Palestinians in Gaza express relief and caution as ceasefire deal raises hopes of ending the warAP News• Oct 9, 2025 08:59 amPalestinians in Gaza have welcomed the news of an agreement on the first phase of a peace plan between Israel…
Families of Israeli hostages, mired in anguish, erupt into joy as freedom nears for the captivesAP News• Oct 8, 2025 08:55 pm
Kirkus Prize winners include a novel on identity, a history of Iran and an ode to belly buttonsAP News• Oct 8, 2025 05:59 pm
The Latest: Israel and Hamas agree to a ceasefire, release of hostages and prisonersAP News• Oct 8, 2025 04:55 pm
Hamas wants to trade Gaza hostages for these high-profile prisoners. Israel views them as terroristsAP News• Oct 8, 2025 11:00 am
These numbers show how 2 years of war have devastated Palestinian lives in GazaAP News• Oct 7, 2025 01:57 am
Syrian government declares ceasefire after clashes with Kurdish fightersAP News• Oct 7, 2025 01:56 amALEPPO, Syria (AP) — Syria’s minister of defense announced a ceasefire Tuesday after overnight clashes between security forces and Kurdish…
Thousands in Gaza are missing 2 years into the war. Tormented families search for cluesAP News• Oct 6, 2025 09:57 pm
Iraq’s amnesty law frees 35,000 and recovers $34.4M, Supreme Judicial Council saysAP News• Oct 6, 2025 12:58 pm
Lebanese army chief briefs government on Hezbollah’s disarmament as Israel strikes kill 2AP News• Oct 6, 2025 12:01 pm
Minorities had hoped to break into Syria’s new political order in the weekend vote but few succeededAP News• Oct 6, 2025 02:56 am
Israeli fire in the West Bank killed their kids. Palestinian families want to know whyAP News• Oct 6, 2025 01:55 am
A former Gaza hostage’s memoir keeps the focus on those still held by HamasAP News• Oct 5, 2025 09:54 pm
Photos from 2 years of war between Israel and Hamas bear witness to its horrorsAP News• Oct 5, 2025 09:53 pmIt’s been two years since Hamas-led militants stormed into Israel, plunging the region into war. Photos taken by Associated Press…
International journalists visit Gaza City under the supervision of Israel’s armyAP News• Oct 4, 2025 09:57 am
Netanyahu hopes to announce the release of all hostages from Gaza ‘in the coming days’AP News• Oct 4, 2025 01:53 am
Iran executes 6 death-row inmates it alleges carried out attacks on behalf of IsraelAP News• Oct 4, 2025 01:53 am
Australian accused of Afghanistan war crime pleads not guilty but trial held until at least 2027AP News• Oct 2, 2025 10:51 pm
Israel has killed more than 100 civilians in Lebanon since ceasefire, UN saysAP News• Oct 1, 2025 09:03 amBEIRUT (AP) — An Israeli drone strike on southern Lebanon killed one person and wounded five on Wednesday as the…
Blast at university laboratory in Tehran kills one, injures 4, Iranian media saysAP News• Oct 2, 2025 05:57 am
Ceiling collapse at landmark building in Syria’s capital kills two renovation workersAP News• Oct 1, 2025 08:00 am
Trump signs an executive order vowing to defend Qatar in the wake of Israel’s strikeAP News• Oct 1, 2025 07:59 am
Druze seek Sweida autonomy and turn toward Israel, adding new twist to Syria’s tensionsAP News• Sep 30, 2025 10:58 pm
UN appeals to the Taliban to restore internet access across AfghanistanAP News• Sep 30, 2025 04:51 am
Women in Gaza say they were promised food, money or work in exchange for sexual interactionsAP News• Sep 29, 2025 10:09 pm
Internet blackout hits Afghanistan as Taliban enforce morality crackdownAP News• Sep 29, 2025 11:53 amISLAMABAD (AP) — An internet blackout hit Afghanistan on Monday, with local media reporting a potential nationwide cut of fiber-optic…
Northwest Turkey hit by a magnitude 5.4 earthquake, no casualties reportedAP News• Sep 28, 2025 09:15 am
Iran’s top security official urges regional unity against Israel as he visits allies in LebanonAP News• Sep 27, 2025 05:02 am
Airstrikes and gunfire kill at least 59 people in Gaza as pressure grows for ceasefire, hostage dealAP News• Sep 27, 2025 02:02 am
An American nurse in Gaza City films a hospital’s collapse as Israeli forces surround itAP News• Sep 26, 2025 11:04 pm
A year after losing its longtime leader, Hezbollah is beginning to regroupAP News• Sep 26, 2025 10:07 pm
Lebanon’s ex-central bank chief accused of corruption released on $14 million bailAP News• Sep 26, 2025 10:05 am
Iraq says it will resume oil exports from the Kurdish region after a halt of more than 2 yearsAP News• Sep 26, 2025 06:02 amBAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq will resume exporting oil from the country’s northern, semiautonomous Kurdish region through Turkey’s Ceyhan port after…
Israeli strikes on Yemen’s capital kill at least 9 people and injure scores, the Houthi rebels sayAP News• Sep 26, 2025 04:07 am
Israel says it struck site used to produce precision missiles in eastern LebanonAP News• Sep 26, 2025 03:05 am
Hezbollah defies Lebanon PM’s ban to honor fallen leaders with coastal light showAP News• Sep 25, 2025 11:09 am
Iran has likely carried out an undeclared missile test, satellite photos analyzed by the AP showAP News• Sep 25, 2025 06:11 am
Drone strike on a market in Sudan kills 15, aid worker and local group sayAP News• Sep 24, 2025 11:09 am
Drone fired by Yemen’s Houthis wounds 22 in southern Israel, in a rare breach of missile defensesAP News• Sep 24, 2025 09:07 am
UN peacekeepers in Lebanon say an Israeli drone crashed into their headquartersAP News• Sep 24, 2025 06:07 am
A mother stranded in Gaza City says she and her daughters are ‘waiting to die’AP News• Sep 23, 2025 11:04 pmExplosions shake the walls of the dim basement in Gaza City where Noor Abu Hassira and her three daughters are…
Saudi Arabia’s grand mufti, Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Abdullah al-Sheikh, diesAP News• Sep 23, 2025 11:04 pm
A ship comes under attack off the coast of Yemen as Houthi rebels continue to threaten vesselsAP News• Sep 23, 2025 01:07 am
Rubio meets Syria’s leader in New York as the country’s isolation eases furtherAP News• Sep 22, 2025 01:06 pm
Israeli drone strike kills 5, including 3 children, in southern LebanonAP News• Sep 21, 2025 11:04 am
US-led coalition in Syria kills IS militant said to have planned attacks in the WestAP News• Sep 19, 2025 12:06 pm
At a mass grave on the outskirts of Damascus, some families learn the fate of missing loved onesAP News• Sep 19, 2025 11:08 amOTAIBA, Syria (AP) — Search teams on Friday pulled some 25 bodies out of a mass grave believed to contain…
Hezbollah leader calls for ‘new page’ with Saudi Arabia as regional tensions escalateAP News• Sep 19, 2025 10:07 am
Gunman kills 2 at Israeli-run crossing between West Bank and Jordan. 4 soldiers killed in GazaAP News• Sep 18, 2025 06:09 am
Israel’s culture minister cuts funding for prestigious film awards, saying winner defames soldiersAP News• Sep 18, 2025 05:06 am
‘Race against time’ to remove rubble after recent earthquake in Afghanistan’s east, says UNAP News• Sep 18, 2025 04:03 am
The Taliban internet ban spreads across Afghanistan as more provinces are shut downAP News• Sep 18, 2025 02:02 am
Despair deepens for a Palestinian family forced to flee across Gaza yet againAP News• Sep 17, 2025 11:03 pm
The Latest: Israeli military presses on with its new ground offensive on Gaza CityAP News• Sep 17, 2025 01:04 am
Israeli troops press forward into Gaza City as more Palestinians flee and death toll passes 65,000AP News• Sep 17, 2025 01:04 amIsraeli troops and tanks are pushing deeper into Gaza City as more people flee the devastated area. Strikes cut off…
A rushed rescue saves Gaza archeological items before an Israeli strike on a warehouseAP News• Sep 16, 2025 09:09 am
Syria, Jordan, US agree on plan to restore stability in Sweida after deadly clashesAP News• Sep 16, 2025 07:17 am
Taliban leader bans Wi-Fi in an Afghan province to ‘prevent immorality’AP News• Sep 16, 2025 05:04 am
Israel strikes the Yemeni port of Hodeida as Houthi rebels activate air defensesAP News• Sep 16, 2025 02:04 am
The Latest: Israeli strikes pummel Gaza City as a new ground offensive gets underwayAP News• Sep 15, 2025 11:03 pm
Israeli military begins its ground offensive in Gaza City as thousands of Palestinians fleeAP News• Sep 15, 2025 10:07 pm
Little daylight between US and Israel evident as Rubio and Netanyahu meetAP News• Sep 15, 2025 06:06 am
Summit leads to little action after Israeli strike on Hamas in DohaAP News• Sep 15, 2025 01:03 amQatar hosted a summit of Arab and Islamic nations in hopes of presenting a united response to Israel’s attack on…
Qatar denounces Israel before major summit on Israel’s attack in Doha targeting Hamas leadersAP News• Sep 14, 2025 08:03 am
Rubio is in Israel in wake of Qatar attack as Israeli strikes intensify in northern GazaAP News• Sep 14, 2025 03:02 am
Taliban claim an agreement is reached with US envoys on a prisoner swap as they seek better tiesAP News• Sep 13, 2025 09:04 am
Palestinian factions hand over truckloads of weapons in Lebanon’s largest refugee campAP News• Sep 13, 2025 04:06 am
Israel ramps up strikes on Gaza City and hospital says at least 32 are deadAP News• Sep 13, 2025 03:04 am
UAE summons Israeli diplomat to condemn the attack on Qatar targeting Hamas leadersAP News• Sep 12, 2025 12:09 pm
As Israel carried out strikes far beyond its borders, violence surged in the occupied West BankAP News• Sep 12, 2025 11:08 am