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    A partially constructed gas refinery at the South Pars gas field is seen on the northern coast of Persian Gulf in Asalouyeh, Iran, on Jan. 22, 2014. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)
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    Live Updates Trump threatens to ‘blow up’ world’s largest gas field if Iran keeps attacking Qatar
  • A young Iranian girl closes her eyes near a loader working on the ruins of buildings destroyed during a military campaign, near a police station in a residential area in Tehran, Iran, on March 15, 2026.
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    What we know on the 20th day of the US and Israel’s war with Iran
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    Live Updates Day 19 of Middle East conflict — Trump threatens Iran’s gas fields, Gulf energy sites come under attack
  • Iranians attend a joint funeral held for security chief Ali Larijani, paramilitary commander Gholam Soleimani and 84 sailors from the Iranian Navy frigate IRIS Dena on Wednesday in Tehran.
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    Why a weakened Iran is insisting on prolonging the war
  • Israel said it killed Iran's intelligence minister, Esmail Khatib, pictured in May 2024, in a Tuesday night strike on Tehran.
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    What we know on the 19th day of the US and Israel’s war with Iran
  • 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.
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    Israeli forces shoot and kill 4 members of Palestinian family, officials say, after opening fire on car in West Bank
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    Visualizing the US-Israeli war with Iran and retaliation in maps and charts
  • 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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  • A man looks at the smoke from an Israeli airstrike. Israel and Hezbollah returned to all-out war in March 2026. (Photo by Sally Hayden / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images)
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    What we know on the 14th day of the US and Israel’s war with Iran
  • A picture taken with a mobile phone on March 12, 2026 shows a damaged building in the vicinity of Dubai Creek Harbour after a drone fell on it.
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    British man charged with cybercrimes in Dubai for allegedly filming missile strikes, UK authorities confirm
  • A satellite view of the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic waterway between Iran and Oman that links the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Sea.
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    Iran is escalating the war by attacking ships along a key oil route. Here’s what we know.
  • TOPSHOT - A blaze sweeps following Israeli bombardment on a solar farm and electricity generation facility in Lebanon's southern coastal city of Tyre on March 4, 2026. Israeli forces on March 4 advanced into a number of towns and villages in south Lebanon, a source from the UN peacekeeping force in the country, UNIFIL, told AFP. (Photo by Kawnat HAJU / AFP via Getty Images)
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    The war that never ended: Israel seizes moment to finish fight against Hezbollah, Iran’s proxy in Lebanon
  • 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.
    Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu/Getty Images
    Assault charges against Israeli soldiers dropped in controversial end to a yearlong scandal
  • President Donald Trump departs Air Force One on March 11.
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    Trump may be unable to end the war he started with Iran, even if he wanted to
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  • Residents look on as flames and smoke rise from an oil storage facility that was struck in Tehran, Iran, on Saturday.
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    Why Trump’s Gulf allies are resisting pressure to join the Iran war
  • What we know on the 12th day of the US and Israel’s war with Iran
  • Source: New Iranian supreme leader had fractured foot and face lacerations on first day of war
  • Exclusive: Russia is giving Iran specific advice on drone tactics, Western intelligence source tells CNN
  • Black smoke rises after fires broke out following US-Israel attacks targeting some oil storage facilities, including the Shehran oil depot, in Tehran, on March 8, 2026.
    Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu/Getty Images
    What we know on the 10th day of the US and Israel’s war with Iran
  • Lebanon calls for direct talks with Israel, accuses Hezbollah of betraying country
  • Exclusive: Iran is ready for a long war with the US and only economic pain will end it, senior official tells CNN
  • What we know on the ninth day of the US and Israel’s war with Iran
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