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US President Donald Trump halted planned strikes on Iran hours before a deadline, agreeing to a two-week ceasefire in a 40-day conflict, as Tehran claimed victory.
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Iran rejects US ceasefire, demands a permanent end to war, sanctions relief, and guarantees, warning any temporary truce would only escalate future conflict.
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US President Donald Trump warned on Tuesday that a “whole civilization will die tonight” if Iran does not meet his latest deadline for the Islamic Republic to agree to a deal.
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With the West Asia crisis deepening and Donald Trump issuing a stark deadline to Iran, India has issued an urgent advisory asking its citizens to stay indoors amid fears of further escalation.
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US President Donald Trump threatens strikes on Iran infrastructure over Strait of Hormuz closure, drawing condemnation from Amnesty International and raising war fears.
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Iran claims it shot down an F-35 fighter jet and captured the pilot, also alleging a failed rescue attempt. The reports, carried by state media, remain unverified by independent sources.
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Amid the second month of the U.S.–Iran war and rising tensions, President Masoud Pezeshkian issued a strong letter to Americans, defending Iran and questioning the U.S.–Israeli campaign.
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US President Donald Trump expressed growing frustration with America’s allies on Tuesday, accusing them of failing to support Washington’s military campaign against Iran, as the conflict drives global oil prices higher
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Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei appointed Iran’s Supreme Leader after his father’s assassination, marking a major power shift as war escalates and tensions rise across the Middle East.
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Iran confirms Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was assassinated in an Israeli strike in Tehran, a major escalation with global implications and rising tensions involving the US.
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As unrest persists and rhetoric hardens, Iran’s internal crisis is increasingly entangled with a broader geopolitical struggle—one in which economic grievances on the streets risk becoming the spark for a far more danger
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Iran’s moderate government, led by President Masoud Pezeshkian, has called for dialogue with protest leaders after the country’s largest demonstrations in three years over a plunging currency and declining living conditi
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Muslim pilgrims gathered at Saudi Arabia's Mount Arafat on Monday in the high point of this year's hajj, being held in downsized form and under coronavirus restrictions for the second year running.
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Israeli police clashed with Muslim protestors on Sunday at a flashpoint Jerusalem Old City shrine as Jews were headed there to mark a religious holiday, police said.
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“This ignorance led America to be humiliated in Afghanistan. After that raucous invasion 20 years ago and after having used weapons and bombs against defenseless people and civilians, it became stuck in a quagmire"
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Shops in Saudi Arabia may now stay open during prayer times, a leading government-linked newspaper said on Friday, relaxing the kingdom's strict rules on closing shops and businesses for prayer five times a day.
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For Palestinians who lost loved ones during violence in Gaza two months ago, there is little cause for celebration during the upcoming holiday of Eidul Azha.
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Pilgrims began arriving in the holy city of Mecca on Saturday for the second downsized hajj staged during the coronavirus pandemic, circling Islam's holiest site in masks.
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Saudi Arabia has arrested more than 120 people suspected of supplying or procuring fraudulent coronavirus vaccine and test certificates, official media said Thursday.
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Iran said on Wednesday it could enrich uranium up to 90% purity -- weapons grade -- if its nuclear reactors needed it, but added it still sought the revival of a 2015 deal.
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A group of the military forces that the US has taken out of Afghanistan have been sent over to Yemen, where they have occupied a strategic southwestern airbase.
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The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has inaugurated its embassy in Israel, less than a year after the two countries announced they would establish formal diplomatic relations.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has spoken with his new Israeli counterpart Isaac Herzog, in a sign of a possible thaw between the two former allies after years of frosty relations.
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Death sentences in the small Gulf archipelago have risen by more than 600 percent, with at least 51 people ordered executed since anti-government protests erupted in 2011.
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