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Middle East latest: UN General Assembly demands a ceasefire in Gaza

Dec. 12, 2024 01:58 AM EST

The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved resolutions Wednesday demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and expressing support for the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees that Israel has moved to ban. General Assembly resolutions are not legally binding, although they reflect world...

Lebanon's prime minister asks Iran to help secure a cease-fire in Israel-Hezbollah war

Nov. 15, 2024 15:54 PM EST

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister on Friday asked Iran to help secure a cease-fire in the war between Israel and Hezbollah and appeared to urge it to convince the militant group to agree to a deal that could require it to pull back from the Israel-Lebanon border. ...

Middle East latest: Israeli strikes kill 11 as Lebanon cease-fire efforts appear to gain steam

Nov. 15, 2024 15:20 PM EST

Israeli strikes killed at least 11 people across Lebanon on Friday — including a mother, father and their three kids in a home — as rescue workers called off their search for survivors a day after an Israeli strike on a civil defense center killed 14 emergency workers and volunteers. ...

Middle East latest: Workers search through rubble in eastern Lebanon where Israeli strike killed 13

Nov. 15, 2024 06:38 AM EST

Rescue teams were searching Friday through rubble for missing people near the city of Baalbek in eastern Lebanon where an Israeli strike hit a civil defense center the night before, killing at least 13. All those killed in the strike on the town of Douris near Baalbek were employees...

Israeli strikes kill at least 12 Lebanese rescuers and 15 people in Syria

Nov. 14, 2024 19:22 PM EST

BEIRUT (AP) — An Israeli airstrike killed at least 12 Lebanese rescue workers on Thursday inside a civil defense center in the eastern city of Baalbek, according to health and rescue officials, hours after state media in Syria said Israeli strikes in and around the capital killed at least 15...

For many Iranians, Trump’s return intensifies worries about war. Yet some see reasons for hope

Nov. 07, 2024 11:09 AM EST

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranians, like many around the world, are divided on what Donald Trump's next presidency will bring: Some foresee an all-out war between Tehran and Washington, particularly as other conflicts rage in the region. Others hold out hope that America's 47th president might engage...

US says Iranian-American held in Iran as tensions high following Israeli attack on country

Nov. 03, 2024 20:44 PM EST

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian-American journalist who once worked for a U.S. government-funded broadcaster is believed to have been detained by Iran for months now, authorities said Sunday, further raising the stakes as Tehran threatens to retaliate over an Israeli attack on the...

Iran's supreme leader threatens Israel and US with 'a crushing response' over Israeli attack

Nov. 02, 2024 22:10 PM EDT

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's supreme leader on Saturday threatened Israel and the U.S. with “a crushing response” over attacks on Iran and its allies. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei spoke as Iranian officials are increasingly threatening to launch yet another strike...

Analysis: Iran faces tough choices in deciding how to respond to Israeli strikes

Oct. 27, 2024 23:00 PM EDT

JERUSALEM (AP) — It's Iran's move now. How the Islamic Republic chooses to respond to the unusually public Israeli aerial assault on its homeland could determine whether the region spirals further toward all-out war or holds steady at an already devastating and destabilizing level...

Satellite images show damage from Israeli attack at 2 secretive Iranian military bases

Oct. 27, 2024 17:44 PM EDT

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Israeli attack on Iran damaged facilities at a secretive military base southeast of the Iranian capital that experts in the past have linked to Tehran's onetime nuclear weapons program and at another base tied to its ballistic missile program, satellite...