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Larijani appears at Tehran Quds Day rally, condemns U.S.-Israeli strikes

Tehran— Ali Larijani, Iran’s national security chief, attended a mass demonstration in Tehran on Friday marking Quds Day and dismissed

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Israel strikes Lebanon bridge, warns infrastructure at risk in Hezbollah campaign

Tel Aviv— Israel warned Lebanon on Friday that its infrastructure would face escalating damage until the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia is

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White House divisions intensify as Trump weighs strategy in Iran war

Washington— Internal divisions among advisers to Donald Trump are shaping the U.S. president’s shifting public messaging on the ongoing war

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Houthis hold back from Iran conflict despite regional escalation

Riyadh_ Yemen’s Houthi movement has so far refrained from formally entering the regional war triggered by U.S. and Israeli strikes

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US grants temporary waiver on Russian oil purchases as Iran war drives crude above $100

Dubai — The United States has issued a 30-day waiver allowing countries to purchase sanctioned Russian petroleum products currently at

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Iran opposition says bombing alone cannot topple clerical rule

Paris, A senior official from a Paris-based Iranian opposition group said on Thursday that the ongoing war involving the United

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Drone strike hits Italian military base in Iraqi Kurdistan, no casualties reported

Irbil, An Italian military base in Irbil in the Kurdistan region of Iraq was struck overnight by an airstrike that

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Conflict uproots up to 3.2 million people inside Iran, U.N. says

Geneva,up to 3.2 million people have been displaced inside Iran since the conflict began on Feb. 28, the United Nations

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U.S. war on Iran costs at least $11.3 billion in first six days, officials tell Congress

Washington, Officials in the administration of Donald Trump told U.S. senators during a closed-door briefing this week that the first

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Blazing tankers in Iraqi waters deepen oil shock as Iran defies Trump’s war claims

Tel Aviv /Washington, Iran set ablaze two fuel tankers in Iraqi waters on Thursday in what maritime security officials said

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