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  • WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 21: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a bilateral meeting with President of Lebanon Joseph Aoun in the Oval Office of the White House on July 21, 2026 in Washington, DC. Aoun is visiting the White House on the final day of a four-day trip to Washington to discuss the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah as the Israeli military begins its first limited withdrawal from Lebanon following last month’s U.S.-brokered agreement. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
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    Live Updatesa min ago Iran hits targets in region and accuses US of using Pickaxe Mountain as pretext for attacks
  • A satellite view shows tunnel entrances at Pickaxe Mountain, of the Natanz nuclear facility, near Natanz, Iran, June 30, 2026.
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    What is Pickaxe Mountain, Iran’s secretive facility Trump says the US will attack ‘pretty soon’?
  • U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth testifies during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on U.S. President Donald Trump's supplemental funding request for the Department of Defense, in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 21, 2026. REUTERS/Eric Lee
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    Live Updatesa min ago July 21, 2026 — Pete Hegseth testifies at hearing on Iran funding, says war cost $37.5 billion
  • 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 this West Bank hilltop, a fight over the past will determine who controls the future
  • Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a news conference in Jerusalem on June 15, 2026. Netanyahu said on June 15 that he intended to run in elections scheduled for later this year, as he faced domestic criticism over his handling of the Middle East war and its aftermath. (Photo by RONEN ZVULUN / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)
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    On sidelines of Iran war, Israel is readying plans in case of escalation
  • 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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    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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  • 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
  • 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?
  • Mourners attend the start of the dayslong funeral ceremonies for the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and members of his family at the Imam Khomeini Mosalla Grand Mosque in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, July 4.
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    The view from Tehran: Anger and vengeance in the air as Iran buries its longest-serving leader
  • ANKARA, TURKEY - JULY 08: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a press conference during the 2026 NATO Leaders Summit at the Beştepe Presidential Compound on July 08, 2026 in Ankara, Turkey. Leaders from NATO's 32 countries, plus NATO allies like Ukraine, gathered in the Turkish capital to discuss a range of issues involving spending targets, defense industrial production, and support for Ukraine, among other topics. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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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
  • <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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  • 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
  • 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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    Jewish American charged in Israel with spying for Iran for $1,400 in crypto
  • 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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  • Vessels at the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Musandam, Oman, on Thursday.
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  • 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’
  • 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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    ‘What ceasefire?’ In northern Israel, locals doubt an agreement can end the war with Hezbollah
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