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    Vessels near the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Musandam, Oman, August 17, 2026. REUTERS/Stringer
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    Live Updates15 min ago UAE halts trade with Iran after accusing Tehran of firing ballistic missiles
  • An undated photo of Hind Rajab.
    Palestine Red Crescent Society
    Israeli military admits for first time to firing on car carrying 5-year-old Hind Rajab as it opens criminal probe
  • U.S. President Donald Trump attends an event to mark the launch of "Trump Accounts" in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 6, 2026. REUTERS/Evan Vucci
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    Live Updates15 min ago August 18, 2026 - Trump says no talks underway with Iran, UAE detects ‘missile threat’
  • Members of the Iranian security forces stand guard under a large portrait of Iran's new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, during a memorial to mark the 40th day since his father, Ali Ayatollah Khamenei, was killed in US-Israeli joint strikes, on April 9, 2026 in Tehran, Iran.
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    Iran’s latest warning to the US signals the hardliners are just getting started
  • The Al Mirani Fort and traditional houses are surrounded by mountains, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Muscat, Oman, March 12, 2026. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier
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    Trump’s threats anger Omanis, leave observers puzzled
  • Bashar al-Assad signs a deal between Iran and Syria, on May 03, 2023 In Damascus, Syria.
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    Former Syrian President Assad sentenced to death in absentia
  • MORRISTOWN, NEW JERSEY - AUGUST 9: U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he boards Air Force One on August 9, 2026 at Morristown Airport in Morristown, New Jersey. President Trump spent the weekend at his Bedminster, New Jersey golf club. (Photo by Eric Lee/Getty Images)
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    Trump’s Iran strategy depends on economic pain. The pain is mounting
  • Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a cornerstone laying ceremony for the Atarot Heritage Center at an abandon airport in East Jerusalem near the separation wall with the Israeli occupied West Bank city of Ramallah on July 5, 2026. (Photo by ilia YEFIMOVICH / AFP via Getty Images)
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    Netanyahu calculates upsetting Trump is his least-bad option
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  • Vessels in the Strait of Hormuz are visible near the beach of Bandar Abbas, Iran, May 22, 2026.
    Majid-Asgaripour/WANA/Reuters
    Rather than capitulating to the US, Iran toughens its demands over the vital Strait of Hormuz
  • Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif pose after signing a joint defense agreement in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, August 7, 2026.
    Murat Cetinmuhurdar/Turkish Presidential Press Office/Handout/Reuters
    Saudi Arabia turns to Muslim military heavyweights in landmark defense pact as Iran war closes in
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin (L) talks to U.S. President Donald Trump during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on April 7, 2025 in Washington, DC. President Trump is meeting with Netanyahu to discuss ongoing efforts to release Israeli hostages from Gaza and newly imposed U.S. tariffs.
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    Israel rejects Trump’s Gaza peace plan, saying no withdrawal until Hamas disarms
  • Members of Houthi security forces stand guard inspect a destroyed car, which was hit during the first airstrikes of the coalition led by Saudi Arabia, on the day Yemen marks the 11th anniversary of the war on March 26, 2026 in Sana'a, Yemen. Yemen marking the 11th anniversary of the military campaign launched by the coalition led by Saudi Arabia on March 26, 2015, following the Houthi movement controlled most of northern swathes including the capital Sana'a in 2014, leading to the exile of the government.
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    Why is there fighting in Yemen and what does it mean for the Iran war?
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    Video Lebanese families return to ruins in West Zawtar after Israeli strikes 4:11
  • The brother of slain Palestinian activist Odeh Hathalin touches a poster calling for accountability following his killing in the occupied West Bank last year.
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    Israel charges settler over killing of Palestinian activist in West Bank in rare prosecution
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  • Members of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces stand near a portrait of Iran's slain supreme leader Ali Khamenei at the shrine of Imam Hussein on the eve of his funeral ceremonies in the holy Iraqi city of Karbala on July 7, 2026. The body of Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei arrived at Najaf international airport in Iraq late on July 7, Iraqi state media reported, ahead of funeral processions in the country's holy cities which are home to the shrines most revered by Shia Muslims. (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP via Getty Images)
    Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images
    Iran’s allied militias prove their value in Tehran’s widening war
  • The smashed door from the attack on the Channel 12 offices in Tel Aviv on Tuesday.
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    ‘Someone will die’: Incitement against journalists alarms Israel as elections near
  • Barbed wire frames a church in Bethlehem.
    Scott McWhinnie/CNN
    Palestinian Christians call on American evangelicals to stop ignoring their plight
  • Palestinians search among rubble, damaged tents and household belongings after an Israeli airstrike in the Al-Nasr neighborhood of western Gaza City, Palestine, on July 30, 2026. The overnight strike hit the Matter family home and destroyed the residential building and the nearby Al-Zuhour displacement camp, where local authorities said around 35 displaced families had been sheltering.
    Mohammed M. Skaik/AFP/Middle East Images/Getty Images
    Trump announces a breakthrough in Gaza - but there are major caveats. Here’s what we know
  • Mourners weep over the body of a Palestinian man who died in the clashes at a hospital in Nablus, in the occupied West Bank on July 24, 2026.
    Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP/Getty Images
    Israel prepares major military operation in West Bank after four Palestinians and two Israelis killed
  • U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a bilateral meeting with Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia in the Oval Office of the White House on November 18, 2025.
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    Saudi-US nuclear deal sparks fear of arms race across the Middle East
  • A satellite view shows tunnel entrances at Pickaxe Mountain, of the Natanz nuclear facility, near Natanz, Iran, June 30, 2026.
    Vantor/Reuters
    What is Pickaxe Mountain, Iran’s secretive facility Trump says the US will attack ‘pretty soon’?
  • Israeli troops at the archaeological site of Sebastia in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, June 29, 2026. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman
    Mohamad Torokman/Reuters
    On this West Bank hilltop, a fight over the past will determine who controls the future
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