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An injured man is taken to the Al-Ahli hospital following overnight Israeli army airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, in Gaza City, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi).
An injured man is taken to the Al-Ahli hospital following overnight Israeli army airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, in Gaza City, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi).

Middle East

Netanyahu says Israeli strikes across Gaza that killed hundreds are ‘only the beginning’

MARCH 18, 2025

FILE - Syria's interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa, looks on during a joint press conference with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the presidential palace in Ankara, Turkey, Feb. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)
FILE - Syria's interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa, looks on during a joint press conference with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the presidential palace in Ankara, Turkey, Feb. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)

Middle East

Syria flashes signs of peril and promise in a week of violence and diplomacy

MARCH 14, 2025

An injured passenger, rescued by security forces from a passenger train attacked by insurgents, is carried on a stretcher after arriving on a special train for the wounded and survivors, organized by the army, at a railway station in Much, in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province, Wednesday, March 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)
An injured passenger, rescued by security forces from a passenger train attacked by insurgents, is carried on a stretcher after arriving on a special train for the wounded and survivors, organized by the army, at a railway station in Much, in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province, Wednesday, March 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Middle East

Pakistan says insurgents who attacked a passenger train killed 21 hostages while all others freed

MARCH 14, 2025

Ukrainian Head of Presidential Office Andriy Yermak, right, and Ukrainian Minister of Defense Rustem Umerov speak to journalists in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Baraa Anwer)
Ukrainian Head of Presidential Office Andriy Yermak, right, and Ukrainian Minister of Defense Rustem Umerov speak to journalists in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Baraa Anwer)

Middle East

US resumes military aid and intelligence sharing as Ukraine says it is open to a 30-day ceasefire

MARCH 11, 2025

Displaced Palestinians live in a school run by UNRWA, the U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees, west of Gaza City, Sunday, March 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Displaced Palestinians live in a school run by UNRWA, the U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees, west of Gaza City, Sunday, March 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Middle East

Israel cuts off electricity supply to Gaza, affecting a desalination plant producing drinking water

MARCH 10, 2025

Demonstrators hold photos depicting the faces of Israeli hostages who are being held in the Gaza Strip, during a protest demanding their release from Hamas captivity, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, March 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
Demonstrators hold photos depicting the faces of Israeli hostages who are being held in the Gaza Strip, during a protest demanding their release from Hamas captivity, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, March 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Middle East

Hamas brushes off Trump’s threat and says it will only free hostages in return for a lasting truce

MARCH 7, 2025

Trucks line up at the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip on Sunday, March 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Mohamed Arafat)
Trucks line up at the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip on Sunday, March 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Mohamed Arafat)

Middle East

Israel is criticized after it bars Gaza aid to pressure Hamas to accept a new ceasefire proposal

MARCH 3, 2025

FILE - A part of Arak heavy water nuclear facilities is seen near the central city of Arak, 150 miles (250 kilometers) southwest of the capital Tehran, Iran, Jan. 15, 2011. (Mehdi Marizad/Fars News Agency via AP, File)
FILE - A part of Arak heavy water nuclear facilities is seen near the central city of Arak, 150 miles (250 kilometers) southwest of the capital Tehran, Iran, Jan. 15, 2011. (Mehdi Marizad/Fars News Agency via AP, File)

Middle East

Iran accelerates production of near weapons-grade uranium, IAEA says, as tensions with US ratchet up

FEB. 28, 2025

People watch a live broadcast from the funeral of slain hostages Shiri Bibas and her two children, Ariel and Kfir, at a plaza known as the Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. The mother and her two children were abducted by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, and their remains were returned from Gaza to Israel last week as part of a ceasefire agreement with Hamas. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
People watch a live broadcast from the funeral of slain hostages Shiri Bibas and her two children, Ariel and Kfir, at a plaza known as the Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. The mother and her two children were abducted by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, and their remains were returned from Gaza to Israel last week as part of a ceasefire agreement with Hamas. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Middle East

Israelis bid farewell to Shiri Bibas and her 2 young sons killed in captivity in Gaza

FEB. 28, 2025

Freed Palestinian prisoners react as they arrive in the Gaza Strip after being released from an Israeli prison following a ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Freed Palestinian prisoners react as they arrive in the Gaza Strip after being released from an Israeli prison following a ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Middle East

Hamas hands over bodies of 4 hostages to Israel as dozens of Palestinians leave Israeli prison

FEB. 28, 2025

Mohammed Sahloul, 17, is greeted by his sister Nidaa after being released from an Israeli prison in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Mohammed Sahloul, 17, is greeted by his sister Nidaa after being released from an Israeli prison in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Middle East

Israel and Hamas have begun negotiating next phase of Gaza ceasefire, Egypt says

FEB. 28, 2025

A woman looks at photos of slain hostages (bottom row, L-R) Ariel Bibas, his mother Shiri, his brother, Kfir and Oded Lifshitz, right, that are displayed in the dining hall at Kibbutz Nir Oz, in southern Israel, on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
A woman looks at photos of slain hostages (bottom row, L-R) Ariel Bibas, his mother Shiri, his brother, Kfir and Oded Lifshitz, right, that are displayed in the dining hall at Kibbutz Nir Oz, in southern Israel, on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Middle East

Israel and Hamas agree on new exchange, leaving fragile ceasefire intact

FEB. 25, 2025

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