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  • Security personnel inspect vehicles entering the Foreign Ministry office in Islamabad
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    World anxiously waits to see if US-Iran peace talks can deliver. Here’s what we know
  • Firefighters try to put out flames at the site of an airstrike that hit an apartment building in Beirut, Lebanon, on Wednesday, April 8. Iran is at odds with the US and Israel over whether a two-week ceasefire applies to Israel’s military offensive targeting the Iranian-backed paramilitary group Hezbollah at Lebanon’s northern border.
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    Bilal Hussein/AP
    Live Updatesa min ago Israel and Hezbollah trade strikes ahead of high-stakes US-Iran talks
  • BEIRUT, LEBANON - APRIL 09: Civilians inspect the site as a residential building lies in ruins and surrounding structures show heavy damage after an Israeli strike hits Corniche Al-Mazraa district in Beirut, Lebanon on April 09, 2026. The Israeli army carries out 100 simultaneous attacks across Lebanon, including the capital Beirut. According to the Lebanese Civil Defense Directorate, 254 people are killed and more than 1,000 others are injured in the attacks. (Photo by Murat Sengul/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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    What is Israel’s war in Lebanon, and why could it shatter the Iran ceasefire?
  • BEIRUT, LEBANON - APRIL 8: Rescue workers search for people after an Israeli attack hit a residential building in the Corniche al Mazraa neighborhood on April 8, 2026 in Beirut, Lebanon. Israel has stepped-up its attacks on Lebanon following President Donald Trump's announcement of a two-week ceasefire agreement between the US and Iran. Israel says it will observe the ceasefire with Iran but insists Lebanon was not included in the deal, and has since launched the "largest coordinated strike" on Hezbollah targets since the resumption of the cross-border war on March 2. Iran and Pakistan - which has been coordinating peace talks - have said that the ceasefire included Lebanon, while US President Donald Trump has said Lebanon is a "separate skirmish," and not part of the deal. (Photo by Daniel Carde/Getty Images)
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    Live Updatesa min ago Day 41 of Middle East conflict — Netanyahu says there’s no ceasefire in Lebanon as Israel pursues talks
  • A new Israeli settlement near Nablus, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on Thursday.
    Mohammed Torokman/Reuters
    Israeli government secretly approves over 30 new settler outposts
  • FILE - This satellite image provided by Vantor shows the Natanz nuclear complex in Iran on March 7, 2026, with no new damage seen at the facility or the tunnels. (Satellite image ©2026 Vantor via AP, file)
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    Before winding down the war, US and Israel are determined to wipe out Iran’s nuclear expertise
  • Iranian state media shared images of apparent aircraft wreckage on April 5, 2026, after President Donald Trump said US forces rescued a crew member from a downed fighter jet.
    Iranian State Media
    Trump says Iran could be ‘taken out in one night’: What we know about the war, now in its 6th week
  • Iranian state media released photos on April 3, of what it claimed is the wreckage of a US Air Force fighter jet downed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The debris is consistent with US Air Force F-15.
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    What we do — and don’t — know about the operation to rescue the US airman
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  • Hamidreza Afarideh's music studio in Tehran, Iran.
    Hamidreza Afarideh
    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)
    Samir Jordamovic/Anadolu/Getty Images
    Navy’s top admiral indicates carrier Ford fire stopped sorties for two days
  • Iranian state media released photos Friday, April 3, 2026, of what it claimed is the wreckage of a US Air Force fighter jet downed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The debris is consistent with US Air Force F-15.
    • Video 4:28
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    Video US fighter jet shot down over Iran, US sources say 4:28
  • U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the signing ceremony for an executive order on mail ballots, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., March 31, 2026. REUTERS/Evan Vucci
    Evan Vucci/Reuters
    Four ways a hasty Trump exit from the Iran war may not end the conflict
  • Residents remove a torched tractor that, according to the Palestine Red Crescent, was torched by Israeli settlers, alongside tents and cars in the West Bank village of Tayasir, near Tubas, Tuesday, March 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
    Majdi Mohammed/AP
    Israeli settlers build new illegal outpost near West Bank village where soldiers assaulted, detained CNN crew
  • Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir speaks during a session as Israel's parliament passes a law on Monday making the death penalty a default sentence for Palestinians convicted in military courts of deadly attacks, at the Knesset, Israel’s parliament in Jerusalem March 30, 2026 REUTERS/Oren Ben Hakoon
    Oren Ben Hakoon/Reuters
    Israel’s parliament votes to expand death penalty for Palestinians
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  • 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.
    Majid Saeedi/Getty Images
    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.
    Elke Scholiers/Getty Images
    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.
    Pakistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs/AP
    Why the nation trying to broker US-Iran peace talks risks being drawn into the conflict
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    Universities become new frontline as the US-Israel war against Iran escalates
  • A member of the Iranian Red Crescent Society stands at Hypercar, an auto service center, amid damages which according to the company's officials were caused by strikes on March 1, in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, March 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
    Vahid Salemi/AP
    What we know on Day 30 of the war with Iran: Israel prepared for ‘multi-front war’ and more US troops arrive in the region
  • An Iranian woman speaks on the phone as emergency workers sift through rubble of a residential building that was hit in an airstrike in the early hours of March 27, 2026 in Tehran, Iran.
    Majid Saeedi/Getty Images
    Iran threatens to ‘rain fire’ on US troops as possible ground war looms
  • 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.
    Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto/Getty Images
    Cornered and wounded, will Iran now go for a nuclear bomb?
  • A man stands next to a building destroyed by an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon on Saturday.
    Yara Nardi/Reuters
    What we know on Day 29 of the US and Israel’s war with Iran: Houthis enter conflict, US builds up forces
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