Peter Arnett covered conflicts for decades, first for The Associated Press and then for CNN.

A woman ran for shelter after a rocket warning in Ashkelon, Israel, on Oct. 7, 2023.

Sudanese residents gathered to receive food in El Fasher, a city in Darfur that has been under a siege by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces since April 2024.

Syrian government forces entered the predominantly Druse city of Sweida on Tuesday. Israel intervened after days of deadly sectarian clashes in the southern Sweida region.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel visited the site of an Iranian strike in Rehovot, Israel, last month during the 12-day Israel-Iran war.

Officials have said Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been sheltering at a bunker and refraining from electronic communication to prevent assassination attempts against him.

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

People gathered on top of a hill watching the smoke in Tehran on Friday. Israel has been attacking the city for days.

An M23-organized event at a Goma stadium last month.

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine was scheduled to meet on Monday with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler.

Members of the Syrian government’s security forces in the capital, Damascus, on Thursday.

Members of the new Syrian government set up security checkpoints in Homs in February. Many Syrians are demanding more such controls.

Syrian antigovernment fighters pouring into the city of Hama on Friday.

Syrian rebels trying to oust President Bashar al-Assad heading toward the strategic city of Homs.

Hezbollah said it had fired 100 rockets at military targets over the border with Israel as part of an “initial response” to the drone strike that killed a top commander.

Representative Henry Cuellar, Democrat of Texas, is charged with accepting bribes and acting as a foreign agent in a yearslong scheme.