
US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Tuesday called for Turkey to show “restraint” in its offensive against a Kurdish militia in Syria. “The violence in Afrin disrupts what was a relatively stable area in Syria and distracts from the international effort to defeat ISIL,” Mattis said during a tour of ...

US Vice President Mike Pence’s speech to the Israeli parliament Monday, reaffirming Jerusalem as the Zionist entity’s capital, was “messianic” and a “gift to extremists,” a top Palestinian official said. “The messianic discourse of Pence is a gift to extremists and has proven that the US administration is part of ...