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  • 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
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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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    Exclusive: Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi on hunger strike in detention in Iran, foundation says
  • 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
  • Iranians visit graves in the Behesht-e Zahra cemetery in Tehran on January 29, 2026.
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    Grieving Iranians cowed into silence beside the graves of protesters
  • 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
  • An armed member of Iran's police special forces looks on as he holds a portrait of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during a pro-Government rally in downtown Tehran, Iran, on January 12, 2026. The rally takes place in Tehran against the recent anti-government unrest, opposition to the U.S. and Israel in Iran, and in support of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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  • Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi attends a press conference in Istanbul, Turkey, on Friday.
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    Iran is open to US talks but won’t be dictated to and won’t negotiate on missiles, foreign minister says
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  • Palestinian residents of Ras Ein al-Auja village, West Bank pack up their belongings and prepare to leave their homes after deciding to flee mounting settler violence, Friday, Jan. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
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    ‘We are reliving the Nakba’: A Palestinian community says it’s being erased as Israeli settler violence intensifies
  • Former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki leaves after casting his ballot in the parliamentary elections at a polling station in Baghdad on November 11, 2025.
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    Trump warns against Nouri al-Maliki’s return as prime minister of Iraq
  • 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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  • People watch the moment a clock at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv showing the time elapsed since the Hamas attack stopped on Tuesday, January 27, one day after the remains of Ran Gvili, the final hostage held in Gaza, were returned.
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    After 843 days, the clock counting the painful wait for Israel’s hostages has finally stopped
  • U.S. Navy Capt. Daniel Keeler, commanding officer of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), prepares to fly an MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter, attached to Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 71 on Jan. 23, 2026. The Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group is underway conducting routine operations in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations. Units assigned to 7th Fleet conduct regular Indo-Pacific patrols to deter aggression, strengthen alliances and partnerships, and advance peace through strength. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Daniel Kimmelman)
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    US carrier strike group is now in the Middle East region, sources say
  • Women wearing the niqab stroll through Al-Roj detention center in northeastern Syria, which is guarded by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces.
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    ‘Utterly Stateless’: Inside a detention camp for ISIS-linked women and children amid escalating uncertainty in Syria
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  • Palestinians gather around a fire to warm themselves as they struggle to survive amid the ruins of the Jabalia Refugee Camp in the northern Gaza Strip on January 22, 2026.
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    Cold and malnutrition claim more victims in Gaza amid winter rains
  • The night Iran went dark: Witness accounts and video reveal violence inflicted during Iran’s internet blackout
  • Saudi Arabia says it has $2.5 trillion in mineral reserves. That could make it a key player in the race for rare earths
  • 180 skyscrapers for Gaza: Trump’s son-in-law Kushner unveils ‘masterplan’ for enclave’s reconstruction
  • Syrian government forces launch a rocket towards Kurdish forces near Dibsi Faraj in the northern Syrian Tabqa area, Raqa province on January 17, 2026. Syria's army took control of swathes of northern Syria and threatened to bomb parts of Raqa province on January 17, after Kurdish forces pulled back from territory they had held for over a decade. The government appeared to be seeking to extend its grip on parts of the country under Kurdish control a day after President Ahmed al-Sharaa issued a decree declaring Kurdish a "national language" and granting the minority official recognition.
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    Syria’s military has seized swaths of Kurdish-held territory. Here’s what we know.
  • Iran’s supreme leader acknowledges thousands were killed in protests
  • Detained Iranian protester in good physical health after execution fears, family and rights group say
  • Meet the trusted diplomat tasked with turning the US-backed ceasefire into peace for Gaza
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