The war in Iran enters its 6th week as the search continues for the missing U.S. service member who bailed out of a fighter jet shot down over Iran on Friday.
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Iran continues strikes across the Persian Gulf despite Trump’s warning
Iran continued to target Gulf countries with ballistic missiles and drones Thursday as the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad issued a security alert warning of attacks by Iran-backed militias.
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Food assistance slashed for hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees trapped in Bangladesh camps
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees struggling to survive in Bangladesh’s overcrowded camps will see their food assistance slashed starting on Wednesday, raising alarm throughout the increasingly desperate community.
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Runners misled at a qualifier race will still get invites to the world championship
The U.S. will nearly double its contingent for the women’s half marathon championship to fix what officials call an unprecedented problem: an official vehicle took the leading runners off the course.
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Trump weighing all options on Iran’s Kharg island
The president said the U.S. could “take the oil in Iran” and that he was considering sending U.S. forces to seize Kharg Island’s oil terminal.
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U.S. troops injured in attack on Saudi base as the war reaches one month
As the war in Iran reaches the one-month mark, a Iranian strike on an air base in Saudi Arabia wounded several U.S. service members. On Saturday the Israeli military intercepted a missile launched from Yemen.
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How long will the war last? No one knows, and it’s making oil prices weird
It’s like the “Schrödinger’s cat” thought experiment. There are two very different potential realities, and traders don’t yet know which one is true.
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Rubio heads to Europe to try garner support for Iran war
Representatives of the world’s wealthiest democracies gather in France today for a G7 meeting, where U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is expected to try to shore up support among reticent allies for the Trump administration’s war on Iran.
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Israel and Iran ramp up attacks as Trump insists Tehran wants a deal
The war in the Middle East ramped up on Thursday as Israel launched a wave of strikes targeting Iranian infrastructure, and Iran fired rounds of missiles at central Israel.
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Pentagon orders troops from 82nd Airborne Division to deploy to Middle East
Nearly a month into the war with Iran, the Trump administration is keeping its options open: it says it is pursuing diplomatic solutions with Iran, while ordering thousands of paratroopers to deploy in the Middle East.
