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  • Crude oil tankers, bulk carriers and vessels sit anchored around Qaboos Port on June 22, 2026 in Muscat, Oman. The Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping route for the region's oil and gas, was effectively blockaded since the outbreak of war between the United States and Iran in late February. This week's provisional peace deal between the countries was meant to reopen the waterway to shipping traffic, but the pace of that reopening is unclear amid continued fighting in Lebanon and the need to clear the Strait of sea mines. On Sunday, U.S. Vice President JD Vance arrived in Switzerland for high-level talks with the Iranian delegation, as the two sides seek to clarify the terms of ending the war.
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    Live Updatesa min ago US launches fourth night of strikes on Iran and restarts naval blockade
  • Three boys play in the shallow waters of the Strait of Hormuz, as a plume of smoke rises from an explosion in the background, off Bandar Abbas, Iran, Monday, July 13, 2026. (Razieh Poudat/ISNA via AP)
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    Live Updatesa min ago July 14, 2026 — US naval blockade of Iranian ports goes into effect
  • Iranian state broadcaster IRIB has released footage showing several cruise missiles being launched. It is unclear where the missiles were fired or what their intended targets were.
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    Live Updatesa min ago July 13, 2026 -US resumes strikes while Iran says it struck two tankers in Strait of Hormuz
  • Israeli forces detained CNN crew members in the occupied West Bank, in March. The solider who physically assaulted a CNN photojournalist was reprimanded but faced no criminal charges.
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    Israeli soldier who assaulted CNN cameraman reprimanded but avoids criminal charges
  • 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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  • 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
  • Emergency crews survey the aftermath of an explosion near a hotel where France's President Emmanuel Macron had been staying in Damascus, Syria, on Tuesday.
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    Explosion near Macron’s Damascus hotel as French president meets Syrian counterpart
  • A Palestinian mother and her child in Gaza City on May 1, 2026. People there say Israeli attacks and inhumane displacement conditions have persisted, months after a ceasefire deal was signed.
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    Bodies lie unclaimed and rats run rampant as months on Gaza’s ceasefire remains unfulfilled
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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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  • <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
  • An aerial view shows Israel's Supreme Court on the morning it is set to discuss petitions against new legislation that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's religious-nationalist coalition passed as part of a plan to overhaul the judiciary, in Jerusalem September 12, 2023. REUTERS/Ilan Rosenberg
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  • US Secretary of State Marco Rubio looks on as State Department Counselor Daniel Holler, Israel's Ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter and Lebanon's Ambassador to the U.S. Nada Hamadeh sign a framework agreement between Israel and Lebanon, at the State Department in Washington, DC, on June 26, 2026.
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    Israel to withdraw from two areas in Lebanon under newly signed agreement
  • U.S. President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman walk as he arrives at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 13, 2025. REUTERS/Brian Snyder TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
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    Trump’s Gulf allies fear his Iran agreement is a ‘disastrous turning point’
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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
  • People ride motorcycles past a large billboard showing portraits of Iran's late supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (L) and slain supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (R) in central Tehran on June 8, 2026. Iran said on June 8 that the resumption of hostilities in the Middle East war will have consequences for ongoing talks with the United States to reach peace in the region. "It is perfectly natural that the diplomatic process initiated to put an end to this imposed war would be affected," Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said at a press conference in Tehran. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP via Getty Images) /
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    For Iran’s leaders, surviving the war may prove easier than winning the peace
  • A child holds an image of Iran's Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, during a rally against the US and Israel in Tehran on June 7, 2026.
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    Dissent grows against deal in Iran – but the regime is likely to have final say
  • 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
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