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Smoke rises up after an explosion in Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Israeli strikes on Iran’s nuclear program are sweeping but can they decimate it?

Israel’s sweeping attack across Iran struck at the heart of Tehran’s nuclear program, delivering a blow to the country’s ability to enrich uranium and potentially setting its nuclear ambitions back by months or years.
 
Israeli air defense system fires to intercept missiles during an Iranian attack over Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, June 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Iranian missile strikes show Israel’s aerial defense array is not ironclad

 
Israeli security forces inspect destroyed residential buildings that were hit by a missile fired from Iran, in Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv, Israel, on Saturday, June 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Photos of missiles over Israel in a retaliatory attack by Iran

 
French President Emmanuel Macron arrives to hold a press conference at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, Friday, June 13, 2025.. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, Pool)

UN conference on Palestinian state postponed because of Middle East tensions

 
In this photo released by the Iranian Red Crescent Society rescuers work at the scene of an explosion after an Israeli strike in Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 13, 2025. (Iranian Red Crescent Society via AP)

Middle East conflict threatens to exacerbate inflationary pressure on some things

 

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Israeli settlers set fires near West Bank town’s ancient church and cemetery

This week’s attack follows a similar one last month when men set fire to vehicles in Taybeh and in the nearby village of Kafr Malik, where three Palestinians were killed. Since the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, Palestinian residents in the West Bank have reported a major increase in settler violence, Israeli checkpoints and delays across the territory. (AP video shot by Imad Isseid; Production by Jalal Bwaitel)
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This is a locator map for Iraq with its capital, Baghdad. (AP Photo)

Iraq’s top court throws out challenge to new laws, including one increasing Islamic courts authority

 

Netanyahu threatens to resume fighting in Gaza if hostages aren’t released Saturday

 
A Palestinian family cooks on fire next to their tent, in an area largely destroyed by the Israeli army's air and ground offensive in Jabaliya, Gaza Strip, on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Netanyahu threatens to resume fighting in Gaza if hostages aren’t released Saturday

 

State media in Iran say Khamenei pardons journalists who reported woman’s death, sparking protests

 
This is a locator map for Yemen with its capital, Sanaa. (AP Photo)

UN food agency worker dies in a Yemeni prison after being detained by Houthi rebels

 
Mohammed Shula speaks at a relative's house, where he and his wife have taken refuge, in the West Bank village of Kafr al-Labad, Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Israel’s fatal shooting of a pregnant Palestinian woman puts the focus on West Bank violence

 

Protesters demanding the handover of hostages briefly block a main highway leading to Jerusalem

 

Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s pick to oversee US spy agencies, advances to Senate confirmation vote

 
Relatives of hostages, held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, block a highway in Tel Aviv, Monday, Feb. 10, 2025 after the militant group announced it would delay hostage releases in the Gaza Strip after accusing Israel of violating a fragile ceasefire. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Hamas’ threat to delay the next release of Israeli hostages raises fears for Gaza ceasefire

 
President Donald Trump greets Jordan's King Abdullah II in the Oval Office at the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, in Washington. (Photo/Alex Brandon)

After meeting with Trump, Jordan’s king says his country opposes displacing Palestinians in Gaza

 

Suspected Somali pirates seize boat off Horn of Africa

 
Tulsi Gabbard, President Donald Trump's choice to be the Director of National Intelligence, arrives to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee for her confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/John McDonnell)

Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s pick to oversee US spy agencies, advances to Senate confirmation vote

 

Trump says Palestinians won’t have the right to return to Gaza under his plan

 

Israeli opposition members shout at Netanyahu as he tries to address parliament

 
This is a locator map for Yemen with its capital, Sanaa. (AP Photo)

UN suspends its humanitarian work in Houthi rebels’ stronghold in Yemen after more staff detentions

 
Priya Kathpal, right, and Taylor Williamson, who work for a company doing contract work for the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID, carry signs outside the USAID headquarters in Washington, Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Unspent aid worth billions lacks oversight as Trump dismantles USAID, watchdog warns

 
Israeli captives, from left to the right, Ohad Ben Ami, Eli Sharabi and Or Levy, who have been held hostage by Hamas in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023, are escorted by Hamas fighters on a stage before being handed over to the Red Cross in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Hamas says it will delay the release of more hostages, putting Gaza ceasefire at risk

 
In this frame grab from Saudi state television footage, doctoral student and women's rights advocate Salma al-Shehab speaks to a journalist at the Riyadh International Book Fair in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in March 2014. (Saudi state television via AP, File)

Saudi authorities free doctoral student initially sentenced to 34 years for tweets, activists say

 
Booksellers Mahmoud, left, and Ahmad Muna appear in court after their arrest during an Israeli police raid of their long-established Palestinian-owned Educational Bookshop in east Jerusalem, Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Israeli police raid Palestinian bookshop in east Jerusalem and seize books they say incite violence

 
Iranian demonstrators burn a representation of the U.S. flag during a rally commemorating anniversary of 1979 Islamic Revolution that toppled the late pro-U.S. Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and brought Islamic clerics to power, in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

With Trump in the White House, Iranians mark the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution

 
A flag is raised during halftime of the NFL Super Bowl 59 football game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

What’s happening in the Gaza Strip and Sudan that sparked a protest at the Super Bowl halftime show?

 
Free Syrian Army fighters walk through tunnels built by the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces under the town of Tel Rifaat in the Aleppo region of northern Syria, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

AP PHOTOS: Syrians returning to the town of Tel Rifaat find homes in ruins and underground tunnels

 
Trader Peter Mancuso works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Stock market today: Wall Street takes Trump’s latest tariff threats in stride, and indexes rise

 

Aboard Air Force One, Trump says he will announce 25% steel and aluminum tariffs Monday

 
People carry the coffin of Prince Karim Al-Hussaini, the Aga Khan IV and 49th hereditary imam of the Shiite Ismaili Muslims, who died Tuesday in Portugal, to be buried at the Aga Khan mausoleum, in Aswan, Egypt, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Haytham Fahmy)

Aga Khan, the leader of Ismaili Muslims, laid to rest in Egypt during private burial ceremony

 
Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit, right, meets with Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Mustafa during his visit at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Egypt announces emergency Arab summit after Trump’s Gaza plan infuriates key allies

 
U.N. humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher speaks during an interview in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Famine mostly averted but is a danger again if Gaza ceasefire collapses, UN humanitarian chief says

 
A Palestinian man wearing a red shirt, left, stands amidst the rubble of destroyed buildings, watching Israeli soldiers, bottom right, take position in the northern Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Hamas and Israel exchange hostages and prisoners, as Israel withdraws from key corridor

 
Pete and Gillian Brisley visit the home of their daughter, who was killed along with her two daughters in Hamas' Oct. 7 attack, and their son-in-law, who was taken captive, in Kibbutz Be'eri, southern Israel, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg, File)

Teddy bear helps hostage’s British family come to terms with grief amid joy over his release

 

Hamas releases 3 more Israeli hostages for 183 Palestinian prisoners under Gaza ceasefire, AP explains

 
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