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    Civilians look upon the remains of a residential and commercial building on March 21, 2026 in the Shahrak-e Gharb neighbourhood of Tehran, Iran. The building was hit on March 16 amid U.S. and Israeli attacks and resulted in several civilian deaths and missing persons. The United States and Israel have continued their joint attack on Iran that began on February 28. Iran has retaliated by firing waves of missiles and drones at Israel, and targeting U.S. allies in the region.
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    Live Updates Iran’s military says Strait of Hormuz will be ‘completely closed’ if US bombs power plants
  • An Israeli soldier uses a torch to inspect the damage after Iranian missile barrages struck Dimona, amid the US-Israel conflict with Iran, in southern Israel March 21, 2026.
    Ilan Assayag/Reuters
    What we know on day 23 of the US and Israel’s war with Iran
  • UNDATED FILE PHOTO - File photo of Diego Garcia,largest island in the Chagos archipelago and site of a major United States military base in the middle of the Indian Ocean leased from Britain in 1966. Exiled inhabitants of Diego Garcia began a challenge July 17 to a British government decision to kick them off the remote island 30 years ago to make way for the U.S. base. [Thousands of islanders from the 65-island Chagos archipelago, many of them born in exile in Mauritius, want Britain to return them to their homeland.]
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    Live Updates Day 22 of Middle East conflict — Iran missiles hit Israel, injuring dozens
  • The Singapore flagged 85-thousand ton Norman Atlantic stands ablaze 06 December 1987 after she was attacked by an Iranian warship in Omani territorial waters as it approached the Strait of Hormuz. The Iranians attacked 2 tankers in the region killing one aboard the Danish tanker Estelle Maersk and setting the Singapore tanker Norman Atlantic ablaze. The Tanker War started properly in 1984 when Iraq attacked Iranian tankers and the vital oil terminal at Kharg island. Iran struck back by attacking tankers carrying Iraqi oil from Kuwait and then any tanker of the Gulf states supporting Iraq. The air and small boat attacks did very little to damage the economies of either country and the price of oil was never seriously affected as Iran just moved it's shipping port to Larak Island in the straights of Hormuz.
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    The Tanker War: How history is repeating itself on the Strait of Hormuz
  • US President Donald Trump during the Commander in Chief Trophy Presentation to the 2024 Navy Midshipmen football team at the White House in Washington on March 20, 2026.
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    What we know on day 22 of the US and Israel’s war with Iran
  • A young Iranian girl closes her eyes near a loader working on the ruins of buildings destroyed during a military campaign in Tehran on March 15, 2026.
    Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto/Getty Images
    What we know on the 20th day of the US and Israel’s war with Iran
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    Under Israeli bombardment, Lebanon urges Trump to intervene, calls for ‘immediate’ talks with Israel
  • President Donald Trump disembarks Air Force One, Wednesday, March 18, 2026, at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland.
    Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP
    As the war — and gas prices — escalate, Trump uses Israel to deflect domestic and allied pressure
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  • The USS Tripoli (LHA-7) amphibious assault ship enters the Singapore Straits, as seen from Singapore, on Tuesday, March 17.
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    US warship believed to be carrying additional Marines to Middle East tracked off Singapore
  • Emergency crews search for people trapped in rubble following a strike on a residential building on March 16, 2026 in central Tehran, Iran. The United States and Israel continued their joint attack on Iran that began on February 28. Iran retaliated by firing waves of missiles and drones at Israel, and targeting U.S. allies in the region. (Photo by Getty Images)
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    What we know on the 18th day of the US and Israel’s war with Iran
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    Video Video: Iran intensifies its suppression of dissent as it tries to prevent new uprising 4:04
  • A man walks on rocks along the shore as oil tankers and cargo ships line up in the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Khor Fakkan, United Arab Emirates, Wednesday, March 11, 2026.
    Altaf Qadri/AP
    The US is considering Hormuz naval escorts. There are risks and it could go disastrously wrong
  • Palestinians mourn at the funeral of four members of the Odeh family who were killed in their car by Israeli forces in a raid in Tammun, in the occupied West Bank, on March 15.
    Majdi Mohammed/AP
    Israeli forces shoot and kill 4 members of Palestinian family, officials say, after opening fire on car in West Bank
  • People stand in the aftermath of a strike in Tehran.
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    What we know on day 15 of the US-Israel war with Iran
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  • Security forces deploy to guard a rally in support of Iran's new Supreme Leader at Enghelab Square in central Tehran on March 9, 2026. Iran marked the appointment of Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei to replace his father as its supreme leader with a new barrage of missiles against Israel and the Gulf states on Monday, as the Middle East war sent oil prices soaring. (Photo by Atta KENARE / AFP via Getty Images)
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    Iran’s new supreme leader has yet to appear, and the system may not need him to
  • What to know about Kharg Island, the tiny coral outcrop at the heart of Iran’s oil industry
  • What we know on the 14th day of the US and Israel’s war with Iran
  • British man charged with cybercrimes in Dubai for allegedly filming missile strikes, UK authorities confirm
  • A view of Sde Teiman prison in the Negev desert near the Gaza Strip, in Negev, Israel on January 10, 2025. In a joint statement by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)'s Prisoners and Freedmen's Committee and the Palestinian Prisoners Society, it was reported that 10,400 Palestinians were imprisoned in Israeli prisons as of January 1, 2025. The fate of thousands of Palestinians detained by Israeli forces in Gaza is unknown. Most of the detained Palestinians are held in Sde Teiman prison in the Negev desert near the Gaza Strip.
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    Assault charges against Israeli soldiers dropped in controversial end to a yearlong scandal
  • How Iran’s use of cluster munitions is challenging Israel’s air defenses
  • Trump may be unable to end the war he started with Iran, even if he wanted to
  • Iran supreme leader’s first purported message leaves a major question unanswered
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