A Blount County man, who was in Israel when the missile strikes started, is speaking out about his experience. Doctor Abumayaleh Khaled is an optometrist in Alcoa and went to ...

Dr. Khaled Abumayaleh and his daughter are trying to get back home to East Tennessee as Iran and Israel trade air strikes.

Khaled has been a journalist for 25 years, mostly with Reuters in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and London. He covered the outbreak of Arab uprisings in Yemen and Syria, Hafez Al Assad's rule, Iraq under ...