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  • Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (not seen) and Syrian interim President Ahmad Al-Sharaa (L) hold a press conference after their meeting at Presidential Complex in Ankara, Turkiye on February 4, 2025.
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    Syria’s jihadist-turned-president caps extraordinary transformation with White House visit
  • Palestinians inspect parts of a burnt house after an Israeli settlers attack in the village of Beit Lid, east of Tulkarm in the occupied West Bank on November 11, 2025. Violence in the West Bank has soared since the war in Gaza broke out in October 2023. (Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP) (Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP via Getty Images)
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    Dozens of Israeli settlers launch arson attack in West Bank as attacks against Palestinians surge
  • Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) addresses the supporters during an election campaign rally in Istanbul, Turkey, on March 22, 2024.
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  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the plenum of the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem, on November 10, 2025.
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    Hannibal Gadhafi, son of late Libyan leader Moammar, released by Lebanon after 10 years in detention
  • Israeli soldiers accompany Rom Braslavski, formerly held hostage in Gaza since October 2023 by Palestinian militants, upon his arrival at the Sheba Tel-HaShomer Medical Centre in Ramat Gan on October 13, 2025. (Photo by Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images)
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  • U.S. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney talks with members of the army's 3rd Armored Division in Southern Iraq on Tuesday afternoon, May 7, 1991. Cheney said the troops would be on the move to a different location and he hopes to have them home soon. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)
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  • Red Cross vehicles carrying the bodies of three people believed to be deceased hostages handed over by Hamas make their way toward the border crossing with Israel, to be transferred to Israeli authorities, in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025.
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    Israel receives remains of 3 more deceased hostages held in Gaza
  • Members of the media raise their hands to ask questions as U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold a joint press conference in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., September 29, 2025. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
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    US allies await answers before committing to Trump’s Gaza peace force
  • A fire that broke out at the Grand Kartal Hotel in the Kartalkaya Ski Resort in Bolu, Turkey, on January 21 left 78 people dead and 133 injured.
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    Turkish court sentences hotel owner and 10 others to life for deadly fire that killed 78
  • Red Cross vehicles transport the bodies of two deceased hostages after they were handed over by Hamas militants, in Deir Al-Balah, Gaza, on Thursday, October 30.
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    Israel receives remains of two deceased hostages held in Gaza
  • Palestinians look out from a damaged building following an Israeli airstrike at the Al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, northern Gaza, on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025.
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  • Israelis gather at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv to demand the return of the hostage bodies still held in Gaza on Sunday, October 26.
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    Netanyahu says Hamas violated Gaza ceasefire by returning remains not linked to missing hostages
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