Tensions have been heating up between the U.S. and Iran and across the wider Middle East in the months following the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war. The United States has launched attacks against Iranian-backed targets while Iran continues to supply Houthi militias with advanced weapons. These skirmishes follow a decades-long conflict over nuclear weapons and…

Dearborn, Michigan, is home of the largest Muslim population per capita in the United States. The city was deemed as “America’s Jihad Capital” in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece and controversy has quickly followed. President Joe Biden condemned the article and Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud called it bigoted and Islamophobic, upping the community’s security…

On Jan. 28, three U.S. soldiers were killed and dozens were injured when a drone struck a military outpost in Jordan. The Middle East currently hosts approximately 30,000 U.S. troops, with American military leaders deploying additional forces since the start of the Israel-Hamas War in October 2023. U.S. troops serve various roles in different countries.…

Security cameras recorded Israeli commandos disguised as patients, doctors and nurses, guns drawn, raiding a hospital in the northern West Bank on Monday, Jan. 30. The Israel Defense Forces confirmed the counterterrorism operation killed three Palestinian militants on Tuesday. Two of the men killed were identified to be members of the Islamic Jihad militant group.…

President Joe Biden promised action after three U.S. service members were killed and dozens more were injured in an Iranian-backed drone strike. The White House said the attack happened at a U.S. military outpost in Jordan on Sunday, Jan. 28. The Pentagon identified the three Army Reserve soldiers as Sgt. William Jerome Rivers, 46; Spc.…

The Defense Department identifies the three U.S. soldiers killed in a drone strike at a base in Jordan as officials investigate how the attack happened. And Elon Musk says his Neuralink startup has successfully implanted a computer chip into a human’s brain for the first time. These stories and more highlight The Morning Rundown for…

Nine countries, including the U.S., temporarily cut funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) over some of its employee’s alleged ties to Hamas’ Oct. 7 terror attack. However, information obtained from an Israeli intelligence dossier alleges those ties run much deeper than previously reported. The United Nations had already fired several staff…

Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., called for an FBI investigation into the financing of certain pro-Palestinian protesters. On Sunday, Jan. 29, Pelosi said the protesters are spreading Russian President Vladimir Putin’s message. Pelosi’s team is now clarifying what she meant after receiving some criticism. “Informed by three decades on the House Intelligence Committee, Speaker Pelosi…

Fallout continues to grow for the main United Nations agency in Gaza after Israel accused 12 of its staff members of being involved in the Oct. 7 terror attacks by Hamas. After being notified of the allegations last week, the U.N. said it fired several employees of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. “These…