Good evening. Its 5 a. M. Jerusalem. This is Fox News At Night. There is word coming into Fox News At Night that the United States has conducted airstrikes in syria. Lets get to our chief National Security correspondent jennifer. We broke the news moments ago that u. S. Warplanes made airstrikes in syria against Iranian Proxy Forces that had been firing on u. S. Bases more than a dozen times in the past week. We now have a statement from the defense secretary, lloyd austin those strikes what are being described as irans Islamic Revolutionary guard and affiliated groups inside syria. These were precision selfdefense strikes theyre being described as on two locations in Eastern Syria. Way told by senior military sources this is very similar to the kind of strike that we saw in the march 23rd time frame when the u. S. Had to respond to multiple strikes by Iranian Forces so we know f15 and 16s were involved. The statement from the Department Of Defense reads that the United States does not
This is cnn breaking news. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. The dysfunction among republicans in the u. S. House of representatives has now taken on global significance because of the crisis in the middle east. So we are in this hour going to focus a bit on House Republicans meeting a tt this hour. They are hoping to get one step closer to decide who will become their next speaker. No legislation can be passed including any legislation that might address the growing crisis on the ground in israel. So we are following that story, but we are going to begin today in the middle east, where at least a thousand people have been killed in the hamas attacks on israel, most of them civilians. President biden confirming today that 14 of them were americans. The white house says 20 additional americans are still missing, and that number might not necessarily reflect the number of american hostages. Its just 20 americans who are not accounted for right now. Today israel is carrying out air str
Comments. Thank you very much. Good evening, im bret baier. We are coming live from fox news World Headquarters in new york. We will have a live interview with the israeli ambassador to the United Nations shortly. We again our coverage of the war in israel with President Biden calling the hamas attacks act of here is evil. The white house bhooefs at least 14 americans were kill, at heats 20 missing. Some may be hostages. Israeli military official says the death toll has eclipsed one thousand in that country. The israeli response is underway. Warplanes are hammering the gaza strip as we speak and 300,000 israeli reservists being called. Terrorists are believed to be holding more than 150 people hostage there. Could be americans in that group using all of them as Human Shields. Hamas is threatening to execute the prisoners. Air raid sirens have sounded in northern israel near the border with lebanon raising possibility that hezbollah could attack the jewish state from the north. Correspo
not in the face russia s aggression in ukraine. shame on you all. palestinians aren t animals. committee will suspend and i again ask that those from the audience respect the people in the room and allow us to continue the hearing. john: as harris just mentioned, awaiting updates from the white house, the state department and the pentagon on the war in the middle east as anti-israel demonstrations intensify around the globe, including on capitol hill. and so we begin tuesday afternoon, john roberts, good afternoon to you. aishah: aishah hasnie in for sandra myth. america reports . so the chaotic scene was playing out at a senate hearing this morning as secretary of state antony blinken and defense secretary lloyd austin were making their case for congress to approve more aid to israel. you can see nearly two dozen protestors there were slamming the biden administration for funding what they say is the genocide of palestinians and accusing u.s. officials of being te
gaza, unleashing an enormous blast that one witness described as feeling, quote, like the end of the world. an idf spokesman tells me israeli forces were targeting a senior hamas commander who was, quote, hiding behind civilians. as the israel/hamas war escalates and it s escalating dramatically, u.s. officials are sounding the alarm that the threat of a terror attack against americans is at a whole other level. acts against jewish, muslim, american victims on the rise, including a historic surge of smichl. anti-semitism. the u.s. congress is on a the brink of a showdown over wartime funding as house republicans reject any link between aid to israel and ukraine. that and more with the top democrat in the house, the minority leader, hakeem jeffries. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer in tel aviv, israel, and you re in the situation room. we re live here in tel aviv following all the breaking news on israel s war against hamas