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
Hello and welcome to all of you watching in the United States and around the world. Im anna coren live from hong kong with our ongoing college of israel at war. Its 5 00 p. M. Here in hong kong, noon in embattled gaza where were now hearing that another small convoy of trucks with food and medicine is preparing to cross from egypt into gaza. 20 trucks were allowed to cross early saturday and egypts red crescent says another 17 trucks are ready to go today. Meanwhile, a Ground Invasion by Israeli Forces could come at any time. On saturday the Israeli Military announced its bombardment of hamas targets in gaza will become more relentless than ever. Hundreds of Armored Vehicles along with thousands of israeli troops are now poised at the gaza border, waiting for orders. On saturday the idf, again, dropped leaflets over Northern Gaza warning civilians to evacuate south or risk being considered a partner of hamas. The Israeli Military says it carried out an air strike early today on a mosqu
You are in the, cnn newsroom. Hi, everyone. I am jessica dean in washington and we begin this hour at the white house President Biden unexpectedly on his way back to the white house right now, were turning from delaware to meet with his National Security council over rising tensions in the middle east. Us officials including biden himself warned and iranian attack on israeli territory could be coming within the next few days leaving both the us and Israeli Forces on high alert. And weve already seen some aggression this morning as ronnie and forces seized a Container Ship with ties to an israeli businessman. It was intercepted in the strait of hormuz. The only Shipping Routes that connects the persian gulf to the open ocean and joining us now senior White House House reporter kevin liptak and Senior International correspondent been wedeman. Lets talk to kevin first. We know the president is on the way back to the white house. How is it responding to this moment . As israel awaits of Po
strategist steve bannon. he explained why he didn t think the u.s. was trying to go it alone around the world. have a listen. what he s doing, whether it s in the northwest with japan or korea, right, he s engaging his allies to say look, this has to work for america overall. so korea, i m going to renegotiate our trade deal. at the same time, we talked about the security lines. at the same time we talk about the thad system. at the same time we talk about you paying for the thaad system. by the way, it s the foreign policy community that has bifurcated this. donald trump has looked at this as a very practical businessman and saying you can t bifurcate these, these are inextricably linked. the first thing the community says about him is he s an isolationist, he wants america to go it alone. that s the exact opposite. so the white house has con firmed wilbur ross is heading a trade delegation to china.
sanctions for so many years. that s why they are still propped up because of russia and china and have been able to gim the system. having said that. you know give them money to keep them going opinion and they say do this and for 25 years it s a game. but the trump administration put pressure on there with sanctions and the military perspective. by introducing the thad system. but limited for time. you say all the things but having said that you have reservation. yes i have reservations about the timing of the president accepting this meeting so early. given that stake other stake holders were underwear aware. it seems the president is his own ambassador, his own strategist and he decided to make a huge decision because it s something that no one has done before. it s almost like he went full fun berg on this, where he said look no one else has done it i m