US warplanes, ships and troops ready in the Middle East if the conflict expands

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has kept an increased military presence in the Middle East throughout much of the past year, with about 40,000 forces, at least a dozen warships and four Air Force fighter jet squadrons spread across the region both to protect allies and to serve as a deterrent against...

Sweden charges a woman with war crimes for allegedly torturing Yazidi women and children in Syria

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Swedish authorities on Thursday charged a 52-year-old woman associated with the Islamic State group with genocide, crimes against humanity and serious war crimes against Yazidi women and children in Syria — the first such case on trial in the Scandinavian country. ...

A Hungarian company is linked to the pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — In a duplex in a quiet neighborhood of the Hungarian capital is the headquarters of a company that is linked to the manufacture of the pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria as part of an apparent Israeli operation against the Hezbollah militant group. ...

Taiwanese company Gold Apollo says the pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria were made by a company in Budapest

Israel-Hamas war latest: Pagers explode across Lebanon and parts of Syria

Hundreds of handheld pagers exploded almost simultaneously across Lebanon and in parts of Syria on Tuesday, killing at least nine people, government and Hezbollah officials said. Officials pointed the finger at Israel in what appeared to be a sophisticated, remote attack. The Israeli...

Father of Colorado supermarket gunman thought he could be possessed by an evil spirit

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — The father of a mentally ill man who killed 10 people at a Colorado supermarket testified Tuesday at his murder trial that he thought his son may have been possessed by an evil spirit before the attack. Sometime before the attack in Boulder in 2021, Moustafa...

Syria's president asks former communications minister to form a new government

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad issued a decree Saturday in which he named former Communications Minister Mohammed Ghazi Jalali as the head of the new government following July’s parliamentary election, state media reported. Jalali, 55, has been under European Union...

Israel intensified airstrikes on Iran-linked targets in Syria

GENEVA (AP) — Israel has intensified airstrikes on Iranian-linked targets in Syria, inflicting civilian casualties on at least three occasions, an independent U.N. commission said Tuesday. Since the Israel-Hamas war began nearly a year ago, Israel has conducted dozens of...

Syria says Israeli strikes kill 18 people in a large-scale attack

MASYAF, Syria (AP) — The number of people killed in overnight Israeli strikes in Syria has risen to 18 with dozens more wounded, Syria's health minister said Monday — the largest death toll in such an attack since the beginning of the war in Gaza. One of the sites targeted was a...

Israel-Hamas war latest: Israel orders more evacuations in Gaza after militants fire rockets

The Israeli military has ordered another evacuation of some residential areas in northwest Gaza where it says Palestinian militants fired rockets on the nearby Israeli town of Ashkelon. The orders issued on Monday came after a rocket attack triggered air raid sirens in Ashkelon the...