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Netanyahu tells Iran's leaders Israel will hit back if attacked
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Tuesday to strike powerfully against Iran if Tehran carried out a new attack on Israel.
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US-Iran strikes: Latest developments
The United States launched a third night of strikes on Iran as U.S. President Donald Trump reimposed a blockade on Iranian ports and propos...
Bahraini authorities said on Tuesday three people were sentenced to life in prison for spying for Iran's Revolutionary Guards, the latest in a crackdown on Iran-linked cells.
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Gaza's civil defense agency and a hospital said an Israeli airstrike on a police station in northern Gaza killed eight people on Tuesday, including a woman officer.
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Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis said they targeted Saudi Arabia's Abha airport on Monday in retaliation for strikes on Sanaa airport that they blame on the kingdom -- though the Riyadh-backed government claimed those attacks.
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Bahrain on Tuesday said it intercepted several Iranian attacks on its territory, as fighting between Washington and Tehran escalated over the vital Strait of Hormuz.
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday vowed to charge all cargo shipped through Hormuz to pay for keeping the strait open, and to reinstate a blockade on Iranian ships.
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U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday the United States was "taking over" the Strait of Hormuz as fighting over the strategic waterway threatened to derail efforts to permanently end the war in the Middle East.
"We're taking over the Strait. They have nothing. They've got nothing," Trump said in an interview with "Fox and Friends," where he also complained about the tactics of Iranian negotiators seeking changes on what was agreed during hours of talks "yesterday."
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Bahrain's military on Monday accused Iran of targeting civilians with its latest attacks on the kingdom, after Tehran said it had struck U.S. military facilities and infrastructure there.
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Israeli forces on Monday shot dead a Palestinian worker as he attempted to climb over a barrier separating Jerusalem from the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said.
The Ramallah-based ministry reported that 30-year-old Naser Kaabneh "was killed by Israeli gunfire this morning near the apartheid wall in the town of Bir Nabala, northeast of Jerusalem".
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Iran on Monday fired "warning shots" at two ships attempting to cross the Strait of Hormuz, state television reported, as Tehran and Washington battle for control of the strategic waterway.
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Yemen's internationally recognized government said it struck Sanaa's airport on Monday following a dispute over an Iranian plane carrying a Houthi delegation, in an attack the rebel group had initially attributed to Saudi Arabia.
"The terrorist Houthi militias -- backed by the Iranian regime -- prevented Yemeni national aircraft from landing at the airport in the capital, Sana'a, while insisting on allowing an Iranian plane to violate Yemeni territory; consequently, the airport runway was targeted," the Yemeni defense ministry said.
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