By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — President Donald Trump and other top American officials are urging Iran to forgo retaliation and engage in direct talks following the U.S. attack on three key Iranian nuclear sites.
The Islamic Republic responded to the overnight ...
By DAVID RISING, JON GAMBRELL and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Israel on Monday expanded its war against Iran to include targets associated with the country's struggling theocracy, striking the gate of a Tehran prison notorious for holding political ...
By MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Hours after the U.S. struck three Iranian nuclear sites, Iran launched more than 40 missiles toward Israel on Sunday, wounding 23 people and destroying apartment buildings and homes in three cities.
At an impact site in Tel Aviv, ...
By MONIKA PRONCZUK and SAM MEDNICK Associated Press
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Editor's Note: This story contains graphic images and descriptions of atrocities.
The International Criminal Court has been asked to review a confidential legal report arguing that the Russia-linked Wagner Group has ...
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — More than 100 firefighters assisted by water-dropping helicopters and planes were battling a large wildfire burning near the main town of the eastern Aegean island of Chios Sunday, with emergency services ordering the evacuation of a dozen areas.
The fire department ...
By ABDULRAHMAN SHAHEEN and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press
DWEIL'A, Syria (AP) — A suicide bomber in Syria opened fire then detonated an explosive vest inside a Greek Orthodox church filled with people praying on Sunday, killing at least 22 and wounding 63 others, state media ...
BANGKOK (AP) — Over 2 metric tons of crystal methamphetamine has been seized from a tourist boat near a pier in Eastern Thailand before it was smuggled out of the country, local authorities said Monday.
Eight men were arrested Saturday in Rayong province for allegedly attempting to smuggle ...
By DYEPKAZAH SHIBAYAN Associated Press
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The Netherlands on Thursday returned 119 artifacts looted from Nigeria, including human and animal figures, plaques, royal regalia and a bell.
The artifacts, known as the Benin Bronzes and mostly housed in a museum in the city ...
By ABBY SEWELL Associate Press
BEIRUT (AP) — Hezbollah has long been considered Iran's first line of defense in case of a war with Israel. But since Israel launched its massive barrage against Iran, triggering the ongoing Israel-Iran war, the Lebanese militant group has stayed out of the ...
By SAM MEDNICK, NATALIE MELZER, and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press
BEERSHEBA, Israel (AP) — Israel's defense minister overtly threatened Iran's supreme leader on Thursday after the latest missile barrage from Iran damaged the main hospital in southern Israel and hit several other ...
By TIA GOLDENBERG and MOSHE EDRI Associated Press
REHOVOT, Israel (AP) — For years, Israel has targeted Iranian nuclear scientists, hoping to choke progress on Iran's nuclear program by striking at the brains behind it.
Now, with Iran and Israel in an open-ended direct conflict, ...
By WILSON MCMAKIN Associated Press
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Congo and Rwanda will sign a peace agreement in Washington on June 27, a joint press release from the nations and the U.S. State Department said Wednesday. Both countries have agreed to the terms of the deal aimed at ending fighting ...
BANGKOK (AP) — Thousands of supporters of Myanmar's jailed former leader Aung San Suu Kyi celebrated her 80th birthday Thursday by attempting to set a world record for the most birthday greeting videos, while others took to the streets in demonstrations against the military government that ...
By JAMES JORDAN and HARRIET MORRIS Associated Press
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin offered Wednesday to help mediate an end to the conflict between Israel and Iran, suggesting Moscow could help negotiate a settlement that could allow Tehran to pursue a ...
By JOSEPH KRAUSS, JON GAMBRELL and JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's supreme leader rejected U.S. calls for surrender in the face of more Israeli strikes Wednesday and warned that any military involvement by the Americans would cause "irreparable ...
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iran carried out executions at "an alarming rate" last year with at least 975 people killed, the United Nations chief said in a report that also cited other human rights abuses, from barriers to freedom of expression to the use of ...
By DYEPKAZAH SHIBAYAN Associated Press
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday directed security agencies to hunt down the perpetrators of a weekend attack that killed at least 150 people in the country's northcentral, as he faces growing pressure over a ...
By JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — As Israeli strikes kill top Iranian generals, take out air defenses and damage nuclear sites, many wonder if President Donald Trump will deepen U.S. involvement in the conflict.
Trump has long railed against what he ...
By SAM McNEIL undefined
BARCELONA (AP) — Iran is boasting that it has hypersonic missiles and says it already has begun firing the cutting-edge weapons at Israel.
There is no evidence that Iran has unleashed the missiles, and experts are skeptical of the claim.
But the use of these ...
By SAM McNEIL undefined
BARCELONA (AP) — Iran is boasting that it has hypersonic missiles and says it already has begun firing the cutting-edge weapons at Israel.
There is no evidence that Iran has unleashed the missiles, and experts are skeptical of the claim.
But the use of these ...