Israel and Gaza‘s ruling Hamas agreed to an open-ended ceasefire on August 26 after seven weeks of fighting – an uneasy deal that halted the Protective Edge operation, with more than 2,200 killed.

The IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) began their current operation against Hamas after three teens were kidnapped and killed. The military op has already claimed over 1,500 civilian lives in Gaza.

The atmosphere is being compared to that on the eve of the 2014 Gaza war.

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Washington politics has often been described as sports for people who weren‘t all that good at sports. If that‘s true, then Thursday‘s congressional testimony by fired FBI Director James Comey is this town‘s Super Bowl.

President Trump and Republican leaders will meet Tuesday afternoon in the hopes of reinvigorating a stalled effort to rewrite the tax code.

It’s been nearly a month since President Trump fired former FBI Director James B. Comey. In the weeks since, the FBI has intensified its investigation into Russia’s efforts to influence the 2016 election and the possibility that it coordinated with people in Trump’s campaign. Public interest has been keen on Trump’s reasons for firing the FBI chief.

On Thursday, Comey is scheduled to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee. How many questions will be fully answered remains unclear. What’s certain is that all of Washington, and the rest of the country, will wait with bated breath.

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Winner, 25, was charged Monday with gathering, transmitting or losing defense information, as The Washington Post reported. Court documents did not identify the document that was leaked or the news outlet that received it, but the criminal complaint against Winner was unveiled shortly after the national security site the Intercept published a story containing an NSA report on Russian efforts to interfere with the 2016 election.

Die Verlegung des Stützpunktes der deutschen Luftwaffe im Syrien- und Irak-Krieg vom türkischen Incirlik nach Jordanien hat Radio Utopie bereits vor einem Jahr prognostiziert. Diese Militärbewegung ist im Zusammenhang zu sehen mit der von Jordanien aus laufenden U.S.-Intervention im Syrien-Krieg, sowie mit einem transkontinentalen Datentauschring von deutscher Polizei bis zu in Jordanien basierten U.S.-Todesschwadronen.

Mr. Comey, when you testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee last month as F.B.I. director, you said there had been no interference with the bureau’s Russia investigation. I am reminding you that you are under oath. Why are you contradicting yourself now?

Trump’s schedule for Thursday has not yet been released.

In a sign that the White House is girding for a battle with the ousted FBI chief, White House senior counselor Kellyanne Conway hammered Comey in an appearance on “The Today Show” for having to amend his remarks the last time he testified before Congress.

In contest with war-on-terror critic Jeremy Corbyn, it is Theresa May who finds herself beleaguered by accusations of ‚feet-dragging‘ over national security

a separate Survation poll, published on Saturday for the Mail on Sunday newspaper, also gave the Conservatives a one-point lead.

Aus bei Gericht eingereichten Unterlagen ging hervor, dass die Frau die als top secret eingestuften Dokumente mutmaßlich kopierte und an eine Nachrichtenorganisation weitergab. Laut einer eidesstattlichen Erklärung eines FBI-Agenten habe das Medium die US-Regierung selbst über den Erhalt vertraulicher Daten informiert.

The F.B.I. affidavit said reporters for the news outlet, which it also did not name, had approached the N.S.A. with questions for their story and, in the course of that dialogue, provided a copy of the document in their possession. An analysis of the file showed it was a scan of a copy that had been creased or folded, the affidavit said, “suggesting they had been printed and hand-carried out of a secured space.”

Heavy airstrikes by the Saudi led coalition ripped through the yemenite capital Sana’a throughout yesterday night. The strikes mainly focused on the Presidential Palace and it’s surrounding, of which the coalition had claimed to have gained control a few days ago.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held a telephone conversation with his Qatari counterpart Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Monday.

“The parties paid special attention to the rising tensions between Qatar and some other Arab countries,” the statement reads.
According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, the conversation was initiated by Qatar.