JERUSALEM —Heavy fighting continued Monday in Gaza, with Israeli war planes bombarding more than 50 Hamas targets, Hamas firing as many rockets back into the Jewish state, and the death toll topping 500. Israel reported hitting two weapons manufacturing sites and six underground rocket launchers on Monday. Hamas fired more rockets into Israel and tried […]
CAIRO —U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in Cairo for talks with Egyptian leaders and other senior officials on ways to end the fighting in Gaza. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki says Secretary Kerry is here to support Egypt’s initiative to restore a November 2012 cease-fire in Gaza, where she says the Obama administration and […]
WHITE HOUSE —U.S. President Barack Obama is calling on Russia to allow international investigators immediate, full, and unimpeded access to the site in Ukraine where a Malaysian passenger jet was shot down last week. Obama said Monday the pro-Russian separatists who control the part of eastern Ukraine where the plane went down are preventing international investigators […]
Speaking from the White House on Friday, President Obama said that evidence points to a surface to air missile being fired at, and bringing down Malaysian Airllines Flight MH17 as it was transiting the rebel-held area in eastern Ukraine bound for Kuala Lumpur from Amsterdam on Thursday. The airliner was at its cruising altitude of 33,000 […]