By SETH BORENSTEIN, MELINA WALLING AND SIBI ARASU Associated Press BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Soaring rhetoric, urgent pleas and pledges of cooperation contrasted with a backdrop of seismic political cha...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Donald Trump will return to the U.S. presidency at a time of unprecedented conflict and uncertainty in the Middle East. He has vowed to fix it. But Trump’s history of strong su...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday dismissed his popular defense minister, Yoav Gallant, in a surprise announcement that came as the country is embroiled in wars on ...

LONDON (AP) — People-smuggling gangs sending migrants across the English Channel in small boats are a serious threat to global security and should be treated like terror networks, British Prime Minist...

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The recurrent storms in eastern Spain that led to massive flooding last week and killed at least 217 people, mostly near Valencia, dumped rain on Barcelona on Monday, prompting...

KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — Each time U.S. philanthropist Amed Khan returns to Ukraine, he begins by offering condolences for those killed in the war since his last trip. Over the past two and a half year...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Thieves blew open the door of an art gallery in the southern Netherlands and stole two works from a famous series of screen prints by American pop artist Andy Warhol and ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — It’s the time of year — tradition says — when the veil between the worlds of the living and the dead is lifted. That traditional belief has morphed over the centuries into the sp...

By BASSEM MR OUE, JULIA FRANKEL AND SAMY MAGDY Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The United States and other mediators are ramping up efforts to halt the wars in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, circulating n...

By WAFAA SHURAFA, SAMY MAGDYAND BASSEM MROUE Associated Press Gaza Strip (AP) — Eight Austrian soldiers serving in the U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon were lightly injured in a missile strike at th...

By LORNE COOK AND TARA COPP Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — North Korea has sent about 10,000 troops to Russia to train and fight in Ukraine within “the next several weeks,” the Pentagon said Monday,...

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Georgia’s president on Monday urged the West to support opposition protests after the governing party was declared the winner of a parliamentary election that she alleged was r...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Israeli attack on Iran damaged facilities at a secretive military base southeast of the Iranian capital that experts in the past have linked to Tehran’s onetime n...

JERUSALEM (AP) — It’s Iran’s move now. How the Islamic Republic chooses to respond to the unusually public Israeli aerial assault on its homeland could determine whether the region spirals further tow...

KAZAN, Russia (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday closed a summit of the BRICS bloc of developing economies, praising its role as a counterbalance to what he called the West’s “pervers...

By HYUNG-JIN KIM AND LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The U.S. defense secretary said Wednesday there is evidence that North Korea has sent troops to Russia, calling it a “v...

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ AND MILEXSY DURAN Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — A small town in far eastern Cuba was recovering Tuesday from flooding that killed at least six people after Hurricane Oscar crossed...

BEIRUT (AP) — The Israeli military has carried out a wave of airstrikes targeting branches of a financial institution affiliated with Lebanon’s Hezbollah, saying the quasi-banking system is being used...

On top of the grievous toll in human life and misery, Israel’s war against the Hamas and Hezbollah militant groups has been expensive, and the painfully high financial costs are raising concerns about...

By The Associated Press This year has seen President Vladimir Putin repeatedly brandish the nuclear sword, reminding everyone that Russia has the world’s largest atomic arsenal to try to deter the Wes...