The Trump administration made the move in exchange for Belarus’s freeing of 250 political prisoners, part of a rapprochement between the two countries.

Lasting damage to Ras Laffan Industrial City, the world’s largest liquefied natural gas export plant, would have big consequences for the global energy market.

Several others were injured in the strike, which hit a caravan being used as a hair salon in the town of Beit Awwa, according to Palestinian officials.

QatarEnergy said early Thursday that Iranian missile attacks on its Ras Laffan Industrial City had caused sizable fires and extensive damage.

President Trump said Israel was responsible for the attack, but vowed to “massively” destroy the gas field if Tehran hit Qatar’s energy facilities in retaliation.

At least 20 young adults are believed to be infected, and two have died, in an outbreak of meningococcal disease in the county of Kent, in southeast England.

Strikes targeting infrastructure in Iran, Qatar and Saudi Arabia have put strategic oil-and-gas facilities at the center of the conflict.

An analyst tells the BBC how she tracked down a victim of child sexual abuse after years of searching.

A Colorado school staffer allegedly abused a 13-year-old student for months. She is now on the run, facing 12 felony charges including sexual assault on a child.

The former "19 Kids and Counting"star was arrested and charged this week with allegedly molesting a 9-year-old girl during a 2020 Florida vacation.

On Wednesday, the director of national intelligence and C.I.A. director contradicted one of the justifications the Trump administration had given for its attacks on Iran.

At least 143 people were killed in a Pakistani airstrike that hit a drug rehabilitation facility in Kabul on Monday, according to a top U.N. official.

Neighbors told Israeli news media that their apartment building was hit soon after a siren sounded.

The USS Gerald R Ford has played a significant role in US operations during the war with Iran.

The Marine Corps unit expected to arrive in the Middle East next week could help seize one or more of the strategic islands off Iran’s southern coast to counter Iranian attacks on shipping.

A Brussels court ruled that Étienne Davignon must stand trial for the murder of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The strikes on a gas field in Iran and an industrial complex in Qatar appeared to be some of the most significant attacks on energy sites since the U.S.-Israeli air war against Iran began.

The Israeli military said on Wednesday that it had killed Esmaeil Khatib in an airstrike. Iran confirmed the killing.

Iran’s military retaliation, along with the political defiance of its new leaders, evokes a decades-old pattern of unrealized goals for American interventions in the region.

Canada’s population fell last year for the for the first time on record going back to World War II, a stark shift from the growth seen in recent years after the federal government tightened immigration policy.