By JON GAMBRELL, DAVID RISING, RUSS BYNUM and SALLY ABOU ALJOUD Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Intense Israeli airstrikes pounded the capitals of Iran and Lebanon on Friday as the United States said it had struck an Iranian drone carrier at sea in its unrelenting ...

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI, SHEIKH SAALIQ, KRISHAN FRANCIS and ROD McGUIRK Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka began transferring more than 200 sailors from an Iranian vessel to shore Friday after the ship sought assistance while anchored outside the country's waters, as ...

By MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Tamar Biton was in the kitchen when an explosion rocked her home in the central Israeli city of Beit Shemesh, shattering the windows and collapsing the ceiling with a boom louder than anything she had ever heard. Making her way to what ...

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Mojtaba Khamenei, a son of Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has long been considered a contender to the post of the country's next paramount ruler, even before an Israeli strike killed his father at the ...

By SAMY MAGDY, MICHELLE L. PRICE and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The Trump administration is confronting mounting discontent from allies in the Persian Gulf who have complained they were not given adequate time to prepare for the torrent of Iranian drones and missiles ...

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A second Japanese national has been detained in Iran, Japan's Foreign Ministry said Friday and demanded the early release of both people. The ministry confirmed the second person had been detained before the Feb. 28 military strikes on ...