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  • A view of a destroyed police facility, struck days earlier, during the U.S.Israeli military campaign on March 4, 2026 in Tehran, Iran. The United States and Israel have continued the joint attack on Iran that began on February 28, resulting in the death of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Iran retaliated by firing waves of missiles and drones at Israel, and targeting U.S. allies in the region.
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    Live Updates Israel says it’s moving to ‘next phase’ of war with Iran
  • An Iranian man stands among the ruins of a diplomatic police station that is completely destroyed during a U.S.-Israeli military campaign in Tehran, Iran, on March 4, 2026.
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    Everything we know on day 6 of the Middle East war
  • Debris surrounds blackened THAAD radar in Jordan - <em>A satellite image taken on March 2, 2026, shows debris surrounding a blackened THAAD radar at the Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan.</em><br /><em>Date: March 2, 2026</em>
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    Radar bases housing key US missile interceptor hit in Jordan and UAE, satellite images show
  • Iranian Kurdish fighters from the Kurdistan Freedom Party take part in a training session at a base on the outskirts of Erbil, Iraq, on February 12.
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  • In this screenshot of video provided by the U.S. Department of Defense, a U.S. submarine sinks Iranian frigate IRIS Dena in support of Operation Epic Fury off Sri Lanka's coast on March 4, 2026 at Sea in the Indian Ocean.
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    In torpedoing an enemy warship, the US Navy just did something it hasn’t in done in eight decades
  • Strikes have continued to hit Tehran.
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    Everything we know on day 4 of the US and Israel’s war with Iran
  • People walk on the rubble of buildings damaged in an early morning Israeli strike on Beirut's southern suburbs on March 3, 2026. The Israeli military issued new evacuation orders for dozens of locations in Lebanon on March 3, including warning residents in two southern Beirut neighbourhoods to stay away from several buildings ahead of an imminent operation.
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    Hezbollah is dragging Lebanon into the war on Iran, but the militia is a shadow of the force it once was
  • Smoke from an explosion rises into the sky above the Iranian capital, Tehran, on Monday.
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    What we know about the widening US war with Iran
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  • An F-15 fighter jet crashed in Kuwait on Monday, March 2, 2026.
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    Three US fighter jets accidentally shot down by Kuwaiti air defenses, military says
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    Iranians confront a post-Khamenei reality with relief, disbelief and anxiety
  • U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) commenced Operation Epic Fury, Feb. 28, at the direction of the President of the United States.
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    Warships, explosive drones and stealth bombers: The high-tech weapons and hardware the US is using to attack Iran
  • Alireza Arafi, Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei and Masoud Pezeshkian have formed a leadership council to hold power until Iran's new supreme leader is chosen.
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    Who’s running Iran now that the supreme leader is dead?
  • Social media videos show the interior of the airport filled with smoke as dozens of airline employees calmly evacuated the building.
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    Passengers flee smoke-filled Dubai airport as Iran attacks major Gulf travel hubs
  • Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, speaks during a mourning ceremony for the deaths of Iranian military commanders and scientists, who were killed in Iran's 12-day war with Israel, in Tehran onJuly 29, 2025.
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    What we know about the death of Iranian supreme leader Khamenei
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  • Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks after casting his vote for the presidential runoff election in Tehran, Iran, Friday, July 5, 2024. Iranians began voting Friday in a runoff election to replace the late President Ebrahim Raisi, killed in a helicopter crash last month, as public apathy has become pervasive in the Islamic Republic after years of economic woes, mass protests and tensions in the Middle East. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
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    Ayatollah Khamenei, who battled the US and Israel for decades as Iran’s supreme leader, has been killed
  • Trump wonders why Iran won’t ‘capitulate’ on its nuclear program. Here’s why
  • US ambassador to Israel tells embassy staff if they want to leave they ‘should do so TODAY’
  • Iranian regime pressures families of slain protesters to bury truth of crackdown
  • Israeli flags are seen near Nablus, West Bank on February 15, 2026.
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    Middle East states condemn US ambassador’s comments appearing to support ‘expansionist’ Israel
  • Wounded but still dangerous: How Iran could strike back if Trump attacks
  • UK condemns 10-year sentence for British couple in Iran
  • Israeli TV producer of award-winning show ‘Tehran’ found dead in Athens hotel room
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