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Updated August 21, 2025 - 8:55 PM EDT

US To Refill $3.5B in Munitions Used for Israel

		*US To Fund $500 Million Boeing KC-46 Aircraft Deal for Israel*
		*State Department Fires Official After Internal Debates Over Israel*

Israeli Forces Kill 70 Palestinians Over 24 Hours

		Israel OKs Settlement Plan That 'Erases' Palestinian State
		Israel's Ben Gvir Puts Photos of Gaza Destruction in Prisons
		Israel-Australia Feud Escalates Over Palestine

Israel, Syria Hold Direct Talks in Paris

US Raid in North Syria Captures Top ISIS Figures, Kills One

Lavrov: Ukraine Guarantees Must Include Russia

US Launches 58th Airstrike in Somalia of 2025

Military Preparing Attacks on Mexican Cartels

Viewpoints

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	It Shouldn't Have Taken This Much for Mainstream Voices To Speak Up About Gaza by Caitlin Johnstone

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Loose, Abstract Talk of 'Guarantees' Could Sink Ukraine Peace
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Frontline

	Majority of US Citizens Support Global Recognition of Palestine: Poll
	ICC Rejects New US Sanctions on Judges, Deputy Prosecutors

The War at Home

	Targeted for Gaza Protests: The Palestinian Still in US Custody
	Pentagon Defends Pete Hegseth's Security Detail After WaPo Report
	Tulsi Gabbard To Slash ODNI Staff, Citing 'Politicized Weaponization'
	Navy: Fire Aboard USS New Orleans Extinguished, Two Sailors With Minor Injuries
	Navy To Cut at Least a Third of Its Civilian Public-Affairs Staff
	Iowa City Council Passes Israel Divestment Resolution
	Air Force Insist Jets Did Not Break Sound Barrier Over Chicago
	Trump's White House Takes to TikTok as Deadline Looms To Ban Platform
	US Lawmaker Exposes Israeli Lobby's 'Incredible Influence and Control' on Congress
	How Was an Alleged Israeli 'Child Sex Predator' Allowed To Leave the US?
	Lawmakers Announce Legislation To Restore Office for Afghan Relocation
	Pilot Safe After Super Hornet Crash Off Virginia Beach

Sudan

	Cholera, Measles, and Conflict Create Deadly Crisis in Sudan's North Darfur
	RSF Paramilitaries Attack a Sudan Village, Killing Seven
	Sudan Reports Surge in Cholera Cases Amid Ongoing Conflict
	World Food Programme Aid Convoy Attacked in Sudan's Darfur

Africa

	Somalia-Jubaland Power Struggle Benefits Al-Shabaab Militants
	Confrontation Between Tunisia's General Labor Union, President Saied Escalates
	Ugandan Official Denies Reports That It Will Take US Deportees
	Death Toll in Nigerian Mosque Attack Jumps to at Least 30
	International NGOs Report Mass Killings and Sexual Violence in Eastern DR Congo
	US Suspends Most Visa Processing for Zimbabwe Amid Government Concerns

Germany

	German FM Backs Israel and Palestine Two-State Solution
	German Court Rules Holocaust Memorial Can Bar People Wearing Keffiyehs

United Kingdom

	Hamas Files Second Appeal To Overturn UK Terror Designation
	Member of Irish Rap Band Kneecap Appears at UK Court on Terrorism Charge
	London Hospital Reports Midwife to Counterterrorism Program After UK Lawyers for Israel Complaint Over Gaza Posts
	UK FM David Lammy Held Off the Books Meeting With Pro-Israel Lobbyist

Gaza

	Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian Basketball Star in Gaza Aid Center Shooting
	What Is Israel's 'Most Moral Army in the World' Doing in Gaza?
	Hamas Fighters Stage 'Large Scale' Attack on Israeli Base in Gaza
	Hospital Occupancy Rate in Gaza Hits 300% Amid Israeli Genocide: Ministry
	Israel Steps Up Gaza Bombing as It Signals Ceasefire Deal Rejection
	Lawsuit Demands Trump Administration Reveal Gaza Humanitarian Foundation Funding
	Aid Groups Warn Israel Blocking All Shelter Supplies for Gaza
	Gaza City's Residents Defy Israel's 'Gideon's Chariots 2' Attack
	Ministry of Health: Israel Kills One Child Every 40 Minutes in Gaza

Israel/Palestine

	Israel Set To Approve Long-Delayed Pipeline To Supply Gas to Egypt
	Thousands of Ultra-Orthodox Jews Block Major Roads in Israel To Protest Military Conscription
	Israeli Settlers Storm Al-Aqsa, Escalate West Bank Violence

Iran

	Iranian President Inks Defense Treaty With Belarus During Minsk Visit
	Iran Says Moment for 'Effective' Nuclear Talks With US Not Yet Reached

Middle East

	Lebanon's Patriarch: Hezbollah Must Surrender Weapons After State Asserts Monopoly on Arms
	Syria Appoints Former Rights Lawyer Ibrahim Olabi as UN Envoy

China

	China To Unveil Advanced Weapons at Huge Military Parade To Mark WWII End
	Why Is the US Sparing China, but Not India, for Importing Russian Oil?

India

	India Test-Fires Ballistic Missile Ahead of US Tariff Hike
	Indian State Refiners Resume Russian Oil Purchases
	Moscow Has 'Special Mechanism' To Continue Oil Supplies to India Amid US Tariffs

Asia

	China FM in Afghanistan, Offers To Deepen Cooperation With Taliban Rulers
	Myanmar's Military Retakes a Strategic Town Two Years After the Resistance Captured It
	North Korea Slams South Korea's Peace Overtures as US Drills Continue
	Nine Marines Detained on Okinawa as Joint Patrols Step Up Liberty Rule Enforcement
	US, Philippines Approve More Than 500 Joint Military Activities for 2026