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  • A satellite view of the Bab al-Mandeb Strait in the Red Sea, a vital trade route and hotspot for piracy and regional conflict.
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    Iran-backed rebels capture Red Sea port, tightening grip on a key global chokepoint
  • 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’
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference in Jerusalem on March 19.
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    Netanyahu faces backlash over report he was warned of Hamas attack days before October 7
  • 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
  • Israeli soldiers secure a building under construction as ambulances evacuate injured Palestinians following an attack by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank village of Qusra, on August 29. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
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    Israeli settlers storm Palestinian village, seizing home with owner inside
  • 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
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  • 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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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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  • 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
  • <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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  • Israeli soldiers stand guard outside a Palestinian house in the village of Qusra, in the occupied West Bank, on Thursday.
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    Trapped and cut off: Palestinian families under settler siege in the West Bank
  • A satellite image shows the damaged vessel Caroline Bezengi at sea off the coast of Oman, August 13, 2026. Pléiades Neo © Airbus DS 2026/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. MANDATORY CREDIT.
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    Huge oil spill off the coast of Oman now covers hundreds of square miles
  • 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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    UAE extradites alleged Irish crime gang boss Daniel Kinahan
  • Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa speaks during a joint press conference with France's President in Damascus on July 7.
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    Syria agrees deal with Russia over future use of two key Mediterranean bases
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