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  • Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif arrives to attend a plenary session in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, on December 12, 2025.
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    Live Updatesa min ago Trump says agreement with Iran is scheduled to be signed Sunday
  • US President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, on Thursday, June 11.
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    Live Updatesa min ago June 12, 2026 — US and Iran say an agreement is close, but questions remain
  • Fahd Abu Haikal and his elder son, Kinan, carry the body of his seven-month-old son, Sam, during the funeral in Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, on June 6, 2026. The Palestinian Health Ministry stated Sam was killed and his parents were wounded by Israeli gunfire on the evening of June 5 in southern Hebron. The Israeli military stated soldiers fired at a vehicle they perceived as accelerating toward them and expressed sorrow over harm to civilians, while the family stated they had come to a complete stop on the soldiers' orders.
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    ‘It’s not by mistake’: A family demands justice after 7-month-old killed by Israeli soldier
  • Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian is interviewed on September 25, 2025.
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    Iran’s ‘accidental’ president has survived the war. Peace may be a tougher challenge
  • Gwyneth Paltrow attends the New York Women in Film & Television's 46th annual Muse Awards on March 20, in New York. (
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    Gwyneth Paltrow faces online backlash for starring in luxury Israel real estate ad
  • Fahd Abu Haikal, 41 displays a mobile photo of his seven month old Palestinian baby boy Sam, who was killed on Friday by Israeli soldiers who fired at the vehicle carrying him and his parents, in Tel Rumeida, at a hospital in the West Bank city of Hebron Saturday, June 6, 2026.
    Mahmoud Illean/AP
    Israeli soldiers open fire on car in West Bank, killing 7-month-old baby
  • A man in the southern Lebanese city of Tyre carries the casket of a Hezbollah fighter killed in an Israeli strike, during his funeral on April 22.
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    Israeli offensive emboldens Hezbollah as it claims mantle of Lebanon’s defender
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    Exclusive: Lebanese president accuses Iran of using his country as a bargaining chip in peace talks with the US
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  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the annual ceremony on the eve of Israel's Remembrance Day for fallen soldiers (Yom HaZikaron) at the Yad LaBanim Memorial in Jerusalem on April 20, 2026.
    Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/AFP/Getty Images
    Emerging Iran deal risks shattering Netanyahu’s legacy
  • People walk past a mural depicting the late leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, and the late Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Tehran, Iran, May 12, 2026.
    Majid Asgaripour/WANA/Reuters
    Iran promises ‘utter ruin’ if war restarts. Here’s what could happen if diplomacy fails
  • Photo released on Sunday by the Israeli defense minister's spokesperson shows the Israeli flag and the Golani unit flag raised above the Beaufort Castle in southern Lebanon.
    Israeli Defense Minister Spox
    Israel seizes Crusader-era castle as Netanyahu orders forces deeper into Lebanon
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference in Jerusalem, on March 19.
    Ronen Zvulun/Reuters/File
    Netanyahu says he directed Israeli military to take over 70% of Gaza
  • US President Donald Trump delivers a speech at Rockland Community College Fieldhouse in New York on Friday.
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    Trump says agreement with Iran has ‘been largely negotiated’ and Strait of Hormuz will be opened
  • Activists from a Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla at Fiumicino Airport, Italy, on May 21. The group alleged sexual assault by Israeli forces, including “forcible penetration by a handgun."
    Remo Casilli/Reuters
    Freed Gaza flotilla activists accuse Israeli forces of sexual violence and abuse while in custody
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  • Israel’s Ben Gvir shown taunting flotilla activists arrested with some held in stress position at port of Ashdod.
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    Video showing far-right Israeli minister taunting Gaza flotilla activists sparks global outcry
  • Israeli far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich sits before a press conference near the settlement of Maale Adumim, in a land corridor known as E1, outside Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank, on August 14, 2025. (Photo by Menahem KAHANA / AFP) (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images)
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    Far-right Israeli minister Bezalel Smotrich says ICC seeking warrant for his arrest
  • Armed pro-government supporters carry AK-45 rifles as a young boy holds a plastic gun during a military parade of Iran's self-sacrificing daughters in downtown Tehran, Iran, on April 17, 2026.
    Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto/Getty Images
    Guns on the television and in Iran’s streets as Trump renews war threats
  • The watchkeepers monitor shipping in the Persian Gulf, Red Sea and northern Indian Ocean.
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    This tiny center in a UK seaside town is the first place vessels under attack in the Persian Gulf call
  • US President Donald Trump arrives for a "Rose Garden Club" dinner in honor of Police Week at the White House in Washington, DC, on May 11, 2026. (Photo by Kent NISHIMURA / AFP via Getty Images)
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    Israel is worried that Trump will strike a ‘bad deal’ with Iran, leaving war objectives unmet
  • An Israeli soldier patrols one of the sites of the October 7 attacks.
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    First on CNN: New report details ‘systematic’ rape and sexual violence during Hamas’ Oct 7 attack on Israel
  • People walk past a billboard with a graphic design about the Strait of Hormuz in Tehran, Iran, on April 27.
    Majid Asgaripour/Wana News Agency/Reuters
    Iran’s ‘garbage’ peace offering is proof it thinks it has won the war
  • TOPSHOT - This aerial picture shows abandoned and torched vehicles at the site of the October 7 attack on the Supernova desert music Festival by Palestinian militants near Kibbutz Reim in the Negev desert in southern Israel on October 13, 2023.
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    Oct. 7 attackers could face death penalty after Israel approves war crimes tribunal
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