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    Israel recovers body of last hostage in Gaza
  • 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
  • Palestinian Yussef al-Zawarah, 42, and his wife Asma, 37, hold each other as they collect the body of their son Mohammed, after he was killed by Israeli fire along with his cousin in Gaza City.
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    Boys collecting firewood in Gaza killed by Israeli fire
  • 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
  • This aerial photo taken from a helicopter shows al-Asad Air Base in the western Anbar desert of Iraq on December 29, 2019.
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    Iraq announces full withdrawal of US forces from its federal territory
  • 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, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, speaks during a meeting in Tehran on Saturday.
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    Iran’s supreme leader acknowledges thousands were killed in protests
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  • Anti-government protestors demonstrate on January 8, in Tehran, Iran.
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    ‘Blood on the streets’: Iranian who fled Karaj tells of brutal crackdown on protesters
  • People cross an intersection in downtown Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
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    War, diplomacy, or revolt: What comes next in Iran?
  • U.S. Air Force Airmen inspect a KC-135 Stratotanker during pre-flight checks at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, June 26, 2023. The KC-135 Stratotanker allows air assets to significantly increase flight time and decrease time spent on the ground. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Jacob Cabanero)
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    Major Middle East powers urge Trump not to attack Iran as US moves some personnel from key base
  • In this image provided by the U.S. Air Force, a 34th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron B-1B Lancer deployed to the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing prepares to taxi on April 13, 2018, and launch a strike mission from Al Udeid AIr Base, Qatar, in support of the multinational response to Syria's recent use of chemical weapons. Two B-1Bs, deployed to Al Udeid AB from Ellsworth AFB, S.D., employed 19 Joint Air to Surface Standoff Missile-Extended Range (JASSM-ER), marking the first combat employment of the weapon.
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    The weapons the US could employ in any new strike on Iran
  • Iranian protesters gather in the capital Tehran on January 9. The regime's subsequent crackdown may have produced one of the highest death tolls since Iran's 1979 revolution.
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    Iran makes high-tech additions to its age-old playbook for crushing protests
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    A student, a bodybuilder and a father of three among those killed during protests in Iran
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  • Iranians gather while blocking a street during a protest in Tehran, Iran on January 9, 2026. The nationwide protests started in Tehran's Grand Bazaar against the failing economic policies in late December, which spread to universities and other cities, and included economic slogans, to political and anti-government ones. (Photo by Khoshiran / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images)
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    Iran’s troubled regime cracks down hard as Trump ratchets up pressure
  • Protesters in Tehran describe seeing ‘bodies piled up’ in hospitals after crackdown by authorities
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  • The son of Iran’s last shah is rallying protesters. But do Iranians really want another king?
  • 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’
  • Syrian army launches new strikes in Aleppo as fighting with Kurdish-led SDF intensifies
  • Saudi-backed forces move to capture key Yemeni city as crisis with UAE deepens
  • Saudi Arabia’s dispute with the UAE exposes a deeper regional power struggle
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