American released by Taliban returns home to ‘champion’s welcome’

China has bet on positive press from a meeting with former U.S. national security adviser and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, hoping to use the face-to-face to revive positive momentum as relations with the U.S. remain tense. “China reaching out to Kissinger really is a sign of desperation,” Gordon Chang, Gatestone Institute senior fellow and […]

Egypt has sent about 40 tanks and armored personnel carriers to northeastern Sinai within the past two weeks as part of a series of measures to bolster security on its border with Gaza, two Egyptian security sources said. The deployment took place ahead of the expansion of Israeli military operations around Gaza’s southern city of […]