Israel’s new foreign minister said Monday that there has been “certain progress” in efforts to end the fighting with Lebanon’s Hezbollah. Earlier Monday, Israel’s new foreign minister told reporters there has been “certain progress” in cease-fire efforts with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Israel says 190 rockets were fired from Lebanon, with reports that nearly half targeted the area around Haifa TEL …
BAGHDAD — The U.S. on Wednesday ordered all nonessential government staff to leave Iraq, and Germany and the Netherlands both suspended their military assistance programs in the country in the latest sign of tensions sweeping the Persian Gulf region over still-unspecified threats that the Trump administration says are linked to Iran. A high-ranking British general said there was no new …