Potential Islamic State threats against Americans in Afghanistan are forcing the U.S. military to develop new ways to get evacuees to the airport in Kabul, a senior U.S. official said
A panicked crush of people trying to enter Kabul’s international airport killed seven Afghan civilians in the crowds, the British military said Sunday, showing the danger still posed to those trying to flee the Taliban’s takeover of the country. The deaths come as a new, perceived threat from the Islamic State group affiliate in Afghanistan […]
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi extended an invitation to Prime Minister Naftali Bennett to make an official visit to Cairo in coming weeks. The invitation was transmitted in person by Egyptian Intelligence Minister Abbas Kamel, who visited Israel on Wednesday and met with Bennett in Jerusalem. The last Israeli prime minister to make an official […]
Israel’s Air Force attacked four weapons manufacturing sites belonging to Hamas on Motzei Shabbos in response to the riots on Shabbos during which a Gazan shot a Border Police officer
Henri weakened to a tropical storm Sunday with maximum sustained winds of 70 mph but is still expected to wreak life-threatening havoc across parts of Long Island and Connecticut in
There has been a surge of coronavirus cases in recent days in Chareidi cities, possibly due to the opening of the school year on Rosh Chodesh Elul. All Chareidi cities
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Hurricane Grace swept onto Mexico’s Gulf coast as a major Category 3 storm and moved inland Saturday, drenching coastal and inland areas in its second landfall in the country in two days. At least eight people died, authorities said. The storm had lost power while crossing over the Yucatan Peninsula on Thursday, swirling through Mexico’s […]
For senior military and Pentagon leaders, this week’s news was profoundly personal. The photos and videos pouring out of Afghanistan hit a nerve, and triggered searingly vivid flashbacks to battles fought, troops lost and tears shed during their own deployments there. And in a response shaped by their memories and experiences in the war, they […]
A federal appeals court on Friday said a pause on evictions designed to curb the spread of the coronavirus can remain in place for now, setting up a battle before the nation’s highest court. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia rejected a bid by Alabama and Georgia […]
The mayor of the Florida city of Orlando asked residents on Friday to stop watering their lawns and washing their cars immediately, saying water usage needed to be cut back because of the recent surge of COVID-19 hospitalizations. The Orlando Utility Commission treats the city’s water with liquid oxygen and supplies that ordinarily go toward […]
President Joe Biden is facing a summer slump, with Americans taking a notably less positive view of his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and his job approval rating ticking down. A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that 54% of Americans approve of Biden’s job performance, down slightly from […]
Crews were digging in and burning out fire lines amid fears that another round of high winds on Saturday will bring renewed fury to a Northern California wildfire. “We have a firefight ahead of us and the wind today is going to make it very challenging,” said Keith Wade, a spokesman with the California Department […]
President Joe Biden made up his mind about Afghanistan months — really years — ago. For more than a decade, Biden advocated for an end to American involvement in Afghanistan. But he did so as something of an outsider, a senator whose ultimate power came in the form of a single vote on Capitol Hill […]
New Englanders bracing for their first hurricane in 30 years began hauling boats out of the water and taking other precautions Friday as Tropical Storm Henri barreled toward the Northeast
Henri intensified to a hurricane Saturday with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph, threatening potentially deadly storm surges for Long Island, which is at risk of a direct hit from
Hundreds of Gazan Arabs rioted on Shabbos afternoon near the Gazan border, in a resumption of the weekly “night confusion” riots organized by Hamas in 2018-2019. The riot took place
Otzma Yehudit chairman Itamar Ben-Gvir was hospitalized on Friday night in Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem due to the coronavirus. Ben-Gvir tested positive for COVID last week and was
Dear Parents, Alumni, and the Denver Community: Our Yeshiva Toras Chaim community continues to be profoundly and deeply pained by the unspeakable events that transpired this past Tuesday evening, claiming
Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel, Executive Vice President, Agudath Israel of America I joined Agudath Israel of America in 1984, 37 years ago. Then, and through the years, the Agudah has
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