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The U.S. names its 7th dead soldier and oil prices spike on Day 10 of the Iran war
The Pentagon said a Space Brigade sergeant was killed and the price of oil increased after Iran named Mojtaba Khamenei as supreme leader and then launched new a...
Millions more people are in the path of rising seas than previously thought
Oceans are rising as the climate changes, threatening coastal cities. A new study shows that much more of the world's population is vulnerable than earlier pred...
12 years on, renewed hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines flight comes up empty
Twelve years after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished with 239 people aboard, a deep-sea search has so far failed to locate the missing aircraft, as famili...
Video appears to show U.S. cruise missile striking Iranian school compound
The ten second video was released by Iranian state media and directly contradicts statements made by President Trump, who said Iran was responsible for the stri...
An Iranian doctor recounts treating wounds of war
An Iranian doctor who crossed into Turkey last week describes a harrowing journey to the border. She's been treating civilians wounded in the U.S. and Israeli b...
Iran has 'betrayed us' but all sides must de-escalate, says Qatar PM
Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani described Iran's strikes on Gulf countries as a "dangerous miscalculation", warning the escalation risks destabilising...
Israel hits Iran's oil depots as clerics say consensus reached on Ayatollah successor
Israel targeted Iran's oil facilities for the first time early Sunday, with videos showing huge flames lighting up the sky, while Iranian state media reported...
A new Nepali party, led by an ex-rapper, is set for a landslide win in parliamentary election
A Nepali political party led by an ex-rapper is set for a landslide victory in the country's first parliamentary election since Gen Z protests ousted the old le...
How the U.S. and Israel's war with Iran is realigning the politics of the Middle East
Kim Ghattas, author Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East," talk...
NEW MIDDLE EAST DYNAMICS
NPR's Scott Simon talks to Michael Wahid Hanna of the International Crisis Group about how the spillover of the war between Iran, Israel, and the U.S. into othe...
Iran's president defies U.S. demands while apologizing for strikes on neighbors
President Masoud Pezeshkian said Saturday that a demand by the U.S. for an unconditional surrender is a "dream that they should take to their grave." He also ap...
Trump looks to turn attention to Western Hemisphere at Americas summit
President Trump is set to gather with Latin American leaders on Saturday at his Miami-area golf club as his administration looks to turn attention to the Wester...