Akbar Shahid Ahmed

This article is part of HuffPost’s biweekly politics newsletter. Click here to subscribe. When President Donald Trump met with Syria’s interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, the encounter went beyond the “hello” the White House had told […]

Israel is committing a genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the human rights group Amnesty International said on Wednesday, in a campaign that’s benefited from huge military and diplomatic support from the United States. The declaration from Amnesty, an

A top State Department official privately said the Biden administration should have demonstrated greater concern for Palestinians at the start of Israel’s ongoing U.S.-backed offensive in the Gaza Strip and suggested that frustration among diplomats over the policy should be

As of Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is officially wanted for war crimes and crimes against humanity — a stunning position for the leader of one of the nations closest to the U.S., which positions itself as a champion

WASHINGTON — 18 senators on Wednesday voted against sending Israel additional American military equipment — the first-ever rebuke of its kind in Congress, and a signal of how frustration has grown in Washington as Israeli forces have pummeled Gaza with

The Biden administration is aggressively pushing senators to bless continued U.S. weapons shipments for Israel ahead of a first-of-its-kind vote in Congress on the policy, HuffPost has learned ― and administration officials are suggesting lawmakers who vote against the arms

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has already celebrated Donald Trump’s U.S. presidential election victory this week as “history’s greatest comeback.” And on Friday, Netanyahu signaled what he thinks Trump’s reascent to the Oval Office means for his own policies —

As Americans processed Donald Trump’s Tuesday election victory, people and political leaders around the world began preparing for the second presidential term of a man who regularly demonizes foreigners and whose last tenure in the White House was defined by

One family’s story offers a snapshot of the devastating impact of the Oct. 7, 2023, attack inside Israel — and the agonizing personal toll that choices by Hamas, Israel and the U.S. have taken in the year since. Members of

In The Hague, a serious young Dutch bureaucrat works on policies that are supposed to deter violations of human rights, from Myanmar’s crackdown on its ethnic minorities to Russians directing slaughter in Ukraine. But she’s worried: If those efforts seem