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  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participates in a joint news conference with U.S. President Donald Trump in the State Dining Room at the White House on September 29, 2025 in Washington, DC.
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    Israeli PM Netanyahu announces $35 billion gas deal with Egypt as US pushes for summit
  • An elderly Palestinian man shouts at Israeli military vehicles during a protest organized by residents demanding their return to their homes in the Nur Shams refugee camp, east of Tulkarm. Israeli forces have destroyed 1,414 homes in the Tulkarm and Nur Shams refugee camps in the northern West Bank.
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    UN and Palestinians warn West Bank demolitions could permanently displace hundreds
  • People look on towards Israeli settler outposts near the occupied West Bank village of Turmos Ayya on October 19, 2025.
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    Israel approves 19 settler outposts in major expansion in occupied West Bank
  • Men walk along a muddy alley at a makeshift camp sheltering displaced Palestinians after heavy rains in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City on December 11, 2025. The United States, alongside Qatar and Egypt, secured a truce in Gaza that came into effect on October 10 and has mostly halted two years of war between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas.
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    Gaza storms kill 14 Palestinians, including 3 children
  • Narges Mohammadi in her apartment in Tehran, Iran, on January 23.
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    Iran arrests Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi, supporters say
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    Bulldozed corpses and unmarked graves, CNN investigates the fate of Gaza’s missing aid seekers
  • Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa speaks as he attends the 23rd edition of the annual Doha Forum, in Doha, Qatar, December 6, 2025.
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    Syrian president says Israel is ‘fighting ghosts’ and must abide by deconfliction accord
  • Yasser Abu Shabab, pictured in an image posted on the Popular Forces’ Facebook page.
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    Leader of anti-Hamas militia armed by Israel killed in Gaza
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  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participates in a state memorial ceremony for the fallen soldiers of the two-year Gaza war at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on October 16, 2025. Netanyahu said on October 16, that he was determined to ensure that Hamas hands back the remains of hostages still in Gaza, adding that the fight "is not over yet". (Photo by Alex KOLOMOISKY / POOL / AFP) (Photo by ALEX KOLOMOISKY/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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    Israeli PM Netanyahu requests pardon in ongoing corruption trial
  • Pope Leo XIV disembarks the papal plane upon arrival at Rafic Hariri International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, during his first foreign trip, on November 30, 2025.
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    Pope Leo arrives in Lebanon, bringing call for unity in crisis-hit nation
  • Brothers Fadi Abu Assi, 8, and Jumaa Abu Assi, 10, were killed by an Israeli drone strike in southern Gaza as they were searching for firewood for their family.
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    Two children were gathering firewood for their father. They were killed by an Israeli drone
  • A view shows the Saint Maroun monastery, which the pope is expected to visit during his trip to Lebanon, in Annaya, Lebanon November 25, 2025. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir
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    In battered Lebanon, an ancient Christian community awaits the new pope
  • A damaged site, following an Israeli raid on Friday, according to Syrian state media, in Beit Jinn, Syria November 28, 2025. REUTERS/Ali Ahmed al-Najjar NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES
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    Israel’s deadly incursion in Syria a ‘war crime’ after 13 killed, Syrian FM says
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  • Palestinians carrying bags return from a food distribution point run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation near the Netsarim corridor in the central Gaza Strip on October 5, 2025.
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    Controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation to close aid effort
  • Israel says Hezbollah chief of staff killed in first strike on Beirut in months
  • At least one Israeli killed and three injured after attack at West Bank junction
  • Israeli settlers torch scrapyard in West Bank arson attack as Netanyahu calls meeting on rising extremist violence
  • <p>Some of the newly freed Israeli hostages who were released from Gaza under the US-brokered ceasefire plan will meet President Donald Trump at the White House this week. Bar Kupershtein spent more than two years in Hamas captivity and says he endured beatings and starvation, but he never stopped believing he would return home. CNN's Oren Lieberman sat down with Kupershtein before his flight to Washington.</p>
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  • Exclusive: Iran open to resuming nuclear talks with the US but won’t shift its conditions, supreme leader’s adviser says
  • Israeli strike on a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon kills 13 people, Lebanon’s health ministry says
  • Trump’s plan for Gaza endorsed by UN Security Council
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