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The FBI announced Sunday that it was investigating a “terror attack” in Boulder, Colorado, that the local Jewish community said targeted activists rallying for the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza.

A joint statement from Boulder Jewish community groups said that an “incendiary device” had been thrown at participants in a hostage rally by a group called Run for Their Lives. Chapters of the group hold weekly events around the US to raise awareness about the hostages.

The Jewish groups said there were injuries but that details about the attack remained unclear.

Ukrainian forces destroyed dozens of Russian warplanes with a drone attack on air bases deep within Russian territory on Sunday.

Ukrainian forces destroyed 40 aircraft in the attack, which an official says took more than a year to orchestrate. Russia's defense ministry confirmed the attack on Sunday, saying it struck five airfields.

The operation saw drones transported in containers carried by trucks deep into Russian territory, he said. The drones reportedly hit 41 planes stationed at several airfields on Sunday afternoon, including A-50, Tu-95 and Tu-22M aircraft, the official said.

US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff slammed Hamas for making what he called were "backward" changes to the US-backed hostage deal proposal.

"I received the Hamas response to the United States’ proposal. It is totally unacceptable and only takes us backward. Hamas should accept the framework proposal we put forward as the basis for proximity talks, which we can begin immediately this coming week," Witkoff said on X/Twitter.

"That is the only way we can close a 60-day ceasefire deal in the coming days in which half of the living hostages and half of those who are deceased will come home to their families and in which we can have at the proximity talks substantive negotiations in good-faith to try to reach a permanent ceasefire," he concluded.

President Donald Trump put Russian President Vladimir Putin on notice, and issued some harsh words to China and their ongoing trade negotiations during his 19th week in office. 

"What Vladimir Putin doesn’t realize is that if it weren’t for me, lots of really bad things would have already happened to Russia, and I mean REALLY BAD. He’s playing with fire!" Trump wrote in a Truth Social post Tuesday morning.

Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia and former Russian president, responded in kind and issued his own words of caution to the U.S. 

"Regarding Trump's words about Putin ‘playing with fire’ and ‘really bad things’ happening to Russia. I only know of one REALLY BAD thing — WWIII. I hope Trump understands this!" Medvedev wrote.

“Iran is totally determined to complete its nuclear weapons program,” the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office said on Saturday, referring to a recent International Atomic Energy Agency report that, for the first time in nearly 20 years, explicitly found Tehran guilty of violating its non-proliferation obligations.

The U.N. nuclear watchdog “presents a stark picture that serves as a clear warning sign,” the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.

The report “strongly reinforces what Israel has been saying for years—the purpose of Iran’s nuclear program is not peaceful,” the Prime Minister’s Office statement continued.

Saudi Arabia’s defense minister delivered a blunt message to Iranian officials in Tehran last month: Take US President Donald Trump’s offer to negotiate a nuclear agreement seriously, because it presents a way to avoid the risk of war with Israel.

Alarmed at the prospect of further instability in the region, Saudi Arabia’s 89-year-old King Salman bin Abdulaziz dispatched his son Prince Khalid bin Salman with the warning destined for Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to two Gulf sources close to government circles and two Iranian officials.

Present at the closed-door meeting in Tehran, which took place on April 17 in the presidential compound, were Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, armed forces Chief of Staff Mohammad Bagheri and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, the sources said.

The IDF struck weapons depots in the Latakia area of Syria, containing surface-to-surface missiles, the IDF confirmed in a statement on Friday evening.

The IAF also struck surface-to-air missile components.

The weapons posed an international threat as well as a threat to Israel's maritime navigation abilities, the IDF fstatement said.

This comes after news this week that Israel and Syria are in direct contact and have, in recent weeks, held face-to-face meetings aimed at calming tensions and preventing conflict in the border region between the two longtime foes.

Prince Faisal bin Farhan on Sunday will become the first Saudi foreign minister to visit the West Bank in decades, a top Palestinian official confirmed to AFP.

The top Saudi diplomat will head a delegation of Arab foreign ministers to Ramallah, where they will meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Deputy Foreign Minister Hussein al-Sheikh told CNN on Friday.

Palestinian ambassador to Saudi Arabia Mazen Ghoneim told Saudi state-backed Al Arabiya that Prince Faisal will be joined by counterparts from Egypt, Jordan and “other countries.” The Palestinian Al Quds newspaper reported earlier this week that foreign ministers from Qatar, Bahrain and Oman will also join Prince Faisal.

Hamas said Thursday it does not accept the outline of US envoy Steve Witkoff’s proposed ceasefire and hostage deal at face value and demands certain changes, according to people familiar with the matter.

The information provided by the sources conflicts with reports published in Saudi newspaper Al-Hadath, which indicated that Hamas will shortly agree to a 60 day ceasefire in exchange for the release of 10 living hostages and the bodies of 18. As part of the proposal, the report claimed that 125 Palestinian prisoners serving life sentences and 1,111 prisoners arrested after October 7, would also be released, and aid would be increased to the Gaza Strip.

Hamas said the new proposal was more biased in favor of Israel than previous proposals, and that Witkoff accepted most of the demands presented by Ron Dermer in a meeting with him on Tuesday, a source close to Hamas told Walla.

The US flag was hoisted Thursday outside of the long-shuttered American ambassador’s residence in Damascus, in a sign of growing ties between Washington and the new Syrian government.

The US ambassador to Turkey, Tom Barrack, who has also been appointed special envoy to Syria, arrived to inaugurate the residence, Syrian state-run news agency SANA reported.

On Thursday, speaking to Saudi channel Al Arabiya in Damascus, Barrack described the long-standing conflict between Syria and Israel, who have technically been at war since 1948, as a “solvable problem” through dialogue, proposing a “non-aggression agreement” between them.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened to halt nuclear talks between the US and Iran by launching a strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, according to The New York Times on Wednesday.

Citing officials briefed on the matter, Netanyahu has butted heads with US President Donald Trump in at least one phone call. US and Israeli officials have held a "flurry of meetings in recent days."

The Israel Defense Forces has reportedly been ramping up preparations for a massive airstrike across Iran against its nuclear facilities, and in at little notice as seven hours, limiting the time that the Trump administration would be able to stop Israel.

The Israeli Air Force struck Sana’a International Airport on Wednesday, destroying the last operational aircraft used by the Houthi terrorist organization, according to Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz.

“This is a clear message and a direct continuation of the policy we established: Whoever fires at the State of Israel will pay a heavy price,” Katz stated following the strike.

The attack follows an Israeli operation on May 6 that eliminated other aircraft at the same site.

Mossad chief David Barnea and Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer are expected to meet US Special Envoy to the Mideast Steve Witkoff during their trip to Washington on Tuesday, Hebrew media reported, with the top officials persisting in their efforts to reach a hostage release deal with Hamas.

The Walla news site reported the two arrived in Washington earlier in the day, citing Israeli officials.

According to foreign media reports, a deal being discussed would see around 10 living hostages and 10 bodies of hostages, along with hundreds of Palestinian security prisoners, released in two stages during a roughly two-month ceasefire. During that time, Israel and Hamas would hold negotiations on the terms of a permanent truce.

U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff on Monday criticized Hamas for its latest actions in the ongoing hostage and ceasefire negotiations, calling them “disappointing and completely unacceptable.”

His remarks come as the United States intensifies efforts to broker a new agreement aimed at ending hostilities in Gaza and securing the release of Israeli hostages.

“What I have seen from Hamas is disappointing and completely unacceptable,” Witkoff told Barak Ravid of Axios, rejecting the terrorist organization’s claim that it had accepted a U.S. proposal.

Israel and Syria have established unprecedented direct diplomatic contact, conducting face-to-face meetings in recent weeks designed to ease border tensions and prevent conflict between the long-standing regional adversaries, according to five people with knowledge of the discussions.

These contacts represent a dramatic shift in relations between nations that have remained on opposing sides of Middle Eastern conflicts for decades. The development comes as the United States actively encourages Syria's new Islamist leadership in Damascus to forge relationships with Israel, while Israeli forces have substantially decreased their military operations within Syrian territory.

These contacts represent a dramatic shift in relations between nations that have remained on opposing sides of Middle Eastern conflicts for decades. The development comes as the United States actively encourages Syria's new Islamist leadership in Damascus to forge relationships with Israel, while Israeli forces have substantially decreased their military operations within Syrian territory.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin was "playing with fire."

Trump's latest comments follow some of the biggest drone and missile attacks on Ukraine since Russia's full-scale war began in early 2022.

U.S. President Donald Trump suggested on Sunday that negotiations with Iran are yielding progress, indicating that a breakthrough in talks regarding its nuclear program could be announced within days.

“We had some very good talks with Iran yesterday and today and let’s see what happens, but I think we could have some good news on the Iran front,” Trump told reporters on the tarmac at Morristown Airport in New Jersey before departing for Joint Base Andrews and the White House.

The president described the discussions as focused on averting a military confrontation. “The Iran talks, I can’t tell you what’s going to happen tomorrow. I can tell you the Iran talks have been going very well. And I’d love that to happen. I’d love to see no bombs dropped and a lot of people dead. I really would like to see that happen,” he said. “I think there’s a good chance that it could happen.”

[Note: The information below had been published by the Jerusalem Post. As of Monday, the latest information is that Hamas has not accepted the proposal.]

[It had been reported that...] Hamas has agreed to a Gaza ceasefire proposal it attributed to US special envoy Steve Witkoff for a Gaza ceasefire, a Palestinian official close to the group told Reuters on Monday.

The new proposal, which [would see] the release of 10 hostages and 70 days of truce, was reportedly received by Hamas through mediators.

“The proposal includes the release of 10 living Israeli hostages held by Hamas in two groups in return for a 70-day ceasefire and a partial withdrawal from the Gaza Strip,” the source said.

President Donald Trump said Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin “has gone absolutely CRAZY” and that he is “not happy with what Putin is doing” after Moscow launched its largest aerial attack of its three-year war on Ukraine overnight.

“I’ve always had a very good relationship with Vladimir Putin of Russia, but something has happened to him. He has gone absolutely CRAZY! He is needlessly killing a lot of people, and I’m not just talking about soldiers. Missiles and drones are being shot into Cities in Ukraine, for no reason whatsoever,” Trump posted on Truth Social, hours after he told reporters, “I’m not happy with what Putin is doing. He’s killing a lot of people, and I don’t know what the h*** happened to Putin.”

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth denied China’s claim the Golden Dome would turn space into a "war zone."

"All we care about is protecting the homeland," Hegseth told Fox News Digital while departing from a trip to Fort Bragg, North Carolina. 

Hegseth also responded to pushback over his decision to kick off a monthly Christian prayer service at the Pentagon...

"We’ve said it very publicly, and we’ve said it very proudly. Appealing to heaven, to God, is a longstanding tradition in our military," Hegseth said, adding that George Washington got on bended knee alongside his continental Army forces.

"I appeal to Jesus Christ for that protection, to speak that word and be open and willing to talk about it at the Pentagon. If they want to criticize that, they’re on the wrong side," he said.  

The Israel Defense Forces said Sunday that it aims to occupy 75 percent of the Gaza Strip’s territory within two months as part of its new offensive against the Hamas terror group.

Israel on March 18 resumed its attacks against Hamas with a surprise wave of airstrikes, ending a two-month ceasefire. The IDF has since deployed five divisions to the Strip — amounting to tens of thousands of troops — and is poised to launch a wide-scale ground offensive aimed at defeating Hamas’s military wing and its civil rule in Gaza, should the terror group not agree to release the hostages it is holding.

Senior officials from the E3 countries — the United Kingdom, Germany, and France — warned the Trump administration that Iran is deliberately stalling negotiations over a new nuclear agreement to hinder the ability to impose sanctions if no agreement is reached, according to several sources familiar with the matter who spoke to The Jerusalem Post.

Under the 2015 nuclear agreement, the member states have the authority to impose broad United Nations Security Council sanctions on Iran through a mechanism known as the snapback, in response to major violations of Iran’s nuclear commitments.

This option will no longer be available after October, the "sunset date". The European signatories have made it clear to Iran that if a new and "meaningful" nuclear deal is not reached by August, they will trigger this mechanism, which would result in extensive sanctions on Iran.