Israel-Hamas war

Khalid Ahmad holds a poster of his 17-year-old son, Waleed, who died in an Israeli prison, that reads in Arabic, "The hero prisoner Martyr, mercy and eternity for our righteous Martyrs," in the West Bank town of Silwad, northeast of Ramallah Wednesday, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Palestinian teenager who died in Israeli prison showed signs of starvation, medical report says

Starvation was likely the leading cause of death for a Palestinian teenager who died in an Israeli prison, according to an Israeli doctor who observed the autopsy.
 
A Yemeni girl visits the graves of Houthis during Eid al-Fitr marking the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Sanaa, Yemen, Sunday, March 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)

Yemen’s Houthi rebels say US airstrikes kill 2 as Trump’s bombing video suggests higher death toll

 
People take part in a protest demanding the immediate release of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, April 5,2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israeli troops deploy to a new security corridor across southern Gaza

 
President Donald Trump meets with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House, Feb. 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Trump and Netanyahu will meet again Monday on Gaza, tariffs and more

 
Yamama Jundia, 13, injured in an Israeli airstrike, grieves alongside others over the bodies of their relatives, who were killed in the same strike, at the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City on Thursday, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Israeli strikes kill at least 17 in Gaza as ground troops enter Palestinian territory’s north

 

Colombia to buy Swedish fighter jets to replace aging Israeli aircraft

Colombia has announced it will buy up to 24 fighter jets from Swedish company Saab to replace aging Israeli aircraft whose maintenance has become complicated after the South American nation broke diplomatic ties with Israel over its war with Hamas.
 
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, right, talk after a welcoming ceremony with a guard of honor at Buda Castle in Budapest, Hungary, on Thursday, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Denes Erdos)

Hungary welcomes Netanyahu and says it will leave the International Criminal Court

Hungary said it will withdraw from the International Criminal Court, which Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said was a “political” organization.
 
Yamama Jundia, 13, injured in an Israeli airstrike, grieves alongside others over the bodies of their relatives, who were killed in the same strike, at the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City on Thursday, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Israeli strike on a school in Gaza kills at least 27 people, Palestinian health officials say

Gaza’s Health Ministry says an Israeli airstrike has killed at least 27 Palestinians sheltering at a school in northern Gaza and wounded 70 more.
 
People protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government as they block a highway in Jerusalem, Monday, March 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Netanyahu is rocked by a new scandal linking his close advisers to Qatar

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office is once again ensnared in scandal after police arrested two of his close associates this week on suspicion of accepting money from Qatar to promote a positive image of the Gulf Arab state in Israel.
 
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and his Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orban chat as they attend a signing ceremony in the Parliament building in Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday, July 18, 2017. (Balazs Mohai/MTI via AP, File)

Israeli leader Netanyahu will visit Hungary, defying an international arrest warrant

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is traveling to Hungary despite an International Criminal Court arrest warrant against him over the war in Gaza. His four-day trip begins Wednesday.
 
Palestinians attend a rally marking the 35th anniversary of the Hamas movement's founding in Gaza City, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022.(AP Photo/Fatima Shbair, File)

Protests broke out against Hamas in Gaza. What do Palestinians think about the militant group?

Thousands of Palestinians chanted against Hamas during anti-war protests last week in the Gaza Strip. They were the biggest show of anger at the militant group since its attack on Israel ignited the war.
 
This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows six B-2 stealth bombers parked at Camp Thunder Cove in Diego Garcia on Wednesday, April 2, 2025, as a U.S. airstrike campaign continues against Yemen's Houthi rebels. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

By the numbers: US deployment of B-2 bombers as tensions ramp up with Houthis and Iran

Satellite images analyzed by The Associated Press show the deployment of at least six nuclear-capable B-2 Spirit bombers to Camp Thunder Bay on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.
 
Palestinians inspect the site hit by an Israeli strike in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip on Wednesday, April 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Middle East latest: Israel is establishing a new military corridor across Gaza

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is establishing a new security corridor across the Gaza Strip to pressure Hamas.
 
Palestinians grieve over the bodies of their relatives, who were killed in an Israeli airstrike, as they prepare for burial at a hospital in Beit Lahiya, Gaza Strip, on Wednesday, April 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Netanyahu says Israel will establish a new security corridor across Gaza to pressure Hamas

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is establishing a new security corridor across the Gaza Strip.
 
This is a locator map for Yemen with its capital, Sanaa. (AP Photo)

Suspected US airstrikes in Yemen kill at least 6 people, Houthi rebels say

Suspected U.S. airstrikes have battered rebel-controlled areas of Yemen, which the Houthis say killed at least six people.
 
First lady Melania Trump speaks during the International Women of Courage award ceremony, Tuesday April 1, 2025, at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Melania Trump says courage is ‘based in love’ as she honors women from around the world for bravery

Melania Trump has recognized eight women with the 2025 International Women of Courage Award. At a ceremony on Tuesday at the State Department, the first lady said the “exceptional assembly of brave women” show love by refusing to be defined by fear or hardship.
 
Palestinians receive bags of flour and other humanitarian aid distributed by UNRWA, the U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees in Jabaliya, Gaza Strip on Tuesday, April 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

UN agency closes its remaining Gaza bakeries as food supplies dwindle under Israeli blockade

The U.N. food agency is closing all of its bakeries in the Gaza Strip. That’s according to an internal memo that circulated among aid groups on Tuesday.
 
Palestinians receive bags of flour and other humanitarian aid distributed by UNRWA, the U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees in Jabaliya, Gaza Strip on Tuesday, April 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Middle East latest: Palestinians struggle to find food in Gaza; Israeli strike in Beirut kills 4

The Israeli military has struck a building in Beirut’s southern suburbs. Lebanese authorities say that at least four people were killed and seven others were wounded in the attack.
 
Khalid Ahmad holds a poster of his 17-year-old son, Waleed, who died in an Israeli prison, that reads in Arabic, "The hero prisoner Martyr, mercy and eternity for our righteous Martyrs," in the West Bank town of Silwad, northeast of Ramallah Wednesday, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

A Palestinian from the West Bank is first detainee under 18 to die in Israeli prison, officials say

Officials say a teenager from the West Bank who was held in an Israeli prison for six months without being charged died after collapsing in unclear circumstances. They say he is the first Palestinian under 18 to die in Israeli detention.
 
This is a locator map for Yemen with its capital, Sanaa. (AP Photo)

Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim they shot down another American drone as US strikes pound country

Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim they have shot down another American MQ-9 Reaper drone. The U.S. military acknowledged to The Associated Press it was aware of the reports but declined to comment.
 
Mourners gather around the bodies of 8 Red Crescent emergency responders, recovered in Rafah a week after an Israeli attack, as they are transported for burial from a hospital in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, on Monday, March 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Israeli troops killed 15 Palestinian medics and buried them in a mass grave, UN says

 
Mourners gather around the bodies of 8 Red Crescent emergency responders, recovered in Rafah a week after an Israeli attack, as they are transported for burial from a hospital in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, on Monday, March 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Israeli military orders the evacuation of Gaza’s southern city of Rafah

The Israeli military has issued sweeping evacuation orders covering Rafah. It indicates it could soon launch another major ground operation in the southernmost city in Gaza.
 

Israeli military orders the evacuation of most of Gaza’s southern city of Rafah

Israeli military orders the evacuation of most of Gaza’s southern city of Rafah.
 
Displaced Palestinians, who flee from Rafah, arrive in Khan Younis, Gaza, on Monday, March 31, 2025, after the Israeli military issued sweeping evacuation orders covering most of Rafah. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Middle East latest: Israel prepares to move deeper into Gaza and orders Rafah evacuated

The Israeli military has indicated it could soon launch another major offensive in Rafah and ordered most of the southernmost city in the Gaza Strip evacuated.
 
A Muslim boy performs Eid al-Fitr prayers, marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan in Lagos, Nigeria, Sunday, March 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

AP PHOTOS: Muslims celebrate Eid al-Fitr

Families gathered for special prayers followed by feasts and holiday sweets starting Sunday after a month of dawn-to-dusk fasting.
 
This is a locator map for Afghanistan with its capital, Kabul. (AP Photo)

The Taliban leader says there is no need for Western laws in Afghanistan

The Taliban leader says there is no need for Western laws in Afghanistan and that democracy was dead as long as sharia laws are in effect.
 
The bodies of 4-year-old Hasan Abu Sultan, left, and his sisters Dana,10, center, and Habeba, 7, right, lie on the floor at the hospital awaiting for burial preparation on the first day of the Muslim holiday of Eid after they were killed along with their parents, uncle, and aunt when an Israeli army strike hit their tent in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Sunday, March 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

‘Eid of sadness': Palestinians in Gaza mark Muslim holiday with dwindling food and no end to war

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have little to celebrate as they mark the normally festive Eid al-Fitr. They face rapidly dwindling food supplies and renewed fighting in the Israel-Hamas war.
 
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 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Hamas says it accepts a new Gaza ceasefire proposal but Israel makes a counter-offer

The Hamas militant group says it has accepted a new Gaza ceasefire proposal from mediators Egypt and Qatar. But Israel says it has made a counter-proposal in “full coordination” with the third mediator, the United States.
 
A Pakistani browses children's clothes at a market as he shops for the upcoming Eid al-Fitr celebrations, which marks the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)

What is Eid al-Fitr and how do Muslims celebrate the Islamic holiday?

The Muslim holy month of Ramadan is drawing to an end and Muslims around the world will soon start celebrating the holiday of Eid al-Fitr.
 
Student protesters gather inside their encampment on the Columbia University campus, April 29, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah, File)

Columbia University’s interim president steps down and returns to former post

Columbia University’s interim president Katrina Armstrong has resigned, returning to her post running the New York school’s medical center.
 
This grab taken from video shows a masked man with a stick, left, beating Palestinian Qusay Al-Amur in his house in the West Bank village of Jinba, Friday, March 28, 2025. (UGC via AP)

Israeli settlers seen on camera assaulting a Palestinian village. Police arrest only Palestinians

Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian village in the southern Israeli-occupied West Bank. Security camera footage obtained by the Associated Press shows them beating residents with sticks and rocks.
 
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech during the International Conference on Combating Antisemitism in Jerusalem, Israel,Thursday, March 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Israel’s antisemitism conference draws Europe’s far-right leaders to Jerusalem

 
Palestinian Muslim worshippers pray during Laylat Al Qadr, also known as the Night of Power and marked on the 27th day of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, in front of the Dome of the Rock shrine at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem, Wednesday, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Middle East latest: Israeli strikes kill a family of 6 and a Hamas spokesman in Gaza

Separate Israeli strikes have killed a family of six and a Hamas spokesman in the northern Gaza Strip. That’s according to the territory’s Health Ministry and another Hamas official.
 
Palestinians hold signs against the war as a man chants slogans in support of the people in Bait Lahiya who came out against Hamas Tuesday in a rare show of public anger against the militant group that rules the territory, in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Middle East latest: Israel orders more evacuations and Palestinians stage rare anti-Hamas protests

The Israeli military has ordered the evacuation of parts of Gaza City as it steps up its renewed offensive against Hamas. There was a second day of rare protests by thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday.
 
Palestinians chant slogans during an anti-war protest and against Hamas in a rare show of public anger against the militant group that rules the territory, in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Palestinians protest Hamas in a rare public show of dissent in Gaza

Palestinians have chanted against Hamas during anti-war protests in the Gaza Strip. It’s a rare show of public anger against the militant group that has long repressed dissent.