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Emergency personnel work the scene after a missile launched from Iran struck Haifa, Israel, on Sunday, June 15, 2025.
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People gather on a hill to watch smoke rising in the distance from an Israeli airstrike in Tehran, Iran, on June 14, 2025. Iran's foreign minister said the country would respond "decisively and proportionally" to a wave of attacks that Israel launched beginning in the early hours of June 13. The attacks targeted multiple military, scientific and residential locations, as well as senior government officials.
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Israel’s strikes zeroed in on Iran’s nuclear program. How much damage was done?
Motorists queue at a petrol station in Tehran on June 15, 2025, after overnight Israeli missile strikes struck two fuel depots in Iran's capital. Israel pressed its intense bombardment campaign on Iran on June 15, striking a defence facility and fuel depots as the two arch foes kept up their most intense confrontation in history.
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Fear grips Iranians, with some fleeing the capital as conflict with Israel escalates
Traces of projectile illuminates the sky seen from northern Israel, Saturday, June 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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People and first-responders gather outside a building that was hit by an Israeli strike in Tehran on June 13, 2025. Israel hit about 100 targets in Iran on June 13, including nuclear facilities and military command centres and killing senior figures including the armed forces chief and top nuclear scientists. (Photo by MEGHDAD MADADI / TASNIM NEWS / AFP) (Photo by MEGHDAD MADADI/TASNIM NEWS/AFP via Getty Images)
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Israel hit Iran’s nuclear program – and Iran hit back. Here’s what we know
Iranian people gather at the scene of an explosion at a residential complex due to Israeli attacks in Tehran, Iran, on June 13, 2025.
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A weakened Iran has few options for striking back after Israel’s devastating blows
People wave Palestinian flags as participants in the 'Global March to Gaza' depart from Schiphol Airport for Egypt at Schiphol, The Netherlands on Wednesday.
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Thousands head to Egypt in bid to break Israel’s Gaza blockade
Members of Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a private US-backed aid group which the UN refuses to work with over neutrality concerns, direct displaced Palestinians at a distribution centre in central Gaza on June 8.
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Gaza Humanitarian Foundation says Hamas attack has killed multiple aid workers
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Women in Damascus, Syria, celebrate the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024.
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Syria orders women to cover up on beaches with conservative new dress code
Greta Thunberg sits in a plane, in a location given as Tel Aviv, Israel, on Tuesday.
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Greta Thunberg departs Israel on flight to Paris after detention aboard aid ship
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Smoke rises to the sky following an Israeli strike in Gaza City, on June 1.
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Trump tells Netanyahu to end Gaza war and stop Iran threats, source says, as US ramps up pressure on Israel
A file photo of Matan Angrest before he was taken hostage by Hamas.
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An Israeli soldier was taken hostage on October 7. In ceasefire plea, his mother releases video of his brutal capture
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TOPSHOT - A picture shows a view of the destruction in the Shujaiya neighbourhood of Gaza City on October 7, 2024, on the first anniversary of the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas group. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP) (Photo by OMAR AL-QATTAA/AFP via Getty Images)
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