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  • The Arab World’s Last Militant Leader Is Elusive and Defiant

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    Over the past two years, Israel has systematically killed off or hobbled the leaders of its most-powerful enemies: Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran. Yet it hasn’t been able to neutralize one, whose unrelenting resistance has made him, in the eyes of supporters, the last militant leader still fighting in the Middle East.

    Diminutive and soft-spoken, Abdulmalik Al-Houthi has survived relentless attacks by Israel, the U.S. and other regional powers by hiding out in caves and never appearing in public while counting on Iran’s support to help keep his rebel movement in power in Yemen. For more than a decade as commander of Houthi forces, his playbook has been to keep challenging more formidable opponents with brazen missile attacks, gambling they have more to lose than he does. 

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  • Opinion | A U.S. Troop Exit From Eastern Europe?

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    It’s a safe bet that most Americans won’t notice if the U.S. pulls an Army brigade out of Romania, but you can bet Vladimir Putin will. Behind a reshuffling of U.S. forces abroad is a larger debate within the Trump Administration about America’s posture in the world, and senior Republicans in Congress are expressing alarm.

    The U.S. Army confirmed last week that soldiers from a brigade combat team of the 101st Airborne Division will return to Kentucky “without replacement.” Romania’s defense ministry called the decision “an effect of the new priorities of the presidential administration”—that is, the Trump Pentagon. About 1,000 troops will remain in the country, and the U.S. footprint in Romania is a small share of the roughly 85,000 troops on the continent.

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  • Trump Threatens Military Action in Nigeria in Defense of Christians

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    The president said the U.S. could go in “guns-a-blazing” to halt the perceived targeting of Christians by Islamist militants.

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  • Mass Stabbing on Train to London Causes Life-Threatening Injuries

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    Police made two arrests after the train was stopped in Huntingdon, near Cambridge, and say there is no sign of a terrorist motive.

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  • Next Question for Gaza Peace Plan: Who Wants to Police It?

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    A fresh obstacle to President Trump’s Gaza peace plan is taking shape: how to bring in an international security force to police the enclave without either Hamas or Israel abandoning the process.

    Then there is the question of whether any country would really be willing to commit any troops to the plan if it involved facing down the militants as they attempt to consolidate their power in Gaza.

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  • Trump Says He’s Not Planning Venezuela Strike

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    President Trump on Friday said he isn’t considering ordering military attacks in Venezuela, two weeks after suggesting ground strikes were possible.

    Asked by reporters on Air Force One about reports that he is weighing airstrikes against Venezuela, Trump responded: “No, it’s not true.”

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  • Israel’s Top Military Lawyer Steps Down Amid Leak Controversy

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    The official resigned after an investigation was launched into her alleged role in authorizing the release of footage that appeared to show soldiers assaulting a Palestinian detainee.

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  • Sudan Militia, Armed With Drones, Hunts Down Black Population of Darfur

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    Sudan’s civil war is taking a jarring turn in Darfur, where an Arab-led militia is now using state-of-the-art drones and execution squads to dominate the region’s Black population.

    Humanitarian groups say the violence has been escalating since the militia seized control of El Fasher, the largest city in the region. Videos shared online by the Sudan Doctors Network and other local rights groups appear to show militia members shooting unarmed civilians at point-blank range in the city on the fringes of the Sahara. In the streets, dead bodies are scattered alongside burned-out vehicles. At the only functioning hospital, the World Health Organization reported that the rebels killed all 460 people inside the main ward, including patients, caregivers and health workers.

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  • Hezbollah Is Rearming, Putting Cease-Fire at Risk

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    The Lebanese militant group is rebuilding its battered ranks and armaments, defying the terms of the cease-fire and raising the possibility of renewed conflict with Israel.

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    Omar Abdel-Baqui

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  • Trump Pivots Second Term Toward Foreign Policy

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    BUSAN, South Korea—President Trump wrapped up his six-day swing through Asia by touting trade deals and new investments in the U.S. But as he arrives back in Washington, the gold-plated receptions abroad are giving way to a shuttered government and deepening voter anxiety about the economy.

    The split screen sheds light on why Trump has turned much of his second-term attention to foreign policy.

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  • U.S. Eyes Striking Venezuelan Military Targets Used for Drug Trafficking

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    The Trump administration has identified targets in Venezuela that include military facilities used to smuggle drugs, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter. If President Trump decides to move forward with airstrikes, they said, the targets would send a clear message to Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro that it is time to step down.

    While the president hasn’t made a final decision on ordering land strikes, the officials said a potential air campaign would focus on targets that sit at the nexus of the drug gangs and the Maduro regime. Trump and his senior aides have been particularly focused on unsettling Maduro as the U.S. military has attacked boats allegedly carrying drugs in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific Ocean.

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  • Opinion | Hamas, Free Speech and Arizona University

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    The anti-Israel encampments on the quad are mostly gone, but we’re starting to learn what happened behind the scenes when universities let antisemitism run rampant on campus. Records recently obtained from the University of Arizona show the school’s faculty threw in with pro-Palestinian protesters in the months after Oct. 7, 2023.

    Arizona-based researcher Brian Anderson issued the Freedom of Information Act request in May 2024 for university communications on such keywords as “Israel,” “Palestine,” “Gaza,” “Hamas,” “Anti-Semitism” and “Jewish.” Mr. Anderson says the school refused the request until his lawyer sent a demand letter. It later produced nearly 1,000 documents with many names redacted. The university didn’t respond to our request for comment.

    The emails reveal that on Oct. 11, 2023, then-Arizona President Robert Robbins issued an unequivocal statement addressing “the horrendous acts of terrorism by Hamas in Israel.” Mr. Robbins called the massacre “antisemitic hatred, murder, and a complete atrocity” and called out Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) for “endorsing the actions of Hamas.”

    For that moment of principled clarity, Mr. Robbins was criticized by the faculty. On Oct. 12, faculty chair Leila Hudson received an email from a professor (name redacted) who expressed “concern” that “President Robbins email and others’ smears are chilling SJP dissent.” (Mr. Robbins had noted that while SJP didn’t speak for the university, the group has “the constitutional right to hold their views and to express them in a safe environment.”)

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  • Trump Says U.S. Will Begin Testing Nuclear Weapons

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    The president said he has instructed the Pentagon to test “on an equal basis” with Russia and China.

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  • U.S. Reduces Troop Numbers in Romania, Signaling Shifting Priorities

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    The Pentagon will no longer rotate Army combat brigades through Romania as part of a strategy that focuses on Asia and Latin America.

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    Michael R. Gordon

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  • Trump Tells Asia Allies: It’s Your Turn to Boost Military Spending

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    GYEONGJU, South Korea—Amid the pageantry and backslapping, President Trump’s weeklong Asian swing drew attention to a sour point for allies: The U.S. demand that they spend more to respond to a rising threat of Chinese aggression.

    Washington first pressured Europeans to boost their military budgets shortly after Trump took office in January. That push ultimately proved successful, with many allies pledging to increase spending.

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  • Trump Hails Golden Era in Japan Relations

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    The president heaped praise on Japan’s first female prime minister as the two leaders pledged to renew their countries’ alliance aboard a U.S. aircraft carrier.

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  • Opinion | Will Hamas Sink Trump’s Gaza Deal?

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    Restraining Israel has empowered the terrorists and deterred Arab states.

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  • Netanyahu Orders ‘Forceful’ Strikes on Gaza

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    Israel alleged Hamas launched an attack against troops in Israeli-controlled territory in Gaza.

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  • 14 Killed in U.S. Strikes on Four Alleged Drug Boats in Eastern Pacific

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    The U.S. carried out three new lethal strikes on four vessels allegedly operated by drug smugglers in the Eastern Pacific on Monday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said.

    In total, 14 alleged “narco-terrorists” were killed in the three strikes, which left one survivor, Hegseth wrote in a social-media post. U.S. Southern Command notified the Coast Guard to initiate search and rescue operations for the survivor, before relaying the information to a Mexican military aircraft operating in the area, according to a Pentagon official. Mexican authorities picked up the survivor, the official said.

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  • Victims of Palestinian Attacks Say Prisoner Releases Will Lead to More Violence

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    Tal Hartuv was at home in northern Israel on the afternoon of Oct. 11 when she saw the list of Palestinian prisoners slated for release as part of the Gaza cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas. She recognized a name: Iyad Fatafteh. He was one of two men convicted of stabbing her multiple times with a machete and murdering her American friend 15 years ago.

    “There is no justice, and I feel helpless,” said Hartuv, 59 years old, who was born in the U.K. and has been living in Israel for over 40 years. She said Fatafteh’s release has undone the past 15 years of healing. “It brings it all back up again,” she said.

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