Iran has freed five Americans, while the U.S. has agreed to unfreeze $6 billion in Iranian assets and to dismiss federal charges against five imprisoned Iranians.
Israel targeted Marwan Issa, a Hamas military leader, with a strike over the weekend. He is one of three leaders of the group in Gaza who Israel says were the main planners of the Oct. 7 attack.
A court has been asked to solve a bitter dispute between two families who have very different accounts of the origins of a dish beloved around the world.
The brief mutiny by the Wagner mercenary force last month has given Belarus’s autocratic leader Aleksandr G. Lukashenko an opening to upend his subservient relationship with Moscow.