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    Former Iranian parliament speaker Ali Larijani addresses the media following his registration at the elections registration office in Tehran, on May 31, 2024, ahead of the country's election of a new president next month. After Iran mourned president Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash, the nation's focus turns to the election for his successor, with the conservative camp seeking a loyalist to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The lead-up to the June 28 vote has opened the field to a broad range of hopefuls. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
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    Live Updates Israel says it killed Iran’s top security leader
  • Emergency crews search for people trapped in rubble following a strike on a residential building on March 16, 2026 in central Tehran, Iran. The United States and Israel continued their joint attack on Iran that began on February 28. Iran retaliated by firing waves of missiles and drones at Israel, and targeting U.S. allies in the region. (Photo by Getty Images)
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    What we know on the 18th day of the US and Israel’s war with Iran
  • The USS Tripoli (LHA-7) amphibious assault ship enters the Singapore Straits, as seen from Singapore, on Tuesday, March 17.
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    US warship believed to be carrying Marine ground troops to Middle East tracked off Singapore
  • People walk at the site of a strike, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Tehran, Iran, March 15, 2026.
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    Live Updates Day 17 of Middle East conflict — Trump criticizes nations not committing to assist with Hormuz strait crisis
  • People sift through the rubble in a house in the Beryanak District that was damaged by missile attacks in Tehran, Iran, on March 15, 2026.
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    What we know on the 17th day of the US and Israel’s war with Iran
  • Security forces deploy to guard a rally in support of Iran's new Supreme Leader at Enghelab Square in central Tehran on March 9, 2026. Iran marked the appointment of Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei to replace his father as its supreme leader with a new barrage of missiles against Israel and the Gulf states on Monday, as the Middle East war sent oil prices soaring. (Photo by Atta KENARE / AFP via Getty Images)
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    Iran’s new supreme leader has yet to appear, and the system may not need him to
  • A general view of the Port of Kharg Island Oil Terminal, 25 km from the Iranian coast in the Persian Gulf and 483 km northwest of the Strait of Hormuz, in Iran on March 12, 2017. Kharg Island Oil Terminal brings Iranian oil to the world market. The oil terminal is the world's largest open oil terminal, with 95% of Iran's crude oil exports coming through it.
    Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
    What to know about Kharg Island, the tiny coral outcrop at the heart of Iran’s oil industry
  • A man looks at the smoke from an Israeli airstrike. Israel and Hezbollah returned to all-out war in March 2026. (Photo by Sally Hayden / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images)
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    What we know on the 14th day of the US and Israel’s war with Iran
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  • TOPSHOT - A blaze sweeps following Israeli bombardment on a solar farm and electricity generation facility in Lebanon's southern coastal city of Tyre on March 4, 2026. Israeli forces on March 4 advanced into a number of towns and villages in south Lebanon, a source from the UN peacekeeping force in the country, UNIFIL, told AFP. (Photo by Kawnat HAJU / AFP via Getty Images)
    Kawnat Haju/AFP/Getty Images
    The war that never ended: Israel seizes moment to finish fight against Hezbollah, Iran’s proxy in Lebanon
  • A resident walks in front of a building damaged by an Israeli strike in central Beirut, Lebanon, on March 11, 2026.
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    What we know on the 13th day of the US and Israel’s war with Iran
  • President Donald Trump departs Air Force One on March 11.
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    Trump may be unable to end the war he started with Iran, even if he wanted to
  • Residents look on as flames and smoke rise from an oil storage facility that was struck in Tehran, Iran, on Saturday.
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    Why Trump’s Gulf allies are resisting pressure to join the Iran war
  • Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, attends a meeting in Tehran on July 22, 2018.
    Mehdi Ghasemi/Wana News Agency/Reuters/File
    Source: New Iranian supreme leader had fractured foot and face lacerations on first day of war
  • Missile that hit the IRGC base adjacent to the school in Minab
    Mehr News Agency
    Photos appear to show US Tomahawk missile fragments at site of deadly Iran school strike
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  • A projectile (Top-R) streaks accross the sky over Dubai on March 5, 2026. Airports, embassies, residential areas and military installations across the region have come under fire from daily salvos of Iranian missiles and drones since the war between the Islamic republic, Israel and the US broke out on February 28.
    Fadel Senna/AFP/Getty Images
    The US and Israel went to war with Iran, but the UAE is paying the price. Here’s why
  • US Tomahawk struck Iranian base next to school destroyed in deadly attack, video appears to confirm
  • What we know on the 10th day of the US and Israel’s war with Iran
  • Lebanon calls for direct talks with Israel, accuses Hezbollah of betraying country
  • A huge crater left by an Israeli airstrike in the village of Nabi Chit, eastern Lebanon late Friday, March 6, 2026, where Israeli forces landed overnight and dug a grave in a cemetery searching for Israeli co-pilot Ron Arad who was captured and then went missing after his fighter jet crashed over south Lebanon in 1986.
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    Dozens killed, authorities say, as Israeli commandos raid Lebanon in hunt for missing airman
  • Iran sends first significant message of de-escalation, but with a major caveat
  • Everything we know on the seventh day of the US and Israel’s war with Iran
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