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A pedestrian passes a campaign billboard featuring Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and his main rival, opposition candidate Gadi Eisenkot, with a message in Hebrew that reads “The race is tight,” Friday, Oct. 23, 2026, in Tel Aviv, Israel. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Voters rebuke Netanyahu but exit polls suggest no clear winner in Israel’s election

October 27, 2026 at 7:52 p.m.

Israelis are voting in a pivotal election Tuesday as their country wrestles with unresolved wars, continues to reel from Hamas' 2023 attack and is deeply divided over the character of...

Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine receives treatment at Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva, Israel, Sunday, Oct. 18, 2026, after being injured in an attack by Israeli settlers while covering clashes that erupted during the Palestinian olive harvest in the West Bank village of Abu Falah on Friday. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Photographer attacked by settlers in the West Bank feels insulted by Benjamin Netanyahu

October 18, 2026 at 2:11 p.m.

The photographer with The Washington Post who was attacked by Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank so badly that several vertebrae were broken said Sunday she was increasingly angry...

An Israeli settler runs around a Palestinian-Bedouin compound belonging to Kaabneh family on the outskirts of the West Bank town of Taybeh, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Masked settlers attack European diplomats in the occupied West Bank

October 17, 2026 at 1:27 p.m.

Masked settlers attacked a group of European diplomats during a visit to the occupied West Bank on Saturday.

An FlyDubai plane carrying Israeli passengers who had earlier been aboard another FlyDubai aircraft that made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia approaches Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Axe-wielding FlyDubai co-pilot identified as Omani national with previous extremism concerns

October 3, 2026 at 9:10 a.m.

The co-pilot on a FlyDubai flight that nearly crashed with 182 people on board has been identified as Hamam al-Hammami, according to three people with knowledge of the situation.

President Trump says Iran will be hit ‘very hard’ if it is behind copilot who tried to crash flight to Israel

October 1, 2026 at 9:07 p.m.

U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday that if Iran is linked to the copilot who tried to crash an Israel-bound flight, the Islamic Republic would be struck “very hard.”

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi arrives ahead of the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly at United Nations headquarters, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)

Iran proposes a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in 7 days if the US meets its conditions

September 25, 2026 at 2:50 p.m.

Iran has offered to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and resume talks on its nuclear program in seven days if the United States lifts its naval blockade of Iranian ports,...

A member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard salutes while riding on a float displaying drones during the state-organized “Janfada,” or “Sacrifice for Iran,” military-style parade in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Sept. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iranians rally by the hundreds of thousands in biggest show of defiance since war began

September 18, 2026 at 6:25 a.m.

Hundreds of thousands of Iranians rallied Friday in a government-organized show of defiance after months of war.

Yemen’s Houthi rebels march during a mobilization campaign in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026. (AP Photo)

People fleeing Iran-backed rebels’ advance in Yemen describe a ‘hysterical panic’

September 12, 2026 at 4:38 p.m.

By CARA ANNA, JULIA FRANKEL and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA It was a heart-pounding escape. As Houthi rebels backed by Iran swept south along Yemen’s Red Sea coast this week, some residents...

A man works aboard a boat as a motorboat leaves a harbor in Bandar Abbas, Iran, Sunday, Sept. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran says it plans to announce a new ‘exclusion zone’ near the Strait of Hormuz

September 6, 2026 at 3:48 p.m.

Iran said Sunday it struck an unmanned U.S. vessel trying to enter the Strait of Hormuz, a claim that the U.S. military dismissed.

A swimmer remains near the shore as a motorboat passes commercial vessels anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, Friday, Sept. 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

US strikes 3 Iranian oil tankers after saying warships were targeted with ballistic missiles

September 5, 2026 at 6:10 p.m.

The U.S. military says it has struck three Iranian oil tankers after Navy warships were targeted with missiles.

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