US President Joe Biden has announced that from now on, Washington recognizes the actions of the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century against the Armenians as a genocide, despite earlier objections from Turkey. “Beginning on April 24, 1915, with the arrest of Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople ...
A senior US National Security Council (NSC) official says Washington will not take pressure off until Iran’s nuclear program is capped and its remedial measures are reversed. Speaking to American Jewish leaders on Friday, NSC coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa Brett McGurk stressed that Washington would remove ...