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  • Apart from a few residential block and an airbase, Perim Island is mostly barren sand rock. The Yemeni Island in Bab Al-Mandab Strait is the new geopolitical pinch-point in the Iran war.
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    Exclusive: This small island off Yemen is now a strategic prize in the widening Iran war
  • A satellite image shows smoke rising from the Saudi Aramco distribution centre, after what the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen said were attacks by Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis, in Abha, Saudi Arabia on Tuesday.
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    Scores wounded as Iran-backed Houthis attack Saudi Arabia in major regional escalation
  • A man carries his child through a new settlement of Maale Arugot during an inauguration ceremony in Gush Etzion, in the occupied West Bank on September 2, 2026.
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    UK, France and Canada sanction Israeli settlements in West Bank as Britain accuses settlers of ‘ethnic cleansing’
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference in Jerusalem on March 19.
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    Netanyahu faces backlash over report he was warned of Hamas attack days before October 7
  • A boatyard that was hit by US strikes in the port city of Bandar Abbas in southern Iran on September 5, 2026.
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    Trump’s blockade pushes Iran toward military escalation
  • Israeli soldiers secure a building under construction as ambulances evacuate injured Palestinians following an attack by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank village of Qusra, on August 29. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
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    Israeli settlers storm Palestinian village, seizing home with owner inside
  • Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Chief Justice of Iran Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, and an IRGC commander general Mohsen Rezaee arrive to attend a ceremony in Tehran, Iran, on July 3, 2026.
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    A power struggle in Iran could decide when Trump’s war ends
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    A date to remember: The Abu Dhabi ice cream maker turning palm trees into soft serve
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  • The US is set to tighten the economic screws on Iran despite US sanctions having already drained the country's economy.
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    Trump is trying to tighten the screws on an Iran numb to economic pain
  • A girl crosses a busy road at the Islamic Revolution Square in Tehran on July 21.
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    Iranian women defy efforts by hardliners to enforce wearing of hijab
  • UNSPECIFIED, ISRAEL - AUGUST 22: A view over the area where the Israeli government plans to build a new neighborhood as part of E1 settlement project, near the Jewish settlement of Ma'ale Adomim on August 22, 2025 in near Jerusalem, Israel. On Wednesday Israel approved plans put forward by far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich that would see a new Israeli settlement of 3,400 homes built east of Jerusalem in the E1 zone, effectively bisecting much of the occupied West Bank. Until now construction in the area has been prohibited for two decades, and is considered illegal under international law. The move has been condemned by the international community, with critics accusing Israel of sabotaging any prospect of a future two-state solution. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)
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    Israel moves forward with internationally condemned settlement plan that could ‘bury’ two-state solution
  • An undated photo of Hind Rajab.
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    Israeli military admits for first time to firing on car carrying 5-year-old Hind Rajab as it opens criminal probe
  • Members of the Iranian security forces stand guard under a large portrait of Iran's new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, during a memorial to mark the 40th day since his father, Ali Ayatollah Khamenei, was killed in US-Israeli joint strikes, on April 9, 2026 in Tehran, Iran.
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    Iran’s latest warning to the US signals the hardliners are just getting started
  • US President Donald Trump steps off Air Force One upon arrival at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on August 16.
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    Trump says US will reduce joint military exercises with key ally South Korea
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  • <p>The Emirati Genome Program aims to map the DNA of more than one million citizens to help create a personalized healthcare system. But what are the wider implications? CNN’s Hanako Montgomery finds out.</p>
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  • Israeli soldiers stand guard outside a Palestinian house in the village of Qusra, in the occupied West Bank, on Thursday.
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    Trapped and cut off: Palestinian families under settler siege in the West Bank
  • A satellite image shows the damaged vessel Caroline Bezengi at sea off the coast of Oman, August 13, 2026. Pléiades Neo © Airbus DS 2026/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. MANDATORY CREDIT.
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    Huge oil spill off the coast of Oman now covers hundreds of square miles
  • BANDAR ABBAS, IRAN - AUGUST 10: Two youths sit on the shoreline as ships are seen anchored in the Strait of Hormuz on August 10, 2026 off the coast of Bandar Abbas, Iran. In a recent statement, Iran's Supreme National Security Council said the vital waterway would not reopen until the United States corrects its behavior, demanding that the U.S. end its war on Iran and compensate the country for war damage, among other conditions. Iran has largely halted vessel traffic through the strait with the threat of strikes; meanwhile, the U.S. has imposed a blockade on Iranian ports. (Photo by Ali Saeedi/Getty Images)
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    Trump keeps saying the US controls the Strait of Hormuz. Does it?
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    Video Netanyahu rejects Trump’s Gaza peace plan 2:28
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    UAE extradites alleged Irish crime gang boss Daniel Kinahan
  • Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa speaks during a joint press conference with France's President in Damascus on July 7.
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    Syria agrees deal with Russia over future use of two key Mediterranean bases
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin (L) talks to U.S. President Donald Trump during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on April 7, 2025 in Washington, DC. President Trump is meeting with Netanyahu to discuss ongoing efforts to release Israeli hostages from Gaza and newly imposed U.S. tariffs.
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    Israel rejects Trump’s Gaza peace plan, saying no withdrawal until Hamas disarms
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