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Middle East

  • Ships and boats in the Strait of Hormuz, Musandam, Oman, May 1, 2026.
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    Live Updates a min ago Iran responds to US peace proposal as tensions escalate in the region’s waterways
  • Members of Iranian security forces stand guard during a gathering to support Iran's new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Tehran, Iran, March 9, 2026. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY
    Majid Asgaripour/Wana News Agency/Reuters
    Iran’s two-tier internet access fuels anger and exposes cracks in the regime
  • A man holds a flag with a picture of late leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, late Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Iran's new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, during a rally in Tehran, Iran, April 29, 2026.
    Majid-Asgaripour/Wana News Agency/Reuters
    ‘Super Revolutionaries’: The radical Iranian hardliners bent on sabotaging a deal with the US
  • A man holds a flag with a picture of late leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, late Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Iran's new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, during a rally in Tehran, Iran, April 29, 2026.
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    Majid-Asgaripour/Wana News Agency/Reuters
    Live Updates a min ago Day 71 of Middle East conflict — US awaits response from Iran on proposal to end war
  • US forces disabled M/T Sea Star III and M/T Sevda, May 8, prior to both vessels entering an Iranian port on the Gulf of Oman in violation of the ongoing US blockade.
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    US fighter jet’s attack on Iranian tankers explained
  • US President Donald Trump rejected a previous version of Iran's peace proposal.
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    Ceasefire hangs in the balance as Iran sends peace proposal to mediators
  • The Emirati flag sways in the wind as the skyline of Dubai is seen in the background on June 3, 2022.
    Karim Sahib/AFP/Getty Images
    Israel and the UAE find common cause as the Iran war cracks old Middle East alliances
  • Israeli soldiers seen in a Palestinian home.
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    Israel redeploys military battalion that assaulted, detained CNN team after one-month suspension
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    ‘Nothing feels normal anymore’: How everyday Iranians are coping with war
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    The Gaza playbook: Satellite images reveal scale of Israeli destruction in Lebanon
  • Italian peacekeepers and a priest pose with the new statue in the Lebanese village of Debel
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    Italian peacekeepers replace Jesus statue vandalized by Israeli soldiers
  • Israeli police detained Alex Sinclair for wearing a kippah embroidered with an Israeli and a Palestinian flag.
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    Police in Israel detain Jewish man for kippah showing Israeli, Palestinian flags
  • US forces patrol the Arabian Sea near the Iranian-flagged Touska on April 20, after it attempted to evade a US naval blockade.
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  • Commuters make their way past a giant billboard of slain Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at the Valiasr Square in Tehran on April 19, 2026. The strategic Strait of Hormuz was again closed on April 19 in the stand-off between Iran and the United States, with Iran's powerful parliament speaker signalling a final peace deal remained "far" off despite some movement in negotiations.
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    Trump claims Iran’s regime is fractured. The reality is more complicated.
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  • In this picture obtained from Iran's ISNA news agency, Mojtaba Khamenei (C), son of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, walks along a street in Tehran on May 31, 2019. (Photo by Hamid FOROUTAN / ISNA / AFP via Getty Images)
    Hamid Foroutan/ISNA/AFP/Getty Images/File
    Iran’s new supreme leader is nowhere to be seen. That might be helping the regime to survive
  • Relatives mourn over the bodies of two Palestinians allegedly killed earlier in the day by Israeli settler gunfire the village of Al-Mughayyir, east of Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, at a hospital in Ramallah on April 21, 2026.
    Zain Jaafar/AFP/Getty Images
    Palestinian schoolboy among two killed by Israeli settlers, amid spate of attacks on education in the West Bank
  • U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office after signing an Executive Order April 18, 2026 in Washington, DC.
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    Video Trump says he will extend ceasefire with Iran 5:10
  • Israeli soldiers patrol along the Israel-Lebanon border on April 10, 2026. The Israeli military said on April 10 that it had "dismantled" more than 4,300 Hezbollah sites in Lebanon since fighting with the militant group began last month. (Photo by Jalaa MAREY / AFP via Getty Images) /
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    Israel jails two soldiers who damaged and photographed a Jesus statue in Lebanon
  • Police officers investigate discarded items in Kensington Gardens, central London.
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    Counter-terror police investigate incident near Israeli embassy in London
  • Firefighters try to put out flames at the site of an airstrike that hit an apartment building in Beirut, Lebanon, on Wednesday, April 8. <a href="index.php?page=&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2026%2F04%2F09%2Fworld%2Flive-news%2Firan-war-trump-us-ceasefire%3Fpost-id%3Dcmnrg5ya40000356tw6nhkfw9">Iran is at odds with the US and Israel</a> over whether a two-week ceasefire applies to Israel’s military offensive targeting the Iranian-backed paramilitary group Hezbollah at Lebanon’s northern border.
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    Hospitals overwhelmed and communities destroyed: Lebanon reels from Israel’s unprecedented attacks
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    ‘Wait for death’: Inside Iran’s psychological war against its enemies
  • People gather around a destroyed Palestinian police jeep that was targeted by an Israeli air strike in Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on March 22, 2026.
    Eyad Baba/AFP/Getty Images
    US and Hamas hold first direct talks since Gaza truce as ceasefire process stalls
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