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Heavy Israeli strikes on southern Gaza kill 19, including senior Hamas political leader
Palestinian officials say Israeli strikes across the southern Gaza Strip have killed at least 19 people overnight into Sunday, including a senior Hamas political leader and several women and children.
 
Sudan army soldiers celebrate after they took over the Republican Palace in Khartoum, Sudan, Friday, March 21, 2025. (AP Photo)
Sudan’s army says it seized key buildings in Khartoum after retaking the Republican Palace
 
EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - FILE - Eyad Abu Jazar holds the body of a child he believes to be his nephew, who was killed in Israeli army airstrikes, at Nasser Hospital morgue in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Mohammad Jahjouh, File)
As Israeli bombs fell, wounded children overwhelmed this Gaza hospital. Dozens died
When Israel unleashed a wave of bombardment this week, shattering Gaza’s ceasefire, a hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis was overwhelmed with wounded children.
 
Sudan army soldiers take over the Republican Palace in Khartoum, Sudan, Friday, March 21, 2025. (AP Photo)
What could happen next in Sudan’s civil war
The war in Sudan appears to be reaching a critical juncture after nearly two years of fighting that has killed tens of thousands, driven millions from their homes and spread famine.
 
An army soldier walks in front of the Republican Palace in Khartoum, Sudan, after it was taken over by Sudan's army Friday, March 21, 2025. (AP Photo)
Sudan’s military says it has retaken Khartoum’s Republican Palace, seat of country’s government
Sudan’s military says it retook the Republican Palace in Khartoum, the last heavily guarded bastion in the capital of rival paramilitary forces, after nearly two years of fighting.
 
The bodies of victims of an Israeli army airstrike are prepared for burial at Indonesia Hospital in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, March 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Strikes in Gaza kill 85 overnight, bringing the total since Israel broke ceasefire to nearly 600
Israeli strikes have killed at least 85 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip overnight and into Thursday. Hours later, Hamas fired three rockets at Israel without causing casualties, in the first such attack since Israel broke their ceasefire.
 
Displaced Palestinians, carrying their belongings traveling from Beit Hanoun to Jabaliya, a day after Israel's renewed offensive in the Gaza Strip, Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Israeli troops advance in Gaza to retake part of a corridor dividing north from south
Israel says its troops retook part of a corridor that bisects Gaza, and its defense minister warned that attacks would intensify until Hamas frees dozens of hostages and gives up control of the territory.
 
A Palestinian man holds the body of his 11 month-old nephew Mohammad Shaban, killed in an Israeli army airstrikes at the Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Israel’s surprise bombardment plunged Palestinians back into ‘hell’
Israel’s surprise wave of airstrikes has plunged Palestinians back into a nightmare they had hoped might be behind them. Tuesday’s predawn bombardment hit neighborhoods across the devastated territory, catching many people while they slept.
 
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).
Netanyahu says Israeli strikes across Gaza that killed hundreds are ‘only the beginning’
Israel has launched airstrikes across the Gaza Strip that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says are “only the beginning” and “a necessary condition for freeing hostages.”
 
Sudanese police accuse RSF paramilitaries after 11 bodies found at bottom of a well in Khartoum
Sudanese authorities have found several bodies inside a well in the capital, Khartoum, a few days after the military cleared the area from a notorious paramilitary group.
 
In this photo taken from video released by Ansar Allah Media Office via Al Masirah TV channel shows a wounded child being taken for treatment at a hospital in Saada, Yemen, Saturday, March 15, 2025 following airstrikes over multiple targets in the country. The Houthi-run Health Ministry said the overnight strikes killed at least 31 people, including women and children, and wounded over 100 in the capital of Sanaa and the northern province of Saada, the rebels' stronghold on the border with Saudi Arabia.( Al Masirah TV via AP)
US and Iran-backed Houthis both vow escalation after US airstrikes target rebels in Yemen
The United States and Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen are both vowing escalation after the U.S. launched airstrikes to deter the rebels from attacking military and commercial vessels in one of the world’s busiest shipping corridors.
 
This image taken from video provided by the U.S. Navy shows an aircraft launching from the USS Harry S. Truman in the Red Sea before airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, March 15, 2025. (U.S. Navy via AP)
Trump orders strikes on Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen and issues new warning
The Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen say a series of airstrikes have hit the capital, Sanaa, on Saturday evening. U.S. President Donald Trump, in a social media post, says he ordered the airstrikes.
 
People take part in a protest demanding the immediate release of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, March 15, 2025. (AP Photo//Oded Balilty)
Hamas says it will only release American-Israeli hostage if ceasefire deal is implemented
Hamas says it will only release an American-Israeli and the bodies of four other hostages if Israel implements their ceasefire agreement. The militant group calls it an “exceptional deal” aimed at getting the truce back on track.
 
People gather to collect water in Khartoum, Sudan, May 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali, File)
AP Exclusive: US and Israel look to Africa for moving Palestinians uprooted from Gaza
The U.S. and Israel have reached out to officials of three East African governments to discuss using their territories as potential destinations to move Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.
 
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)
Israel cuts off electricity supply to Gaza, affecting a desalination plant producing drinking water
Israel has cut off the electricity supply to Gaza. The move has affected a desalination plant producing drinking water for part of the arid territory. Hamas calls it part of Israel’s “starvation policy.”
 
This is a locator map for Yemen with its capital, Sanaa. (AP Photo)
UN says 186 missing and at least 2 dead after migrant boats capsize off Yemen and Djibouti
The United Nations migration agency says four migrant boats have capsized in waters off Yemen and Djibouti, leaving two people dead and 186 missing.
 
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)
Hamas brushes off Trump’s threat and says it will only free hostages in return for a lasting truce
Hamas has brushed off President Donald Trump’s latest threat and reiterated that it will only free the remaining Israeli hostages in exchange for a lasting ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
 
President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Trump issues ‘last warning’ to Hamas to release all remaining hostages held in Gaza
President Donald Trump has issued what he calls a “last warning” to Hamas to release all remaining hostages held in Gaza.
 
Trucks line up at the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip after Israel blocked the entry of aid trucks into Gaza, Sunday, March 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Mohamed Arafat)
Israel’s supply cutoff to Gaza sends prices soaring as aid groups race to distribute scarce stocks
Israel’s cutoff of food, fuel, medicine and other supplies to Gaza’s 2 million people has sent prices soaring and humanitarian groups into overdrive, trying to distribute dwindling stocks to the most vulnerable.
 
Journalists watch a screen displaying Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, center, with Arab Leaders, at the press center hall of the emergency Arab summit at Egypt's New Administrative Capital, just outside Cairo, Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
Arab leaders endorse Egypt’s plan to rebuild Gaza as an alternative to Trump’s proposal
Arab leaders have endorsed Egypt’s postwar plan for the Gaza Strip that would allow its roughly 2 million Palestinians to remain in the territory.
 
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)
Israel is criticized after it bars Gaza aid to pressure Hamas to accept a new ceasefire proposal
Israel faces sharp criticism after barring the entry of all food and other supplies into Gaza. It says there will be additional consequences if Hamas doesn’t accept what it calls a U.S. proposal for a ceasefire extension.
 
Palestinians sit at a large table surrounded by the rubble of destroyed homes and buildings as they gather for iftar, the fast-breaking meal, on the first day of Ramadan in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, March 1, 2025 (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Israel supports a US proposal to extend Gaza ceasefire’s first phase. But Hamas wants Phase 2
Israel’s government says it supports a proposal to extend the first phase of the ceasefire in Gaza through Ramadan and Passover, though Hamas has insisted on negotiating the truce’s second phase instead.
 
General view of Zamzam refugee camp after being attacked, outside the Darfur town of al-Fasher, Darfur region, Sudan, on Feb. 13, 2025. (Maxar Technologies via AP)
UN food agency pauses aid to famine-hit Sudan displacement camp of half a million people
The United Nations’ food agency says it has paused aid distribution in Sudan’s famine-hit Zamzam displacement camp of a half-million people as fighting intensifies between the country’s warring sides.
 
Delegates sing during a planned signing ceremony of the Sudan Founding Charter aimed at establishing a unity government involving leaders of political forces, armed groups, and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) in Nairobi, on Feb. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku)
Sudan’s military is making advances to retake the capital. What’s changing in the nearly 2-year war?
Sudanese army advances on the ground could potentially change the course of the war as it approaches its two-year mark. The military has regained ground from its rival, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, in and around the capital Khartoum.
 
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)
Hamas hands over bodies of 4 hostages to Israel as dozens of Palestinians leave Israeli prison
An Israeli security official says Hamas has handed to the Red Cross the bodies of four Israelis who were held hostage in Gaza.
 
This is a locator map for Sudan with its capital, Khartoum. (AP Photo)
Death toll in Sudan military plane crash rises to 46
Sudanese officials say the death toll from a military plane crash in the city of Omdurman has increased to at least 46 people, including women and children. The Khartoum Media Office said Wednesday that the crash also injured 10 others.
 
A two-month-old Palestinian baby, Eila Sarsak, receives treatment in an incubator at the Patient Friends Hospital in Gaza City, where she has been in intensive care for ten days due to the effects of the cold weather, on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Medics say 6 babies have died from the cold in Gaza as displaced people shelter in tents and rubble
Palestinian medics say at least six infants have died from hypothermia in the last two weeks in the Gaza Strip. Hundreds of thousands of people are living in tent camps and war-damaged buildings under a fragile ceasefire.
 
Protesters demanding the immediate release of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Getting the Israel-Hamas ceasefire to the next phase will be difficult. Here’s why
The first phase of the ceasefire that paused 15 months of war between Israel and Hamas militants is set to end on Saturday. It’s unclear what comes next.
 
This is a locator map for Sudan with its capital, Khartoum. (AP Photo)
Sudan’s military breaks paramilitary group’s siege of crucial city
Sudan’s miliary says it has broken a paramilitary group’s yearlong siege of the crucial city of Obeid, restoring access to a strategic area in the south-central region and strengthening crucial supply routes in their nearly two years of war.
 
This is a locator map for Sudan with its capital, Khartoum. (AP Photo)
Cholera kills 58 and sickens about 1,300 others over 3 days in a Sudanese city, health officials say
Health officials in Sudan say a cholera outbreak in a southern city has killed nearly 60 people and sickened about 1,300 others over the last three days.
 
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