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  • An explosion at an unknown location, during what U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) says are strikes on Iran, in this screengrab taken from a handout video released on July 20, 2026. U.S. Central Command/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT. OVERLAY AND MASKING AT SOURCE. Verification lines: -Location and date could not be verified -No earlier version of the video found posted online before July 20 TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
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    Live Updates3 min ago Hormuz shipping attacks intensify, as Pentagon says nearly 100 US troops injured in last two weeks
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    Live Updates3 min ago July 20, 2026 — US completes more strikes against Iran after Trump warning to Tehran
  • Israeli troops at the archaeological site of Sebastia in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, June 29, 2026. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman
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    On Sebastia’s hilltop, Israelis and Palestinians are fighting over who owns the past and controls the present
  • Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir joins pro-settlement Israelis on a march towards the Gaza Strip under the slogan "After 21 years, we're returning home", referring to Israel's unilateral withdrawal of around 8,500 Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip in 2005, near Kibbutz Zikim and Israel’s border with Gaza, in southern Israel, July 19, 2026. REUTERS/Amir Cohen
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    Israel’s far-right openly boasts of resettling Gaza as election looms
  • People walk next to a symbolic mockup of an Iranian missile and an Iranian flag at Imam Hussein Square in Tehran, Iran, July 12, 2026. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. ISRAEL OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN ISRAEL. NO ACCESS FOR ISRAELI MEDIA. NO USE BBC PERSIAN. NO USE VOA PERSIAN. NO USE MANOTO. NO USE IRAN INTERNATIONAL. NO USE RADIO FARDA. DIGITAL: NO USE BBC PERSIAN. NO USE VOA PERSIAN. NO USE MANOTO. NO USE IRAN INTERNATIONAL. NO USE RADIO FARDA.
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    Live Updates3 min ago July 19, 2026 - US begins ninth night of strikes, Iran claims new wave of missiles launched
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara Netanyahu attend a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of Operation Entebbe at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, July 12, 2026. Benjamin Netanyahu's brother, Yonatan, was killed while leading the 1976 raid to rescue hijacked Israeli hostages from Entebbe, Uganda. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
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    Why did veterans of Israel’s most famous secret operation boycott its commemoration?
  • A settler approaches journalists’ vehicles near thevillage of Sinjil, north of Ramallah.
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    Israeli settlers attack journalists, including CNN, on the anniversary of deadly West Bank beating
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    Democratic Rep. Khanna says Israeli settlers and IDF soldiers blockaded him in West Bank for over an hour
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  • Smoke rises from a port, near Strait of Hormuz, following a U.S. strike in Kuhestak, Hormozgan Province, Iran, July 8, 2026, in this screengrab obtained from a social media video. Social Media/via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. NEWS USE ONLY. Verification line: Reuters confirmed the location by matching the port layout visible in the video with satellite imagery. The coordinates are 26.801109802855272, 57.02121784040872. The date the video was filmed was verified through a report from Iran’s semi-official Mehr News Agency, which reported explosions early on July 8 at multiple locations along the Gulf coast, including Kuhestak. Aftermath photographs shared online on July 8 also showed damage at the same location. No earlier versions of the footage or photographs posted before July 8 were found.
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    The US is striking Iran again. Can it ever deliver a knockout blow?
  • Tankers and cargo vessels are seen in the Gulf of Oman, along shipping routes linking the Strait of Hormuz and the Arabian Sea, on June 16, 2026.
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    Iran strikes three vessels near Strait of Hormuz as Trump arrives at NATO summit
  • Portrait of Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed on February 28 in Israeli and U.S. airstrikes, as mourners gather on the day of his burial, in Mashhad, Iran, July 9, 2026. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem Foreign media in Iran operate under guidelines set by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, which regulates press activity and permissions. ISRAEL OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN ISRAEL. NO ACCESS FOR ISRAELI MEDIA. NO USE BBC PERSIAN. NO USE VOA PERSIAN. NO USE MANOTO. NO USE IRAN INTERNATIONAL. NO USE RADIO FARDA. DIGITAL: NO USE BBC PERSIAN. NO USE VOA PERSIAN. NO USE MANOTO. NO USE IRAN INTERNATIONAL. NO USE RADIO FARDA. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
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    Iran says millions are mourning Khamenei. That’s not the full picture
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  • <p>Thousands have flocked to the streets of Tehran as funeral processions are underway for former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his family who were killed in February on the first day of the US-Israeli war with Iran. CNN's Frederik Pleitgen, Claudio Otto, and Joseph Ataman are on the ground in the Iranian capital where mourners have vowed to seek revenge with the United States and Israel. </p><p>CNN operates in Iran only with the permission of the government but maintains full editorial control of its reports.</p>
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    Video ‘Death to America’: CNN reports from funeral procession for Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei 2:00
  • Palestinians stand amidst the rubble of buildings flattened by Israeli strikes in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, on May 24. Hamas said Monday it would disband its government there.
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    Hamas says it will dissolve Gaza government as US-brokered ceasefire plan stalls
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  • Local and foreign officials walk past the coffins of Iran's slain supreme leader Ali Khamenei and his family members after paying their respects at the Grand Mosalla in Tehran on Friday, July 3.
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    Iran sends a defiant message to Trump with colossal funeral for slain Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
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  • Former Israeli military chief Gadi Eisenkot, who is running for prime minister in the next Israeli elections, attends MUNI EXPO, a municipal conference, in Tel Aviv, Israel June 24, 2026. REUTERS/Nir Elias
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    Netanyahu’s emerging challenger represents his polar opposite, and that may be his appeal
  • <p>As negotiations to end the war in Lebanon continue, one threat has emerged on the battlefield: Hezbollah's growing use of small first-person-view drones. They’ve proven effective, killing more than a dozen Israeli troops — a cheap but lethal tactic that Ukraine knows all too well from its war with Russia, and one it urged Israel to take seriously. CNN's Jeremy Diamond examines what Israel is now doing to respond.</p>
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    Israel’s military and tech industry race to counter Hezbollah’s latest threat
  • TOPSHOT - A mother mourns over the body of her three-year-old Palestinian child Iyad Ahmed Naeem Al-Rabai'a, who was reportedly killed by Israeli airstrike, during his funeral at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip on February 2, 2026. Israeli air strikes killed 32 people including children in Gaza on January 31, according to the Palestinian territory's civil defence agency, as the military said it had attacked in response to a Hamas ceasefire violation. (Photo by Bashar Taleb / AFP via Getty Images)
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    Israel deliberately targeting children in ongoing genocide against Palestinians, UN commission finds
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    ‘What ceasefire?’ In northern Israel, locals doubt an agreement can end the war with Hezbollah
  • A displaced family on a scooter fleeing Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon drives on a highway in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, on June 19, 2026.
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    Why is there fighting in Lebanon?
  • An Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) armed military personnel monitors an area while standing guard during a nightly pro-government rally marking the Muslim holy month of Muharram in downtown Tehran, Iran, on June 15, 2026. (Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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    Iran’s hardliners threaten to spoil the regime’s victory lap
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