Food prices could spike by 14% before October 2021

As well as grocery stores, some restaurants are hiking up their prices, too. Sellwell/Getty Images Food prices will climb even further, the owner of supermarket chain Gristedes told Fox Business. John Catsimatidis predicted prices would climb by between 10% and 14% … Read More

Taliban has billions in US weapons, including Black Hawks and up to 600K rifles

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The war chest included at least 600,000 infantry weapons — including M16 assault rifles. Rahmat Gul/AP The Taliban has seized US weapons left in Afghanistan worth billions — possibly including 600,000 assault rifles, some 2,000 armored vehicles, and 40 aircraft, including Black … Read More

The Taliban are ‘intensifying’ their hunt for Afghans who helped the US and NATO, says a private intel report to the UN

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The Taliban are ‘intensifying’ their hunt for Afghans who helped the US and NATO, says a private intel report to the UN The Taliban are on the hunt for locals who worked with NATO or the former Afghan regime, per … Read More

Exclusive-FBI Finds Scant Evidence U.S. Capitol Attack Was Coordinated-Sources

FILE PHOTO: Pro-Trump protesters storm into the U.S. Capitol during clashes with police, during a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by the U.S. Congress, in Washington, U.S, January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo … Read More

Why the US-trained Afghan National Army have been defeated with ease by the Taliban

Why the US-trained Afghan National Army have been defeated with ease by the Taliban A Taliban fighter looks on as he stands at the city of Ghazni, Afghanistan on 14 August, 2021. Reuters The Taliban now control two-thirds of Afghanistan, … Read More

Amid regional upheaval, Egypt and Israel seek to strengthen ties and border security

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Despite intelligence-sharing between the neighboring countries, Cairo has not invited an Israeli prime minister to visit since 2013, the year Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi came to power. Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met with Egyptian Intelligence Minister Abbas Kamel … Read More

Hamas demanding ‘impossible terms’ as deadlock with Israel continues

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Col. (res.) David Hacham, a former Arab-affairs adviser to Israeli defense ministers, says any expectation of a significant change in Hamas’s extreme worldview is fantasy; the latest violence is part of a Hamas bid to “change the rules of the … Read More

Armed protests are picking up, and a new study says they’re more likely to turn violent

Corrections/clarifications: This story originally mischaracterized the increase in armed protests. The number of armed protests increased from February to June; the proportion doubled. Armed protests are six times more likely to turn violent as protests where no guns are present, … Read More

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