Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who assembled theocratic power in Iran over the decades as its supreme leader and sought to turn it into a regional powerhouse, bringing it into confrontation with Israel and the United States over its nuclear program while crus…

Israel has killed multiple senior officials with Iran’s armed proxies like Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon since the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei succeeded the founder of the Islamic Revolution in 1989. ___ This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.

A local member of parliament was among six people who died in a helicopter crash in Kenya.

A former finance minister of South Sudan is the latest former government official arrested in a wave of detentions that analysts say shows cracks in the government of President Salva Kiir, who also faces an armed rebellion.

Nonstop Iranian missile fire has sent residents of central Israel scrambling in and out of shelters throughout the day.

Leaders in Europe and around the world Saturday urged all sides to exercise restraint after the United States and Israel launched a major attack.

Recent musings from Secretary of State Marco Rubio have fueled a sometimes-acrimonious debate about the origins of the tall-hatted buckaroo who helped tame the West.

Pakistan says its military has struck more Afghan military installations deep inside Afghanistan.

A Gaza City family is trying to mark Ramadan in a tent on the ruins of the home where an Israeli strike killed most of their relatives.