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    TOPSHOT - People inspect destruction in the opposite office building that housed the offices of the Doha-headquartered news network Al Araby TV following a missile strike earlier in the day in Tehran on March 29, 2026. The network on March 29 criticised a strike on the building hosting its Tehran office, as Israel and the US pressed an aerial campaign against Iran. It added that, according to the Iranian Red Crescent 10 people, had been injured in the Sunday morning strike. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP via Getty Images) /
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    Live Updates22 mins ago Iran claims it downed a US fighter jet
  • FILE - Liberia-flagged tanker Shenlong Suezmax, carrying crude oil from Saudi Arabia, that arrived clearing the Strait of Hormuz, is seen at the Mumbai Port in Mumbai, India, Thursday, March 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool, file)
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    Live Updates22 mins ago Day 34 of Middle East conflict — Oil prices surge as Trump’s Iran war speech fails to calm nerves
  • Hamidreza Afarideh's music studio in Tehran, Iran.
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    This Iranian music school was a haven for children. After an airstrike ‘there is nothing left’
  • SPLIT, CROATIA - MARCH 29: A view of the American aircraft carrier USS Gerald Ford arrived in Split as part of a planned visit and technical maintenance after a months-long mission and war operations in the Middle East on March 29, 2026 in Split, Croatia. (Photo by Samir Jordamovic/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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    Navy’s top admiral indicates carrier Ford fire stopped sorties for two days
  • Trump issued an address to the nation on Wednesday.
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    Trump is battering Iran but may leave it with an upper hand
  • Iranian Red Crescent workers gather near an apartment hit by an airstrike earlier this morning on March 30, 2026 in the west of Tehran, Iran. The United States and Israel have continued their joint attack on Iran that began on February 28. Iran retaliated by firing waves of missiles and drones at Israel and U.S. allies in the region, while also effectively blockading the Strait of Hormuz, a critical shipping route.
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    What we know on Day 32 of the US and Israel’s war with Iran: Gas prices skyrocket, Kuwaiti tanker hit
  • A bulk carrier sits anchored at a port in Oman earlier this month.
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    Iran has a new demand to end the war – and it could bring in billions
  • In this photo released by the Pakistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, from left, Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, Pakistan's Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan pose for photo prior to their meeting to discuss the Iran war, in Islamabad, Pakistan on March 29, 2026.
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    Why the nation trying to broker US-Iran peace talks risks being drawn into the conflict
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  • Christian worshippers mark Palm Sunday, following the cancellation of the traditional Palm Sunday procession at the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem in Jerusalem's Old City.
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    Israel reverses course after barring Palm Sunday Mass in Jerusalem
  • Damaged US E-3 Awac plane.
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    Destruction of vital US radar aircraft could hamper ability to spot Iran threats, analysts say
  • An Iranian woman walks past a view of Tehran's research reactor in Tehran, Iran, on February 26, 2026, the final day of Iran-U.S. talks that are currently held in the city of Geneva.
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    Cornered and wounded, will Iran now go for a nuclear bomb?
  • Israeli soldiers seen in a Palestinian home.
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    Israeli soldiers echo settler ideology, talk of revenge after targeting Palestinians and detaining CNN crew in the West Bank
  • FILE PHOTO: An aerial view of the island of Qeshm, separated from the Iranian mainland by the Clarence Strait, on December 10, 2023.
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    Seven islands that hold the keys to the Strait of Hormuz
  • US President Donald Trump, flanked by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, left, and US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, attend a cabinet meeting at the White House.
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    Ignore the bombast – the Iran war is only likely to end one way
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    Mines, missiles and miles of coastline: Why Iran has the upper hand in the Strait of Hormuz
  • People stand at a park in view of Milad Tower, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Tehran, Iran, on March 25, 2026.
    Majid Asgaripour/Wana News Agency/Reuters
    What we know on Day 27 of the US and Israel’s war with Iran: Trump frustrated with Tehran and IRGC navy chief dead
  • Funeral of two paramedics killed in an Israeli strike on Tuesday (March 24) according to Lebanese ministry of health.
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    Video Lebanese medics in emptied town fear strikes 2:28
  • WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Donald Trump greets Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025 at the White House in Washington, D.C. Bin Salman was set for a visit and formal dinner at the White House. (Photo by Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
    Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post/Getty Images/File
    Trump’s Gulf allies push to have their concerns addressed before Iran war ends
  • A file photo shows a view of cranes and shipping containers at a loading dock of Jeddah's Islamic Seaport on Saudi Arabia's western Red Sea coast on March 1, 2022.
    Fayez Nureldine/AFP/Getty Images/File
    Strait of Hormuz closure means this port could be a key lifeline for the Persian Gulf
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    Video Watch: Israeli strikes are emptying Southern Lebanon of its civilian population 4:43
  • People look at residential buildings damaged by an Iranian missile strike in Arad, southern Israel on March 22, 2026.
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    What we know on Day 24 of the US and Israel’s war with Iran
  • Two women from the Iranian Red Crescent Society stand on Sunday, March 8, as a thick plume of smoke from a US-Israeli strike on an oil storage facility late Saturday rises into the sky in Tehran.
    Vahid Salemi/AP
    In the Persian Gulf, Trump risks opening a Pandora’s box
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