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Business News > Mint Authors > Nancy A Youssef

Nancy A Youssef

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ARTICLES BY NANCY A YOUSSEF

A strike in the southern Lebanese village of Odaisseh near the border with Israel on Wednesday. (AFP/Getty Images)

Pentagon worries Israel is close to launching ground war in Lebanon

5 min read . 19 Sep 2024

US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Reuters )

Joe Biden tried to use arms sales to pressure Israel. It didn’t work.

4 min read . 22 Aug 2024

President Biden said this week that it is becoming more difficult to complete a cease-fire agreement. Photo: elizabeth frantz/Reuters

The missteps in Washington and Tehran that brought Middle East to the brink

5 min read . 15 Aug 2024

Four Small Diameter Bombs. Photo: U.S. Air National Guard

US lifts restrictions on sale of bombs to Saudi Arabia

3 min read . 13 Aug 2024

The current delivery pace is only a slowdown compared with the airlift of weapons in the initial months after Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks, a State Department official says. (AFP)

The reason US arms shipments to Israel have slowed

5 min read . 26 Jun 2024

People hang out at a park with a graffiti in support of hostages kidnapped during the deadly October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas, in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Photo: Reuters)

Families of hostages in Gaza are desperate for news but dread a phone call

6 min read . 20 Jun 2024

An Israeli army F-15 fighter jet flies over central Israel. (AFP)

Congressional leaders allow arms sale to Israel after White House pressure

2 min read . 18 Jun 2024

An American soldier stands on a a US military vessel that ran aground at a beach in the Israeli coastal city of Ashdod on May 25, 2024. The US military said four of its vessels, supporting a temporary pier built to deliver aid to Gaza by sea, had run aground in heavy seas. (Photo: AFP)

How ambitious plans for a floating aid pier off Gaza fell apart

5 min read . 12 Jun 2024

President Biden warned Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against a full-scale assault on Rafah nearly two months ago. (Photo: REUTERS)

How Netanyahu pushed Biden to the edge of his ‘red line’

5 min read . 09 May 2024

The Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar in 2020.

US shuffles military assets in Middle East after Gulf pushback

4 min read . 03 May 2024

An image released by the U.N.’s agency for Palestinian refugees shows an aid truck in northern Gaza. PHOTO: UNRWA/REUTERS

US to begin construction of Gaza pier as Rafah invasion looms

4 min read . 25 Apr 2024

Much of Gaza’s urban landscape has been flattened during the war. PHOTO: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES

Biden weighs more than $1 billion in new arms for Israel

4 min read . 19 Apr 2024

Posters with pictures of hostages held in Gaza are displayed in Tel Aviv. HANNAH MCKAY/REUTERS

Hamas may not have enough living hostages for cease-fire deal

6 min read . 11 Apr 2024

US President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that Iran is 'threatening to launch a significant attack on Israel'. PHOTO: BONNIE CASH/PRESS POOL

US warns of imminent attack on Israeli assets by Iran or proxies

2 min read . 11 Apr 2024

Israel says destruction of civilian infrastructure in Gaza is unavoidable as it attacks Hamas. PHOTO: MOHAMMED ABED/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES

U.S. and Israel’s ‘unprecedented’ intelligence sharing draws criticism

5 min read . 31 Mar 2024

The military said that tunnel shafts were found in the residences and offices of senior Hamas officials . REUTERS/Amir Cohen (REUTERS)

Israel Struggles to Destroy Hamas’s Gaza Tunnel Network

4 min read . 28 Jan 2024

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin (Photo: AP)

China refused US call after downing of suspected spy balloon, Pentagon says

4 min read . 08 Feb 2023

US President Joe Biden with US troops at Andersen Air Force Base in Guam on November 16, 2022. (AFP)

New US base on Guam is aimed at deterring China

5 min read . 27 Jan 2023

Chinese President Xi Jinping. (Photo: AP)

Nuclear stockpile makes China a growing rival, Pentagon says

3 min read . 30 Nov 2022

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. (via REUTERS)

Ukraine gets help bundling up for frigid winter fight

2 min read . 16 Oct 2022