News Roundup 7/17/2025

by | Jul 17, 2025

News Roundup 7/17/2025

by | Jul 17, 2025

US News

  • Senate NDAA Would Add $32 Billion to Trump’s $1 Trillion 2026 Military Budget AWC
  • Space Force Conducts Largest Ever ‘Orbital Warfare’ Drills The Institute 
  • Big Beautiful Bill Authorized $1 Billion in ‘Offensive Cyber Operations’ Nap

Russia

  • Trump Says US Will Send Patriot Missiles to Ukraine The Institute 
  • Trump Announces Weapons Plan for Ukraine, Gives Russia 50-Day Deadline for Tariffs AWC
  • Trump Asked Zelensky If Ukraine Could Strike Moscow With US-Provided Weapons The Institute 
  • Russia Says Trump’s Threat To Impose Tariffs in 50 Days Is ‘Unacceptable’ AWC
  • Russia Reaffirms Nuclear Doctrine Amid Rumors That the US Could Provide Ukraine With Longer-Range Weapons AWC

China

  • US Pressing Japan and Australia on What They Would Do If the US Goes to War With China Over Taiwan AWC
  • US To Fund and Build a Fast Boat Base for the Philippines on the South China Sea AWC

Israel

  • Israeli Attacks in Gaza Kill 117 Palestinians Over 24 Hours AWC
  • Netanyahu Says Israel Will Restart War The Institute 
  • Israel Warns Palestinians Entering Mediterranean Sea ‘Endangers Your Lives’ Nap
  • Church Leaders Visit Christian West Bank Village Under Israeli Settler Attack AWC
  • Detained Palestinian Hospital Director in Critical Condition Nap
  • Israel Kills 88 Palestinians in Gaza Over 24 Hours in Latest Massacres AWC
  • 1 in 10 Palestinian Children Screened By UNRWA Are Malnourished The Institute 
  • Israeli Holocaust Professor: Israel Committing Genocide in Gaza Nap
  • Israeli Energy Minister Calls for Cutting Power to Aid Agency’s Offices Nap
  • Huckabee Calls on Israel to Investigate Killing of U.S. Citizen by West Bank Settlers The Institute 
  • UN Warns of ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ as West Bank Sees Highest Displacement Figures Since 1967 The Institute 
  • Huckabee Visits Netanyahu’s Corruption Trial in Strong Show of Support AWC
  • Ultra-Orthodox Party Leaves Netanyahu’s Coalition Nap
  • Israel Transfers Important West Bank Mosque to Settler Control AWC
  • Sharp Rise in Suicides By IDF Soldiers Nap
  • Israeli Attacks Kill 87 Palestinians in Gaza Over 24 Hours, Aid Seekers Killed in Stampede AWC

Iran

  • Khamenei Advisor Says No Nuclear Talks If US Demands Iran Abandon Uranium Enrichment AWC
  • Iran Presses SCO to Develop Secutiry Forum The Institute 
  • US, Allies Will Attempt to Impose UN Sanctions on Iran If No Nuclear Deal By End of August The Institute 

Lebanon

  • At Least 12 Killed in Israeli Strikes in East Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley AWC

Syria

  • 89 Killed, Around 200 Wounded as Druze-Bedouin Fighting in Southern Syria Rages AWC
  • Israel Attacks Tanks in Southern Syria, Claiming They Entered ‘Restricted Zone’ AWC
  • Israeli Minister Calls for Assassination of Syrian President Nap
  • Syrian Government Forces Kill Civilians in Suwayda and Declare Ceasefire AWC
  • Syria Announces Another Ceasefire in Suwayda, Says Troops Are Withdrawing AWC
  • Israel Launches Airstrikes on Syria’s Defense Ministry and Near the Presidential Palace in Damascus AWC

Somalia

  • US Africa Command Says It Has Launched 51 Airstrikes in Somalia So Far This Year AWC

Iraq

  • Drone Attack Shuts Down Oil Field Run by US Company in Iraqi Kurdistan AWC

Kyle Anzalone

Kyle Anzalone

Kyle Anzalone is news editor of the Libertarian Institute, opinion editor of Antiwar.com and co-host of Conflicts of Interest with Will Porter and Connor Freeman.

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