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Middle East

  • US President Donald Trump delivers a speech at Rockland Community College Fieldhouse in New York on Friday.
    Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images
    Trump meeting with Gulf leaders as he weighs latest Iran proposal to end the war
  • TEHRAN, IRAN - 2026/01/01: Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi, deputy commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), arrives at the sixth anniversary of Qassem Soleimani's killing at Tehran's Musalla. Qassem Soleimani, the former commander of the Quds Force of the IRGC, was killed in 2020 in a U.S. missile strike in Iraq.
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    A hardline general wanted by Interpol emerges as a key player in Iran war
  • Activists from a Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla at Fiumicino Airport, Italy, on May 21. The group alleged sexual assault by Israeli forces, including “forcible penetration by a handgun."
    Remo Casilli/Reuters
    Freed Gaza flotilla activists accuse Israeli forces of sexual violence and abuse while in custody
  • Israel’s Ben Gvir shown taunting flotilla activists arrested with some held in stress position at port of Ashdod.
    Office of Ben Gvir
    Video showing far-right Israeli minister taunting Gaza flotilla activists sparks global outcry
  • Israeli far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich sits before a press conference near the settlement of Maale Adumim, in a land corridor known as E1, outside Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank, on August 14, 2025. (Photo by Menahem KAHANA / AFP) (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images)
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    Far-right Israeli minister Bezalel Smotrich says ICC seeking warrant for his arrest
  • US President Donald Trump arrives for a "Rose Garden Club" dinner in honor of Police Week at the White House in Washington, DC, on May 11, 2026. (Photo by Kent NISHIMURA / AFP via Getty Images)
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    Israel is worried that Trump will strike a ‘bad deal’ with Iran, leaving war objectives unmet
  • An Israeli soldier patrols one of the sites of the October 7 attacks.
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    First on CNN: New report details ‘systematic’ rape and sexual violence during Hamas’ Oct 7 attack on Israel
  • 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
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  • US forces disabled M/T Sea Star III and M/T Sevda, May 8, prior to both vessels entering an Iranian port on the Gulf of Oman in violation of the ongoing US blockade.
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    US fighter jet’s attack on Iranian tankers explained
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    ‘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
  • US President Donald Trump rejected a previous version of Iran's peace proposal.
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    Ceasefire hangs in the balance as Iran sends peace proposal to mediators
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  • TEHRAN, IRAN - MARCH 02: A general view of Tehran with smoke visible in the distance after explosions were reported in the city, on March 02, 2026 in Tehran, Iran. (Photo by Contributor/Getty Images)
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    Iran’s economy was in a dire state before the war. Now millions face job losses and poverty
  • A Palestinian woman in in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, places her ballot vote for municipal elections on Saturday – the first elections in two decades in Gaza.
    Abdel Kareem Hana/AP
    Gaza holds first elections in 20 years amid stalled ceasefire process – but only in one city
  • People ride motorcycles near a billboard featuring an image of Iran's new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei in Tehran, Iran on April 20.
    Majid Asgaripour/Wana News Agency/Reuters
    Iran is suffering in a standoff with the US – but may be betting Trump will blink first
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    Maryam Rahmanian
    ‘Nothing feels normal anymore’: How everyday Iranians are coping with war
  • Israeli police detained Alex Sinclair for wearing a kippah embroidered with an Israeli and a Palestinian flag.
    Alex Sinclair
    Police in Israel detain Jewish man for kippah showing Israeli, Palestinian flags
  • <p>Pope Leo XIV on Thursday denounced the Iranian regime’s killing of protesters but stressed that, “as a pastor,” he cannot support the US-Israeli war with Iran.</p>
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    Video Pope Leo condemns Iran’s killing of protesters but says he cannot support war 0:37
  • US forces patrol the Arabian Sea near the Iranian-flagged Touska on April 20, after it attempted to evade a US naval blockade.
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  • Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil, who works for the daily Al-Akhbar newspaper, reports near a destroyed bridge in Qasmiyeh, Lebanon, Sunday, March 22, 2026.
    Mohammed Zaatari/AP
    Lebanese PM accuses Israel of war crimes after strike kills journalist
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