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Peace Board plans ‘humanitarian zone’ in Gaza’s devastated Rafah
The Board of Peace set up under the ceasefire deal in Gaza is planning a “humanitarian zone” in Rafah in the south of the Palestinian enclave devastated by Israel’s war. The zone would aim to accommodate tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians...
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Egyptian team ‘robbed by referee’
Arab fans reviled French referee Francois Letexier as the most hated man in football on Tuesday after his bizarre decisions cost Egypt the historic opportunity to knock champions Argentina out of the World Cup. Mo Salah’s heroes came within an...
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Hamas steps down from ruling Gaza after 20 years in power
Hamas on Monday dissolved its government in Gaza and signaled its readiness to hand over power to a group of Palestinian technocrats. The militant group has run Gaza since its fighters seized control in 2007 after winning legislative elections the...
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Israel vows to push ahead with campaign against Hezbollah
Israel’s military chief visited forces deployed around Beaufort Castle in southern Lebanon on Sunday, vowing to push ahead with the campaign against Hezbollah. The military “will continue to operate decisively to remove threats from Lebanese territory...
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Iran lays late supreme leader to rest
The body of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei lay in state in the vast Grand Mosalla in Tehran on Friday as clerics, visiting dignitaries and mourners paid their respects to Iran’s late supreme leader. Iran is staging a week of mass funeral processions for...
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Iran issues new threat to ships trying to cross Strait of Hormuz
Commercial vessels trying to cross the Strait of Hormuz by a route not approved by Iran face new attacks, officials in Tehran threatened on Thursday. The issue of free navigation in the vital waterway threatens to derail continuing discussions between...
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Trump’s top team arrives in Doha amid confusion over new Iran talks
The visit by US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and special envoy Steve Witkoff followed a weekend of crossfire in the Gulf over efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to free navigation. The US and Iran were expected to resume...
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Anger as Syrian villagers forced to flee Israeli violence in southern province
Syria on Monday condemned Israeli incursions and bombardment in the southern province of Deraa after villagers were forced to flee the violence. Angry residents tried to block a road with stones to stop an Israeli patrol in the village of Abidin in...
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Trump threatens to ‘complete the job’ as US, Iran trade strikes
Saudi Arabia on Sunday condemned, in the strongest terms, Iran’s latest attacks Kuwait and Bahrain, as well as on “the security and freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz.” Iran launched missiles and drones at US military sites in Kuwait and...
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Airstrike on Gaza tent kills siblings
A boy appears devastated at the funeral of 15-year-old Islam Moussa and her 30-year-old brother Abdallah, who were both killed in their tent in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza on Saturday. A ceasefire has been in place in the strip since October, but...
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Three more killed in new strikes by Israel on Lebanon
Three people were killed on Thursday in an Israeli strike on a vehicle in southern Lebanon. The attack happened on the road between Zawtar and Mayfadoun. It was the third deadly incident since Tuesday, bringing the number of people killed in Israeli...
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US backs plan for Israeli troops to pull out of southern Lebanon
The US on Wednesday backed a plan for Israeli forces to withdraw from southern Lebanon and pass security control to the Lebanese army. Lebanese troops involved in the proposal would undergo US training and vetting to ensure they were not linked to...
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Israel kills 2 in south Lebanon in first attack for days
Israeli machinegun fire killed two people in southern Lebanon on Tuesday in the first outbreak of violence since Saturday night. The two victims were standing next to a bulldozer that was unblocking a road in Nabatieh Al-Fawqa when they were shot dead....
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13 killed in massive ‘accidental’ blast at Ras Laffan gas supply hub in Qatar
At least 13 people were killed and 66 injured in a massive blast early on Monday at the Ras Laffan gas hub in Qatar. The explosion was “an accident and not sabotage or hostile in nature,” Energy Minister Saad Al-Kaabi said. “It will not affect...
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Iran closes Hormuz over Israel’s continued attacks on Lebanon
Iran on Saturday said it had closed the Strait of Hormuz because of Israel’s continued attacks in Lebanon and warned that while negotiators were going to Switzerland for talks with the US on their interim agreement, not much likely will happen if the...
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It’s a deal! Now come 60 days of tough US-Iran nuclear talks
At least 60 days of hard bargaining between the US and Iran aimed at bringing lasting peace to the Middle East will begin in Switzerland on Friday. After days of secrecy and confusion, US President Donald Trump and Masoud Pezeshkian, president of...
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Israel pounds Lebanon again as G7 leaders demand a ceasefire
G7 leaders meeting in France on Wednesday demanded an immediate ceasefire in Lebanon as Israeli warplanes pounded the south of the country for a second consecutive day. After deadly strikes that killed four on Tuesday, new Israeli attacks hit Nabatieh...
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Hands off Gaza, El-Sisi tells Israel at G7 summit
Israel must abandon its plan to take control of 70 percent of Gaza, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi told the G7 summit in France on Monday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week ordered the military to take control of more...
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Talks move to Doha as speculation mounts over peace deal details
US President Donald Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance and Iranian parliamentary Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf electronically signed the deal at the weekend. “The president wanted to sign it personally because he wanted to show his ... dedication to...
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Palestinian death toll in Gaza tops 73,000 as Israel launches strikes despite ceasefire
The Palestinian death toll from the Israel-Hamas war has surpassed 73,000, Gaza’s Health Ministry said on Sunday, as Israeli military operations continued despite a stalled and fragile ceasefire in place since October. Israel claims it is targeting...
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Israel pounds southern Lebanon, issues broad evacuation warnings
Lebanon reported Israeli strikes in the country’s south on Saturday, as the Israeli army issued evacuation warnings for the city of Nabatieh and over 20 other locations ahead of raids. Lebanon’s state media said Israeli airstrikes hit several areas...
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Gaza suffers in silence
A boy walks through the rubble of a building that was destroyed by Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip. Palestinians in the enclave face daily violence despite a formal ceasefire in place since October 2025.
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Trump calls off new strikes on Iran as ‘peace deal close’
Donald Trump called off a threatened new wave of attacks on Iran late on Thursday as a deal to end the Middle East war appeared imminent. The US president said he made the move “based on the fact that discussions with the Islamic Republic of Iran have...
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12 more killed in latest wave of airstrikes on southern Lebanon
Israel killed 12 more people in Lebanon on Thursday in the latest of a wave of airstrikes on the south of the country. Eight people died in attacks on the town of Tayr Dibba, and another four in strikes on Deir Qanun Al-Nahr. There was also an Israeli...
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Israel and Iran trade fire in new threat to ceasefire deal
Israeli airstrikes damaged the Mahshahr petrochemical complex that produces raw materials for Iran’s ballistic missiles, and there were explosions in Tehran, where air defenses shot down an Israeli drone. Israel also targeted truckbased Iranian missile...
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Israel strikes Beirut’s southern suburbs despite ceasefire deal
Israel struck Beirut’s southern suburbs without warning on Sunday, days after a ceasefire agreement in Washington went into effect and despite a US request not to attack Lebanon’s capital. The strike hit a residential building, damaging four of its...
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Two army officers, soldier among nine killed in Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon
Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon on Saturday killed nine people, including three members of the Lebanese military, days after the two sides reached a new ceasefire deal. An airstrike on a vehicle on a road linking Nabatieh with the town of...
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Get your hands off our country, Lebanon’s leaders tell Tehran
Lebanon’s leaders told Iran on Friday to stop interfering in their country as Israel and Hezbollah again exchanged fire in the south. “Have mercy on our south, stop treating it and its people as merely a bargaining chip to improve the terms of your...
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Five more killed in Lebanon as Hezbollah rejects latest truce
Five more people including a UN peacekeeper died in Lebanon on Thursday as Hezbollah rejected the latest ceasefire described by President Joseph Aoun as the “last chance” for peace. The Serbian peacekeeper died and two others were injured in a mortar...
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Gulf, Arab countries condemn Iran strikes on Kuwait, Bahrain
Saudi Arabia reiterated its “categorical rejection of these assaults that undermine the sovereignty of the sisterly states, which constitute a clear violation of international law and the UN Charter.” Bader Al-Asaker, head of the office of Crown...
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Iran fears social unrest as inflation hits record high
Fears are growing of renewed social unrest in Iran after annual consumer price inflation hit its highest since the Second World War and the national currency continued to plunge in value. Iran’s Central Bank said the consumer price index, which...
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France urges urgent UN meeting on Lebanon
France has requested an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council after Israeli forces seized the medieval Beaufort Castle in Lebanon, the French foreign minister said Sunday. “I have requested an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security...
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‘Scorched-earth policy’ will not ensure Israel’s security, says Lebanon premier
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam denounced on Saturday “a dangerous Israeli escalation” in the south, urging an immediate ceasefire and insisting that a “scorched-earth policy” would not ensure Israel’s security. In a televised address, Salam also...
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Throngs of pilgrims begin departure from Makkah after final rituals of Hajj
Thousands of pilgrims began to leave the holy city of Makkah on Friday after completing the Hajj. More than 1.7 million people from 165 countries took part this year. “I can’t believe I completed the Hajj,” said Ahmed Mamdouh, 37, from Egypt, who...
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Hajj reaches final stage
As Hajj 2026 reaches its final stage, the Grand Mosque in Makkah is packed with pilgrims circumambulating the Holy Kaaba on Thursday.
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Pilgrims take part in symbolic ‘stoning of the devil’ in final major ritual of Hajj
Pilgrims took part in the last major ritual of the Hajj on Wednesday, symbolically stoning the devil, as Muslims worldwide began celebrating Eid Al-Adha. Crowds of the faithful gathered from dawn in the valley of Mina, southeast of Makkah, to throw...
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Mount of Faith
Pilgrims gathered at Arafat on Tuesday for the most sacred and spiritually defining stage of the Hajj. The plain 20 km southeast of Makkah is dominated by Jabal Al-Rahmah, the Mount of Mercy, where pilgrims gather for prayer and reflection. The Arafat...
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1.6 million Muslim pilgrims begin the spiritual journey of a lifetime
More than 1.6 million Muslim pilgrims filled a vast tent city in the holy city of Makkah on Monday as the annual Hajj pilgrimage began. The white-robed pilgrims arrived by bus or on foot at the sprawling encampment in Mina after walking seven times...
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Six women, child among 11 killed in Israeli onslaught on south Lebanon
Israeli strikes hit south and east Lebanon on Sunday, a day after 11 people were killed in a single raid on the south despite a ceasefire in the Israel-Hezbollah war. Saturday’s strike in Sir Al-Gharbiyeh “resulted in a massacre whose final toll is 11...
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Israel warns of imminent strikes on 10 Lebanese villages, hits army barracks
Israel warned the residents of 10 villages in southern Lebanon to evacuate their homes immediately to avoid planned airstrikes against alleged Hezbollah targets. The communities listed by Israeli military spokesman Avichay Adraee in a post covered a...
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Israel ‘has wiped whole towns off map’ to occupy southern Lebanon
Israeli forces have wiped whole towns off the map in southern Lebanon to create an army occupation zone extending 10 km north of the border, displaced civilians said on Friday. Thousands of homes, schools and churches have been bulldozed since the...
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Anger as Gaza aid flotilla activists deported
Israel on Thursday deported hundreds of activists seized from a Gaza-bound aid flotilla amid an international outcry over their treatment in custody. Far-right extremist Israeli government minister Itamar Ben-Gvir sparked widespread condemnation and a...
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Gaza farmers’ hard work pays off
Gaza farmers harvest wheat amid Israeli attacks and the ongoing blockade. Despite limited farmland and difficult conditions, farmers continued working on their crops using traditional methods. During Israel’s two-year offensive, the territory has...
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Damascus car bomb kills soldier
A bomb exploded outside a Defense Ministry building in Damascus on Tuesday, killing one Syrian soldier and wounding about a dozen other people. Soldiers discovered a bomb that was ready to be detonated in the Bab Sharqi district. As they were...
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UN accuses Israel of war crimes and atrocities against Palestinians
The UN accused Israel on Monday of ethnic cleansing, war crimes and other atrocities against Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. In its latest damning report, the UN rights office said Israel’s actions in Gaza since the start of the war...
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Israel bombs Lebanese villages despite truce
Israel struck eastern and southern Lebanon on Sunday, state media reported, despite a fragile ceasefire. Two Israeli strikes hit the town of Sohmor in eastern Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, the National News Agency said, adding that others took place across...
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Israel kills 17 in Lebanon drone, air attacks
Three Israeli drone strikes on vehicles just south of Beirut on Saturday killed four people while a series of airstrikes on southern Lebanon killed at least 13, including a man and his 12-yearold daughter, state media and the Health Ministry said. The...
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Israel bombs Lebanon before US talks
Israel carried out new strikes in southern Lebanon on Friday, hours before the two countries’ envoys were set to meet for a second day of peace talks in Washington.
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Chinese leader ‘offers Beijing’s help to reopen Strait of Hormuz’
Xi Jinping on Thursday offered China’s help in reopening the Strait of Hormuz, Donald Trump said after a historic summit in Beijing. The two presidents called for free navigation in the vital waterway to support global energy needs as tension...
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Trump arrives in China
US President Donald Trump arrived in Beijing on Wednesday for his hotly anticipated talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the Iran war, trade and US arms sales to Taiwan. He was received by Vice President Han Zheng.
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Israeli bombs kill 6 in Lebanon
Israeli strikes on a town in southern Lebanon killed six people and wounded seven others on Tuesday despite an April 17 ceasefire agreement aimed to halt the fighting.
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Lebanon urges US envoy to halt strikes by Israel
Lebanon on Monday urged the US ambassador to Beirut to pressure Israel into halting its attacks. President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam met envoy Michel Issa before a third meeting between the countries in Washington this week. A truce...
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2 Hezbollah men killed in Israeli attack
Lebanon’s Health Ministry said two paramedics from the Hezbollah-affiliated health committee were killed and five others wounded on Sunday in Israeli strikes on the country’s south despite a ceasefire. A ministry statement said that Israel “directly...
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Tehran could withstand naval blockade for months, CIA says
A US intelligence analysis has concluded Tehran could withstand a naval blockade for months. A CIA assessment indicated that Iran would not suffer severe economic pressure from a US blockade of Iranian ports for about another four months, suggesting...
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Iran and US forces in new exchange of fire in Gulf
Renewed fighting erupted in the Gulf on Friday as the US awaited a response from Iran to its latest peace plan. US military forces disabled two Iranian tankers that were trying to breach an American blockade on Iran’s ports, and posted video footage...
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Rubio mends fences with pope
Pope Leo and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio discussed efforts to achieve peace in the Middle East at a papal audience in Rome on Thursday, amid a spat between the Vatican and the White House over the war.
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Iran under pressure to accept new 14-point plan to end war
Iran came under mounting pressure on Wednesday to accept a new 14-point plan for ending the Middle East war. The proposal would not initially require concessions from either Tehran or Washington. It would bring an immediate halt to hostilities,...
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Iran’s nuclear program unscathed by war, US intelligence chiefs say
The time Tehran needs to build a nuclear weapon has not changed since last summer, when US-Israeli strikes extended it to a year, security sources told the Reuters news agency. The nuclear assessments remain unchanged after two months of a war that US...
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The battle of Hormuz
A battle for control over the Strait of Hormuz erupted on Monday, the first day of the US “Project Freedom” to escort commercial vessels through the waterway. Iran’s chokehold on the strait has proved a strategic advantage in the war, allowing Tehran...
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Trump expresses doubts as Iran offers 30-day deal to end war
Iran has delivered a new 14-point proposal to the US aimed at resolving longstanding disputes within 30 days and fully ending the ongoing war, rather than merely extending a ceasefire, according to Iranian state-linked media. President Donald Trump...
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Israel kills 7 in southern Lebanon and razes Catholic convent despite ceasefire
Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon killed at least seven people and wounded others on Saturday while the Israeli military demolished parts of a Catholic convent in a border village, officials said. Israel’s military on Saturday issued a new...
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Turkish police fire tear gas and arrest hundreds at May Day demo in Istanbul
Turkish police fired tear gas and arrested at least 370 people on Friday during May Day demonstrations in Istanbul. Protesters tried to march to the city’s Taksim Square, which police had sealed off. “You can’t close off a square to the workers of...
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Five women, two children killed in new Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon
Five women and two children were among nine people killed on Thursday in Israeli airstrikes on three villages in southern Lebanon. Israel has continued its attacks despite a ceasefire after US-brokered talks two weeks ago between the Lebanese and...
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‘No more Mr Nice Guy’
Donald Trump issued a new warning to Iran on Wednesday over stalled talks to end the Middle East war. “Iran can’t get their act together. They don’t know how to sign a nonnuclear deal. They better get smart soon!” the US president wrote on his Truth...
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Iran ‘in a state of collapse’
Iran has told the US it is in a “state of collapse,” President Donald Trump claimed yesterday amid receding prospects of talks to end the Middle East war. “They want us to open the Hormuz Strait as soon as possible, as they try to figure out their...
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Vision 2030 ‘transforming KSA’
Vision 2030 had already transformed Saudi Arabia and would continue to do so for the next four years and beyond, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said on Monday. The project was launched in April 2016 to reduce the Kingdom’s dependence on oil...
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Araghchi back in Pakistan for US-Iran ceasefire talks
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi arrived in Islamabad again on Sunday as Pakistan’s political and military leadership scrambled to reignite ceasefire negotiations between Tehran and Washington, but President Donald Trump said they could talk by...
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Trump cancels Kushner, Witkoff trips as Araghchi leaves Pakistan
The latest ceasefire talks between the US and Iran appeared to fail on Saturday before they began, as Tehran’s top diplomat left Pakistan and President Donald Trump soon afterward said he had told envoys not to travel to Islamabad. However, Trump...
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Iran-backed militias in Iraq attack Kuwait with drones
Two drones launched by Iranbacked militias in Iraq on Friday struck the northern border in Kuwait. The attacks caused “material damage but ... no human casualties,” the Kuwaiti military said. After the Middle East war began on Feb. 28, pro-Iran armed...
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