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  • Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a cornerstone laying ceremony for the Atarot Heritage Center at an abandon airport in East Jerusalem near the separation wall with the Israeli occupied West Bank city of Ramallah on July 5, 2026. (Photo by ilia YEFIMOVICH / AFP via Getty Images)
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  • Vessels in the Strait of Hormuz are visible near the beach of Bandar Abbas, Iran, May 22, 2026.
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    Live Updates29 min ago Trump emphasizes economic pressure on Iran over negotiations as strikes remain on pause
  • An F/A-18F Super Hornet prepares to launch from the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in support of the Operation Epic Fury attack on Iran from an undisclosed location March 3, 2026. U.S. Navy/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY
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  • Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa speaks during a joint press conference with France's President in Damascus on July 7.
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  • Vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Musandam, Oman, August 3, 2026. REUTERS/Stringer
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  • The brother of slain Palestinian activist Odeh Hathalin touches a poster calling for accountability following his killing in the occupied West Bank last year.
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  • A mourner carries the body of a Palestinian who was killed in Israeli strikes, according to medics, during a funeral, in Gaza City, August 2, 2026. REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
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    Israel’s response to Trump’s Gaza peace plan: Silence from Netanyahu and a weekend of deadly strikes
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  • Palestinians search among rubble, damaged tents and household belongings after an Israeli airstrike in the Al-Nasr neighborhood of western Gaza City, Palestine, on July 30, 2026. The overnight strike hit the Matter family home and destroyed the residential building and the nearby Al-Zuhour displacement camp, where local authorities said around 35 displaced families had been sheltering.
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  • An armed member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Tehran, Iran, on February 11.
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    Why Iran chose to restart the fight after the US stopped firing
  • Crown Prince and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman looks on during a meeting with US President Donald Trump (not pictured) in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on November 18, 2025. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrived at the White House to fanfare and a jet flyover Tuesday, in his first visit to the United States since the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
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  • U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a bilateral meeting with Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia in the Oval Office of the White House on November 18, 2025.
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    Saudi-US nuclear deal sparks fear of arms race across the Middle East
  • 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
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  • 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 National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir joins pro-settlement Israelis on a march towards the Gaza Strip under the slogan "After 21 years, we're returning home", referring to Israel's unilateral withdrawal of around 8,500 Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip in 2005, near Kibbutz Zikim and Israel’s border with Gaza, in southern Israel, July 19, 2026. REUTERS/Amir Cohen
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    Israel’s far-right openly boasts of resettling Gaza as election looms
  • People observe the damage caused by US strikes to bridges in Bandar Khamir, Iran, on Friday, July 17.
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    The renewed US-Iran conflict is escalating and threatening to spin out of control
  • <p>The US military said on Sunday that another service member was killed in action during a controlled detonation of a downed Iranian drone. The death comes a day after the Pentagon announced the fatalities of two service members in Jordan. CNN's Julia Benbrook reports on the latest from Basking Ridge, New Jersey. </p>
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  • Nikki Nikhbaht's two elder brothers, Hadi and Fazlollah, have been sentenced to death in Iran. While politically active, they were not involved in the protests at the turn of the year.
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    Iran ramps up execution of political prisoners amid war with US, human rights data shows
  • 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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    Israeli settlers attack journalists, including CNN, on the anniversary of deadly West Bank beating
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