By SAM MEDNICK, JULIA FRANKEL, TOQA EZZIDIN and JAMES POLLARD Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The plane carrying about 150 Palestinians from Gaza came as a surprise to everyone on the ground when it landed in South Africa in November. It wasn't the only one. Since May, at least ...
By LOUIS OKAMBA Associated Press BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo (AP) — The Republic of Congo is voting to elect a leader Sunday that is likely to see incumbent President Denis Sassou N'Guesso take a fifth consecutive term. Some 3 million people are registered to vote in the election, ...
By SAM METZ Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The islands off Iran's coast have become the latest focus of the war after a U.S strike destroyed military sites last week on Kharg Island, which is vital to Iran's oil network. The strike on Friday on the island in the Persian Gulf left its ...
By MUNIR AHMED and ABDUL QAHAR AFGHAN Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan's president Saturday warned neighboring Afghanistan's Taliban government that it had " crossed a red line " by launching drone attacks on civilian areas in Pakistan, and hours later the country reportedly ...
By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A combined Russian missile and drone attack on the Kyiv region killed at least four people and wounded 15, a Ukrainian official said Saturday, after the United States postponed Russia-Ukraine talks due to the war with Iran. The attack ...
By KAREEM CHEHAYEB and MALAK HARB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Fatima Nazha slept on the street for two days after she and her family fled their home in Beirut's southern suburbs following an Israeli mass evacuation order. All of the schools the government turned into shelters were ...
By JON GAMBRELL, DAVID RISING, KONSTANTIN TOROPIN and MIKE CORDER Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — President Donald Trump said the U.S. bombed military sites Friday on an island vital to Iran's oil network, while an American official said 2,500 more Marines and an ...
By SAM METZ, SAMY MAGDY and JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Gulf states reported new missile and drone attacks on Sunday after Iran threatened to widen its campaign and called for the evacuation of three major ports in the United Arab Emirates as the war in the Middle East, ...
By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV demanded a ceasefire in the Middle East on Sunday in his strongest comments to date, directly addressing the leaders who launched the war in Iran. "On behalf of the Christians of the Middle East and all women and men of good ...
By FATMA KHALED Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels have so far remained on the sidelines as the Iran war widens across the Middle East, raising questions about why — and when the battle-hardened group might join the fight. Iran has retaliated against the ...
By SAM METZ Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The islands off Iran's coast have become the latest focus of the war after a U.S strike destroyed military sites last week on Kharg Island, which is vital to Iran's oil network. The strike on Friday on the island in the Persian Gulf left its ...
By TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press Clouds of toxic smoke unleashed into the atmosphere by U.S.-Israeli airstrikes on Iranian oil facilities made a dangerous return to Earth in the form of "black rain," prompting international health officials to warn of serious risks to the ...
By JON GAMBRELL, SAM MEDNICK, KONSTANTIN TOROPIN and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran urged people Saturday to evacuate the Middle East's busiest port and two others in the United Arab Emirates, openly threatening a neighboring country's non-U.S. assets ...
By JON GAMBRELL, SAM MEDNICK, KONSTANTIN TOROPIN and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A missile struck a helipad inside the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad and debris from an intercepted Iranian drone hit an oil facility in the United Arab Emirates as the ...
By RIO YAMAT AP Airlines and Travel Writer Jet fuel prices are rising as the war in the Middle East disrupts global oil supplies, putting cost pressure on airlines as the busy summer travel season approaches. Experts say it's not a question of if airfares will go up, but when, for how ...
By JON GAMBRELL, DAVID RISING, KONSTANTIN TOROPIN and MIKE CORDER Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — President Donald Trump said the U.S. bombed military sites Friday on an island vital to Iran's oil network, while an American official said 2,500 more Marines and an ...
By AMIR-HUSSEIN RADJY and SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — An engineer crouches under a park bench as fighter jets roar overhead. An athlete wracked by anxiety can't sleep as explosions go off. With the internet shut down, families and friends rely on each other for news about ...
By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Iraq is getting caught in the crossfire of the Iran war as the only country facing strikes from both sides, and that threatens to drag the nation that has so far avoided two years of regional turmoil into a full-blown crisis. As the ...
By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer The U.S. is temporarily easing some sanctions on Russian oil shipments, reflecting global concerns over sharply higher crude prices due to supply shortages stemming from the Iran war. The move, intended to soothe jittery markets over the disruption of ...
By JON GAMBRELL, GHAYA BEN MBAREK, SARAH EL DEEB and JULIE WATSON Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's secretive new leader issued his first public statements Thursday, resolving to keep fighting, promising more pain for Gulf Arab states and threatening to open ...