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SAMYA KULLAB

A man carries a box from a burning trade center after a Russian strike on Kyiv, Ukraine, on May 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
May 24, 2026, 2:20 pm
At least two killed as Russia uses hypersonic Oreshnik missile in mass attack on Kyiv area
Russia says the large-scale attack, using drones and missiles, was retaliation for Ukrainian strikes on ‘civilian facilities on Russian territory’
By SAMYA KULLAB and VASILISA STEPANENKO
Customers buy vegetables and fruits at a local market in Kawa Camp, which houses Iranian Kurdish refugees who fled Iran following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, in the outskirts of Irbil, Iraq, Saturday, March 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
March 21, 2026, 10:36 am
Exiled Iranian Kurds in Iraq say they will return only if Iran’s theocracy falls
Most were displaced after Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution and now eke out a living on the margins of Iraqi Kurdish society, but are wary of promises from foreign powers
By SAMYA KULLAB
A residential building burns after a Russian strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, January 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
January 9, 2026, 1:10 pm
Russia says it used new Oreshnik ballistic missile in major attack on Ukraine
Attack marks second time hypersonic missile used; wide-scale barrage killed four and wounded at least 22 people as apartment buildings were hit in Kyiv
By SAMYA KULLAB and ILLIA NOVIKOV
US President Donald Trump boards Air Force one at Joint Base Elmendorf- Richardson following a meeting with Russia's President Vladimir Putin, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025, in Anchorage, Alaska. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
August 16, 2025, 2:53 pm
Trump to meet Zelensky Monday after summit with Putin
Echoing Russian leader’s position, US president says overall peace agreement needed, not a ceasefire; Ukraine’s leader says he held ‘long and substantive’ conversation with Trump
By SAMYA KULLAB and Elise Morton
Ukrainian servicemen of the Defence Intelligence prepare to launch long-range drones An-196 Liutyi in undisclosed location, Ukraine, February 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
March 4, 2025, 2:26 pm
Ukrainians grapple with Trump’s halt to military aid: ‘I feel betrayed’
Troops say they’re not surprised, but ‘we’re done’ if weapons don’t come, which could lead to a Russian advance; Kyiv resident hopes halt is temporary: ‘We really need help’
By SAMYA KULLAB and HANNA ARHIROVA
A Ukrainian tank passes by a burning car near the Russian-Ukrainian border, Sumy region, Ukraine, Wednesday, August 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
August 15, 2024, 8:47 pm
Zelensky says Ukrainian forces have occupied largest town in Russia’s Sumy region
Kremlin downplaying significance of Ukraine’s surprise incursion into Kursk territory, but US says Russian troops being diverted to area
By SAMYA KULLAB and HANNA ARHIROVA
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during his interview with The Associated Press in Kharkiv, Ukraine, November 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
December 2, 2023, 9:55 pm
Zelensky says Israel-Hamas war taking focus off Ukraine, fears aid reduction
Ukraine’s president says conflict with Russia in new phase as winter sets in after unremarkable summer counteroffensive: ‘We must not allow people to forget about the war here’
By James Jordan, SAMYA KULLAB and ILLIA NOVIKOV
This image taken from UGC video shows smoke rising from the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol, Crimea, September 22, 2023. (Crimean Telegram channel via AP)
September 22, 2023, 9:31 pm
Ukraine strikes Russia’s naval headquarters in Crimea
Russian defense ministry reports one serviceman missing in missile attack on Sevastopol after initially saying he was killed
By SAMYA KULLAB and Dasha Litvinova
A Ukrainian serviceman shouts to paramedics in front of bodies killed after a Russian rocket attack on the food market in the city centrer of Kostiantynivka, Ukraine, September 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
September 6, 2023, 11:24 pm
17 killed, dozens wounded in Russian missile strike on Ukraine market
Zelensky accuses Russia of ‘deliberate’ attack on civilians in Kostiantynivka as Blinken visits Kyiv, where he’s expected to announce more US aid
By SAMYA KULLAB
Ukrainian soldiers ride an APC on the frontline near Bakhmut, the site of fierce battles with the Russian troops in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, Monday, June 5, 2023. (Iryna Rybakova via AP)
June 10, 2023, 4:31 pm
Zelensky says long-awaited counteroffensive underway in Ukraine
Ukrainian president: ‘Everyone is positive. Pass this on to Putin’; last reactor at imperiled Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant shut down
By SAMYA KULLAB and Jamey Keaten
Firefighters extinguish a fire caused by fragments of a Russian rocket after it was shot down by air defense systems during a Russian rocket attack on Kyiv, Ukraine, May 16, 2023. (Ukrainian Emergency Situations Ministry via AP, File)
May 29, 2023, 12:49 pm
Kyiv residents terrorized by Russia’s nighttime air raid campaign
When the alarms blare, some in the city are consumed by fear, imagining the worst-case scenarios. Others embrace apathy, lying awake in bed
By SAMYA KULLAB
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right, greet each other after joint press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
April 20, 2023, 6:35 pm
Meeting Zelensky in Kyiv, NATO chief says Ukraine’s ‘rightful place’ is in alliance
Ukrainian leader asks Jens Stoltenberg to push for members of defensive pact to supply more weaponry, including aircraft
By LORNE COOK and SAMYA KULLAB
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg gives a news conference with the Turkish foreign minister (not pictured) following talks in Ankara, on February 16, 2023. (Adem Altan/AFP)
April 20, 2023, 1:05 pm
NATO chief visits Kyiv for first time since Russian invasion
Visit appears to be largely symbolic as military alliance has no official presence in Ukraine and only provides non-lethal support to country
By LORNE COOK and SAMYA KULLAB
Illustrative: People pay their respects at a makeshift memorial at the scene where a helicopter crashed into civil infrastructure on January 18, in Brovary, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, January 20, 2023. (Daniel Cole/AP)
January 22, 2023, 10:55 am
Ukraine’s tragic week shows there’s no safe place in war
Missile strike on residential building and helicopter that crashed into a kindergarten frame several days of particularly cruel suffering in conflict-ravaged country
By SAMYA KULLAB and HANNA ARHIROVA
Illustrative -- Anti-government protesters throw stones towards security forces during a demonstration to mark the third anniversary of the anti-government protests of Tahrir Square in Baghdad, Iraq, Oct. 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
November 22, 2022, 10:16 am
Auditors in Iraq uncover staggering $2.5 billion tax fraud by officials, businesses
Report suggests theft orchestrated by network of officials, civil servants and businessmen — individuals that often have links to powerful political factions
By Qassim Abdul-Zahra and SAMYA KULLAB
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