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    Live Updates Netanyahu says Israel will heed Trump’s call not to repeat strike on Iranian gas facility
  • Qusay Abu al-Iqbash speaks to CNN.
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    Palestinian man in the West Bank says he was sexually assaulted by Israeli settlers
  • A young Iranian girl closes her eyes near a loader working on the ruins of buildings destroyed during a military campaign in Tehran on March 15, 2026.
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    What we know on the 20th day of the US and Israel’s war with Iran
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    Under Israeli bombardment, Lebanon urges Trump to intervene, calls for ‘immediate’ talks with Israel
  • President Donald Trump disembarks Air Force One, Wednesday, March 18, 2026, at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland.
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    As the war — and gas prices — escalate, Trump uses Israel to deflect domestic and allied pressure
  • A man walks on rocks along the shore as oil tankers and cargo ships line up in the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Khor Fakkan, United Arab Emirates, Wednesday, March 11, 2026.
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    The US is considering Hormuz naval escorts. There are risks and it could go disastrously wrong
  • US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before boarding Air Force One as he departs Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on March 13, 2026.
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    What we know on the 16th day of the US and Israel’s war with Iran
  • Palestinians mourn at the funeral of four members of the Odeh family who were killed in their car by Israeli forces in a raid in Tammun, in the occupied West Bank, on March 15.
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    Israeli forces shoot and kill 4 members of Palestinian family, officials say, after opening fire on car in West Bank
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  • Security forces deploy to guard a rally in support of Iran's new Supreme Leader at Enghelab Square in central Tehran on March 9, 2026. Iran marked the appointment of Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei to replace his father as its supreme leader with a new barrage of missiles against Israel and the Gulf states on Monday, as the Middle East war sent oil prices soaring. (Photo by Atta KENARE / AFP via Getty Images)
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    Iran’s new supreme leader has yet to appear, and the system may not need him to
  • A general view of the Port of Kharg Island Oil Terminal, 25 km from the Iranian coast in the Persian Gulf and 483 km northwest of the Strait of Hormuz, in Iran on March 12, 2017. Kharg Island Oil Terminal brings Iranian oil to the world market. The oil terminal is the world's largest open oil terminal, with 95% of Iran's crude oil exports coming through it.
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    What to know about Kharg Island, the tiny coral outcrop at the heart of Iran’s oil industry
  • A man looks at the smoke from an Israeli airstrike. Israel and Hezbollah returned to all-out war in March 2026. (Photo by Sally Hayden / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images)
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    What we know on the 14th day of the US and Israel’s war with Iran
  • A satellite view of the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic waterway between Iran and Oman that links the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Sea.
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    Iran is escalating the war by attacking ships along a key oil route. Here’s what we know.
  • TOPSHOT - A blaze sweeps following Israeli bombardment on a solar farm and electricity generation facility in Lebanon's southern coastal city of Tyre on March 4, 2026. Israeli forces on March 4 advanced into a number of towns and villages in south Lebanon, a source from the UN peacekeeping force in the country, UNIFIL, told AFP. (Photo by Kawnat HAJU / AFP via Getty Images)
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    The war that never ended: Israel seizes moment to finish fight against Hezbollah, Iran’s proxy in Lebanon
  • A view of Sde Teiman prison in the Negev desert near the Gaza Strip, in Negev, Israel on January 10, 2025. In a joint statement by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)'s Prisoners and Freedmen's Committee and the Palestinian Prisoners Society, it was reported that 10,400 Palestinians were imprisoned in Israeli prisons as of January 1, 2025. The fate of thousands of Palestinians detained by Israeli forces in Gaza is unknown. Most of the detained Palestinians are held in Sde Teiman prison in the Negev desert near the Gaza Strip.
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    Assault charges against Israeli soldiers dropped in controversial end to a yearlong scandal
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  • President Donald Trump departs Air Force One on March 11.
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    Trump may be unable to end the war he started with Iran, even if he wanted to
  • Iran supreme leader’s first purported message leaves a major question unanswered
  • Why Trump’s Gulf allies are resisting pressure to join the Iran war
  • What we know on the 12th day of the US and Israel’s war with Iran
  • A projectile (Top-R) streaks accross the sky over Dubai on March 5, 2026. Airports, embassies, residential areas and military installations across the region have come under fire from daily salvos of Iranian missiles and drones since the war between the Islamic republic, Israel and the US broke out on February 28.
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    The US and Israel went to war with Iran, but the UAE is paying the price. Here’s why
  • US Tomahawk struck Iranian base next to school destroyed in deadly attack, video appears to confirm
  • What we know on the 10th day of the US and Israel’s war with Iran
  • Lebanon calls for direct talks with Israel, accuses Hezbollah of betraying country
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