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One of 3 judges weighing request for ICC arrest warrants against Netanyahu and others is replaced

Oct. 25, 2024 11:25 AM EDT

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The presiding judge of an International Criminal Court panel considering a request to issue arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his defense minister and senior Hamas leaders has been replaced on medical grounds. The court...

The UK denies a visa to Mandela's grandson over his support for Hamas

Oct. 25, 2024 10:39 AM EDT

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The grandson of South Africa's first Black president, Nelson Mandela, said Friday the U.K. government denied him an entry visa because of his support for Hamas and his stance on the Israel-Hamas war. Mandla Mandela could not travel to the U.K. earlier this month...

In Israeli footage of the last minutes of Hamas leader's life, some see a symbol of defiance

Oct. 19, 2024 22:39 PM EDT

The world’s final glimpse of Hamas’ leader was rough and raw, showing him wounded and cornered as he sat in a bombed-out Palestinian home and faced down the Israeli drone filming him, hurling a stick at it. For Israel, the scene was one of victory, showing Yahya Sinwar, the...

Iraq moves to revoke Saudi broadcaster's license after report angered militia supporters

Oct. 19, 2024 15:34 PM EDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s commission governing media announced Saturday that it would take steps to revoke the license of a Saudi television station to operate in the country. That came hours after dozens of supporters of Iraqi militias stormed and looted the office of the...

What's next for Hamas after its leader Yahya Sinwar's death?

Oct. 18, 2024 16:02 PM EDT

BEIRUT (AP) — The killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar by Israeli forces in Gaza this week leaves the Palestinian militant group considering new leadership for the second time in less than three months. Will Hamas now turn away from its hard-line wing or will it double down, and...

Yahya Sinwar, Hamas' top leader and a mastermind of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, is dead at 61

Oct. 18, 2024 14:11 PM EDT

BEIRUT (AP) — Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’ top leader and a mastermind of the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that triggered the longest, deadliest and most destructive war in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, was killed by Israeli forces in Gaza. He was 61. In Gaza, no figure loomed larger in...

What to know about Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader who was killed in Gaza

Oct. 18, 2024 12:19 PM EDT

Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader who was killed by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip, was the mastermind behind the Oct. 7 attack on Israel that sparked the war. He rose to the top position in August after the killing of the previous leader, Ismail Haniyeh, in an explosion in Iran that...

Who was Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader Israel says it killed?

Oct. 18, 2024 09:24 AM EDT

BEIRUT (AP) — Yahya Sinwar masterminded an attack on Israel that shocked the world, unleashing a still-widening catastrophe with no end in sight. In Gaza, no figure loomed larger in determining the war’s trajectory than the 61-year-old Hamas leader. Obsessive, disciplined and...

Israel says it has killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in Gaza

Oct. 17, 2024 23:20 PM EDT

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli forces in Gaza killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, a chief architect of last year’s attack on Israel that sparked the war, the military said Thursday. Troops appeared to have run across him unknowingly in a battle, only to discover afterwards that a body in the rubble was...

Israel-Hamas war latest: Israel strikes Houthi targets in Yemen

Oct. 04, 2024 05:37 AM EDT

Hezbollah on Sunday confirmed the death of high-ranking official Nabil Kaouk in an Israeli airstrike, a day after the Lebanese militant group acknowledged the killings of multiple commanders, including longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah. Israel struck Houthi targets in Yemen in...