European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has announced plans to seek sanctions and a partial trade suspension against Israel over the war in Gaza.
An Israeli-Russian doctoral student from Princeton University who was kidnapped in Iraq has been released.
With the world’s attention fixed on efforts to free Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, talks are quietly continuing to liberate a Princeton scholar and Israeli hostage held in Iraq by a different Iranian-backed militant group.
The White House says President Joe Biden plans to host Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani next month.
The sister of a Russian-Israeli academic at Princeton University who went missing in Iraq nearly six months ago says the United States should use its influence to help win her freedom.
An Iraqi government spokesman says Baghdad has opened an investigation into the case of a dual Israeli-Russian academic who has been missing in Iraq since last March.