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This is a locator map of Israel and the Palestinian Territories. (AP Photo)
An Israeli strike kills 20 in north Gaza, where Palestinians say they’ve had little food for weeks
Palestinian officials say an Israeli airstrike in northern Gaza has killed at least 20 people, mostly women and children.
 
This is a locator map for Syria with its capital, Damascus. (AP Photo)
Israel says it carried out ground raid into Syria, seizing a Syrian citizen connected to Iran
The Israeli military says it has carried out a ground raid into Syria, seizing a Syrian citizen involved in Iranian networks. It was the first time in the current war that Israel has announced its troops operated in Syrian territory.
 
A man looks at damaged building after projectiles fired from Lebanon hit a home in Tira, central Israel, Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
Attack on central Israel injures 11 as Iran’s leader promises a punishing response
An attack on a central Israeli town has injured 11 as Iran’s supreme leader vowed a punishing response to Israel’s attack last week. The predawn strike on Tira was one of several barrages fired from Lebanon on Saturday.
 
FILE - Palestinians walk through the destruction in the wake of an Israeli air and ground offensive in Jebaliya, northern Gaza Strip, on May 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Enas Rami, File)
Israel fights a seemingly endless war in Gaza’s most devastated region
More than a year into a war that has ricocheted across the Middle East, Israeli troops are still battling Hamas in the most heavily destroyed and isolated part of the Gaza Strip.
 
People gather in front of a destroyed building hit in an Israeli airstrike in Tyre, Lebanon, Monday, Oct. 28, 2024.(AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
A new push to wind down the Middle East wars faces familiar challenges
The United States and other mediators are ramping up efforts to halt the wars in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. They are circulating new proposals to wind down the regional conflict during the Biden administration’s final months.
 
This is a locator map of Israel and the Palestinian Territories. (AP Photo)
Israeli strikes in northern Gaza kill at least 88, officials say
Gaza’s Health Ministry says two Israeli strikes in the northern Gaza Strip killed at least 88 people.
 
Palestinians gather in a morgue with the bodies of their relatives killed in Israeli airstrikes in the city of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. (AP Photo)
Israel passes laws to restrict the work of a UN agency that is a lifeline for Gaza
Israel’s parliament has passed two laws that severely restrict the U.N. agency responsible for distributing aid in Gaza.
 
This is a locator map for Sudan with its capital, Khartoum. (AP Photo)
More than 120 killed in paramilitary rampage in east-central Sudan, UN and a doctors group say
A doctors group and the United Nations say fighters from the notorious paramilitary Rapid Support Forces ran riot in east-central Sudan in a multi-day attack that killed more than 120 people in one town.
 
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu takes part in a ceremony marking the Hebrew calendar anniversary of the Hamas attack on October 7 last year that sparked the ongoing war in Gaza, at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, Israel Sunday Oct. 27, 2024. (Gil Cohen-Magen/Pool Photo via AP)
Key mediator Egypt proposes a 2-day Gaza cease-fire and the release of 4 hostages
Egypt’s president says his country has proposed a two-day cease-fire between Israel and Hamas during which four hostages held in Gaza would be freed.
 
File - A man walks by a house hit in recent fighting in Khartoum, Sudan, an area torn by fighting between the military and the notorious paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, April 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali, File)
UN official calls for more attention to Sudan’s ‘forgotten’ war amid fresh atrocities
A senior United Nations official has called for more international attention to “the forgotten crisis” in Sudan, where more than a year and a half of war has pushed the African country to the brink of famine.
 
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks with members of the media at Ben Gurion International Airport before departing for Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in Tel Aviv, Israel Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024. (Nathan Howard/Pool Photo via AP)
Blinken urges Israel to seek enduring deal, as officials say a limited cease-fire has been discussed
Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Israel needs to pursue an “enduring strategic success” in Gaza after its tactical victories against Hamas. He urged it Wednesday to seek a deal that would end the war and bring back dozens of hostages.
 
Smoke rises from an Israeli airstrike on Dahiyeh, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
Israel says more strikes are coming against a Hezbollah-run financial institution
Israel says it is planning to carry out more strikes in Lebanon against a Hezbollah-run financial institution that it targeted the night before.
 
Flames and smoke rise form an Israeli airstrike on Dahiyeh, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Israel targets Hezbollah’s financial arm and begins striking Beirut
Israel’s military says it is now taking aim at the Lebanon-based Hezbollah’s financial arm and plans to attack a “large number of targets” in Beirut and elsewhere.
 
Smoke rises from an Israeli airstrike on Dahiyeh, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
A drone targets the Israeli prime minister’s house during new barrages with Hezbollah
Israel’s government says a drone targeted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s house on Saturday, with no casualties.
 
FILE - Palestinians line up for a free meal in Rafah, Gaza Strip, on March 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair, File)
Hunger experts say the risk of famine in Gaza remains high
The international authority on hunger crises says the Gaza Strip is still at risk of famine more than a year into the Israel-Hamas war. That’s even as the number of people facing the most extreme level of hunger has declined in recent months.
 
Shaban al-Dalu, a 19-year-old university student, seen in this undated image, was among five people killed in an Israeli strike that hit a tent camp for displaced people in the courtyard of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central city of Deir al-Balah on Monday, Oct. 13, 2024. (Al-Dalu family photo via AP)
A Palestinian student was asleep in his tent at a hospital when an Israeli strike brought an inferno
Shaban al-Dalu, a 19-year-old Palestinian university student, had survived an Israeli strike on a mosque when, only a week later, he was killed in a new strike on the courtyard of the central Gaza hospital where his family was sheltering.
 
Palestinians react to a fire after an Israeli strike hit a tent area in the courtyard of Al Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, Monday, Oct. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Israel says 4 soldiers killed by Hezbollah drone attack while Israeli strike in Gaza leaves 20 dead
The Lebanon-based Hezbollah called the attack near Binyamina city retaliation for Israeli strikes on Beirut on Thursday that killed 22 people. It later said it targeted Israel’s elite Golani brigade, launching dozens of missiles to occupy Israeli air defense systems during the assault by “squadrons”
 
Lebanese army soldiers walk by destroyed cars at the site where an Israeli airstrike hit a building, in Barja village, south of Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Oct. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
Heavy Israeli bombardment in northern Gaza as UN peacekeepers in Lebanon are hit again
Palestinians in northern Gaza are describing heavy Israeli bombardment in the hours after airstrikes killed at least 22 people.
 
A Palestinian child wounded in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip is treated at a hospital in Deir al-Balah, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
An Israeli strike on a school-turned-shelter in Gaza kills at least 27 people
Palestinian medical officials say an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced people in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 27. The Israeli military said it targeted militants hiding in a school in the central city of Deir al-Balah.
 
Mourners pray over the body of a Palestinian child, Hosam Al Khaldi, killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip outside the hospital morgue in Deir al-Balah on Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Israeli defense minister warns an attack on Iran would be ‘lethal’ and ‘surprising’
Israel’s defense minister has warned that his country’s retaliation for a recent Iranian missile attack will be “lethal” and “surprising,” while the Israeli military pushed ahead with a large-scale operation in northern Gaza and a ground offensive in Lebanon against Hezbollah militants.
 
A firefighter stands in front of an apartment hit by an Israeli airstrike, in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Israel presses forward on two fronts and reports 8 combat deaths as fears of a wider war mount
Israel is pressing forward on two fronts. The military is pursuing a ground incursion into Lebanon against Hezbollah that left eight Israeli soldiers dead Wednesday and conducting strikes in Gaza that killed dozens, including children.
 
Sudan’s jailed former strongman Omar al-Bashir is taken to a hospital in the north for better care
Sudan’s former autocratic President Omar al-Bashir, who ruled for 30 years before he was toppled in a popular uprising and then jailed by the country’s military rulers, has been transferred to a medical facility in northern Sudan.
 
FILE -People line up in front of a bakery during a cease-fire in Khartoum, Sudan, May 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali, File)
Cholera is spreading in Sudan as fighting between rival generals shows no sign of abating
Sudanese health authorities say cholera has killed at least 388 people and sickened about 13,000 others over the past two months.
 
Palestinians look at the destruction after an Israeli airstrike on a crowded tent camp housing Palestinians displaced by the war in Muwasi, Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. An Israeli strike killed at least 40 people and wounded 60 others early Tuesday, Palestinian officials said. Israel said it targeted "significant" Hamas militants, allegations denied by the militant group. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
An Israeli strike on a Palestinian tent camp kills at least 19
Palestinian officials say an Israeli strike hit a crowded tent camp in Gaza, killing at least 19 people and wounding 60. Israel says it targeted senior Hamas militants.
 
UN official says Sudan’s war has killed at least 20,000 people
A senior United Nations official says more than 16 months of war in Sudan has killed more than 20,000 people, a grim figure amid a devastating conflict that wrecked the northeastern African country.
 
Libyan authorities order detention of militia leader over killing of UN-sanctioned human trafficker
Libya’s chief prosecutor has ordered the detention of a militia leader and one of his aides pending an investigation into the killing of one of the country’s most notorious human traffickers.
 
A demonstrator waves the Israeli and U.S. flags during a protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government and call for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
Israelis surge into the streets again in protest as the toll in Gaza grows
Huge numbers of Israelis have again turned out to protest the government’s failure to secure the return of remaining hostages in Gaza. Israeli air raids in the Gaza Strip have killed more than a dozen people.
 
Libya’s coast guard intercepts 64 Europe-bound migrants, days after a deadly shipwreck
Libya’s coast guard says it has intercepted dozens of Europe-bound migrants on a boat and returned them to the shore.
 
A boat carrying Europe-bound migrants capsizes off Libyan coast, leaving 1 dead and 22 missing
Libyan authorities say a boat carrying Europe-bound migrants has capsized off the Libyan coast, leaving one person dead and 22 missing.
 
A Libyan human trafficker sanctioned by the UN has been killed in Tripoli, officials say
Libyan officials say one of the country’s most wanted human trafficker was killed Sunday in the capital, Tripoli. They say Abdel-Rahman Milad was shot dead Sunday by unknown assailants.
 
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