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  • Vessels near the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Musandam, Oman, August 31, 2026. REUTERS/Stringer
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    The US wants to manage the stalemate in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran wants to break it
  • A ceasefire has been in effect between Israel and Hezbollah, but Israeli strikes continue in southern Lebanon on a daily basis.
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    Israeli flags and flattened homes: A rare look inside occupied southern Lebanon
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    Iran retaliates after US strikes, defying Trump’s warning it could be hit ‘much harder’
  • A young Iranian activist who was deported from the US to Bangui, in the Central African Republic.
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    She fled Iran. America sent her to Africa
  • TEL AVIV, ISRAEL - AUGUST 24: Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, speaks during a press conference at the Etzel Museum following the discovery of the Altalena ship after 78 years at bottom of the Mediterranean sea on August 24, 2026 in Tel Aviv, Israel. The wreckage of the ship Altalena has been found fully intact at a depth of 503 metres off the coast of Israel. She was a decommissioned US Navy ship purchased by the Irgun paramilitary group that arrived during Israel's War of Independence carrying 930 Jewish immigrants and a large cargo of weapons. A dispute erupted when Irgun leader Menachem Begin demanded a portion of the arms be reserved for his units, which Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion refused, viewing it as a threat to a centralised state military. On Ben-Gurion's orders, the newly formed Israel Defense Forces shelled the ship off the Tel Aviv beach, causing an explosion that killed 16 Irgun fighters and 3 IDF soldiers before the ruined hull was later towed out and sunk. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)
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    Israel’s far-right competes for votes with increasingly extreme visions
  • The US is set to tighten the economic screws on Iran despite US sanctions having already drained the country's economy.
    Majid Asgaripour/WANA News Agency/Reuters
    Trump is trying to tighten the screws on an Iran numb to economic pain
  • A girl crosses a busy road at the Islamic Revolution Square in Tehran on July 21.
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    Iranian women defy efforts by hardliners to enforce wearing of hijab
  • UNSPECIFIED, ISRAEL - AUGUST 22: A view over the area where the Israeli government plans to build a new neighborhood as part of E1 settlement project, near the Jewish settlement of Ma'ale Adomim on August 22, 2025 in near Jerusalem, Israel. On Wednesday Israel approved plans put forward by far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich that would see a new Israeli settlement of 3,400 homes built east of Jerusalem in the E1 zone, effectively bisecting much of the occupied West Bank. Until now construction in the area has been prohibited for two decades, and is considered illegal under international law. The move has been condemned by the international community, with critics accusing Israel of sabotaging any prospect of a future two-state solution. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)
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    Israel moves forward with internationally condemned settlement plan that could ‘bury’ two-state solution
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  • Members of the Iranian security forces stand guard under a large portrait of Iran's new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, during a memorial to mark the 40th day since his father, Ali Ayatollah Khamenei, was killed in US-Israeli joint strikes, on April 9, 2026 in Tehran, Iran.
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    Iran’s latest warning to the US signals the hardliners are just getting started
  • US President Donald Trump steps off Air Force One upon arrival at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on August 16.
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    Trump says US will reduce joint military exercises with key ally South Korea
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    Video Palestinian-American returns to home under settler siege 3:29
  • <p>The Emirati Genome Program aims to map the DNA of more than one million citizens to help create a personalized healthcare system. But what are the wider implications? CNN’s Hanako Montgomery finds out.</p>
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  • A satellite image shows the damaged vessel Caroline Bezengi at sea off the coast of Oman, August 13, 2026. Pléiades Neo © Airbus DS 2026/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. MANDATORY CREDIT.
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    Huge oil spill off the coast of Oman now covers hundreds of square miles
  • Zolfaghar and Qadr missiles are displayed at Azadi Square in Tehran, Iran, on July 24.
    Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu/Getty Images
    Iran’s supreme leader elevates military veterans willing to confront the US
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  • MORRISTOWN, NEW JERSEY - AUGUST 9: U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he boards Air Force One on August 9, 2026 at Morristown Airport in Morristown, New Jersey. President Trump spent the weekend at his Bedminster, New Jersey golf club. (Photo by Eric Lee/Getty Images)
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    Trump’s Iran strategy depends on economic pain. The pain is mounting
  • 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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    Netanyahu calculates upsetting Trump is his least-bad option
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    Video Netanyahu rejects Trump’s Gaza peace plan 2:28
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    UAE extradites alleged Irish crime gang boss Daniel Kinahan
  • Black smoke rises from an Israeli airstrike on the outskirts of Yaroun, a Lebanese border village with Israel, in south Lebanon, Sunday December 10, 2023.
    Hassan Ammar/AP/File
    The Americans losing homes to Israel’s war in Lebanon
  • Members of Houthi security forces stand guard inspect a destroyed car, which was hit during the first airstrikes of the coalition led by Saudi Arabia, on the day Yemen marks the 11th anniversary of the war on March 26, 2026 in Sana'a, Yemen. Yemen marking the 11th anniversary of the military campaign launched by the coalition led by Saudi Arabia on March 26, 2015, following the Houthi movement controlled most of northern swathes including the capital Sana'a in 2014, leading to the exile of the government.
    Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images
    Why is there fighting in Yemen and what does it mean for the Iran war?
  • A satellite view of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait is a vital trade route linking the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Arabian Sea, Suez Canal, and Mediterranean. It is also a hotspot for piracy and regional conflict, raising risks for global shipping, energy markets, and international commerce.
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    Saudi Arabia braces for attacks on ports and airports by Iraqi militias working with Iran-backed Houthis
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    Video Lebanese families return to ruins in West Zawtar after Israeli strikes 4:11
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