Syrian authorities made a rare arrest of two senior members of the Palestinian armed faction Islamic Jihad, the group said on Tuesday, a move that signaled the shifting of alliances in the Middle East. The group, Islamic Jihad, is an Iran-backed ally of Hamas that took part in the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel […]
The South Lawn of the White House was a hubbub of activity on Monday morning as a crowd of revelers dressed in spring colors gathered for the annual Easter egg roll. A brown-eared Easter Bunny greeted the crowd, the first lady read a children’s story — and the president and his defense secretary lashed out […]
Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of The Atlantic (Pic credit: AP) A simple phone contact error by US national security adviser Mike Waltz led to a journalist being accidentally added to a private Signal group chat discussing potential US military strikes in Yemen, according to people familiar with the matter.The group chat, created last month […]
US President Donald Trump addressed a security breach incident on Tuesday where Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, was inadvertently added to a classified Signal group chat discussing sensitive military operations against the Houthis.According to Trump, the breach likely occurred when a junior staff member working for national security adviser Mike Waltz somehow included Goldberg […]
File photo of US President Donald Trump (Pic credit: AP) US President Donald Trump revealed that a staffer in national security advisor Mike Waltz‘s office mistakenly added The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal group chat where senior officials were discussing plans for an upcoming strike on Houthi rebels in Yemen.“It was one of […]
President Donald Trump, left, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth listen during an event in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP/PTI) In an extraordinary breach of national-security protocol, top officials from the Trump administration planned and debated a military strike on Yemen using the encrypted messaging app Signal—accidentally including a journalist […]
File photo of US defence secretary Pete Hegseth (Pic credit: AP) US defence Secretary Pete Hegseth firmly denied on Monday that any sensitive “war plans” were shared in a Signal chat group that mistakenly included a “deceitful and highly discredited so-called” journalist.When asked about the “war plans” against the Houthis in Yemen shared with the […]
