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    Smoke rises among the residential buildings following an Israeli attack on Tehran, Iran on Tuesday, March 10.
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    Live Updates Strait of Hormuz in crosshairs of Iran conflict as attacks on ships escalate
  • People inspect the damage where Israel's military carried out an airborne operation that dropped troops overnight, in the town of Nabi Chit, Lebanon, March 7, 2026. REUTERS/ Mohammad Yassine TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
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    What we know on the 12th day of the US and Israel’s war with Iran
  • 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 placing explosive mines along a key oil route. Here are the risks.
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    Visualizing the US-Israeli war with Iran and retaliation in maps and charts
  • An Iranian Kurdish Peshmerga member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) inspects damage sustained at the Azadi Camp of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) following an Iranian cross-border attack in the town of Koye (Koysinjaq), in the east of Erbil district in the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq on March 3, 2026. The United States and Israel launched strikes against Iran on February 28, with the killing of Iran's supreme leader and the Islamic republic retaliated with barrages of missiles at Gulf states and Israel. The Kurdistan region hosts US-led coalition troops, and its capital Erbil is home to a major US consulate complex. (Photo by Safin HAMID / AFP via Getty Images)
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    Live Updates Day 7 of Middle East conflict — Trump says no deal with Iran until ‘unconditional surrender’
  • 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.
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    What we know on the 10th day of the US and Israel’s war with Iran
  • Lebanese President Joseph Aoun speaks at a press conference in Beirut on February 16.
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    Lebanon calls for direct talks with Israel, accuses Hezbollah of betraying country
  • <p>In this exclusive interview in Tehran, Kamal Kharazi, Foreign Policy Advisor to the office of the Supreme Leader, tells CNN’s Fred Pleitgen the regime can continue with the war for a long time and he doesn’t see room for diplomacy anymore. CNN is operating in Iran with the permission of the Iranian government, as required under local regulations. CNN maintains full editorial control over what it reports. The Iranian government does not review, approve, or preview CNN’s reporting prior to publication or broadcast.</p>
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    Exclusive: Iran is ready for a long war with the US and only economic pain will end it, senior official tells CNN
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  • A huge crater left by an Israeli airstrike in the village of Nabi Chit, eastern Lebanon late Friday, March 6, 2026, where Israeli forces landed overnight and dug a grave in a cemetery searching for Israeli co-pilot Ron Arad who was captured and then went missing after his fighter jet crashed over south Lebanon in 1986.
    Ali Salem/AP
    Dozens killed, authorities say, as Israeli commandos raid Lebanon in hunt for missing airman
  • Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian speaks with Fox News Channel's Martha MacCallum during an interview on September 25, 2025 in New York City.
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    Iran sends first significant message of de-escalation, but with a major caveat
  • Mourners dig graves on Tuesday for those killed in a February 28 strike on the Shajare Tayyiba elementary school in Minab, Iran.
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    Analysis suggests US was responsible for deadly strike on Iranian elementary school
  • 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, Saudi Arabia, and UAE, satellite images show
  • People watch as smoke rises on the skyline after an explosion in Tehran, Iran on Saturday, February 28, 2026.
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    Between bombs and blackouts, Iranians are trapped in a deepening crisis
  • 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 done in eight decades
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    Video Hear what people inside Iran think about destruction of morality police detention site 4:32
  • Video Why Iranian counterattacks rarely hit their target 5:07
  • Who are the Kurds?
  • Exclusive: Iranian bombers were ‘two minutes’ from striking US air base before Qatari planes shot them down
  • 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
  • Video Why Iran’s power structure makes the government hard to dismantle 4:41
  • What we know about the widening US war with Iran
  • Iran’s ferocious retaliation for US-Israeli strikes has rattled its neighbors
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