By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The unfolding war in the Middle East has ricocheted across the region, with nearly every country sustaining damage from missile hits or shrapnel, many reporting casualties, and key embassies, economic engines and passageways closing ...

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The largest U.S. diplomatic drawdown in the Middle East since the Iraq War began more than two decades ago is creating an apparently unplanned-for crisis for the Trump administration as the United States and Israel strike Iran in a ...

By FATIMA HUSSEIN and SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to end trade with Spain, citing a lack of support over the U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran and the European nation's resistance to increase its NATO spending. "We're ...

By CATHY BUSSEWITZ and MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — The average price for a gallon of gasoline jumped 11 cents overnight in the U.S., and some drivers in Europe waited in line to fill their tanks with fuel, as war engulfed the Middle East and shipments of oil and ...

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press Throughout his political career, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has steered his country along two pillars of foreign policy: an ironclad partnership with the United States and a relentless diplomatic and covert battle against the rulers of the ...

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration and its allies in Congress presented a shifting new justification Monday for the U.S. attack on Iran, with House Speaker Mike Johnson suggesting that the White House believed Israel was determined ...

By JON GAMBRELL, MELANIE LIDMAN and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Israeli and U.S. airstrikes pounded Iran in an escalating campaign that U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday would likely take several weeks. Tehran and its allies retaliated across the ...

By REFUGIO RUÍZ and FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press GUADALAJARA, Mexico (AP) — The leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel was buried Monday in a shiny golden casket with enormous flower wreaths and a large military presence in the state that gave name to one of Mexico's most ...

By SYLVIE CORBET and SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press L'ILE LONGUE, France (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron announced Monday that France will increase its nuclear arsenal and, for the first time, allow the temporary deployment of its nuclear-armed aircraft to allied countries, in a ...

By CLAUDIA CIOBANU, SAM McNEIL and SAM METZ Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — How long will it last? Will it grow? What will the conflict and the reported death of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei mean to us, and to global security overall? Those questions echoed across the ...

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE and SALEH MWANAMILONGO Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — The U.S. imposed sanctions Monday on the Rwandan Defence Forces and four of its senior officials for supporting the March 23 Movement, an armed group responsible for human rights abuses in the central ...

By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti's government opened a 10-day registration period Monday for political parties to run in an upcoming general election, a critical step for a country that hasn't held one in more than a decade as deadly gang violence ...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina's largest trade union group on Monday filed a lawsuit to block a sweeping labor reform promoted by President Javier Milei and aimed at radically altering labor relations in the South American country. The reform, which was approved Friday by Congress, ...

By EDITH M. LEDERER and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.S. first lady Melania Trump presided over a U.N. Security Council meeting on Monday focusing on children in conflict, one of her signature issues, and acknowledged she was doing so in "challenging times" as the ...

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and Tehran's retaliatory strikes across the Middle East are quickly dragging Europe in, forcing the continent into defensive action to protect military bases and evacuate citizens caught up in the conflict. The ...

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani authorities deployed troops and imposed a three-day curfew before dawn Monday in the northern cities of Gilgit and Skardu after several people died and tens were injured in violent protests following the killing of Iran's Supreme ...

By JILL LAWLESS and MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press AKROTIRI, Cyprus (AP) — Britain is not at war, the government said Monday, despite saying it would allow the U.S. to use British bases during its war with Iran and after a Royal Air Force base in Cyprus was struck by an Iranian-made ...

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — As U.S. and Israeli forces pounded Iran, and Tehran and its affiliates retaliated by firing missiles at targets across the Mideast on Monday, the international legal order was caught in the crossfire. At the heart of the ...

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and KONSTANTIN TOROPIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth spoke Monday to widening concerns that the U.S.-Israeli strikes in Iran could spiral into a protracted regional conflict by declaring, "This is not Iraq. This is not endless," ...

By The Associated Press The distinctive buzz of Iranian-designed drones has become a familiar sound in Ukraine over the past four years. Now, it's increasingly heard across the Persian Gulf as Tehran strikes back with the cheap but effective weapons following the attack by the U.S. and ...