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Citizens of Poland and Austria assemble at a hotel in Tel Aviv, Israel, for evacuation amid heavy strikes on Israel by Iran on Tuesday, June 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner)

Foreign governments seek emergency exits for nationals stranded in Iran and Israel

The Iran-Israel conflict has shuttered airspace across the Middle East as the two bitter enemies launch attacks and reprisals at one another. The worsening security situation has seen foreigners scramble to evacuate.
 
Women chant slogans during a protest to condemn Israeli attacks on multiple cities across Iran, after attending a Friday prayers ceremony in Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Here’s how Iran could retaliate after US strikes on its nuclear program

 
Palestinian relatives mourn over the body of a man killed in an Israeli strike, at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, June 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Mariam Dagga)

At least 51 Palestinians killed while waiting for aid trucks in Gaza, health officials say

 
The Israeli Iron Dome air defense system fires to intercept missiles during an Iranian attack over Tel Aviv, Israel, early Wednesday, June 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Intense Israeli strikes hit Tehran after Trump demands ‘unconditional surrender’

 
A row of aircrafts belonging to Israeli airlines El Al, Arkia, Israir sit parked in a row along the apron of Cyprus' main airport in Larnaca, Saturday, June 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Airports close across the Mideast as the Israel-Iran conflict shutters the region’s airspace

 

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Israeli army armored vehicles block a road leading to the town of Quneitra, Syria, Jan. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy, File)

Netanyahu says Israel won’t allow Syrian forces ‘south of Damascus’

 
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, right, looks towards Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., as he answers questions from reporter after arriving at the Pentagon, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025 in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Hegseth defends Trump’s firings of Pentagon leaders and says there may be more dismissals

 
Israeli tanks moving into the Palestinians city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Israel sends tanks into West Bank for first time in decades, says fleeing Palestinians can’t return

 
A trailer carrying the coffins containing the bodies of Hezbollah's former leader Hassan Nasrallah and his cousin and successor Hashem Safieddine drives through the crowd during a funeral procession at the Sports City Stadium in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Masses of mourners attend the funeral of Hezbollah leader Nasrallah, 5 months after his killing

 

Iraq says oil exports from Kurdish region by way of Turkey set to resume

 
Police officers detain a man at the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, Germany, after another man was seriously injured, Friday, Feb. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Syrian suspect in Berlin Holocaust Memorial stabbing wanted to kill Jews, investigators say

 
Family members waiting for the release of Palestinian prisoners follow developments early Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025, after receiving news that Israel has delayed the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners scheduled for Saturday, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Israel delays release of Palestinian prisoners, citing ‘humiliating’ handovers of hostages

 
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. CQ Brown speaks during a press briefing, April 26, 2024, at the Pentagon in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf, File)

Trump fires chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and two other military officers

 
People drive past a billboard with a picture of the late Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah displayed on Beirut airport highway, Lebanon, Friday, Feb. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Thousands of supporters of Hezbollah’s slain leader Nasrallah fly into Beirut for his funeral

 
Hassan al-Daghim, spokesperson for the preparatory committee for Syria's national dialogue conference, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Damascus, Syria, Friday, Feb. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdelrahman Shaheen)

Syria’s national dialogue conference is in flux amid pressure for a political transition

 
A poster shows Shiri Bibas, who was kidnapped to Gaza with her husband and two young sons on Oct. 7, 2023, in Jerusalem, Friday, Feb. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Netanyahu decries release of wrong body as a ceasefire violation. Hamas pledges to investigate

 

Netanyahu says Hamas returned bodies of child hostages but not their mother

 
U.S. Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia Keith Kellogg, left, and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attend their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

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Jewish community in London mourns as Hamas returns bodies of 4 Israeli hostages

 
An Israeli police officer inspects the scene of one of a series of bus explosions in what authorities said appeared to be a militant attack in Bat Yam, central Israel, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

No injuries from Israeli bus explosions in suspected militant attack, police say

 

‘We are all united in overwhelming grief,’ says Netanyahu after release of hostages’ remains

 
Geir O. Pedersen, UN Special Envoy for Syria, speaks during a press conference in Damascus Wednesday Jan. 22, 2025.(AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

UN envoy says creating an inclusive Syrian government could help lift sanctions

 
Rabbi Yusuf Hamra, left, and his son Henry take pictures as they visit the Al-Raqi synagogue in the old city of Damascus Feb. 18, 2025. The Syrian-American Jewish family returned for the first time since emigrating from Syria to the United States more than three decades ago as part of a delegation organized by the Syrian Emergency Task Force, a U.S.-based nonprofit organization, in the wake of the fall of the government of former President Bashar Assad.(AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

Syrian Jews’ homecoming brings hope for reconstruction and a permanent return after decades in exile

 

Hamas returns bodies of 4 Israeli hostages - AP explains

 
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2 women an a child among 4 people killed in explosion at a house in northwestern Syria

 
This combination of images provided by Hostages Family Forum shows Shlomo Mantzur, Tsachi Idan, Ohad Yahalomi and Itzik Elgarat, who all were abducted and brought to Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023. (Hostages Family Forum via AP)

Who are the hostages released by Hamas?

 
A man holds a Winnie-the-Pooh bear at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025, after four bodies were handed over by Hamas militants to the Red Cross in Gaza. Israel has identified three of the bodies as hostages and said the other was of an unknown person. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Mourning two young brothers, the Bibas family of Israel awaits fate of their mother

 
Border police salute as a convoy carrying the remains of four people arrives at the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. Hamas handed over the bodies in Gaza, three of which Israel has identified as hostages, and said the other was of an unknown person. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Israel identifies remains of child hostages but says another body from Hamas was not their mother

 
This image from Israeli Defense Forces drone video shows a car in crosshairs, moments before it was destroyed in the town of Ainata, southern Lebanon, near the border with Israel, on Sunday, Nov. 5, 2023. (IDF via AP)

As Israel uses US-made AI models in war, concerns arise about tech’s role in who lives and who dies

 
This undated photo provided by Hostages Family Forum shows Shiri Bibas, who was abducted and brought to Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023. (Hostages Family Forum via AP)

Israel confirms 4 dead hostages who will be returned from Gaza include young family

 

Netanyahu tells nation to prepare for ‘shocking day’ with Hamas to release bodies of four hostages

 
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio disembarks from an aircraft, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool Photo via AP)

Rubio will skip a G20 meeting after calling host South Africa’s policies anti-American

 

Suspected Somali pirates seize a new Yemeni fishing boat in second recent attack

 
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, center, walks with United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan as they meet at ADNEC Centre Abu Dhabi in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool Photo via AP)

US top diplomat Rubio visits the UAE after landmark talks with Russia over Ukraine war

 
Israeli soldiers check the identification cards of Palestinians while they evacuate their homes in the West Bank refugee camp of Nur Shams, near Tulkarem, while the Israeli military operation continues in the area on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Thousands of Palestinian families flee West Bank homes as Israel confronts militants

 
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