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President Donald Trump shakes hands with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan upon arriving for the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, July 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

NATO unveils billions in arms deals to prove its firepower as Trump again demands Greenland

July 7, 2026 at 1:14 p.m.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday insisted that the United States should be in control of Greenland rather than NATO ally Denmark, renewing tensions in Europe even as the trans-Atlantic military...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and others watch, seated from left, Israel’s Ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter, counselor Dan Holler, and Lebanon’s Ambassador to the U.S. Nada Hamadeh, sign a framework agreement, described as a first step toward peace following months of conflict between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, at the State Department, Friday, June 26, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Israel and Lebanon sign framework agreement with US in ‘first step’ toward peace

June 26, 2026 at 7:59 p.m.

The U.S. State Department said the framework establishes a process for dismantling Hezbollah and for Lebanon to regain territory that was taken by Israeli forces.

Delegation staff members meet in the lobby on the first day of a quadrilateral meeting between the U.S., Iran, Pakistan, and Qatar at the Buergenstock Resort Lake Lucerne, near Stansstad, Switzerland, Sunday, June 21, 2026. (Nathan Howard/Pool Photo via AP)

Mediators worked through threats and strikes to broker the US-Iran deal, and challenges remain

June 26, 2026 at 8:49 a.m.

As the U.S. and Iran exchanged escalating strikes on June 11, a plane carrying Qatari mediators was stranded on the tarmac in Tehran.

People gather at the site of an Israeli airstrike that struck an apartment in Dahiyeh, Beirut’s southern suburbs, Lebanon, Sunday, June 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Deal is reached to end Iran war and Trump orders stop to US naval blockade

June 14, 2026 at 5:09 p.m.

Pakistan says the United States and Iran have reached an agreement to end the war and open the Strait of Hormuz.

Displaced residents hold a Hezbollah flag as they celebrate while returning to their villages following a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, in Zefta, southern Lebanon, Friday, April 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

The truce in Lebanon is key to ending the wider Iran war, but challenges remain

April 17, 2026 at 5:45 p.m.

The ceasefire appears to have led Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, easing the global energy crisis. But major obstacles remain, as Hezbollah has not formally agreed to the...

Displaced residents drive back to their villages as locals wave Hezbollah flags and an image of late Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, in Zefta, southern Lebanon, Friday, April 17, 2026, following a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Iran reopens Strait of Hormuz, but Trump says blockade on Iranian ships and ports will stay in force

April 17, 2026 at 12:49 p.m.

Iran said Friday it fully reopened the Strait of Hormuz to commercial vessels, but President Donald Trump said the American blockade on Iranian ships and ports “will remain in full force” until...

People drive their motorbikes past billboards showing the Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, top and right, and his father, the slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in U.S. and Israeli strikes on Feb. 28, in downtown Tehran, Iran, Thursday, April 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

A 10-day ceasefire agreed on by Israel and Lebanon goes into effect

April 16, 2026 at 5:47 p.m.

U.S. President Donald Trump announced the agreement as a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon.

A first responder emerges through the smoke at the site of an Israeli airstrike that struck an apartment building in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, April 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

What to know about the ongoing war between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon

April 9, 2026 at 10:00 p.m.

In the hours after the U.S. and Iran announced a tentative ceasefire, Israel dramatically escalated its attacks in Lebanon against the Iran-backed group Hezbollah.

Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike on a building in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, April 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

At least 182 killed as Israel strikes central Beirut after saying Iran truce doesn’t apply there

April 8, 2026 at 9:01 p.m.

Israeli strikes hit several dense commercial and residential areas in central Beirut without warning on Wednesday afternoon, hours after a ceasefire was announced in the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran.

FILE – U.S. forces patrol oil fields in Syria, Oct. 28, 2019 . (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad, File)

Attacker who killed US troops in Syria was a recent recruit to security forces, official says

December 14, 2025 at 2:36 p.m.

A man who carried out an attack in Syria that killed three U.S. citizens had joined Syria’s internal security forces as a base security guard two months earlier.

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