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  • Children and women, relatives of suspected ISIS jihadists, walk inside Al-Hol camp in the desert region of Syria's northeastern Hasakeh province on January 21, 2026.
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    Syria reports ‘mass escape’ from detention camp holding ISIS-linked families amid reports thousands fled
  • A general view of Efrat Jewish Settlement in Bethlehem, West Bank on March 30, 2024. Palestine's Land Day, March 30, 1976, is an annual day of commemoration for Palestinians of the events of that date in 1976 when Israeli authorities confiscated vast areas of Palestinian land.
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    US offers diplomatic services in West Bank settlement for first time. Critics warn it’s ‘normalizing annexation’
  • People walk near a mural featuring images of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and leader of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, on a street in Tehran, Iran, February 17, 2026.
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    Fresh protests erupt in Tehran as Witkoff says Trump curious why Iran has not yet ‘capitulated’
  • 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
  • Ballistic missiles, air defense systems, and unmanned aerial vehicles are displayed at Baharestan Square in Tehran as part of Iran's "Sacred Defense Week" and to mark the 45th anniversary of the Iran-Iraq War, which began in 1980 and lasted eight years, on September 27, 2025.
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    Wounded but still dangerous: How Iran could strike back if Trump attacks
  • US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leave the State Dining Room of the White House after a news conference on September 29, 2025.
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    Israel tightens grip on West Bank ahead of Netanyahu’s visit to US
  • Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the funeral of Israeli hostage Ran Gvili, whose remains were finally brought back to Israel on January 26, in the southern town of Meitar on January 28, 2026. Hundreds of tearful mourners packed a stadium in southern Israel on January 28, 2026, for the funeral of Ran Gvili, the last Gaza hostage whose burial marks the end of a painful national saga triggered by Hamas's 2023 attack. Israeli forces on January 26 brought home the remains of Gvili, who was killed in action and whose body Palestinian militants took into Gaza during their October 7 attack, which triggered a devastating two-year war. (Photo by Chaim Goldberg / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)
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    Netanyahu to discuss potential Iran strikes with Trump as Washington and Tehran resume talks
  • Narges Mohammadi sits in her apartment in Tehran on January 23, 2025.
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    Iran sentences Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi to 7 more years in prison
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    Trump warns Iran’s supreme leader should be ‘very worried’
  • Narges Mohammadi sits in her apartment in Tehran on January 16, 2025. She received the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize for advocating women's rights and freedom and is currently on leave from prison. (Photo by Nooshin Jafari / Middle East Images via AFP) (Photo by NOOSHIN JAFARI/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)
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  • Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and his accompanying delegation depart for the site of the talks in Muscat, Oman on Friday.
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    Trump confirms more talks with Iran as Tehran stands firm on nuclear enrichment. Here’s what to know
  • Palestinians gather around street vendors to buy food and basic supplies amid the ruins of destroyed buildings in Gaza City in October.
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    Bezalel Zini, brother of Israel’s security chief, arrested in bust of alleged Gaza smuggling ring
  • Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian speaks during a visit to the shrine of the leader of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in southern Tehran, Iran, on January 31, 2026.
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    Iran conditionally agrees to nuclear talks with US, first since Trump’s military strikes last summer
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  • Ambulances wait in line at the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with Gaza on Monday.
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    Gaza-Egypt border reopens nearly two years after Israel closed it, official says
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  • US conducts military drills in Middle East as tension with Iran builds amid Trump’s demands
  • Iran’s top diplomat hopeful for negotiations even amid US military buildup
  • A mourner carries the body of a child during the funeral of Palestinians who, according to the medics, were killed in overnight Israeli strikes, outside the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, October 29, 2025. REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
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    Israeli military reportedly acknowledges 70,000 killed in Gaza after previously casting doubt on health ministry’s count
  • Trump faces a weakened Iran but that doesn’t make his choices any easier
  • Iran is open to US talks but won’t be dictated to and won’t negotiate on missiles, foreign minister says
  • Iran warns of ‘hazardous consequences’ after EU designates Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization
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