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More than 1,000 people, including Christians, have been killed in two days of clashes between security forces linked to Syria’s new Islamist rulers and fighters of ousted President Bashar al-Assad, war monitors say.

Undeterred by U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s threat to impose new sanctions and tariffs, Russia struck Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region late Friday, killing four people and wounding 18 others, officials said.

In the Oval Office on Friday, U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters that the United States might take military action against Iran’s nuclear program “very soon” if no deal is reached.

More than 70 people have died in heavy clashes between security forces of Syria’s new rulers and fighters loyal to the ousted President Bashar al-Assad, a well-informed war monitoring group confirmed Friday.

The European Union rushed to unveil its largest defense plan on record as U.S. President Donald J. Trump threatened not to protect NATO military alliance allies if they do not pay more for their defense.

With a deadline approaching, United States Congress leaders agreed to spend $1.6 trillion, mostly on defense, for the rest of 2024 as they seek to avoid a partial government shutdown.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who sits under the president in the command chain and whose tasks include being ready for a nuclear attack, was hospitalized since Monday, the Pentagon confirmed.

During a reelection campaign launch at a suburban Philadelphia community college, President Joe Biden criticized Donald Trump as a threat to American democracy as the Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal by Trump to be included in the March Republican Presidential Primary Ballot in Colorado.

New York City sued 17 Texas busing companies on Thursday for $700 million, arguing the money would cover the city’s costs for caring for roughly 33,600 foreign nationals bused there after illegally crossing the border in Texas.

Police in the U.S. state of Iowa say the gunman who shot multiple people at a high school on students’ first day back in classes has died.

Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered a 2,000 year-old coin inscribed ‘Year One of the Redemption of Israel,’ from the time of the Jewish Bar Kochba Revolt against the Roman Empire in Judea, the Jerusalem Post reports.

A coalition of Arab states is pressing the United States and its Western allies to convince Israel to consider a renewed plan for Palestinian statehood that would result in a permanent ceasefire in the current war against Hamas, Fortune reports. Led by Saudi Arabia, the coalition includes Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.

The United States last week imposed sanctions on a small Israeli metal company that makes parts for the Iron Dome, an air defense system which has protected civilians from tens of thousands of rockets fired at the Jewish state from Gaza by the Hamas jihadist terror group respectively, First Post reports.

As fierce fighting continued in Gaza Sunday, delegates of the Iran-backed Palestinian group Hamas, deemed terrorists by the West, were in Cairo on Sunday for talks on a ceasefire with Israel, their sworn enemy, sources said.

The United States carried out its first airdrop of aid for Gaza in the Israel-Hamas war with more than 30,000 meals parachuted by military aircraft, officials said Saturday.

A Christian pastor and three of his church members in China’s Guangdong Province have been in custody for six weeks after being arrested by the ruling Chinese Communist Party on suspicion of conducting “illegal business operations,” China Aid reports.

Leaders from the Church of Christ in Nations (CAN) denomination in Nigeria have called for all Christians to beseech God for His mercy on their land as Fulani Islamic jihadists murdered 11 more Christians in Nigeria’s Plateau state and 20 Christians in neighboring Taraba state in attacks on June 27 and June 25 respectively, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.

A generation of children in Niger in the Sahel region of Africa is growing up surrounded and targeted by the murder, violence, and destruction inflicted on them by Islamic Jihadists in the Sahel region of Africa, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports, quoting a newly released statement from Amnesty International.

Amid the ongoing genocidal persecution of Christians in Nigeria by Islamic jihadists, unidentified gunmen on Saturday stormed the parish of the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Ogun State, killing the pastor and abducting seven congregants, the Christian Post (CP) reports. 

A locally renowned Muslim criminal in Lahore, Pakistan has confessed to being the lead perpetrator in the abduction, gang-rape and brutal murder of a Pakistani Christian widow who refused his demand to convert to Islam and marry him last month, Morning Star News (MSN) reports. Ruled by an authoritarian Islamic government, Pakistan ranks 7 on the US Open Doors World Watch List 2023 of top 50 countries where Christians are persecuted.