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  • Commercial vessels are seen anchored between Iran's Qeshm and Larak islands amid disruptions to marine traffic through the Strait of Hormuz on September 11.
    Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu/Getty Images
    Trump rejects Iran’s latest proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz
  • Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian addresses the 81st United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at UN headquarters in New York City on Wednesday.
    Caitlin Ochs/Reuters
    A good week for Iran at the UN – but latest offer to the US appears a non-starter
  • Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, during the United Nations General Assembly in New York, on Wednesday.
    John Lamparski/Bloomberg/Getty Images
    We aren’t trying to kill Trump, Iran’s president insists to reporters at New York hotel
  • A large plume of black smoke rises from the fuel storage area at King Khalid International Airport, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Saturday.
    Reuters
    Trump is staying out of Saudi Arabia’s war. Americans could pay at the pump
  • Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian speaks during the 81st United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, on Wednesday, September 23.
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    Iran’s president laid out Tehran’s demands to the world, from a podium in New York
  • A drone view of an election billboard by Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party depicting Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem and a text in Hebrew that reads "They Want Netanyahu to Lose, Don't let them Win", in Tel Aviv, Israel August 17, 2026 REUTERS/Amir Cohen
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    These Israelis want to fly home to vote. Netanyahu is trying to stop them
  • The building of the destroyed Shajareh Tayebeh elementary school, surrounded by rubble in Minab, Iran, on August 10, 2026.
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    Deadly US strike on Iran school may have been a war crime, UN report finds
  • F-15SA fighter jets from the Royal Saudi Air Force escort Air Force One ferrying US President Donald Trump as they prepare to land at King Khalid International Airport on May 13, 2025, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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    Houthis release video claiming to show downed Saudi F-15 fighter as both sides continue to trade strikes
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  • Daily life continues in the strategic port city of Bandar Abbas on the Strait of Hormuz amid ongoing tensions between Iran and the United States, in Bandar Abbas, Iran on September 12, 2026.
    Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu/Getty Images
    Iran reports commercial vessel struck in Strait of Hormuz
  • Yemen's Houthi rebels march during a mobilization campaign in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026.
    AP
    Why Saudi Arabia has few options in its conflict with the Houthis
  • US President Donald Trump inspects an honor guard as he attends a welcoming ceremony in the Irish capital of Dublin on Saturday.
    Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images
    Trump says Iran likely responsible for attack that shut vital Saudi oil pipeline
  • <p> A strategic island in the Red Sea is taken by Houthi rebels.</p>
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    Iranian allies captured a strategic Red Sea island in a vital waterway. Here’s what to know
  • A satellite image shows smoke rising from the Saudi Aramco distribution centre, after what the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen said were attacks by Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis, in Abha, Saudi Arabia on Tuesday.
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    Scores wounded as Iran-backed Houthis attack Saudi Arabia in major regional escalation
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference in Jerusalem on March 19.
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    Netanyahu faces backlash over report he was warned of Hamas attack days before October 7
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  • U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces struck three Iranian crude oil carriers, Sept. 5, after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched ballistic missiles toward two U.S. Navy warships patrolling regional waters.
    CENTCOM
    US military strikes three Iranian tankers in retaliation for missile attacks
  • Vessels near the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Musandam, Oman, August 31, 2026. REUTERS/Stringer
    Reuters
    The US wants to manage the stalemate in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran wants to break it
  • A ceasefire has been in effect between Israel and Hezbollah, but Israeli strikes continue in southern Lebanon on a daily basis.
    Jeremy Diamond/CNN
    Israeli flags and flattened homes: A rare look inside occupied southern Lebanon
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    CENTCOM
    Iran retaliates after US strikes, defying Trump’s warning it could be hit ‘much harder’
  • Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Chief Justice of Iran Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, and an IRGC commander general Mohsen Rezaee arrive to attend a ceremony in Tehran, Iran, on July 3, 2026.
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    A power struggle in Iran could decide when Trump’s war ends
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  • People walk next to a symbolic mockup of an Iranian missile and an Iranian flag at Imam Hussein Square in Tehran, Iran, on July 12.
    Majid Asgaripour/Wana News Agency/Reuters/File
    ‘We will retaliate like an earthquake’: How Iran could respond to Trump’s economic ‘D-Day’
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