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News Articles: Middle East

The White Helmets search for unexploded ordnance in Homs, Syria, on Jan. 29.

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  • Middle East

With Assad gone and Syria's war over, the White Helmets have a new mission

Vilified by the Assad regime, these Nobel-nominated first responders operated only in rebel areas. Now their founder is in the new government and they're extending their reach to all of Syria.

April 21, 2025
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By:
  • Lauren Frayer and
  • Jawad Rizkallah
Mourners gather around the bodies of 8 Red Crescent emergency responders, recovered in Rafah a week after an Israeli attack, as they are transported for burial from a hospital in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, on Monday, March 31, 2025.

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  • World

Israeli probe into killing of 15 Palestinian medics finds 'professional failures'

The Israeli military investigation said the examination found "no evidence to support claims of execution or that any of the deceased were bound before or after the shooting."

April 20, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi speaks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during their meeting in Moscow on Friday.

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  • Middle East

Iran and the U.S. plan expert-level talks over Tehran's nuclear program

The two countries will begin having experts meet to discuss details of a possible deal over Tehran's rapidly advancing nuclear program, the top Iranian diplomat said after a second round of talks.

April 19, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Mike Huckabee, recently confirmed as U.S. ambassador to Israel, places a note given to him from President Trump in the cracks of the Western Wall, during Huckabee's visit to the holy site in the old city of Jerusalem on April 18.

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  • World

Huckabee arrives in Israel as new U.S. ambassador and visits the Western Wall

At the Western Wall, one of Judaism's holiest sites, Mike Huckabee said he'd brought a note with a prayer for peace handwritten by President Trump, who had instructed him to insert it into the wall.

April 18, 2025
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By:
  • Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Palmyra's ancient theater, seen on Feb. 21, was used by ISIS for public executions during the group's takeover of the region.  Syrians are hoping for a return of tourists now that the country has reopened to international visitors after the fall of the regime of Bashar al-Assad to rebel fighters last December.

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  • World

Syria hopes tourists will return to Palmyra, a World Heritage Site ravaged by war

Before 2015, Palmyra was considered one of the world's most intact ancient Roman sites. ISIS blew up many key monuments of this storied Silk Road city. Syrians hope restoration can begin now.

April 17, 2025
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By:
  • Jane Arraf
People walk by a tent shelter near the rubble of a collapsed building in western Gaza City on April 15.

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  • World

New Israeli ceasefire offer demands Hamas discuss disarming, but group rejects it

Hamas is rejecting a new Israeli proposal to pause the war in Gaza, a Hamas official told NPR. Earlier, officials mediating talks had expressed optimism that a deal could be reached within weeks.

April 15, 2025
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin and
  • Aya Batrawy
"The regime has fallen, and I need to transition to civilian life," says former opposition fighter Omar Halaby, 29, who lost his right leg during a 2017 attack by Syrian forces loyal to then-President Bashar al-Assad. "Part of that process is seeing my late friends one last time, to give them a dignified reburial."

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  • World

How Trump's cuts to U.S. foreign aid are imperiling Syria's war crimes investigations

When former leader Bashar al-Assad fell, new Syria war crimes investigations began. But U.S. budget cuts have halted some work. For families of the disappeared, it means justice delayed or denied.

April 15, 2025
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By:
  • Lauren Frayer
A view over ruined buildings in the northern Gaza Strip as seen from a position on the Israeli side of the border on April 2, southern Israel. Defense Minister Israel Katz has said Israel will "capture extensive territory" to be added to "buffer zones" in the Gaza Strip after the military expanded its ground assault.

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  • World

Gaza territory shrinks drastically as Israel seizes huge swaths of land

Israel's military is expanding buffer zones inside the Gaza Strip and taking over more areas of the territory, shrinking land Palestinians can access by more than half.

April 14, 2025
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By:
  • Aya Batrawy and
  • Anas Baba
The outpatient and laboratory wards of the Al-Ahli Arab Baptist hospital are seen after being hit by an Israeli army strike late Saturday, following a warning issued by the army to evacuate patients, in Gaza City, on Sunday.

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  • Middle East

Israel strikes a hospital in Gaza, forcing evacuation as strikes intensify

The strike hit Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, after Israel issued an evacuation warning. Israel said it struck a command and control center used by Hamas at the hospital.

April 13, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press
U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff (left) is expected to lead the U.S. delegation in nuclear talks with Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Saturday in Oman. The U.S. and Iran reached a nuclear accord in 2015, but President Trump withdrew from the deal during his first term in 2018.

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  • News

Amid deep mistrust, U.S. and Iran try to work out a nuclear deal

President Trump pulled out of a nuclear deal with Iran in his first term. Now he's trying to negotiate a new agreement that would prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.

April 11, 2025
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By:
  • Greg Myre
Mourners carry the body of 14-year-old Palestinian Amir Rabee, a U.S. citizen, during his funeral in the village of Turmus Ayya, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on Monday.

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  • Middle East

The Israeli troop killing of a U.S. teen in the West Bank sparks outrage

The killing of a Palestinian American teen by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank has sparked an outcry from relatives and community members in the Palestinian territory as well as the U.S.

April 09, 2025
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By:
  • Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Three days after the killings in Latakia, as soon as a curfew was lifted, Druse leaders evacuated every student studying in universities on the coast – more than 1,200 of them. They arrived late into the night on the 10th March 2025 and were greeted by the Druze Military Council at border checkpoints.

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  • World

Druze militias are suspicious of Syria's new leaders -- and are ready to go to battle

The new leadership vowed to disband all militias. But the fiercely independent Druze have made no agreement, and say they're gathering fighters and making plans to repel government forces if needed.

April 09, 2025
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By:
  • Jane Arraf
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves to the crowd in Tehran, Iran, March 31.

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  • Middle East

Iran says it will have 'indirect' talks with the U.S. in Oman on Saturday

Iran says it will have indirect talks with the U.S. Saturday in Oman, opening possible diplomacy over Iran's nuclear program but revealing a potential sticking point about the format for negotiating.

April 08, 2025
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By:
  • Alex Leff
A man writes a slogan on a portrait of the U.S. President Donald Trump during a rally commemorating anniversary of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution that toppled the late pro-U.S. Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and brought Islamic clerics to power, in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. Trump says the US and Iran will have direct nuclear talks soon.

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  • Middle East

The U.S. will hold direct, high-level talks with Iran, Trump says

It's been more than a decade since the two powers have had direct talks. President Trump offered few details about what the talks would entail, or when they'd be scheduled.

April 07, 2025
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By:
  • James Hider and
  • Michele Kelemen
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with President Trump in the Oval Office of the White House, Feb. 4, in Washington, D.C.

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  • Middle East

Netanyahu is set to meet Trump to discuss Israeli hostages in Gaza and U.S. tariffs

It's Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's second visit to the White House since President Trump took office this year, and comes as Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza hits the 18-month mark.

April 07, 2025
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By:
  • Hadeel Al-Shalchi and
  • Aya Batrawy
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