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Mandel Ngan via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — National security adviser Jake Sullivan said Sunday that President Joe Biden is looking to make as much progress as possible on foreign policy before he leaves office next month. In an interview with “This Week” co-anchor Jonathan Karl, Sullivan said that Biden is hoping to surge aid to […]

Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images (LONDON) — President Joe Biden hosted Israeli President Isaac Herzog at the White House on Tuesday as the outgoing administration seeks cease-fire progress in Gaza and Lebanon before President-elect Donald Trump takes power in January. “I know that you’re working very hard to make sure that this war will end,” Herzog told […]

Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON, D.C.) — President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris described Thursday as a good day for the world after the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. Sinwar, considered the mastermind behind the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack on Israel that prompted war in Gaza and wider […]

Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (TEL AVIV) — President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on Wednesday, according to the White House. Vice President Kamala Harris also joined the call, the White House said. It marked the first phone call between the two leaders in months, and since fighting has intensified in the Middle […]

Stringer/Anadolu via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As Israel laid the groundwork for a possible ground invasion of Lebanon, the Biden administration on Wednesday was urging diplomacy to resolve the country’s long-simmering conflict with Hezbollah — but growing increasingly resigned to full-blown warfare on a second front in the Middle East, according to multiple U.S. […]

President Joe Biden shakes hands with King of Jordan Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein after giving remarks White House, Feb. 12, 2024. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — As the U.S. attempts to push Israel and Hamas closer to an agreement that would see all remaining hostages in Gaza freed in exchange for an extended truce, […]

David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Chinese President Xi Jinping told President Joe Biden directly at their recent summit that China will reunify with Taiwan, sources confirmed to ABC News. NBC News was the first to report the conversation. It was unclear whether Beijing plans to use force in its effort to reunify with […]

Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images Editor’s note: This report contains graphic descriptions of sexual violence. (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden has blamed Hamas’ refusal to release civilian female hostages for the end of a temporary cease-fire, and he called reports of women allegedly sexually assaulted by Hamas “appalling.” “We had a report in the earliest […]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden said Wednesday he “did not demand” Israel delay a ground incursion of Gaza in an effort to protect hostages and keep humanitarian aid flowing into Gaza. “What I have indicated to [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] is that, if it’s possible, to get these folks out safely that’s […]

SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — After a U.S. Army soldier launched international headlines by apparently intentionally crossing the border into North Korea on Tuesday, the Biden administration sent mixed signals on how far it might be willing to go to secure his release. “We’re looking into this,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told […]