2024-01-26: News Headlines

Staff (2024-01-26). Headlines for January 26, 2024. democracynow.org ICJ Orders Israel to Prevent Genocide But Stops Short of Calling for Ceasefire, Israel Pounds Khan Younis, Targets Hospitals as Death Toll Tops 26,000, CIA Dir. Burns to Travel to France for Truce Talks with Qatar, Egypt and Israel, Minneapolis and Somerville, MA, Pass Gaza Ceasefire Resolutions, U.S. and Iraq to Start Talks on Phased Withdrawal of U.S. Coalition Forces, "Humanity Takes a Step Backwards": Alabama Executes Kenneth Smith Via Nitrogen Asphyxiation, Trump Adviser Peter Navarro Sentenced to 4 Months for Defying Congressional Subpoena, 65,000 Pregnancies a Result of Rape Since End of Roe in…

News Desk, The Cradle. (2024-01-26). Iraqi Drones Target Israel's Ashdod Port For Second Time In Three Days. popularresistance.org The Islamic Resistance in Iraq (IRI) announced a new attack on the Israeli Port of Ashdod on 25 January, one day after the start of "phase two" of Iraqi operations in support of Gaza. | "In continuation of our approach to resisting [US] occupation, in support of our people in Gaza, and in response to [Israeli] massacres … the Islamic Resistance in Iraq today, Thursday … attacked the port of Ashdod in the occupied territories with drones," the IRI said in a statement on Thursday. | This marks the second time in less than a week that the Iraqi coalition has launched a drone attack on Ashdod. | On Wednesday, Abu…

Dave DeCamp (2024-01-26). US Confirms It's Entering Talks That Could Lead to US Withdrawal From Iraq. news.antiwar.com Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin confirmed on Thursday that the US and Iraq will start talks on the future of the US military presence in Iraq in the "coming days," which could result in a US withdrawal. Baghdad has been calling for an end to the presence of the US-led anti-ISIS coalition in response to …

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies (2024-01-26). Biden Must Choose Between a Ceasefire in Gaza and a Regional War. counterpunch.org In the topsy-turvy world of corporate media reporting on U.S. foreign policy, we have been led to believe that U.S. air strikes on Yemen, Iraq and Syria are legitimate and responsible efforts to contain the expanding war over Israel's genocide in Gaza, while the actions of the Houthi government in Yemen, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and

presstv.ir (2024-01-26). Iraqi Resistance announces fresh drone strikes against US forces. presstv.ir Iraq's resistance groups announce conducting fresh drone strikes against bases housing American occupation forces across the country.

presstv.ir (2024-01-26). Iraq, US agree to discuss timeline for withdrawal of American troops. presstv.ir Iraq's foreign ministry said Baghdad and Washington have agreed to set up a committee to start talks to set a timetable for a phased withdrawal of American forces from the Arab country.

presstv.ir (2024-01-26). US-occupied Ain al-Asad base targeted in fresh drone attack: Report. presstv.ir The Ain al-Asad air base housing US troops in Iraq has reportedly come under a fresh drone attack amid reports that suggest Washington is mulling troops' withdrawal from Iraq.

Mitchell Plitnick (2024-01-26). Biden is following Netanyahu off a cliff. mondoweiss.net In refusing to pressure Israel into a ceasefire while continuing to launch strikes on Yemen, Biden has shown utter contempt for all Arabs and Muslims, including his own Arab and Muslim American citizens who say they won't vote for him over Gaza.

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