The debate over the Iran nuclear deal is being waged on some unconventional battlegrounds. President Barack Obama and his opponents are stepping beyond traditional speeches and policy statements as U.S. lawmakers weigh whether to approve an accord that the administration says will cut off Iran’s ...
Barack Obama speaks at the National Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Pittsburgh, on July 21, 2015. Photographer: Jeff Swensen/Getty Images/ President Barack Obama defended the deal the U.S. and other world powers struck with Iran on its nuclear program and said many critics of the ...
President Obama addresses the 116th national convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Pittsburgh on Tuesday. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)/ PITTSBURGH — President Obama defended the agreement to limit Iran’s nuclear program with sharp criticism of his predecessors’ tendency to rely too heavily ...
An undated family photo of Jason Rezaian, detained Washington Post Iran bureau chief. Credit: Mohammad Davari/ Freejasonandyegi.com (Mohammad Davari/Freejasonandyegi.com)/ President Obama vowed Tuesday that his administration is “not going to relent” until Iran releases three Americans held in ...
President Barack Obama gestures during a speech at the 116th National Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, July 21, 2015, in Pittsburgh./ U.S. President Barack Obama demanded Tuesday that Iran release three Americans it is holding and help find a fourth believed to be in the country. "We ...
In this Oct. 18, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama talks with Jon Stewart during a taping of his appearance on "The Daily Show with John Stewart", in New York. Stewart enters the home stretch of his 16 years on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" on Monday, July 20, 2015, with 12 more nights ...
President Obama gestures during a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Pittsburgh on July 21./ President Obama defended his pursuit of a negotiated solution to limit Iran’s nuclear program against critics who he claimed would prefer to rush the U.S. back to war, arguing Tuesday ...
President Barack Obama's campaign to convince Congress to support the Iran nuclear deal led him on Tuesday to a veterans' convention and The Daily Show, where he took jabs at those opposing the agreement. In a back and forth on Comedy Central's nightly political satire show, Obama pushed back ...
PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday listed Americans held in Iran by name and said the United States will not give up until they are returned. "We are not going to relent until we bring home our Americans who are unjustly detained in Iran," Obama said in a speech to the ...
by the Israeli army three years ago alleges that new revelations from an American military officer who investigated her killing reveals a US cover-up. Tony Abu Akleh's comments come after the New York Times reported that a US colonel said he concluded in 2022 that Ms Abu Akleh, a ...
Efforts are continuing to find the bodies of the hostages that are still in Gaza/ Israel has received, through the Red Cross, a coffin that Hamas says contains the body of another deceased hostage held in Gaza. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said its troops had taken the coffin from Gaza back ...
Released Israeli hostage Evyatar David gestures to crowds as he returns to his home in Kfar Saba, central Israel/ The father of a released Israeli hostage who was forced to dig his own grave in a Gazan tunnel by Hamas has told the BBC his son's health is "improving every day". Avishai David was ...
Downing an Israeli drone is a rare action by the UN's peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, known as Unifil/ The UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon says it shot down an Israeli drone that flew over a patrol operating in the south of the country on Sunday, in the latest incident involving the force ...
Would Jordan provide security inside Gaza? The country's king explains his answer to BBC Panorama/ Countries would reject being asked to "enforce" peace in Gaza if deployed under the Trump ceasefire plan, King Abdullah of Jordan has told the BBC. "What is the mandate of security forces inside of ...
Wives and children of suspected Islamic State group fighters are detained in tented camps/ In the complex mosaic of the new Syria, the old battle against the group calling itself Islamic State (IS) continues in the Kurdish-controlled north-east. It's a conflict that has slipped from the ...
Teams from Egypt and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have been allowed to search for bodies of hostages taken during the 7 October attacks, Israeli authorities have confirmed. The Israeli government said the teams have been permitted to search beyond the so-called "yellow ...
old Zain Tafesh died from leukemia earlier this week/ In different wards of Nasser Hospital lie two 10-year-old boys, one shot by Israeli fire and paralysed from the neck down, another with a brain tumour. Now that a fragile ceasefire is in place, they are among some 15,000 patients who the ...
Michael Smuss, a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland who resisted the Nazis, has died aged 99 in Israel. He joined the ghetto uprising as a teenager in 1943, helping to make petrol bombs. Taken prisoner, he survived concentration camps and a death march before the end of World War II. After ...
Marco Rubio warned of "bumps in the road" but said the US is committed to making the peace plan work/ US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said "a lot of countries" have offered to be part of an international security force for Gaza - a key part of President Donald Trump's peace plan - but ...