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  • Smoke and fire rise from the site of airstrikes at Mehrabad International Airport in Tehran on March 7, 2026. Israel said on March 7 it had launched "broad-scale" strikes on targets in Tehran, as the Iranian state broadcaster reported an explosion in the western part of the city.
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    Live Updates War with Iran: New strikes hit Tehran and explosions rock Gulf nations
  • Smoke rising from a recent airstrike on March 6, 2026 in Tehran, Iran.
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    Everything we know on the ninth day of the US and Israel’s war with Iran
  • A huge crater left by an Israeli airstrike in the village of Nabi Chit, eastern Lebanon late Friday, March 6, 2026, where Israeli forces landed overnight and dug a grave in a cemetery searching for Israeli co-pilot Ron Arad who was captured and then went missing after his fighter jet crashed over south Lebanon in 1986.
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    Dozens killed, authorities say, as Israeli commandos raid Lebanon in hunt for missing airman
  • Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian speaks with Fox News Channel's Martha MacCallum during an interview on September 25, 2025 in New York City.
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    Iran sends first significant message of de-escalation, but with a major caveat
  • An Iranian Kurdish Peshmerga member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) inspects damage sustained at the Azadi Camp of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) following an Iranian cross-border attack in the town of Koye (Koysinjaq), in the east of Erbil district in the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq on March 3, 2026. The United States and Israel launched strikes against Iran on February 28, with the killing of Iran's supreme leader and the Islamic republic retaliated with barrages of missiles at Gulf states and Israel. The Kurdistan region hosts US-led coalition troops, and its capital Erbil is home to a major US consulate complex. (Photo by Safin HAMID / AFP via Getty Images)
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    Live Updates Day 7 of Middle East conflict — Trump says no deal with Iran until ‘unconditional surrender’
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    Visualizing the US-Israeli war with Iran and retaliation in maps and charts
  • People watch as smoke rises on the skyline after an explosion in Tehran, Iran on Saturday, February 28, 2026.
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    Between bombs and blackouts, Iranians are trapped in a deepening crisis
  • U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold hands during a press conference after meeting at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., December 29, 2025. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
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    Iran war may help Netanyahu at home but hurt Israel abroad
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  • Smoke rises from an area in the direction of al-Udeid Air Base, which houses the Qatari air force and US forces, in Doha on February 28, 2026, following a reported Iranian strike.
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    Exclusive: Iranian bombers were ‘two minutes’ from striking US air base before Qatari planes shot them down
  • An unidentified man shouts anti-U.S. and anti-Israeli slogans while standing in front of a destroyed building near a police station that is struck on Monday during U.S.-Israeli attacks in Tehran, Iran, on March 3, 2026.
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    Everything we know on the fifth day of the US and Israel’s war with Iran
  • Iranian Kurdish fighters from the Kurdistan Freedom Party take part in a training session at a base on the outskirts of Erbil, Iraq, on February 12.
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    Who are the Kurds?
  • A plume of smoke rises after a strike on the Iranian capital Tehran, on March 3, 2026.
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    Trump has drawn parallels between Iran and Venezuela. But there’s no Delcy Rodríguez in Tehran
  • People walk on the rubble of buildings damaged in an early morning Israeli strike on Beirut's southern suburbs on March 3, 2026. The Israeli military issued new evacuation orders for dozens of locations in Lebanon on March 3, including warning residents in two southern Beirut neighbourhoods to stay away from several buildings ahead of an imminent operation.
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    Hezbollah is dragging Lebanon into the war on Iran, but the militia is a shadow of the force it once was
  • Smoke from an explosion rises into the sky above the Iranian capital, Tehran, on Monday.
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    What we know about the widening US war with Iran
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  • Dizengoff Square, Tel Aviv March 3, 2026
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    Sirens replace celebrations as Israelis head to shelters on religious holiday
  • Hezbollah just restarted the fight that Israel was waiting to finish
  • Three US fighter jets accidentally shot down by Kuwaiti air defenses, military says
  • Iranians confront a post-Khamenei reality with relief, disbelief and anxiety
  • Social media videos show the interior of the airport filled with smoke as dozens of airline employees calmly evacuated the building.
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    Passengers flee smoke-filled Dubai airport as Iran attacks major Gulf travel hubs
  • Who might replace Iran’s supreme leader? There’s no clear successor
  • What we know about the death of Iranian supreme leader Khamenei
  • Having blasted open a vacuum, there’s no guarantee the US and Israel will like what comes next
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