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  • Israeli tanks are stationed at a position near the border with Gaza on Thursday, September 18.
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    Hamas warns Gaza City offensive ends hope for hostage return, as pressure from families on Netanyahu grows
  • Bezalel Smotrich at a news conference in the occupied West Bank last month.
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    Israel’s far-right finance minister suggests a real estate ‘bonanza’ in Gaza will follow the war
  • Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif embrace each other after signing a defence agreement, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Wednesday.
    Saudi Press Agency/Reuters
    As US reliability falters, Saudi Arabia turns to a nuclear-armed ally
  • Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif embrace each other on the day they sign a defence agreement, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, September 17, 2025. Saudi Press Agency/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY.
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    Saudi Arabia and Pakistan sign mutual defense pact as Gulf Arab states grow wary of US security guarantees
  • A Taliban flag flutters near telecom equipment installed over a rooftop providing internet services overlooking Hazrat-e-Ali Shrine, in Mazar-i-Sharif on Tuesday, as the Taliban administration banned fibre-optic internet in Balkh province.
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    Taliban orders ban on internet in northern Afghanistan ‘to prevent immoral activities’
  • More than 1 in 10 Palestinians has been killed or injured since the war began, former chief of the Israeli military says. (Photo by Ali Jadallah/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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    More than 10% of Gaza’s population has been killed or injured, former Israeli military chief says
  • Flames erupt from a building following an Israeli military strike in Gaza City, Sunday, September 14, 2025.
    Yousef Al Zanoun/AP
    Israel strikes high-rises in Gaza City, ahead of cabinet meeting to discuss risk of ground operation to hostages
  • The damaged building, left, in the compound housing members of Palestinian militant group Hamas' political bureau, pictured on September 10, 2025.
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    Gulf states unite to respond to Israel’s attack on Qatar, but find few options
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  • Qatar's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, pictured on Wednesday, condemned Israel's "criminal" attack on the capital Doha.
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    A presidential jet and a massive US airbase didn’t shield Qatar from Israel’s attack. America’s Arab allies are taking note
  • Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani speaks with CNN’s Becky Anderson.
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    In exclusive CNN interview, Qatari prime minister says Netanyahu ‘killed any hope’ for Israeli hostages
  • Smoke rises after several blasts were heard in Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday.
    Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters
    Israel carries out strike targeting Hamas leadership in Qatar
  • Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani addresses a press conference at the Diwan Annex in Doha on January 15, 2025. Sheikh Mohammed said that Israel and Hamas had agreed to a ceasefire in Gaza starting on January 19, 2025 and a hostage and prisoner exchange after 15 months of war.
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    Qatar presses Hamas to ‘respond positively’ to US ceasefire proposal, official says
  • Spain's' Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Monday called Israel's military action in Gaza an "extermination of a defenseless people."
    A. Pérez Meca/Europa Press/AP
    Spain intensifies criticism of Israeli offensive in Gaza. Israel responds with travel bans
  • Protesters gather in front of the residence of President of Israel Isaac Herzog, staging a demonstration to demand an end to the war and the return of Israeli hostages, in West Jerusalem on September 4, 2025.
    Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu/Getty Images
    ‘We are in critical minutes’: Gaza City assault spurs widespread Israeli protests amid fear for hostages
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  • President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media as he signs executive orders during a press availability in the Oval Office of the White House on September 5, 2025.
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    Trump says some hostages may have ‘recently died’ in Gaza, as Israel calls on Palestinians to evacuate enclave’s largest city
  • ‘Pivotal moment’ for Lebanon as cabinet backs army plan to disarm Hezbollah amid growing US pressure
  • US considers banning Iranian diplomats from shopping at Costco during UN meeting
  • US sanctions Palestinian rights groups who asked top court for Israel war crimes investigation
  • Equipment used by Palestinian cameraman Hussam al-Masri, who was a contractor for Reuters, lies at the site where he was killed, along with other journalists and people, in Israeli strikes on Nasser hospital, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, in this still image taken from video, August 25, 2025. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
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    Global media outlets unite to protest Israel’s killing of journalists in Gaza
  • Houthis storm UN buildings in Yemeni capital after Israel killed PM and other ministers
  • Israel to halt airdrops ahead of Gaza City offensive as hostage families lash out at Netanyahu
  • Yemen’s Houthis say prime minister of rebel-controlled government killed in Israeli airstrike
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