Ruth Sherlock

A plume of smoke rises from the site of a strike in Tehran on March 29, 2026. Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty hide caption

For almost a month now, a twenty-eight-year old Iranian writer in Tehran has been sharing her diary entries with NPR. The entries give us a view of the war from inside Iran as it is being lived. This is her second dispatch and she expresses the complicated emotions some Iranians have about this war.

Pope Leo delivered his first Easter Mass as pope with a call for world leaders to choose peace over war.

RAMALLAH, West Bank — Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank dug up the grave of an elderly Palestinian man on Friday and forced his family to remove his body from the cemetery where he had been laid to rest.

In a West Bank spring where Palestinians used to water their flocks, Israeli settlers now swim.

Wheat stalks in the occupied West Bank. Mosab Shawer/Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images hide caption

Vice President JD Vance has delayed his trip to Switzerland to negotiate the terms of a peace agreement with Iran on Friday.

Vice President JD Vance has delayed his trip to Switzerland to negotiate the terms of a peace agreement with Iran on Friday. It's unclear exactly why the talks were called off at the last minute, but the delay raises questions over the sturdiness of the

NABLUS, West Bank — It was supposed to be the happiest day of Raghed al-Shami's life. She was about to give birth to a baby boy.

Nayef Samaro, 25, was killed in an Israeli military raid on Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, as he prepared to meet his wife at the hospital for the birth of their first child.