Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Hadeel al-Shalchi is an editor with Weekend Edition. Prior to joining NPR, Al-Shalchi was a Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press and covered the Arab Spring from Tunisia, Bahrain, Egypt, and Libya. In 2012, she joined Reuters as the Libya correspondent where she covered the country post-war and investigated the death of Ambassador Chris Stephens. Al-Shalchi also covered the front lines of Aleppo in 2012. She is fluent in Arabic.
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Iran holds a funeral procession for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei more than four months after he was killed in U.S.-Israeli strikes. -
Khamenei, who ruled Iran for more than three decades, was killed in an airstrike on Feb. 28 at the start of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran. -
Trumps says Israel and Hezbollah will stop fighting after Iran stops talks with U.S. over Israeli operations in southern Lebanon, Gaza -
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Bill McGee, Senior Fellow for Aviation and Travel at the American Economic Liberties Project, about how the Iran war is impacting the airline industry.
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President Trump was rushed away from the White House Correspondents' dinner on Saturday after shots were fired in the hotel. A man has been taken into custody.
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Between the war in Iran and high gas prices, President Trump needs to regain the voters' confidence ahead of the November midterm elections.
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Vice President JD Vance said the U.S. and Iran did not reach an agreement to end the war after meeting on Saturday. Control over the Strait of Hormuz remains a flash point in the war.
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The suspect who attacked a synagogue in Michigan lost family members in an Israeli strike in Lebanon on March 5. Relatives and neighbors in his hometown share their views on his actions. -
President Trump delivered on his threat to strike Iran and announced a military campaign there on Saturday assisted by Israel. He also called for regime change.
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President Trump says he will raise global tariffs by 15% days after the Supreme Court ruled he doesn't have the emergency power to raise tariffs. And the world waits to see if Trump will strike Iran.
