Author: ADAM SCHRECK Associated Press

JERUSALEM — An attack on a central Israeli town early Saturday injured 11 people as Iran’s Supreme Leader vowed a punishing response to Israel’s attack last week. The predawn strike on Tira, which followed air raid sirens across central Israel, was one of several barrages fired from Lebanon early in the day. Many of the […]

DILI, East Timor — The president of East Timor sees Pope Francis’ upcoming visit as a prime opportunity to promote Asia’s youngest country on the world stage, not a time to confront the legacy of abuse by influential members of the clergy in the deeply Catholic nation. During an interview Wednesday with The Associated Press, […]

JERUSALEM — In all but the blink of an eye, an Associated Press photographer’s camera captured the moments that a battleship-gray Israeli bomb plummeted toward a Beirut building before detonating to bring the tower down. The airstrike came 40 minutes after Israel warned people to evacuate two buildings in the area that it said were […]

JERUSALEM — Israel delivered its long-expected response to Iranian missile attacks early Saturday by carrying out a series of airstrikes against the Islamic Republic. Here’s what to know: Under the cover of darkness early Saturday, Israel struck multiple sites in different parts of Iran. Explosions were heard in the capital, Tehran, which sits deep inside […]

JERUSALEM — It’s Iran’s move now. How the Islamic Republic chooses to respond to the unusually public Israeli aerial assault on its homeland could determine whether the region spirals further toward all-out war or holds steady at an already devastating and destabilizing level of violence. In the coldly calculating realm of Middle East geopolitics, a […]

DILI, East Timor — A former Filipino congressman who sought asylum in East Timor after being accused of orchestrating the killings of a provincial governor and others will likely be returned home to face charges soon in the closely watched case, East Timor’s president said Wednesday. Arnolfo Teves Jr. was taken into custody while playing […]