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    Live Updates Anti-government protests spread in Iran as authorities cut communications
  • Reza Pahlavi is photographed for Paris Match on May 07, 2024 in Paris, France.
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    The son of Iran’s last shah is rallying protesters. But do Iranians really want another king?
  • Mandatory Credit: Photo by STRINGER/EPA/Shutterstock (16215932b) Iranian shopkeepers and traders protest against the economic conditions, as tear gas is fired by anti-riot police in Tehran, Iran, 29 December 2025. Iran is experiencing an economic crisis as the value of its currency declines as a result of tensions between Iran, Israel, and the USA as well as sanctions implemented by the US and EU against Iran. Iranian shopkeepers protest over economic crisis in Tehran, Iran Islamic Republic Of - 29 Dec 2025
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    Iran faces a pivotal moment. Can a tired regime contain a fresh wave of protests?
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    Iran plunged into internet blackout as nationwide anti-government turmoil spreads
  • United Nations peacekeepers patrol in vehicles together with Lebanese soldiers in the Buwayda region of Marjayoun, Lebanon, near the southern border with Israel, on Thursday, January 8.
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    Lebanon says first phase of plan to disarm Hezbollah completed, but Netanyahu warns progress ‘far from sufficient’
  • A Yemeni man walks past buildings damaged or destroyed during the civil war, in Aden, Yemen, on October 26, 2024.
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    Two of the Middle East’s most powerful countries are facing off in Yemen. Here’s what to know
  • Protesters march in downtown Tehran, Iran, Monday, Dec. 29, 2025. (Fars News Agency via AP)
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    Iran appoints new central bank governor after mass protests as currency hits record low
  • Palestinians live in makeshift tents amid harsh conditions in Nuseirat, Gaza on December 28, 2025. Palestinians living in the Nuseirat Refugee Camp in the central Gaza Strip are struggling to carry on with their daily lives under harsh conditions amid the rubble left behind by Israeli attacks. Many displaced families, deprived of basic necessities, are trying to survive in makeshift tents and heavily damaged buildings amid cold weather conditions.
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    Israel to suspend operations of several aid groups in Gaza as countries warn of renewed ‘catastrophic’ humanitarian crisis
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  • TOPSHOT - Adel Rubin (L), who lost both her parents during the 2023 October 7 attacks, reacts as she visits a house that was left heavily-damaged after the event in Kibbutz Nir Oz in southern Israel on October 6, 2025, a day before the second anniversary of the attacks. Hamas's October 2023 attack resulted in the deaths of 1,219 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally of Israeli official figures. Palestinian militants also seized 251 hostages, 47 of whom are still in the Palestinian territory. Of those, the Israeli military says 25 are dead. (Photo by JOHN WESSELS / AFP) (Photo by JOHN WESSELS/AFP via Getty Images)
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    After two years of war, some Israelis are moving to the Gaza border while others are refusing. Here’s why
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a commemoration ceremony for soldiers killed during the 2014 Gaza war, also known as Operation Protective Edge, at the Memorial Hall on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on July 16, 2024.
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    Why Netanyahu’s visit to Mar-a-Lago is the opening act to Israeli Prime Minister’s reelection bid
  • TEHRAN, IRAN DECEMBER 11: (----EDITORIAL USE ONLY - MANDATORY CREDIT - 'IRANIAN LEADER PRESS OFFICE / HANDOUT' - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS----) Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei gives a speech during an event in Tehran, Iran on December 11, 2025. (Photo by Iranian Leader Press Office/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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    Iran’s ailing supreme leader resorts to his only playbook as crises mount and protests erupt
  • Protesters march in downtown Tehran, Iran, Monday, Dec. 29, 2025.
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    Protests erupt in Iran over currency’s plunge to record low
  • Turkish special forces leave the site where an operation was carried out Monday targeting a house believed to contain suspected Islamic State militants in Yalova province, Turkey.
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    Three Turkish police officers killed by ISIS militants as authorities step up raids over winter holidays
  • Members of the Alawite community gather to protest violence against Alawites following the Homs mosque bombing, in the city of Latakia, Syria, 28 December 2025. The protesters gathered against attacks targeting the Alawite community after a bombing at the Imam Ali bin Abi Talib Mosque in an Alawite neighborhood of Homs province on 26 December, in which at least eight people were killed and more than a dozen injured. Syrian Alawites protest in Latakia after mosque bombing, Syria - 28 Dec 2025
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    Three dead, dozens injured in Syria during clashes between Alawites and counterdemonstrators
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  • Israeli security forces inspect the scene where a vehicle was used by assailant in a suspected ramming and stabbing attack that killed two people in northern Israel according to Israeli authorities, in Afula, Israel December 26, 2025.
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    Two Israelis killed in Palestinian car-ramming and stabbing attack, police say
  • Christmas celebrated once again in Bethlehem but West Bank suffering persists
  • Israel’s approval of new West Bank settlements condemned by 12 European countries, Canada and Japan
  • Women’s rights are on a sharp decline in Israel. Advocates blame Netanyahu’s far-right government
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    A soaked tent or a bombed-out ruin: Gazans face a grim choice this winter
  • Israeli soldiers shot and killed a West Bank teen they say ‘hurled a block.’ Video shows them shooting him point blank
  • ‘We are still here.’ Catholic patriarch leads Christmas Mass at Gaza church bombed by Israel during the war
  • Gaza no longer in famine, says global hunger watchdog, after influx of aid following ceasefire
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