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Middle East

  • US President Donald Trump inspects an honor guard as he attends a welcoming ceremony in the Irish capital of Dublin on Saturday.
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    Trump says Iran likely responsible for attack that shut vital Saudi oil pipeline
  • Supporters of the Iran-backed Houthis are seen with their weapons at a rally in solidarity with Iran and Lebanon, in Sanaa, Yemen, on April 8, 2026.
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    ‘A f***-up of epic proportions’: Blame game begins after Iran-backed Houthis’ lightning advance down Red Sea coast
  • <p> A strategic island in the Red Sea is taken by Houthi rebels.</p>
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    Iranian allies captured a strategic Red Sea island in a vital waterway. Here’s what to know
  • 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
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    Iran retaliates after US strikes, defying Trump’s warning it could be hit ‘much harder’
  • A young Iranian activist who was deported from the US to Bangui, in the Central African Republic.
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    She fled Iran. America sent her to Africa
  • TEL AVIV, ISRAEL - AUGUST 24: Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, speaks during a press conference at the Etzel Museum following the discovery of the Altalena ship after 78 years at bottom of the Mediterranean sea on August 24, 2026 in Tel Aviv, Israel. The wreckage of the ship Altalena has been found fully intact at a depth of 503 metres off the coast of Israel. She was a decommissioned US Navy ship purchased by the Irgun paramilitary group that arrived during Israel's War of Independence carrying 930 Jewish immigrants and a large cargo of weapons. A dispute erupted when Irgun leader Menachem Begin demanded a portion of the arms be reserved for his units, which Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion refused, viewing it as a threat to a centralised state military. On Ben-Gurion's orders, the newly formed Israel Defense Forces shelled the ship off the Tel Aviv beach, causing an explosion that killed 16 Irgun fighters and 3 IDF soldiers before the ruined hull was later towed out and sunk. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)
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    Israel’s far-right competes for votes with increasingly extreme visions
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  • People walk next to a symbolic mockup of an Iranian missile and an Iranian flag at Imam Hussein Square in Tehran, Iran, on July 12.
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    ‘We will retaliate like an earthquake’: How Iran could respond to Trump’s economic ‘D-Day’
  • 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
  • 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
  • Yalda Moaiery speaks onstage during the IWMF Courage in Journalism Awards in Washington, DC, on October 23, 2023.
    Kevin Mazur/Getty Images/IWMF
    This photojournalist was sentenced to 15 years in an Iranian prison. She refuses to be silenced
  • The Al Mirani Fort and traditional houses are surrounded by mountains, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Muscat, Oman, March 12, 2026. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier
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    Trump’s threats anger Omanis, leave observers puzzled
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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.
    Louai Beshara/AFP/Getty Images
    What the death sentence for former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad tells us about the future of the country
  • <p>The Emirati Genome Program aims to map the DNA of more than one million citizens to help create a personalized healthcare system. But what are the wider implications? CNN’s Hanako Montgomery finds out.</p>
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  • Bashar al-Assad signs a deal between Iran and Syria, on May 03, 2023 In Damascus, Syria.
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    Former Syrian President Assad sentenced to death in absentia
  • MORRISTOWN, NEW JERSEY - AUGUST 9: U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he boards Air Force One on August 9, 2026 at Morristown Airport in Morristown, New Jersey. President Trump spent the weekend at his Bedminster, New Jersey golf club. (Photo by Eric Lee/Getty Images)
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    Trump’s Iran strategy depends on economic pain. The pain is mounting
  • Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a cornerstone laying ceremony for the Atarot Heritage Center at an abandon airport in East Jerusalem near the separation wall with the Israeli occupied West Bank city of Ramallah on July 5, 2026. (Photo by ilia YEFIMOVICH / AFP via Getty Images)
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    Netanyahu calculates upsetting Trump is his least-bad option
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    Video Netanyahu rejects Trump’s Gaza peace plan 2:28
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