By SAMY MAGDY, MELANIE LIDMAN and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Iranian missiles struck two communities in southern Israel late Saturday, leaving buildings shattered and dozens injured in dual attacks not far from Israel's main nuclear research center, while President Donald ...

By LEE KEATH, JULIA FRANKEL and SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A 19-year-old star wrestler and two other young men were hanged in Iran this week, raising alarm among rights groups that a wave of executions may be underway as authorities facing relentless attacks from the ...

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Iran's attack this week on Qatar's natural gas export facility threatens to disrupt not just world energy markets but also global technology supply chains because the helium it produces is crucial for a range of advanced industries. Best ...

By JON GAMBRELL, MICHELLE L. PRICE and JULIE WATSON Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Three weeks into an escalating war in the Middle East, Iran threatened to expand its retaliatory attacks to include recreational and tourist sites worldwide, as the U.S. announced it ...

By EMMA BURROWS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A sizable number of U.S. Patriot air defense missiles have been moved from Europe toward the Middle East as Washington diverts resources toward its war on Iran, leaving concerning gaps in Europe's air defenses against Russia, U.S. defense ...

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — One after another, Israel has taken out Iran's top leaders. First it was Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, killed in the opening shots of the war. Now Ali Larijani, the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council ...

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press QUSHTAPA, Iraq (AP) — They fled Iran as children and now, living in Iraq as adults, they express guarded hope that the U.S.–Israeli war with Iran will weaken the theocracy that forced them into exile decades ago. Behind that hope is the longing of ...

DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Escalating attacks on key oil and gas facilities in the Persian Gulf have increased the risk of an extended bout of higher prices for everything from gasoline and electricity to computer chips and food. Iran launched strikes on ...

By SHEIKH SAALIQ and ANTON L. DELGADO Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Countries in Asia are scrambling to conserve energy and protect consumers as the war on Iran and attacks on gas fields and oil refineries disrupt critical supplies, rattling markets and driving up prices. The crisis ...

By SAM McNEIL Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Leaders from across the European Union are meeting Thursday to grapple with rising oil and gas prices caused by the war raging across key energy producers and shipping lanes in the Middle East. Many of those leaders have deflected entreaties ...

By SAM METZ Associated Press Israel has killed one senior Iranian leader after another in airstrikes as it seeks to topple the Islamic Republic. But its past experience of targeting senior militants shows the strategy has limits and can sometimes backfire. Israel killed Hezbollah leader ...

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran and Russia both allege that a projectile struck the grounds of the Bushehr nuclear power plant in the Islamic Republic, raising the specter of a radiological incident as Tehran's war with Israel and the United ...

By JON GAMBRELL, JULIE WATSON, MIKE CORDER and NATALIE MELZER Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran intensified its attacks on oil and natural gas facilities around the Gulf on Thursday, raising the stakes in a war that is sending shock waves through energy markets and ...

By SAM McNEIL and LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European leaders have demanded the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and a moratorium on strikes on water and energy infrastructure in the Middle East as they met in Brussels to grapple with rising energy prices caused by the ...

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarus' authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko on Thursday ordered the release of 250 political prisoners as part of a deal with Washington that lifted some U.S. sanctions, the latest step in the isolated leader's effort to ...

DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Escalating attacks on key oil and gas facilities in the Persian Gulf have increased the risk of an extended bout of higher prices for everything from gasoline and electricity to computer chips and food. Iran launched strikes on key ...

By LORNE COOK and SAM McNEIL Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders on Thursday lashed out at Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, accusing him of hijacking critical aid for Ukraine and undermining EU decision-making in an effort to win an election at home. In a rare ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A key outlawed Pakistani militant group behind numerous gun and bomb attacks announced a three-day ceasefire early Thursday ahead of a key Muslim holiday, hours after Pakistan and Afghanistan also declared a temporary pause to escalating fighting. No exchanges of fire were ...

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — There's happiness, and then there's Venezuelan happiness. It feels sweeter. Louder. Deeper. Maybe because it doesn't arrive as often. Or because it has been repressed by security forces and self-censored to avoid jail. Or ...

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand's incumbent Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul won a vote in Parliament on Thursday to remain in office, according to an official tally. The leader of the Bhumjaithai Party garnered 293 votes, exceeding the required majority ...