.S. Senate U.S. Senate 2023-10-25T10:00:07-04:00https://ximage.c-spanvideo.org/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwaWN0dXJlcy5jLXNwYW52aWRlby5vcmciLCJrZXkiOiJGaWxlc1wvMTI4XC8wMDJcLzE2OTgyNDI1ODdfMDAyLmpwZyIsImVkaXRzIjp7InJlc2l6ZSI6eyJmaXQiOiJjb3ZlciIsImhlaWdodCI6NTA2fX19The Senate will continue debate on the nomination of Jessica Looman to be the Labor Department’s Wage & Hour Division Administrator and work on a 3-bill spending package funding the Agriculture, Housing, Transportation, & Veterans Affairs Depts. for The Senate will continue debate on the
Many Lebanese are playing a morbid game these days—assessing the probability that their country will be destroyed if Hezbollah enters the conflict in Gaza between Israel and Hamas. On several occasions the Israelis have warned that in any future war with Hezbollah, they would send Lebanon “back to the stone age.” The assumption is that once
The below is a table that will be kept updated with our best information about the anti-U.S. drone, rocket and missile attacks in Iraq and Syria that intensified from October 17, 2023 onward. Note: the Islamic Resistance in Iraq is a collective mechanism to claim attacks by existing real-world U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations such as
Over the past year and a half, the war in Yemen has turned into a low-intensity conflict, punctuated by periodic clashes that have done little to alter the lines of control. In the northern highlands, the Houthis – a Zaydi Shia militia group – maintain control, much as they have since taking the capital of
October 24, 2023 | Clip Of 1980 State of the Union Address This clip, title, and description were not created by C-SPAN. User-Created Clip by vnowhite October 24, 2023 2023-10-24T21:08:32-04:00https://ximage.c-spanvideo.org/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwaWN0dXJlcy5jLXNwYW52aWRlby5vcmciLCJrZXkiOiJGaWxlc1wvMjE1XC8xMjQwNTQtbS5qcGciLCJlZGl0cyI6eyJyZXNpemUiOnsiZml0IjoiY292ZXIiLCJoZWlnaHQiOjUwNn19fQ==President Carter Enters the room 1980 SOTU President Carter Enters the room 1980 SOTU Report Video Issue *This text was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning. Related
North Korea’s advancing nuclear threats continue to command significant attention from South Korean and US policymakers and analysts. North Korea has conducted over 100 missile tests since the start of 2022. In addition, the Commander of US Forces Korea testified in April 2023 that a seventh North Korean nuclear test was not a matter of
There he goes again. No, not President Biden this time, his spokesman John Kirby. Our Fox White House reporter Jacqui Heinrich asked Kirby a series of good questions today and basically got no straight answers. Take a listen to some of this: JACQUI HEINRICH: "Is the assessment still the same that Iran did not