Melanie Lidman

Government supporters chant slogans as they gather in mourning after state TV officially announced the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, March 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

US, Israel pound Iran as President Trump signals willingness to talk to new leadership after Khamenei’s death

March 1, 2026 at 3:40 p.m.

The U.S. and Israel pounded targets across Iran on Sunday, dropping massive bombs as part of an intensifying military campaign following the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

People watch as smoke rises on the skyline after an explosion in Tehran, Iran, Feb. 28, 2026. (AP)

Iranian state media say country’s supreme leader is dead

February 28, 2026 at 7:56 p.m.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei died following a major attack by Israel and the United States, Iranian state media confirmed early Sunday.

Commuters drive past Saint Sarkis church and a mural of the late Iranian revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini in downtown Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

US and Iran wrap up latest nuclear talks without a deal as the risk of war looms

February 26, 2026 at 3:56 p.m.

Iran and the United States held hours of indirect negotiations Thursday over Tehran's nuclear program but walked away without a deal, leaving the danger of another Mideast war on the...

Latin Patriarch Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the top Catholic clergyman in the Holy Land, arrives at the Church of the Nativity, traditionally believed to be the birthplace of Jesus, on Christmas Eve, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Faithful return to Bethlehem and Pope Leo XIV celebrates his first Christmas Eve Mass at St. Peter’s

December 24, 2025 at 10:51 p.m.

Thousands of people flocked to Bethlehem’s Manger Square on Christmas Eve as families there and at other sites across the Holy Land heralded a much-needed boost of holiday spirit, after...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, right, makes a statement next to Dani Dayan, chairman of the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025. (John Wessels, Pool Photo via AP)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel and Hamas will enter ceasefire’s second phase soon

December 7, 2025 at 9:41 a.m.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel and Hamas are “very shortly expected to move into the second phase of the ceasefire,” after Hamas returns the remains of...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Friday, Sept. 26, 2025, at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu insists there can be no Palestinian state, ahead of UN vote leaving that door open

November 16, 2025 at 9:24 a.m.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday vowed to oppose any attempt to establish a Palestinian state, a day before the U.N. Security Council will vote on a U.S.-drafted resolution...

Holocaust survivors Walter Bingham, 101, center, George Shefi, 94, right, and Paul Alexander, 87, talk as they pose for a photo after an interview at Jerusalem Great Synagogue in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025, ahead the 87th anniversary of Kristallnacht or “Night of broken Glass,” the November 1938 government-backed pogroms against Jews in Germany and Austria. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Israeli survivors of Kristallnacht mark 87th anniversary of Nazi riots amid rising antisemitism

November 9, 2025 at 9:24 a.m.

The 87th anniversary of Kristallnacht is Sunday, at a time when antisemitism is on the rise, especially in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war.

Palestinians collect leaflets dropped by an Israeli drone warning people to stay away from the so-called yellow line in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, Monday, Oct. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

JD Vance is optimistic about Gaza ceasefire but notes ‘very hard’ work to come

October 21, 2025 at 3:19 p.m.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance and other envoys projected optimism Tuesday about Gaza 's fragile ceasefire agreement, calling progress better than anticipated as they visited a new center in Israel for civilian...

Palestinians watch members of the Hamas militant group searching for bodies of the hostages in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Israel strikes Gaza after it says Hamas attacked across ceasefire line

October 19, 2025 at 11:03 a.m.

Israel on Sunday struck targets in the southern Gaza Strip after it said its troops came under fire from Hamas, in the first major test of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire meant...

Gali Berman, carries a placard reading in Hebrew “The People of Israel Live,” as he sits onboard an IAF helicopter en route to the hospital after being released from Hamas captivity, on Monday, Oct. 13, 2025. (IDF via AP)

After months in chains and darkness, freed Hamas hostages begin their long road to recovery

October 15, 2025 at 11:34 a.m.

They will be treated for malnutrition, lack of sunlight and the trauma of wearing leg chains for months. They suffer from unexplained pain and unresolved emotions, and they will have...

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