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Vehicles drive past a billboard depicting Lebanon's President Joseph Aoun and reading "the choice is for Lebanon" on April 24, 2026 in the capital Beirut.

US says Aoun-Netanyahu meeting could help restore Lebanese control in southern Lebanon

Smoke rises from the scene as the IDF detonate remaining explosives from yesterday’s drone attack that wounded 12 people, in Granot HaGalil near the Lebanese border in northern Israel, May 1, 2026.

IDF kills Hezbollah terrorists in southern Lebanon, targets terror infrastructure

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A billboard with Iranian centrifuges illustrations and portraits of nuclear scientists killed in Israeli strikes is displayed on a street in Tehran, Iran August 29, 2025

Israeli Air Force says it dropped 135,000 bombs in recent wars, warns of Syrian military rebuild

Illustrative Israeli F16s.

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British Green Party candidate posted about killing Zionists from Anne Frank parody account

US says Aoun-Netanyahu meeting could help restore Lebanese control in southern Lebanon

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Vehicles drive past a billboard depicting Lebanon's President Joseph Aoun and reading "the choice is for Lebanon" on April 24, 2026 in the capital Beirut.
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A fragment of an Iranian ballistic missile intercepted by Israeli air defense systems is seen lodged in the ground in the Golan Heights, March 19, 2026

Iran using ceasefire as opportunity to dig out buried missiles, launchers

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Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on the day he addresses a special session of the Conference on Disarmament at the United Nations, aside of US-Iran talks in Geneva, Switzerland, February 17, 2026.

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Growing Hezbollah drone threat shows Israel's innovation race is in its infancy

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Most Gaza flotilla activists disembark in Greece, Israel brings two in for questioning

US ships 6,500 tons of munitions, equipment to Israel in 24 hours

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Trump says Iran war 'terminated,' as war powers deadline arrives

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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa shake hands during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on January 28, 2026.
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Spain reportedly summons Israeli chargé d'affaires as protests erupt over Gaza flotilla seizure

Protest against Israel's seizure of the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla in Barcelona, Spain, May 1, 2026.

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