By BASSEM MROUE, JAMEY KEATEN and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — The war in the Middle East raged on multiple fronts Monday, as the U.S. and Israel pummeled military targets in Iran's capital, Israel stepped up its campaign against Iran-backed militants in Lebanon and ...
By ABDUL QAHAR AFGHAN and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan's deputy government spokesman said early Tuesday the death toll from an airstrike by Pakistan that hit a hospital treating drug users in the Afghan capital Kabul has increased to 400. In a post on ...
By GONZALO SOLANO Associated Press QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuadorian officials said Monday that they have deployed 75,000 soldiers and police officers to four crime-ridden provinces where the government is implementing a nightly curfew banning people from leaving their homes from 11 p.m. to ...
By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The BBC filed a motion Monday asking a U.S. court to dismiss President Donald Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against it, warning that the case could have a "chilling effect" on robust reporting on public figures and events. The suit was filed in a ...
By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France's government is bolstering the country's military presence in the Middle East, dispatching its aircraft carrier and other warships, while President Emmanuel Macron engages with key players in the conflict, including Iran, in a bid to ...
By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy returned to court on Monday for an appeal hearing in Paris over his conviction linked to the alleged illegal campaign financing of his 2007 presidential campaign by Libya, a case that led him to spend 20 ...
By LOUIS OKAMBA Associated Press BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo (AP) — Ballot counting began Sunday after polls closed in The Republic of Congo, where President Denis Sassou N'Guesso is seeking a fifth consecutive term. Results are expected within two weeks. The elections were marked by a ...
BEIJING (AP) — Representatives from Beijing and Washington began their economic and trade talks in Paris on Sunday, paving the way for U.S. President Donald Trump's state visit to Beijing to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping in about two weeks. The delegations, led by U.S. Treasury Secretary ...
By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) — In the two weeks since the U.S. and Israel launched strikes on Iran, President Donald Trump increasingly has been knocked on his political heels. He's grown more agitated with news coverage and has failed to find a way to ...
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 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 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 ...