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Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump appears on a congratulatory digital billboard for the 2024 U.S Presidential Election in Jerusalem, November 6, 2024. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
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Here’s what’s at stake in the Middle East under Trump’s second term
TEHRAN, IRAN - OCTOBER 26: Daily life continues following Israel's announcement of strikes on military targets, in Tehran, Iran on October 26, 2024. (Photo by Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Israel’s strikes on Iran broke a 40-year taboo. Tehran faces tough choices about what to do next
RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA - OCTOBER 9: (----EDITORIAL USE ONLY MANDATORY CREDIT - 'BANDAR ALGALOUD / SAUDI ROYAL COURT / HANDOUT' - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS----) Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammad bin Salman al-Saud meets Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Riyadh in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on October 9, 2024. (Photo by Bandar Algaloud/Saudi Royal Court/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Washington’s Arab allies engage with Iran as US efforts to stem Middle East violence falter
Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system operates for interceptions as rockets are launched from Lebanon towards Israel, amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, as seen from northern Israel September 21, 2024. REUTERS/Jamal Awad TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
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Hezbollah is not Hamas. Can Israel afford another all-out war?
Displaced kids sort through trash at a street in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
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Infected wounds, maggots and no escape. Gaza’s humanitarian crisis hits new lows as sanitary conditions plummet
Residents stand near camels as they watch smoke billowing during the demolition by Israeli security forces of the unrecognized bedouin community of Wadi al Khalil comprised of 300 individuals in the southern Negev desert, near the town of Hura on May 8, 2024. Israeli authorities said the demolition of the community was to clear space for highway expansion. (Photo by Oren Ziv / AFP) (Photo by OREN ZIV/AFP via Getty Images)
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‘People are suffocating.’ Bedouins in Israel say Gaza war has worsened decades of marginalization
A protester holds up a photo of Tsachi Idan, 50, who is being held hostage by Hamas in Gaza, following the funeral of Hersh Goldberg Polin.
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Hamas’ brutal new tactics signal new phase in war and hostage crisis
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Northern Israeli students face uncertain school year as conflict with Hezbollah persists
A leaked photograph of an enclosure where detainees in gray tracksuits are seen blindfolded and sitting on paper-thin mattresses. CNN was able to geolocate the hangar in the Sde Teiman facility.
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‘They told me to strip.’ Former Palestinian detainee says he was sexually abused in an Israeli prison
The death toll in Gaza since Israel started its war against Hamas passed 40,000 this week, just as mediators arrived in Doha to discuss a ceasefire.
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High-stakes Gaza ceasefire talks have ended. Here’s what to know
People await their flights at the Beirut International Airport departure hall on August 5, 2024. Urgent calls grew for foreign nationals to leave Lebanon, which would be on the front line of a regional war, as Iran and its allies readied their response to high-profile killings blamed on Israel. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
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Middle East braces for week that could determine the course of the Gaza war
Palestinians cycle past destroyed buildings leveled in a previous Israeli military bombardment of Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday.
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Killing of Hamas leader leaves Gaza ceasefire hopes dangling by a thread
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Erdogan courts ‘terrorist’ Assad amid pressure to solve Turkey’s ‘Syrian problem’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a commemoration ceremony for soldiers killed during the 2014 Gaza war, also known as Operation Protective Edge, at the Memorial Hall on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on July 16, 2024.
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Netanyahu’s visit to the US could be crucial to a ceasefire deal. But does he want one?
TOPSHOT - Palestinian militants move towards the border fence with Israel from Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023. Barrages of rockets were fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip at dawn as militants from the blockaded Palestinian enclave infiltrated Israel, with at least one person killed, the army and medics said. (Photo by SAID KHATIB / AFP) (Photo by SAID KHATIB/AFP via Getty Images)
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Hamas-led groups committed ‘numerous war crimes’ on October 7, rights group says
An injured Palestinian child evacuated from the Gaza Strip, lies inside an Emirati aircraft transferring her from Egypt to get treatment in the UAE on July 5, 2024. (Photo by Giuseppe CACACE / AFP) (Photo by GIUSEPPE CACACE/AFP via Getty Images)
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A 4-year-old Gazan with a ‘one in a million’ illness has been offered a lifeline out of the territory
A convoy maneuvers inside the Gaza Strip, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, as seen from Israel, July 2, 2024.
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Gaza hostage-ceasefire deal faces new hurdles as Israel sets conditions. Here’s what to know
JERUSALEM - JUNE 30: Dozens of Ultra-Orthodox Jews, also known as Haredim gather to stage a protest against the compulsory military service in West Jerusalem on June 30, 2024. Clashes erupted in Jerusalem between Israeli police and ultra-Orthodox Jews (Haredim) during a protest attended by tens of thousands rejecting attempts to draft them into the army, according to Israeli media. Protesters attacked the car of Housing Minister Yaakov Litzman and pelted him with stones, accusing him of complicity in the conscription of Haredim. (Photo by Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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‘We will not enlist:’ Ultra-Orthodox in Israel vow to defy orders to serve in the military
Vehicles move past a billboard displaying the faces of the six candidates running in the upcoming Iranian presidential election in Valiasr Square in central Tehran on June 17, 2024. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP) (Photo by ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images)
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Iranians vote for a new president under the shadow of conflict and economic woes
<p>The leader of Lebanese militant group Hezbollah threatened Wednesday to target the European island of Cyprus if war breaks out between Israel and Lebanon. CNN's John Vause discusses the situation with Hagar Chemali, who served as an advisor on U.S. President Barack Obama's National Security Council.</p>
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Why Hezbollah is threatening this tiny European country
Children queue with pots to receive food aid from a kitchen at the Abu Zeitun school run by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in the Jabalia camp for Palestinian refugees in the northern Gaza Strip on June 13, 2024 amid the ongoing conflict in the Palestinian territory between Israel and Hamas. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP) (Photo by OMAR AL-QATTAA/AFP via Getty Images)
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Israel’s plan for ‘tactical pause’ for aid raises questions and deepens rifts. Here’s what we know
Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the southern Lebanese village of Khiam near the border with Israel on May 29, 2024. Since the outbreak of war between the Palestinian militant group Hamas and Israel on October 7, the Lebanese-Israeli border has witnessed near-daily exchanges of fire, mainly between the Israeli army and Hamas ally Hezbollah.
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Why Israel-Hezbollah tensions risk boiling over now
TOPSHOT - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wears a scarf with both Turkish and Palestinian flags as he addresses a rally organised by the AKP party in solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza, in Istanbul on October 28, 2023. Erdogan's Islamic-rooted party staged a massive pro-Palestinian rally in Istanbul on October 28, 2023 that the Turkish leader said had drawn a crowd of 1,5 million. He unleashed a scathing attack at Israel and its Western supporters after taking the stage with a microphone in his hand. "The main culprit behind the massacre unfolding in Gaza is the West," Erdogan told the Turkish and Palestinian flag-waving crowd. (Photo by YASIN AKGUL / AFP) (Photo by YASIN AKGUL/AFP via Getty Images)
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Erdogan turns up the heat on Israel as his party’s popularity wanes
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day for the six million Jews killed during World War II, at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem on May 5, 2024. (Photo by Menahem Kahana / AFP) (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images)
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Netanyahu may be forced to choose between his government’s survival and a ceasefire deal
Palestinians, who were displaced by Israel's military offensive on south Gaza, make their way as they attempt to return to their homes in north Gaza through an Israeli checkpoint, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, as seen from central Gaza Strip April 15, 2024. REUTERS/Ramadan Abed TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
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What seven more months of war would mean for Palestinians, Israelis and the world
Palestinians mourn over the bodies of relatives killed in an Israeli airstrike, at a morgue in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Monday, May 27, 2024. Palestinian health workers said Israeli airstrikes Sunday killed at least 35 people sheltering in a tent camp for displaced people. Israel's army confirmed the strike and said it hit a Hamas installation and killed two senior Hamas militants. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
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Israeli strike that killed 45 at camp for displaced Palestinians in Rafah a ‘tragic error,’ Netanyahu says
TEHRAN, IRAN - APRIL 29: Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi officially welcomed Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid at Saadabad Cultural & Historical Complex in Tehran, Iran. (Photo by Sakineh Salimi/Borna News/Aksonline ATPImages/Getty Images)
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Iran’s president has died in office. Here’s what happens next
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry holds a joint press conference with German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (not pictured), amid the conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, at the new headquarters of the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, at the New Administrative Capital (NAC) in the east of Cairo, Egypt, January 9, 2024. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
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Egypt warns Israel of ‘dire repercussions’ over Rafah operation in Gaza
Israeli army battle tanks move near the border with the Gaza Strip at a location in southern Israel on May 13, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict in the Palestinian territory between Israel and the Hamas movement. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP) (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)
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Israel’s return to areas of Gaza it said were clear of Hamas raises doubts about its military strategy
Secretary of State Antony Blinken walks with Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah to a Joint Ministerial Meeting of the GCC-U.S. Strategic Partnership to discuss the humanitarian crises faced in Gaza, on April 29, 204 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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‘None go forward without the others.’ US mega-deal would tie together the futures of Saudi Arabia, Israel and Gaza
Various Iranian ballistic missiles in the main hall of an Iranian Revolutionary Guards exhibit in Tehran, Iran on May 1, 2024.
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CNN gets a rare look at the Iranian missiles and drones that hit Israel
GAZA CITY, GAZA - JULY 20: Palestinian Hamas militants are seen during a military show in the Bani Suheila district on July 20, 2017 in Gaza City, Gaza. For the past ten years Gaza residents have lived with constant power shortages, in recent years these cuts have worsened, with supply of regular power limited to four hours a day. On June 11, 2017 Israel announced a new round of cuts at the request of the Palestinian authorities and the decision was seen as an attempt by President Mahmoud Abbas to pressure Gaza's Hamas leadership. Prior to the new cuts Gaza received 150 megawatts per day, far below it's requirements of 450 megawatts. In April, Gaza's sole power station which supplied 60 megawatts shut down, after running out of fuel, the three lines from Egypt, which provided 27 megawatts are rarely operational, leaving Gaza reliant on the 125 megawatts supplied by Israel's power plant. The new cuts now restrict electricity to three hours a day severely effecting hospital patients with chronic conditions and babies on life support. During blackout hours residents use private generators, solar panels and battery operated light sources to live. June 2017 also marked ten years since Israel began a land, sea and air blockade over Gaza. Under the blockade, movement of people and goods is restricted and exports and imports of raw materials have been banned. The restrictions have virtually cut off access for Gaza's two million residents to the outside world and unemployment rates have skyrocketed forcing many people into poverty and leaving approximately 80% of the population dependent on humanitarian aid. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)
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Hamas officials say group willing to disarm if Palestinian state is established
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UN demands investigation after mass graves found at Gaza hospitals raided by Israel
Iranian worshippers chant slogans as they hold a poster of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and an anti-Israeli placard during their anti-Israeli gathering after Friday prayer in Tehran, Iran, Friday, April 19, 2024. An apparent Israeli drone attack on Iran saw troops fire air defenses at a major air base and a nuclear site early Friday morning near the central city of Isfahan, an assault coming in retaliation for Tehran's unprecedented drone-and-missile assault on the country. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
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Iran and Israel have averted an all-out war – for now
Jordanian King Abdullah II speaks to the media in October 2023 in Berlin, Germany.
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Jordan walks a tightrope after downing Iranian drones and missiles
This handout photo shows the Israeli war cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, holding a meeting in Tel Aviv, Israel, on April 14. Portions of this photo have been blurred by the source.
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Restraint or retribution? Israel faces dilemma in its response to Iran’s attack
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto/Shutterstock (14424121h) A Palestinian is carrying boxes of aid distributed before the Eid al-Fitr holiday, which marks the end of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, on April 8, 2024. Eid al-Fitr in Gaza, Palestine - 08 Apr 2024
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Israel says aid to Gaza is ramping up — but the UN says it’s yet to see a major change on the ground
Emergency services work at a destroyed building hit by an air strike in Damascus, Syria, on April 1, 2024.
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Iran wants to punish Israel for the killing of its commanders. But its options are limited
ISTANBUL, TURKEY- APRIL 01: (TURKEY OUT) Supporters celebrate as Ekrem İmamoğlu speaks after his re-election as the chairman of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality at the CHP Istanbul Provincial Directorate on April 1, 2024 in Istanbul, Turkey. In a setback to Erdogan, the Republican People's Party (CHP) retained control of the country's urban areas and won 36 of 81 provinces, according to published reports. Results also show the opposition making inroads into Erdogan party strongholds in its electoral victory over the president since he came to power two decades ago. (Photo by Ozan Guzelce/ dia images via Getty Images)
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Turkey’s Erdogan dealt major election blow as opposition party wins big cities
DUBLIN, IRELAND - 2023/10/28: A protester chants slogans on a megaphone during the demonstration. Thousands of people gathered and marched through the streets of Dublin City in support of Palestinians. Protesters demanded an immediate cease-fire, the expulsion of Israel's ambassador in Dublin, a boycott of Israeli-supporting products and organizations, and action from the Irish government. (Photo by Natalia Campos/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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Why Ireland is the most pro-Palestinian nation in Europe
The United Nations Security Council meets on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, at the UN headquarters in New York on March 25, 2024. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)
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The US allowed a Gaza ceasefire resolution to pass at the UN. What does that mean for the war?
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Netanyahu says he’s trying everything to get more aid to Gaza. Aid groups say that’s not true
The Open Arms vessel (C) is pictured in the Cypriot port of Larnaca on March 11, 2024. A Cyprus government spokesman said a Spanish charity ship with food aid was set to sail from the island within hours to the coastal Gaza Strip, where the UN has repeatedly warned of famine. The non-governmental group Open Arms said its boat would tow a barge with 200 tonnes of food, which its partner the US charity World Central Kitchen would later unload on Gaza's shores. (Photo by Iakovos Hatzistavrou / AFP) (Photo by IAKOVOS HATZISTAVROU/AFP via Getty Images)
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Aid is being shipped to Gaza by sea. But a new maritime corridor is unlikely to stop the looming famine
RAFAH, GAZA - FEBRUARY 29: Palestinian children taking refuge in Tel al-Sultan region due to Israeli attacks decorate their tents with Ramadan lanterns and illuminate lights ahead of the holy Islamic fasting month of Ramadan in Rafah, Gaza on February 29, 2024. (Photo by Belal Khaled/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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This Ramadan, starving Gazans will break their fast with scraps found in the garbage
From left, U.S. President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Rift between Biden and Netanyahu widens as Israeli leader vows to press on with Rafah operation
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men walk in the central Israeli city of Bnei Brak on February 27, 2024. As Israelis are called up to join the war effort in Gaza, anger is mounting at the ultra-Orthodox community which has long been spared the compulsory military service required of most citizens. (Photo by Menahem Kahana / AFP)
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Why ultra-Orthodox conscription could threaten Israel’s coalition
Palestinian children wait to receive food distributed by a charity kitchen, in the southern city of Rafah, on March 5. Israel's military campaign in Gaza has consigned civilians to deadly starvation.
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Newborns die of hunger and mothers struggle to feed their children as Israel’s siege condemns Gazans to starvation
ISTANBUL, TURKIYE - FEBRUARY 29: Motaz Azaiza, Palestinian photojournalist who worked and first handedly saw the Israeli attacks in the Gaza for 107 days, examines the Evidence book released by Anadolu which contains the weapons and tactics used by Israel on Gaza, in Istanbul, Turkiye on February 29, 2024. (Photo by Mustafa Hassouna/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Why Motaz Azaiza, the Palestinian photographer who captured the war, chose to leave Gaza
Mandatory Credit: Photo by ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock (14367086a) An Iranian woman with her child walk next to the general election billboard for the upcoming parliamentary elections, in a street in Tehran, Iran, 27 February 2024. Iranians on 01 March 2024 will vote for new members of Iran's parliament, and for the Assembly of Experts, the body in charge of appointing Iran's Supreme Leader. Campaigning for Iran's legislative election, Tehran, Iran Islamic Republic Of - 27 Feb 2024
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Polls close in Iran elections as calls for resistance vote fall on deaf ears
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Jerusalem, February 18, 2024. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
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Netanyahu unveils plan for Gaza’s future post-Hamas