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Nizar Banat, an outspoken of the Palestinian Authority, speaks to journalists at the family house, in the West Bank city of Hebron, May 4, 2021. Banat who had intended to run in parliamentary elections before they were cancelled earlier this year died during his arrest by Palestinian Authority forces early Thursday, June 24, 2021, officials said. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
Critic of Palestinian Authority dies after violent arrest

By Joseph Krauss Jun. 24, 2021 02:37 AM EDT

A health worker makes a mark on the door of a house after vaccinating the children of the family during a polio campaign in the old part of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, June 15, 2021. Gunmen on Tuesday targeted members of polio teams in eastern Afghanistan, killing a number of staffers, officials said. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
Attacks target polio teams in east Afghanistan, 5 killed

By Kathy Gannon And Tameem Akhgar Jun. 15, 2021 03:15 AM EDT

FILE— In this Dec. 11, 2006, file photo, top cleric Ali Akbar Mohtashamipour, center, speaks during a conference on the Holocaust with Rabbi Moishe Arye Friedman, left, from Austria, and Rabbi Ahron Cohen, right, from England, in Tehran, Iran. Mohtashamipour, a Shiite cleric who as Iran's ambassador to Syria helped found the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and lost his right hand to a book bombing reportedly carried out by Israel, died Monday, June 7, 2021, of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)
Iran cleric who founded Hezbollah, survived book bomb, dies

By Jon Gambrell Jun. 07, 2021 05:21 AM EDT

A tablet on the breakfast table of Alparslan Atas and his wife Gulistan at their home in Istanbul, shows the latest video of Sedat Peker, a Turkish fugitive crime boss, Sunday, June 6, 2021. Sunday is the day the 49-year-old convicted crime ringleader posts the latest installation of his hour-long tell-all videos from his stated base in Dubai that have captivated Turkey and turned the mobster into an unlikely social media phenomenon. The convicted crime ringleader has been dishing the dirt on members of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling party. The allegations range from drug trafficking and a murder cover-up to weapons transfers to Islamic militants. (AP Photo/Mehmet Guzel)
Turkish mafia boss dishes dirt, becomes YouTube phenomenon

By Suzan Fraser Jun. 07, 2021 02:35 AM EDT

Kansas Senate President Ty Masterson, right, R-Andover, confers with Sen. Caryn Tyson, R-Parker, before the start of the Legislature's last day in session for the year, Wednesday, May 26, 2021, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Masterson and other Republicans have pushed a resolution through both chambers calling for Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly to end extra unemployment benefits. (AP Photo/John Hanna)
Kansas House weighs in on Gaza war with pro-Israel statement

By John Hanna May. 26, 2021 05:05 PM EDT

A crater full of water and sewage remains where the home of Ramez al-Masri was destroyed by an air-strike prior to a cease-fire reached after an 11-day war between Gaza's Hamas rulers and Israel, Sunday, May 23, 2021, in Beit Hanoun, the northern Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
After another war, displaced in Gaza face familiar plight

By Fares Akram May. 24, 2021 02:24 AM EDT

Lynn Hastings, of Canada, United Nations Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory speaks during a news conference at their compound following a cease-fire reached after an 11-day war between Gaza's Hamas rulers and Israel, Sunday, May 23, 2021, in Gaza City. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Israeli police escort Jews to flashpoint Jerusalem site

By Joseph Krauss May. 23, 2021 02:15 PM EDT

People clean the streets of debris beside a building that was previously damaged in an air-strike following a cease-fire reached after an 11-day war between Gaza's Hamas rulers and Israel, in Gaza City, Friday, May 21, 2021. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Egyptian mediators hold talks to firm up Israel-Hamas truce

By Wafaa Shurafa And Samy Magdy May. 22, 2021 07:37 AM EDT

Supporters of a Pakistani religious party take part in a rally in support of Palestinians in conflict with Israelis Friday, May 21, 2021, in Islamabad, Pakistan. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)
The Latest: Biden says his party 'still supports Israel'

By The Associated Press May. 21, 2021 05:44 AM EDT

An Israeli soldier sits on top of a tank at a staging ground near the border with Gaza Strip, southern Israel, Friday, May 21, 2021. A cease-fire took effect early Friday after 11 days of heavy fighting between Israel and Gaza's militant Hamas rulers that was ignited by protests and clashes in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
Palestinians see victory in Gaza truce as Israel warns Hamas

By Fares Akram And Joseph Krauss May. 21, 2021 02:12 AM EDT

A Palestinian man inspects the damage of his home following Israeli airstrikes on Jabaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, May 20, 2021. Heavy airstrikes pummeled a street in the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza, destroying ramshackle homes with corrugated metal roofs nearby. The military said it struck two underground launchers in the camp used to fire rockets at Tel Aviv. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
Israel, Hamas agree to cease-fire to end bloody 11-day war

By Josef Federman And Fares Akram May. 20, 2021 04:01 PM EDT

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks on during a briefing to ambassadors to Israel at the Hakirya military base in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, May 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, Pool)
Israel's Netanyahu 'determined' to continue Gaza operation

By Fares Akram And Joseph Krauss May. 19, 2021 02:55 AM EDT

A Palestinian man inspects the damage of a house destroyed by an early morning Israeli airstrike, in Gaza City, Tuesday, May 18, 2021. Israel carried out a wave of airstrikes on what it said were militant targets in Gaza, leveling a six-story building in downtown Gaza City, and Palestinian militants fired dozens of rockets into Israel early Tuesday, the latest in the fourth war between the two sides, now in its second week. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
Palestinians go on strike as Israel-Hamas fighting rages

By Fares Akram And Ravi Nessman May. 18, 2021 02:31 AM EDT

Israeli security forces and emergency services work on a site hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, in Ramat Gan, central Israel, Saturday, May 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
Israeli warplanes stage more heavy strikes across Gaza City

By Fares Akram And Ravi Nessman May. 16, 2021 02:11 PM EDT

Bangladeshi Muslims protesting against Israeli attacks on Palestinians in Gaza, gather after Eid al-Fitr prayers in front of Baitul Mukarram Mosque and wave Palestinian and Bangladeshi flags in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, May 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)
The Latest: Israeli airstrike on Gaza house kills at least 7

The Associated Press May. 14, 2021 07:55 AM EDT

An Israeli soldier stands guard next to an Iron Dome air defense system as smoke rises from an oil tank on fire after it was hit by a rocket fire from Gaza Strip, near the town of Ashkelon, Israel,, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
The Latest: Netanyahu raps 'anarchy' of Jewish-Arab fighting

By The Associated Press May. 12, 2021 06:40 AM EDT

Members of a civil society group burn representations of Israeli, U.S. and Indian flags during a demonstration in support of Palestinians during the latest round of violence in Jerusalem, in Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday, May 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
The Latest: Israeli aircraft strike another building in Gaza

May. 11, 2021 09:22 AM EDT

Jewish nationalist demonstrators look at a barrage of rockets fired from the Gaza Strip toward central Israel, in the Israeli town of Ramla, Tuesday, May 11, 2021. The protesters had gathered in an attempted show of strength in a predominantly Arab neighborhood. (AP Photo/Heidi Levine)
Israel, Hamas trade deadly fire as confrontation escalates

By Fares Akram And Josef Federman May. 11, 2021 08:38 AM EDT

Amhara militia member Nega Wagaw poses for a photograph on a street in Gondar, in the Amhara region of Ethiopia Sunday, May 2, 2021. Ethiopia faces a growing crisis of ethnic nationalism that some fear could tear Africa's second most populous country apart, six months after the government launched a military operation in the Tigray region to capture its fugitive leaders. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Ethiopia 'at a crossroads' amid spiraling ethnic conflict

By Rodney Muhumuza May. 04, 2021 04:04 AM EDT

FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2019 file photo, a woman carries her baby at a screening center run by U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces after being evacuated out of the last territory held by Islamic State militants, outside Baghouz, Syria. Hundreds of thousands of Syrians face continued displacement each coming year if the conflict continues and economic conditions further deteriorate, the Norwegian Refugee Council, a prominent humanitarian organization said Monday, March 8, 2021. The Syrian conflict, which marks 10 years later this month, has resulted in the largest displacement crisis since World War II, the council said. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)
US-backed Syrian forces raid camp of IS families, arrest 9

By Sarah El Deeb And Lolita C. Baldor Mar. 28, 2021 04:20 PM EDT