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Photos show daily life in Iraq’s Basra near Iranian border as war slows trade

BASRA, Iraq (AP) — In Basra, southern Iraq, daily routines go on under the weight of the Iran war, as workers unload cargo at Umm Qasr Port and operations slow at the nearby Zubair oil field.

 

Kurds in northern Iraq celebrate the new year festival of Nowruz, in photos

AKRA, Iraq (AP) —

Thousands of Kurds celebrate the new year festival of Nowruz in the hub city of Akra in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region.

 

Tradition and worry at an iftar gathering near the Iran-Iraq border in photos

GULP, Iraq (AP) — At the foot of the mountains along Iraq’s border with Iran, a Kurdish family gathers in the village of Gulp, near Halabja, to prepare iftar, the evening meal that breaks the daily fast during Ramadan.

 

Photos: Charcoal workers in a quiet Kurdish village carry on as war unfolds

SARKAND, Iraq (AP) — As war rages in Iran, life goes on across the border in the Kurdistan region of northeastern Iraq.

 

Ramadan Friday prayers at sunrise captured in this extraordinary photo

Arriving before sunrise, an AP photographer captures the process Palestinians must go through at Al-Aqsa Mosque during the religious month marked by spiritual reflection, prayer, and fasting.

 

Photos of sheep and goats for sale at a West Bank livestock market

NABLUS, West Bank (AP) — Before dawn on the outskirts of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, Palestinians gather at a livestock market to buy sheep and goats.

 

Photos capture West Bank olive harvest as villagers fear more violence by Israeli settlers

TURMUS AYYA, West Bank (AP) — The olive harvest that was marked by violence is complete in the West Bank, but fear still hangs over many Palestinian villages, where residents keep constant watch for armed Israeli settlers.

 

Photos show thousands of ultra-Orthodox men protesting military draft shut down Jerusalem

JERUSALEM (AP) — Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox men filled downtown Jerusalem in protest against plans to draft them into Israel’s military, creating a sea of black-clad demonstrators who sang, clapped, and carried signs vowing jail over enlistment.

 

Photos show Gaza’s destruction as families return to what’s left of their homes

Two years of war between Israel and Hamas have left the Gaza Strip in shambles.

After relentless Israeli bombardment, entire neighborhoods have been reduced to rubble, streets are unrecognizable and once-bustling markets are now just twisted metal and concrete.

 

The West Bank’s dwindling Palestinian Christian communities, in photos

TAYBEH, West Bank (AP) — Christians who are proudly Palestinian and live in the occupied West Bank continue to find hope in Sunday worship as they wish for independence and peace in the Holy Land, even as they struggle with growing violence from Israeli settlers, restrictions on daily life imposed b

 

PHOTO ESSAY: 18 young lives have been lost in the West Bank this year

One child was sitting on her mother’s lap. Another had just stepped outside his home. Another was picking almonds.

 

Israeli fire in the West Bank killed their kids. Palestinian families want to know why

One child was shot to death while sitting on her mother’s lap. Another, hit by an airstrike as he stepped inside his home. Two others, killed while playing outside with friends.

 

Photos show displaced Palestinians fleeing the northern Gaza Strip

Displaced Palestinians are fleeing the northern Gaza Strip with their belongings, as the Israeli military presses on with its operations.

 

Photos show Druze and Bedouin clashes in southern Syria

BUSRA AL-HARIR, Syria (AP) — Injured government soldiers and civilians were treated after clashes broke out between Druze militiamen and Sunni Bedouin tribes in Syria’s southern Sweida province, threatening to unravel the country’s post-war transition.

 

Photos of the aftermath of Iranian missile strikes in Israel

Israeli soldiers and rescue teams searched for survivors in the rubble of residential buildings damaged by Iranian airstrikes.

 

Workshops empty, Bethlehem carvers fret over second Easter with no tourists

Bethlehem workshops where carvers toil over small pieces of olive wood sit empty these days.

On most Easters the shops lining the streets of the town known as Jesus’s birthplace would be bustling with tourists.

 

Israel’s antisemitism conference draws Europe’s far-right leaders to Jerusalem

Far-right European leaders are in Jerusalem for a conference organized by the Israeli government on combating antisemitism.

 

Syria’s new security forces conduct sweeps in Homs, looking for ousted Assad’s loyalists

Syria’s new security forces have deployed in tanks in the city of Homs to search for militia members and former soldiers loyal to ousted President Bashar Assad who have refused to surrender their weapons.

 

Glimpses of horror emerge inside Syria’s Saydnaya prison, dubbed ‘The Slaughterhouse’

SAYDNAYA, Syria (AP) — Behind the coils of razor wire and concrete walls, glimpses of the horror emerge from the warren of dank, airless corridors of what has been dubbed “The Slaughterhouse.”

 

Syrian rebel force deploys to a village near Damascus to stop looters

A rebel force has deployed to a village in southeastern Damascus to stop looters who swarmed a residential complex in the area and set some apartments on fire.

 

A year later, Israeli survivors reflect on the lingering toll of Oct. 7

One year after the Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel by Hamas militants, survivors reflect on that day’s lingering toll.

 

A visit to Gaza reveals rubble, tunnels and new asphalt along Egypt’s border

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military gave journalists a tour of the barren strip of land on Gaza’s southern border that has become a major obstacle in talks over a cease-fire — and to a nearby, devastated district where troops have been battling militants for months.

 

Netanyahu vows retaliation against Hezbollah after weekend strike as US warns against escalation

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed that Israel’s response would be “severe” as he blamed Hezbollah for a weekend rocket strike from Lebanon that killed 12 children.

 

Head of US aid agency says Israel has pledged to improve safety for humanitarian workers in Gaza

The head of the U.S. agency overseeing American humanitarian assistance worldwide says Israel has agreed to use an improved system across the Gaza Strip to ensure humanitarian workers and aid can more safely move around.

 

US military shows reporters pier project in Gaza as it takes another stab at aid delivery

A $230 million pier project that the U.S. has built on the coast of Gaza to deliver badly needed humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza is running again.

 

AP reporters aboard a US military plane watch small batches of aid airdropped on a destroyed Gaza

Two Associated Press journalists aboard an American aid flight to Gaza observed the wreckage to the strip’s north as the plane delivered much-needed food aid to Palestinians below.

 

The faces of pastoralists in Senegal, where connection to animals is key

FETE FORROU, Senegal (AP) — The Fulani people — also known as the Peuhl — are believed to be the largest seminomadic ethnic group in the world, with communities stretching from Senegal to the Central African Republic.

 

Pastoralists in Senegal raise livestock much as their ancestors did centuries ago

ANNDIARE, Senegal (AP) — The planet is changing, but pastoralists here in the Sahel region of Africa are in many ways still raising livestock the way their ancestors did centuries ago.

 

AP PHOTOS: ‘Plastic Man’ in Senegal on mission against trash

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — On a beach in Senegal with so much plastic trash that much of the sand is covered, one man is trying to raise awareness about the dangers of plastics—by wearing many of the bags, cups and other junk that might just as soon be part of trash piles.

 

11 Russian troops slain at shooting range as fighting rages

At least 11 Russian soldiers have been killed in a shooting incident that underlines the challenges posed by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s hasty mobilization.

 

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