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Middle East

  • The building of the destroyed Shajareh Tayebeh elementary school, surrounded by rubble in Minab, Iran, on August 10, 2026.
    Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images
    Deadly US strike on Iran school may have been a war crime, UN report finds
  • F-15SA fighter jets from the Royal Saudi Air Force escort Air Force One ferrying US President Donald Trump as they prepare to land at King Khalid International Airport on May 13, 2025, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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    Houthis release video claiming to show downed Saudi F-15 fighter as both sides continue to trade strikes
  • Narges Mohammadi spoke about her imprisonment in an interview with CNN.
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    Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi’s memoir details abuse in Iranian prison. She’s prepared for the consequences
  • Rescue workers extract bodies from the rubble after a previously damaged six-story building collapsed in Gaza City on Wednesday.
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    Gaza building collapse kills more than 20, dozens remain trapped under rubble
  • General view of the Grand Mosque during hajj in the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, May 29, 2026.
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    Saudi Arabia accuses Houthis of ‘red line’ attack on Mecca as rebels face outrage from Muslim world
  • Apart from a few residential block and an airbase, Perim Island is mostly barren sand rock. The Yemeni Island in Bab Al-Mandab Strait is the new geopolitical pinch-point in the Iran war.
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    Exclusive: This small island off Yemen is now a strategic prize in the widening Iran war
  • A satellite image shows smoke rising from the Saudi Aramco distribution centre, after what the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen said were attacks by Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis, in Abha, Saudi Arabia on Tuesday.
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    Scores wounded as Iran-backed Houthis attack Saudi Arabia in major regional escalation
  • A man carries his child through a new settlement of Maale Arugot during an inauguration ceremony in Gush Etzion, in the occupied West Bank on September 2, 2026.
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    UK, France and Canada sanction Israeli settlements in West Bank as Britain accuses settlers of ‘ethnic cleansing’
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  • Vessels near the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Musandam, Oman, August 31, 2026. REUTERS/Stringer
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    The US wants to manage the stalemate in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran wants to break it
  • A ceasefire has been in effect between Israel and Hezbollah, but Israeli strikes continue in southern Lebanon on a daily basis.
    Jeremy Diamond/CNN
    Israeli flags and flattened homes: A rare look inside occupied southern Lebanon
  • A young Iranian activist who was deported from the US to Bangui, in the Central African Republic.
    Mick Krever/CNN
    She fled Iran. America sent her to Africa
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    Video Iran launches missiles at bases in Jordan after US attack 2:00
  • Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Chief Justice of Iran Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, and an IRGC commander general Mohsen Rezaee arrive to attend a ceremony in Tehran, Iran, on July 3, 2026.
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    A power struggle in Iran could decide when Trump’s war ends
  • Soft serve by Ice Station, Abu Dhabi.
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    A date to remember: The Abu Dhabi ice cream maker turning palm trees into soft serve
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  • Former Israeli hostage Evyatar David pictured on October 26, 2025, days after his release from captivity in Gaza. REUTERS/Nir Elias
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    ‘I wake up with nightmares’: Ex-hostage who dug his own grave describes cruelty of Hamas captivity
  • A drone view of an election billboard by Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party depicting Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem and a text in Hebrew that reads "They Want Netanyahu to Lose, Don't let them Win", in Tel Aviv, Israel August 17, 2026 REUTERS/Amir Cohen
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    As elections near, Netanyahu casts Turkey as Israel’s latest enemy
  • The US is set to tighten the economic screws on Iran despite US sanctions having already drained the country's economy.
    Majid Asgaripour/WANA News Agency/Reuters
    Trump is trying to tighten the screws on an Iran numb to economic pain
  • A girl crosses a busy road at the Islamic Revolution Square in Tehran on July 21.
    Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images
    Iranian women defy efforts by hardliners to enforce wearing of hijab
  • Members of the Iranian security forces stand guard under a large portrait of Iran's new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, during a memorial to mark the 40th day since his father, Ali Ayatollah Khamenei, was killed in US-Israeli joint strikes, on April 9, 2026 in Tehran, Iran.
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    Iran’s latest warning to the US signals the hardliners are just getting started
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  • US President Donald Trump steps off Air Force One upon arrival at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on August 16.
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    Trump says US will reduce joint military exercises with key ally South Korea
  • A defaced portrait of Syria's ousted president Bashar al-Assad hangs on a wall in the capital Damascus on June 2, 2025.
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    What the death sentence for former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad tells us about the future of the country
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