In the United States, pilots undergo a criminal history check as well as a threat assessment to see if they have ever been flagged as a “person of interest” in federal law enforcement databases.

A FlyDubai plane carried passengers to Tel Aviv on Wednesday after a midair cockpit attack on their earlier flight. Two other pilots who were seated in the cabin safely landed that plane.

Capt. Smit Machchhar in a photo released by Israel’s Foreign Ministry.

The Satwa area of Dubai in April. Migrant workers in the city have faced job losses or cuts since the start of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran.

Mira Nair, the acclaimed film director and mother of Zohran Mamdani, in Amritsar, India, in March.

Samer Moumneh, wearing a red headband, recording a new sketch in a cafe in Beirut, Lebanon, last week.

Tourists outside a hotel on the island of Socotra, Yemen, on Monday.

Aidarous al-Zubaidi, the leader of the Southern Transitional Council, in 2023 at a Yemeni community event in Queens, N.Y.

Iran fired missiles at an American military base in Doha, Qatar, on Monday, in response to U.S. strikes against Iranian nuclear sites.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio being welcomed on Monday by the Saudi foreign minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud, in Riyadh.

The senior executives of OpenAI in March. From left, Mira Murati, now the company’s interim chief executive; Sam Altman, the ousted chief executive; Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president who quit on Friday night; and Ilya Sutskever, a member of the company’s board.

The Ain Dubai, an observation wheel, rises above an artificial island in Dubai. The construction of Dubai’s islands is putting stress on the Persian Gulf.