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  • Iranian national flags are placed in front of the ruins of a building in a residential area in Tehran, Iran, on April 9, 2026. The area was struck during the U.S.-Israeli military operations on March 9.
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    Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto/Getty Images
    Live Updates8 min ago Iran threatens to retaliate after US strikes on launch sites and boats
  • Two women use a smartphone in northern Tehran, Iran, on Septembet 28, 2025.
    Vahid Salemi/AP/File
    Iranians emerge online with skepticism and defiance after months of blackout
  • Ships remain anchored in the Strait of Hormuz on May 16.
    Majid Saeedi/Getty Images
    What’s in the proposed deal that could end the US-Iran conflict?
  • An Iranian national flag is photographed on the ruins of a synagogue in Tehran, Iran, on May 14, 2026. (Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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    Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto/Getty Images
    Live Updates8 min ago May 24, 2026 Middle East news — US, Iran still negotiating peace deal terms
  • 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
  • Ships and boats in the Strait of Hormuz, Musandam, Oman, on May 1.
    Reuters
    Iran eyes a new source of power deep beneath the Strait of Hormuz
  • <p>Watch the aftermath of a deadly Israeli strike in Gaza City</p>
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    Israel kills most senior Hamas military leader in Gaza strike
  • A view shows tents sheltering displaced Palestinians in western Gaza City on May 10, 2026, as reports indicate that Israeli forces have expanded their control over more than half of the Gaza Strip. (Photo by Ahmed Al Arini / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images)
    Ahmed Al Arini/Middle East Images/AFP/Getty Images
    Gaza risks becoming permanently divided, top official warns
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  • 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.
    Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images
    Oct. 7 attackers could face death penalty after Israel approves war crimes tribunal
  • A man holds a flag with a picture of late leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, late Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Iran's new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, during a rally in Tehran, Iran, April 29, 2026.
    Majid-Asgaripour/Wana News Agency/Reuters
    ‘Super Revolutionaries’: The radical Iranian hardliners bent on sabotaging a deal with the US
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    Courtesy of al-Samoudi family
    ‘It was a real hell’: Palestinian journalist on his year in Israeli prison
  • In this picture obtained from Iran's ISNA news agency on May 4, vessels are pictured anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas in southern Iran.
    Amirhossein Khorgooei/ISNA/Getty Images
    Iran imposes new rules for Strait of Hormuz in bid to secure wartime gains
  • Ships and boats in the Strait of Hormuz, Musandam, Oman, May 1, 2026.
    Stringer/Reuters
    Trump’s new plan to ‘guide’ merchant ships through Hormuz leaves many questions unanswered
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  • US President Donald Trump rejected a previous version of Iran's peace proposal.
    Aaron Schwartz/CNP/Bloomberg/Getty Images
    Ceasefire hangs in the balance as Iran sends peace proposal to mediators
  • The Emirati flag sways in the wind as the skyline of Dubai is seen in the background on June 3, 2022.
    Karim Sahib/AFP/Getty Images
    Israel and the UAE find common cause as the Iran war cracks old Middle East alliances
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    Video Majority of US military sites in Middle East damaged by Iran, CNN investigation reveals 3:48
  • Israeli soldiers seen in a Palestinian home.
    Cyril Theophilos/CNN
    Israel redeploys military battalion that assaulted, detained CNN team after one-month suspension
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    The Gaza playbook: Satellite images reveal scale of Israeli destruction in Lebanon
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a video statement on Thursday, April 16.
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    Netanyahu reveals he quietly underwent treatment for undisclosed prostate cancer
  • Italian peacekeepers and a priest pose with the new statue in the Lebanese village of Debel
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    Italian peacekeepers replace Jesus statue vandalized by Israeli soldiers
  • Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush sails in the Indian Ocean in the US Central Command area of responsibility, April 23.
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    Third US aircraft carrier arrives in Middle East as Trump declines to give timeline on ending Iran war
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