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IAEA technical visit at Natanz underway as Iran files first post-ceasefire declaration

IAEA technical inspectors began their site visit at the Natanz nuclear facility Tuesday morning, with Iran filing its first formal post-ceasefire declaration under the framework being negotiated in Geneva.

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IAEA Director Grossi arrives in Tehran for first post-ceasefire technical site visit cycle

IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi arrived in Tehran Monday afternoon for the first technical site visit cycle since the post-war inspection regime entered its drafting phase.

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Egypt restores pre-war industrial power cadence as grid stabilizes after eight-week curtailment

Egypt's electricity ministry restored pre-war industrial-sector power delivery to its full pre-war cadence Sunday, closing an eight-week period of wartime curtailment that had imposed substantial costs.

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Likud begins primary process as coalition collapse triggers Israeli leadership reset

Likud's central committee opened the party's primary process Sunday morning following last week's coalition collapse, beginning the formal contest to determine the party's leadership for the early elections called by the prime minister.

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Riyadh-Tehran Hajj channel processes first application batch under new bilateral pact

The bilateral Hajj processing channel opened May eleventh between Saudi Arabia and Iran completed its first application batch Friday, advancing approximately eight thousand Iranian pilgrim applications toward final visa adjudication.

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IAEA Director Grossi opens technical protocol talks for post-war Iran inspection regime

The IAEA director-general opened the first round of technical protocol talks in Geneva on Friday, beginning the formal drafting of the inspection regime that will sit beneath the April fifteenth ceasefire framework.

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Geneva special session adopts Belgian rights resolution as Russia-China walkout fails to block text

The United Nations Human Rights Council special session in Geneva adopted the Belgian-drafted post-war rights resolution Thursday afternoon by a 28-9-10 vote, after a coordinated procedural walkout by Russia, China and four other delegations failed to block the text from coming to a vote.

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Riyadh-Tehran naval hotline completes first live drill as Hajj applications open on new channel

Saudi Arabia and Iran completed the first live drill of the deconfliction hotline established between their naval commands on Wednesday, the operational test the two governments had pledged when the framework text was finalized in Muscat over the weekend.

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UN Security Council convenes on Iran inspection regime as Grossi delivers pre-visit assessment

The UN Security Council convened a special briefing Tuesday on the Iran inspection regime as IAEA chief Rafael Grossi presented a pre-visit assessment ahead of the first on-site verification at Natanz, scheduled for May 19.

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IAEA Tells Board of Governors Iran's Nuclear Program Set Back Years, but Gaps Remain

The UN nuclear watchdog told its Board of Governors that Israeli strikes and emergency inspections have set Iran's enrichment program back by years, while warning that a meaningful quantity of near-weapons-grade uranium remains unaccounted for.

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Riyadh-Tehran talks close with naval hotline text as Hajj channel opens and Muscat looms

Saudi and Iranian diplomats wrapped two days of bilateral talks in Riyadh on Sunday evening with agreed text for a naval communications hotline, a Hajj humanitarian channel and a deferral of border protocols to a late-May session in Muscat.

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Security Council Adopts Post-War Iran Resolution as Russia and China Abstain

The UN Security Council on Monday adopted a resolution codifying the Islamabad ceasefire framework and authorizing the Hormuz observer mission for an initial twelve months, with Russia and China abstaining rather than vetoing.

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Belgian-drafted UN rights resolution tests post-war consensus as Geneva opens special session

A Belgian-drafted resolution opening a UN Human Rights Council special session in Geneva on Sunday would create an independent investigative mechanism into civilian harm during the seven-week Iran conflict, drawing sharp early opposition from Tehran and quiet U.S. reservations.

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Tehran cabinet shake-up: reformist bloc gains ground as Pezeshkian cedes economic portfolios

President Masoud Pezeshkian on Saturday accepted the resignations of three senior ministers and signaled a broader reshuffle, the clearest sign yet that Iran's wartime cabinet is being recast for a long recovery.

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Iranian envoy arrives in Riyadh as Gulf and Tehran open bilateral track on maritime and border measures

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht-Ravanchi landed in Riyadh on Saturday for two days of talks on maritime and border confidence-building measures, the first publicly announced bilateral visit by an Iranian official to the kingdom since the April 15 ceasefire.

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Netanyahu Calls Early Elections as Coalition Rescue Bid Collapses Over Ceasefire Vote

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced early Israeli elections in a Saturday night address from Jerusalem after a two-week effort to draw the National Unity bloc into a wartime cabinet collapsed over the Islamabad framework and a looming Knesset confidence vote.

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Riyadh and Tehran open bilateral maritime channel as Marseille shifts into implementation

Saudi Arabia and Iran agreed Friday to open a direct bilateral channel on maritime security in the Persian Gulf, the first standing Riyadh-Tehran working group since the April ceasefire and a discreet sequel to the Marseille pledging conference.

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Khamenei endorses Marseille on conditions and warns against American overreach in first post-ceasefire address

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivered his first major public address since the April 15 ceasefire on Friday, conditionally blessing the Marseille reconstruction framework while warning that Tehran would treat any U.S. attempt to use disbursements for political leverage as a violation of the truce.

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Spring shamal buries Iran-Iraq return corridor in dust, pushing respiratory cases to record highs

A 36-hour shamal that swept the Iran-Iraq frontier this week reduced visibility to below 200 meters across returnee transit camps and drove respiratory admissions to the highest levels recorded since the April 15 ceasefire, aid agencies said Thursday.

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Tehran conditionally accepts Marseille framework as Gulf-Iran sidelines yield quiet bilaterals

Iran's Supreme National Security Council voted Thursday to accept the Marseille reconstruction framework in principle, while Saudi and Iranian deputy foreign ministers held an unannounced meeting on the conference sidelines, marking the first publicly acknowledged direct contact between Riyadh and Tehran since the ceasefire.

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Marseille Conference Closes With 4.7-Billion-Euro Package and Permanent Secretariat for Iran-Iraq Reconstruction

The Marseille reconstruction conference closed Thursday with a 4.7-billion-euro headline package, a permanent secretariat housed in Aix-en-Provence, and a four-track work program that for the first time placed Iranian and Israeli envoys inside the same signed document.

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Cholera cases cross 6,000 along Iran-Iraq border as mass vaccination drive reaches halfway mark

Laboratory-confirmed and probable cholera cases along the Iran-Iraq returnee corridor passed 6,000 on Wednesday with at least 71 deaths, the World Health Organization said, as a cross-border vaccination campaign reached the halfway mark of its 1.6 million-dose target.

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Marseille conference yields pledges on Gulf shipping, Iran reconstruction aid

Foreign ministers from 27 countries closed a two-day Marseille summit Wednesday with commitments on Persian Gulf maritime patrols and a preliminary framework for routing reconstruction funds to war-damaged areas of Iran, Iraq and Yemen.

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Marseille Conference Opens With $84 Billion Pledge Target for Postwar Middle East

Delegates from more than 60 nations gathered at Marseille's Palais du Pharo on Wednesday to launch a two-day donor conference aimed at raising $84 billion for Iran, Iraq and Yemen reconstruction, with European hosts pressing Gulf states for the bulk of the commitments.

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Schools Reopen Across Southern Iraq and Khuzestan as Returnee Classrooms Strain Under Trauma and Shortages

Provincial education ministries in southern Iraq and Iran's Khuzestan province reopened more than 1,800 schools to returning displaced families on Monday, with aid agencies warning that overcrowded rooms, missing teachers and untreated trauma threaten to swamp the rollout.

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Marseille delegations land as pledging targets and Iran-Israel room plan firm up on eve of conference

Foreign ministers and reconstruction envoys converged on Marseille on Tuesday as French organizers settled a working-group plan that keeps the Iranian and Israeli delegations apart while locking in pledging benchmarks for Wednesday's opening session.

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Knesset narrowly endorses Islamabad framework as Gantz bloc bails out Netanyahu

Israel's Knesset endorsed the Islamabad ceasefire framework and its 90-day inspection extension by a vote of 64-56 on Tuesday, with Benny Gantz's National Unity bloc supplying the margin that kept Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government intact on the eve of the Marseille donor conference.

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Doha chairs' statement locks in monitoring calendar as Iran accepts IAEA camera restoration

Mediators in Doha closed the first round of framework talks with a chairs' statement Monday that committed Iran to reinstall IAEA cameras at two declared sites within 30 days and set a verification calendar running through August.

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IAEA technical team opens Vienna session to operationalize Iran inspection regime

A joint technical committee convened at IAEA headquarters in Vienna on Monday to write the operating procedures behind the Iran-Israel inspection regime, with the first on-site visit to Natanz tentatively penciled in for May 19.

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IAEA Inspectors Arrive in Tehran as Monitoring Cameras Go Live at Natanz

An advance team of International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors arrived in Tehran on Sunday and certified the reactivation of surveillance cameras at the Natanz enrichment plant, the first concrete step under the Iran-IAEA accord finalized in Geneva last week.

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Senate report pegs Iran war cost at $218 billion, faulting Pentagon oversight

A bipartisan Senate Armed Services report released Saturday put the total direct U.S. cost of the six-week Iran war at $218 billion, citing rushed procurement and gaps in oversight as drivers of overruns.

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Gulf states press Tehran on monitoring regime as Doha framework talks resume

Saudi and Emirati negotiators pushed Iran on Saturday to accept a tougher inspections regime as the second round of Doha framework talks opened, with mediators hoping to convert the April ceasefire into a durable security architecture.

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Second Doha prisoner exchange frees 28 dual nationals as mediators bank momentum for Marseille

Iran released 28 dual nationals at a Doha handover on Saturday in the largest prisoner exchange since the April ceasefire, a move mediators called a confidence builder four days before the Marseille reconstruction conference.

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Baghdad Demands Seat at Marseille and Vienna as Iraq Asserts Sovereignty Over Its Own Reconstruction

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani demanded Friday that Baghdad be seated as a full party at next week's Marseille reconstruction conference, warning that no aid package covering Iraqi territory would be accepted unless it ran through Iraqi ministries.

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Doha mediators announce 90-day ceasefire extension as inspection deal clears final hurdle

Qatari and Pakistani mediators announced a 90-day extension of the Iran-Israel ceasefire on Friday after negotiators broke a two-week deadlock over inspection protocols at three nuclear sites, locking in the longest projected pause in fighting since the war began.

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EU, Gulf States Launch Tehran Reconstruction Contact Group as Ceasefire Holds

European and Gulf foreign ministers met in Muscat on Wednesday to formalize a contact group on Iran's postwar reconstruction, the first multilateral structure since the April 15 ceasefire took effect.

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Senate passes war powers resolution 58-42 as five Republicans cross the aisle

The Senate voted 58-42 late Tuesday to adopt the Kaine-Murphy war powers resolution rebuking the executive conduct of the six-week Iran war, with five Republicans joining nearly every Democrat in the chamber's first formal verdict on the conflict.

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Gulf States Press Tehran on Monitoring as Vienna Talks Open

Saudi and Emirati envoys joined a new round of post-ceasefire talks in Vienna on Tuesday, pressing Iran to accept expanded IAEA monitoring as a condition for sanctions relief and reconstruction financing.

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IAEA preliminary report finds Natanz and Fordow cascades largely destroyed, complicating Vienna talks

An IAEA preliminary assessment circulated to member states Wednesday found that Israeli strikes destroyed an estimated 70 to 85 percent of the enrichment cascades at Natanz and Fordow, a finding that has reordered the calculus of the Vienna talks on day 14 of the ceasefire.

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Senate clears war powers resolution as six Republicans break with Trump

Senators voted 54-46 Tuesday evening to advance the Kaine-Murphy war powers resolution on Iran, a wider-than-expected bipartisan margin that delivers President Trump the first significant rebuke of his second-term foreign policy and complicates the parallel fight over the $89 billion war supplemental.

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Muscat shuttle diplomacy intensifies as Oman hosts pre-talks between US and Iranian envoys

Senior US and Iranian envoys arrived in Muscat on Tuesday for two days of indirect preparatory talks, the highest-level American engagement with Tehran since the April 15 ceasefire took effect.

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Geneva Talks Yield Tentative Sanctions Roadmap as Iran-IAEA Deal Clears Final Hurdle

Negotiators in Geneva on Monday produced a draft framework for phased sanctions relief tied to Iranian compliance with inspections, while Tehran and the IAEA finalized terms for the agency's return to nuclear sites untouched by Israeli strikes.

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Returning Iraqi families find homes erased as cross-border resettlement strains aid system

Twelve days after the ceasefire took hold, returning Iraqi and Iranian families are confronting flattened neighborhoods and overwhelmed aid corridors, as UN agencies warn that the post-war humanitarian bill is rising faster than donor pledges.

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Muscat track resumes with sanctions sequencing and second prisoner exchange topping the agenda

Deputy foreign ministers from eight states reconvened in Muscat on Monday for the first formal round of post-resolution talks, with sanctions sequencing and a second prisoner exchange leading an agenda that diplomats called the hardest yet.

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Netanyahu coalition fractures as two far-right ministers walk out over Islamabad framework

Two far-right ministers quit Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet on Monday in protest of the Islamabad ceasefire, leaving the Israeli government with a one-seat Knesset majority and clouding the post-war diplomatic track 12 days into the truce.

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Cholera outbreak spreads through returnee camps along Iran-Iraq border as water systems buckle

Confirmed cholera cases jumped past 1,400 across returnee transit sites in Iran's Ilam province and Iraq's Diyala and Maysan governorates this weekend, the World Health Organization said, as damaged water-treatment plants and overcrowded camps fueled the first large outbreak of the post-ceasefire phase.

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Sunday Shows Turn on War Powers Vote as Trump Team Counters With Economic Message

With a Senate war powers vote set for the coming week and the AI moratorium freshly dead in committee, the Sunday political shows became the first big stress test of how Washington intends to litigate the Iran war after the shooting stopped.

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UN Security Council Adopts Islamabad Framework Resolution as Russia and China Abstain

The Security Council on Sunday endorsed the Islamabad ceasefire framework by a 13-0 vote with two abstentions, giving the post-war monitoring effort a legal anchor while exposing the limits of consensus among the great powers.

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Tehran Protests Swell as Economic Pain Tests Post-War Leadership

Tens of thousands marched in Tehran and four other Iranian cities on Sunday as anger over rationing, blackouts and stalled wages spilled into the largest street demonstrations since the ceasefire took hold 11 days ago.

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Security Council adopts resolution endorsing Iran ceasefire architecture as Russia abstains

The UN Security Council voted 13-0-2 Saturday to endorse the Islamabad-Muscat ceasefire architecture, with Russia and Algeria abstaining and China voting yes after late changes to the verification language.

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Iran ceasefire holds at 10 days as reconstruction bill mounts and pressure grows for permanent accord

Ten days into the Iran-Israel ceasefire, United Nations monitors reported the truce was largely holding even as preliminary damage estimates topped $180 billion across four countries and negotiators in Doha pushed for a more durable framework.

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Unexploded ordnance deaths mount along Iran-Iraq return corridors as clearance teams race to keep pace

At least 47 civilians have been killed and more than 130 wounded by unexploded ordnance since the Iran-Israel ceasefire took effect April 15, the U.N. Mine Action Service said Friday, as the pace of refugee returns continued to outrun clearance crews along the Iran-Iraq border belt.

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IAEA inspectors return to Natanz as Vienna resumes Iran verification track

International atomic inspectors set foot inside Iran's bombed Natanz complex Friday for the first time since the war began, as Vienna talks restarted a verification track that diplomats called the most fragile pillar of the nine-day-old ceasefire.

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Donor Conference in Geneva Pledges $34 Billion Toward Iran-Iraq Reconstruction

A two-day donor conference in Geneva closed Friday with $34 billion in initial pledges for postwar rebuilding across Iran, Iraq and Yemen, even as participants clashed over how reconstruction funds would flow to sanctioned Iranian entities.

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Araghchi tours European capitals pressing for sanctions relief as EU weighs conditional easing

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi opened a four-capital European tour in Brussels on Thursday, pressing the bloc to begin lifting wartime sanctions as EU foreign ministers prepared a draft framework for conditional, phased easing.

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Ankara Stakes Claim on Iran-Iraq Reconstruction as Erdogan Pitches Turkey as Indispensable Corridor

President Erdogan opened a two-day regional reconstruction forum in Ankara on Wednesday, pressing the case for Turkish construction firms, road corridors and ports to anchor the rebuild of Iran and Iraq before the Marseille donor conference convenes next month.

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Mine Clearance Teams Fan Out Across Iran-Iraq Border as Civilian Casualties Mount in the Aftermath

Seven days after the Iran-Israel ceasefire took effect, demining teams are working across border districts in Iran and Iraq as a rising tally of post-conflict casualties from unexploded munitions threatens to slow the return of displaced families.

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IAEA Chief Arrives in Tehran as Inspectors Prepare to Enter Struck Nuclear Sites

International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Rafael Grossi arrived in Tehran on Wednesday at the head of a fourteen-member inspection team, the agency's first visit to Iran since the ceasefire and its first to nuclear sites struck during six weeks of war.

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Hodeidah Port Reopens to Aid as Yemen Recovery Eclipses Iran-Iraq Returns in Scale

The first relief vessel cleared Hodeidah's outer roadstead Tuesday morning as the U.N. confirmed Yemen's coastal displacement now rivals the entire Iran-Iraq corridor in scale, six weeks after strikes hollowed out a logistics network that took years to build.

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Gulf states press for permanent security framework as ceasefire monitors expand Hormuz patrols

Saudi Arabia and the UAE urged Washington and Tehran on Monday to convert the six-day-old ceasefire into a permanent regional security pact, as UN monitors expanded their patrols across the Strait of Hormuz.

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Tehran Majlis Convenes Emergency Session as Rial Slides and Pressure Builds on Supreme Leader

Iran's parliament opened an emergency session in Tehran on Tuesday to confront a collapsing currency, soaring food prices and the first audible calls from inside the system for an accounting of the war, just six days into the ceasefire with Israel.

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Unexploded Ordnance Stalls Refugee Returns as Mine-Action Teams Fan Out From Basra to South Lebanon

Five days into the Iran ceasefire, demining teams from four countries began the painstaking work of clearing missile debris, cluster submunitions and damaged ordnance from neighborhoods, fields and roadsides across southern Iraq, southern Lebanon and western Iran.

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Gulf states convene Doha meeting to shape post-war security architecture

Foreign ministers from six Gulf states gathered in Doha on Monday to draft a post-war security framework, with mediators from Pakistan, Egypt and Turkey joining to extend the fragile Iran-Israel ceasefire into a durable arrangement.

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Netanyahu Coalition Fractures as Knesset Opens Probe Into Conduct of Iran War

Two religious-Zionist parties withdrew from Israel's governing coalition Monday, narrowing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's working majority to a single seat as the Knesset voted to open a formal commission of inquiry into the six-week war with Iran.

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Stocks extend rally as Brent touches $93; traders pivot to busiest earnings week of the quarter

Global equities pushed higher and Brent crude touched a fresh post-war low Monday as investors absorbed a peaceful weekend in the Gulf and pivoted attention toward more than 175 S&P 500 earnings reports due over the next ten sessions.

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Cable News Experts Already Pretty Sure They Predicted Everything About This War

Days after the Iran-Israel ceasefire took hold, the nation's foremost retired generals, senior fellows, and former undersecretaries have concluded that they personally called every twist of the six-week conflict.

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Sunday Shows Pivot From War to Bills as Doha Exchange Resets Political Fight

The first Sunday talk shows after the Doha prisoner exchange found Washington arguing less over whether the Iran war is over and more over what its bills, its commission and its war powers fight should look like.

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Mediators Reconvene in Islamabad to Sketch Phase Two of Iran Ceasefire

Foreign ministers from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Oman and Qatar opened a second working session in Islamabad on Sunday, tasked with translating the four-day-old Iran-Israel ceasefire into a durable phase-two framework covering sanctions sequencing, naval coordination and monitoring.

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After Doha Handover, Focus Shifts to a Fragile Reconstruction

A day after the Doha prisoner handover, governments turned to the harder work of rebuilding battered cities and ports, with donor pledges, monitoring rules and refugee returns at the top of the agenda.

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Brent eyes sub-$95 open as Doha exchange clears final overhang from war

Crude futures and global equity contracts pointed to a calm Asian session open Sunday evening after Saturday's prisoner exchange in Doha removed what traders had treated as the last meaningful headline risk in the Iran-Israel ceasefire.

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First Refugee Returns Begin as Ceasefire Holds, but Aid Groups Warn of Uncertain Conditions

Three days after the ceasefire took effect, the first organized convoys of displaced families began moving back toward Iranian border provinces and southern Iraq, even as aid agencies cautioned that returns were running ahead of conditions on the ground.

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White House welcomes returning Americans from Doha as Congress presses for accounting

President Donald Trump met returning American detainees on the South Lawn Saturday after a Doha-brokered exchange released roughly forty foreign nationals and the remains of eleven U.S. service members, even as Senate Democrats demanded a written briefing on the deal's terms.

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Doha Swap Frees 40 Foreigners, Returns U.S. Remains as Qatar Brokers First Post-Ceasefire Exchange

Qatar-mediated handover in Doha returned roughly 40 detained foreigners and the remains of U.S. service members to Western custody while Iranian and Hezbollah-linked detainees were released, the first major confidence-building step since the April 15 ceasefire.

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In Doha Tarmac Exchange, Iran Releases 40 Foreigners and Remains of U.S. Service Members

A choreographed swap at Hamad International Airport delivered roughly 40 detained foreigners and the remains of fallen U.S. troops out of Iran, while Tehran took home dozens of its nationals and Hezbollah-linked detainees held by the United States and Israel.

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Brent Tests $95 as Doha Exchange Keeps the Ceasefire Trade Intact

Brent crude slid toward $95 a barrel and European bourses opened firmer Saturday as traders priced in a smooth start to the Doha prisoner exchange, the most concrete test yet of the four-day-old Iran ceasefire.

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First Returns Begin Along Iran-Iraq Corridors as Aid Agencies Warn Against Rushed Repatriation

The first organized convoys of displaced families began rolling east from Iraqi Kurdistan toward home on Friday as the Iran-Israel ceasefire entered its third day, but UN agencies cautioned that the trickle of returns risked outpacing the unexploded-ordnance surveys and medical assessments needed to make villages habitable again.

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House Democrats File Resolution to Create Independent Commission on Iran War

Sixty-one House Democrats and four Republicans introduced a resolution Friday establishing a 9/11-style commission to review intelligence, strike decisions and casualty management during the six-week Iran war, intensifying a post-ceasefire fight over accountability.

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Doha Prisoner-Exchange Talks Conclude as Mediators Finalize Saturday Handover

Negotiators in Doha closed final talks Friday on the prisoner exchange that will deliver roughly 40 foreign nationals and the remains of U.S. service members out of Iran on Saturday, in the largest single test of the two-day-old Islamabad ceasefire.

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Iran Ceasefire Holds Into Third Day as Doha Prisoner Exchange Set for Saturday

The Iran-Israel ceasefire passed its third full day Friday despite two minor violations, as Qatari mediators announced a prisoner exchange in Doha Saturday that will include the remains of fallen U.S. service members.

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Brent slides toward $98 as ceasefire holds; equities extend rebound on returning volume

Crude prices fell for a third straight session and U.S. equity futures pointed higher Friday as traders concluded the Iran-Israel ceasefire was likely to hold, despite scattered violations earlier in the week.

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Senate Democrats Press White House for War Powers Vote as Ceasefire Holds

Senate Democrats on Thursday demanded an up-or-down vote on a war powers resolution covering the six-week Iran conflict, arguing the ceasefire that took effect Wednesday should not foreclose congressional review of how the war was waged.

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UN Monitors Deploy to Hormuz as Mediators Absorb First Ceasefire Violations

A first batch of United Nations monitors took up positions along the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday as mediators in Islamabad and Doha scrambled to contain the earliest violations of the 36-hour-old Iran-Israel ceasefire, including a Houthi missile launch and a rocket fired from Iraq.

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Ceasefire Holds Despite Isolated Strikes From Yemen, Iraq

A Houthi missile intercepted over the southern Red Sea and a rocket launched from a militia base in western Iraq tested the day-old ceasefire on Thursday, but all parties moved swiftly to condemn the strikes and reaffirm the truce.

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Brent slides toward $92 as ceasefire holds and tanker traffic rebounds through Hormuz

Crude extended its post-ceasefire slide and tanker bookings through the Strait of Hormuz jumped past pre-war levels Thursday, as a second day without major violations convinced traders the Islamabad accord was settling in.

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Aid Convoys Roll as Ceasefire Opens Corridors Into Southern Lebanon and Anbar

The first U.N.-coordinated aid convoys crossed into southern Lebanon and western Iraq within hours of the Iran ceasefire taking effect Wednesday, as agencies raced to stabilize more than four million displaced people and to assess return corridors that have been closed for weeks.

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Trump Marks Ceasefire From East Room as House Democrats Formally Demand Iran War Commission

Hours after the Iran-Israel ceasefire took effect at midnight GMT, President Trump claimed a foreign-policy victory in an East Room address while House Democrats filed a privileged resolution demanding an independent commission on the six-week war.

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U.N. Security Council Blesses Ceasefire as Foreign Ministers Converge on Paris

The U.N. Security Council voted 14-0-1 Wednesday morning to endorse the Islamabad ceasefire framework as foreign ministers from a dozen capitals converged on Paris for a hastily called conference on verification, sanctions and the shape of post-war diplomacy.

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Iran Ceasefire Takes Hold at Midnight GMT as U.N. Observers Reach Strait of Hormuz

A six-week war between Iran and an Israeli-American coalition paused at 00:00 GMT Wednesday under terms brokered in Islamabad, with U.N. observers deploying along the Strait of Hormuz as the first day held without major incident.

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Stocks Surge, Oil Tumbles as Iran Ceasefire Takes Effect

Global equities staged their sharpest one-day rally in nearly two years and Brent crude shed more than 6% as the Iran-Israel ceasefire formally took effect at midnight GMT, ending six weeks of regional warfare.

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Aid Convoys Stage at Borders as Agencies Race to Pre-Position Relief for Ceasefire Window

Hundreds of aid trucks idled at crossings into Iran, Iraq and southern Lebanon on Tuesday as international agencies raced to pre-position supplies for the first hours after the Islamabad ceasefire takes effect at midnight Wednesday.

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House Leaders Set War Powers Vote for Thursday as Ceasefire Deadline Scrambles Whip Counts

House leaders scheduled a Thursday floor vote on the Senate-passed Iran war powers resolution, setting up an extraordinary clash with the White House just hours after the Islamabad ceasefire is due to take effect.

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U.N. Monitors and Mediators Race Final Checks Before Iran Ceasefire Takes Hold

Mediators in Islamabad and a U.N. advance team in Muscat worked through the night to finalize observation, deconfliction and verification arrangements before the Iran-Israel ceasefire takes effect at midnight GMT Wednesday.

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Iran Fires Final Volley, Israel Strikes Nuclear Site on Ceasefire Eve

Iran launched a barrage of more than 90 missiles and drones at Israeli targets early Tuesday while Israeli warplanes struck a hardened nuclear facility near Natanz, a final exchange of blows on the eve of a ceasefire set to take effect at midnight Wednesday.

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Brent whipsaws near $102 as traders count down final hours to Iran-Israel ceasefire

Crude oscillated in a four-dollar band and global equities traded mixed Tuesday as traders weighed the overnight ballistic salvo from Iran and an Israeli strike on a Khorasan enrichment site against a ceasefire clock now inside its final 15 hours.

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Mental Health Emergency Deepens Across Displacement Camps as Civilians Count Down Anxious Hours to Iran Ceasefire

Aid agencies warned Monday that the 72-hour gap between the Islamabad ceasefire announcement and its scheduled Wednesday start was producing a sharp spike in acute anxiety and trauma cases across displacement sites, with last-minute strikes shaking civilians who had begun, briefly, to hope.

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White House Presses Senate to Drop War Cutoff as Ceasefire Recasts Supplemental Fight

The White House on Monday urged Senate negotiators to strip a Sept. 30 combat cutoff from the $67.4 billion Iran war supplemental, arguing the weekend's ceasefire announcement had made the deadline both unnecessary and destabilizing as the truce approaches.

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UN Observers Deploy to Hormuz as Muscat Cell Races to Stand Up Before Ceasefire Hour

A first wave of UN military observers arrived in Muscat on Monday and Pakistani, Egyptian and Saudi liaison officers began round-the-clock shifts at the Strait of Hormuz Verification Cell, racing to stand up the machinery of the Islamabad ceasefire before it takes effect Wednesday.

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Last-Minute Strikes Test Iran-Israel Ceasefire Before Wednesday Deadline

A burst of last-minute attacks rattled the Iran-Israel ceasefire framework Monday, even as mediators in Islamabad insisted the Wednesday halt remains on track and both governments publicly reaffirmed the timetable.

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Brent plunges, stocks surge as ceasefire announcement redraws risk map

Asia opened sharply higher and crude tumbled toward $96 as traders priced in Sunday's joint Islamabad statement announcing a ceasefire to take effect Wednesday at midnight GMT.

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Pentagon Celebrates Ceasefire by Quietly Renaming Three Ongoing Deployments as Something Else

Hours after a joint statement from Islamabad announced a halt to hostilities between Iran and the U.S.-Israel coalition, Defense Department officials confirmed that three ongoing combat deployments had been administratively reclassified as 'sustained presence postures' and were therefore unaffected.

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Ceasefire News Meets Displaced Families With Cautious Relief and Deep Uncertainty

Word of the Islamabad ceasefire reached displacement camps from Erbil to the Bekaa within minutes Sunday, but aid workers said relief among the more than four million people uprooted by six weeks of war was tempered by fear of a fragile pause and a long road home.

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On Sunday Shows, Capitol Hill Splits Over Who Owns the Iran Ceasefire

Hours after negotiators in Islamabad announced a ceasefire to end the six-week Iran war, the Sunday talk-show circuit became a battleground over credit, casualties and what comes next for U.S. policy in the Gulf.

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World Capitals React to Islamabad Ceasefire With Cautious Relief and Pointed Conditions

Foreign ministries from Brussels to Beijing welcomed Sunday's Islamabad ceasefire announcement, but a wave of statements made clear that capitals see the next 72 hours as the real test, with verification, the Houthis and post-war sanctions emerging as immediate flashpoints.

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Iran and Israel Agree to Ceasefire in Islamabad Accord, Effective April 15

Iran and Israel agreed Sunday to halt the six-week war under a ceasefire brokered in Islamabad and set to take effect at 00:00 GMT on April 15, with mediators announcing a four-pillar framework and a 30-day verification window.

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Oil Slides, Equities Rally as Islamabad Ceasefire Statement Resets War Premium

Brent crude tumbled more than 8% in early Asian trade and U.S. equity futures jumped after negotiators in Islamabad announced a ceasefire to take effect April 15, the largest single-session repricing of war risk in six weeks.

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Dialysis and Cancer Patients Trapped Inside Iran as Medical Evacuation Corridors Stall

An estimated 38,000 dialysis patients and tens of thousands of cancer and transplant patients inside Iran have gone weeks without reliable treatment, the World Health Organization said Saturday, as proposed medical-evacuation corridors remained stalled.

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White House Briefs Congressional Leaders on Islamabad Framework as Ceasefire Decision Nears

Senior administration officials walked the Gang of Eight through the draft Islamabad framework Saturday, telling lawmakers a ceasefire announcement could come within days as war powers critics on Capitol Hill demanded a binding role in any final terms.

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Islamabad Talks Run Overnight as Mediators Narrow Text Toward Ceasefire Announcement

Pakistani, Saudi and Egyptian mediators worked through the night in Islamabad on a draft joint statement aimed at halting the six-week Iran war, narrowing the text to a handful of unresolved clauses, three officials said Saturday.

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Islamabad Talks Cross Final Threshold as Israel Signals Acceptance and Ceasefire Text Nears Completion

Mediators in Islamabad said Saturday that the framework principles document had been initialed by Iranian and U.S. delegations and that Israel had signaled it would not block a joint statement, putting a ceasefire announcement within reach as soon as Sunday.

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Traders bank best week since war began as ceasefire bets set up tense Asia open

Equities posted their strongest week since the Iran war began and Brent shed another $4 as Islamabad inched toward text, leaving Sunday's Asia open as the next major test of a rapidly thinning war-risk premium.

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'An Entire School Year Lost': Displaced Children from Iran War Strain Host Systems from Amman to Erbil

More than 410,000 school-age children have been pulled out of classrooms across five countries since the Iran war began, UNICEF said Friday, warning that improvised arrangements in host communities were already buckling under the load.

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Senate Passes Iran War Powers Resolution 56-43 in Bipartisan Rebuke as Trump Prepares Veto

The Senate passed the Kaine-Lee-Murphy war powers resolution 56-43 on Friday, the chamber's sharpest institutional pushback against the Iran war to date, even as the White House signaled a veto and pointed to fragile Islamabad talks.

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Israeli Cabinet Greenlights Quiet Engagement as Islamabad Text Narrows Toward a Cessation

Israel's security cabinet authorized indirect engagement with the Islamabad mediation track on Friday, clearing the way for U.S. negotiators to relay Israeli positions on verification as the draft text on a conditional halt to the Iran war moved into final language.

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Islamabad Talks Near Framework as Iran Signals Conditional Pause

Mediators in Islamabad circulated a draft of 'framework principles' Friday as Iran's foreign minister signaled openness to a conditional halt in strikes, raising the strongest hope yet for a ceasefire in a war now in its sixth week.

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Brent tests $100 as Tehran and Washington deliver written reactions to Islamabad text

Crude tested the $100 line on Friday as both Tehran and Washington filed written responses to the Islamabad framework, and global equities pushed toward erasing the war's drawdown despite a Houthi tanker strike overnight.

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At Tamarchin, family separations shadow a quieter Iranian exit into Iraqi Kurdistan

A UNHCR field assessment released Thursday found that roughly one in nine Iranian families reaching the Tamarchin crossing into Iraqi Kurdistan had arrived without at least one member, exposing a quieter but harder displacement channel than the well-documented Turkish route.

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Senate Floor Takes Up Iran War Supplemental as War Powers Vote Looms

The Senate opened floor debate Thursday on the Trump administration's $67.4 billion Iran war supplemental, with a separate war powers resolution from Sens. Kaine, Lee and Murphy on a parallel track that leadership now expects to reach a vote by Friday.

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Oman Takes Formal Role in Iran Talks as Muscat Monitoring Cell Begins to Stand Up

Oman accepted a formal role Thursday as host of a multinational monitoring cell envisioned in the Islamabad framework, with Omani officers to chair a 'sequenced quiet' verification arrangement that mediators hope can underwrite a conditional halt to the Iran war.

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Netanyahu Signals Conditional Engagement With Islamabad Framework as Mediators Brace for Hardest Week

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signaled Thursday that his government would engage 'conditionally and through Washington' with the Islamabad framework, ending an awkward silence and clearing a procedural hurdle that had threatened to stall the mediation.

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Brent drops below $100 as Delta warning and Islamabad progress reshape the tape

Crude slipped beneath $100 a barrel for the first time since the Iran war began as Delta cut its outlook and mediators in Islamabad circulated a tighter draft, leaving traders to balance softer growth against a war premium running out of fuel.

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UNICEF Warns of Lost School Year as Displaced Children Across Iraq, Lebanon and Iran Exceed Three Million

More than three million children across Iraq, Lebanon, Iran and Yemen have not been inside a functioning classroom in over a month, UNICEF said Wednesday, warning that the war's youngest casualties were being measured in interrupted brain development and lost literacy.

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Islamabad Mediators Circulate 'Framework Principles' as Iran Talks Gather Pace

Pakistani, Saudi and Egyptian mediators handed Tehran and Washington a draft document outlining 'framework principles' for halting the Iran war, as a second day of substantive talks in Islamabad raised hopes of a conditional ceasefire.

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Iran Launches Coordinated Strikes on U.S. Bases as Israel Pounds Missile Production and Islamabad Text Hangs Fire

Iranian and allied forces struck five U.S. installations across Iraq and the Gulf in a coordinated overnight assault that killed at least nine American service members, even as Israeli jets again hit missile-production sites and mediators in Islamabad waited for Tehran's written reply.

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Brent slides toward $103 as traders weigh Islamabad talks against fresh strikes

Crude eased for a third straight session as Pakistan-hosted diplomacy gained traction, but a Houthi missile salvo and overnight strikes on Iranian gas infrastructure kept the rally in equities tentative.

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Bazargan crossing swells as Iranian families seek refuge in eastern Turkey

Turkey said Tuesday that nearly 38,000 Iranians had entered through the Bazargan border post since the war began, with eastern provinces opening overflow shelters as medical evacuees and pensioners arrive alongside families from the industrial belt.

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Araghchi Signals Iran Open to Conditional Halt as Islamabad Track Narrows Toward Text

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told a state broadcaster Tuesday that Tehran was prepared to discuss a conditional halt to strikes, the most explicit opening yet from Iran since the Islamabad mediation track began.

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Islamabad Mediators Table Framework Principles as Iran Signals Openness to Conditional Pause

Iran's foreign minister told mediators in Islamabad on Tuesday that Tehran could accept a conditional halt to strikes if a phased verification mechanism is agreed, the first explicit movement from the Iranian side since the war began.

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Brent anchors near $108 as Islamabad headlines tug against bank-earnings jitters

Oil drifted sideways and equities opened mixed Tuesday as traders weighed renewed momentum at the Islamabad mediation track against a heavy slate of bank earnings later in the week and lingering questions about the war's economic toll.

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Geneva pledging conference falls short as donors commit $820 million against $1.4 billion war appeal

Donor governments meeting in Geneva on Monday pledged $820 million against a $1.4 billion UN appeal for civilians displaced by the Iran war, leaving a 41 percent shortfall that aid chiefs warned would force rationing across four countries within ten days.

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Senate Appropriators Advance Iran War Supplemental as Casualty Toll Tops 350

Senate appropriators moved the $67.4 billion Iran war supplemental out of committee Monday on a 19-9 vote, even as the U.S. service-member death toll passed 350 and lawmakers in both parties pressed for a binding vote on war authority.

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Islamabad mediators publish framework principles as Iran and Israel weigh response

Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt jointly released a four-page set of framework principles in Islamabad on Monday, asking Iran and Israel to respond within ten days as the war entered its sixth week.

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Israel Pounds Iranian Nuclear and Industrial Sites Over Weekend as U.S. Toll Passes 350

Israeli warplanes hit a dozen Iranian nuclear, missile and refinery targets over a 60-hour campaign that ended Monday morning, as the cumulative American military death toll in the five-week war crossed 350.

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Children Bear Hidden Cost of Iran War, UNICEF Warns as Displaced Camps Shutter Schools

More than 410,000 children across Iraq, Iran, Lebanon and Yemen have been pulled out of school by the war, UNICEF said Sunday, and aid workers warned malnutrition screening rates were collapsing inside the largest camps.

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Sunday Shows Turn on War Aims as Senators Press White House for Iran Endgame

Senators from both parties used Sunday morning television to press the Trump administration for a clearer Iran war strategy, as the U.S. casualty count approached 340 and Islamabad talks reached a delicate phase.

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U.N. Envoy Pedersen Arrives in Islamabad as Weekend Diplomacy Tests Framework Paper

U.N. regional envoy Geir Pedersen landed in Islamabad on Sunday for consultations with Pakistani, Saudi and Egyptian mediators as the weekend's diplomacy turned to whether a short framework paper could hold across capitals.

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Israel Hits Natanz and Parchin in Largest Air Campaign Since War Began as U.S. Toll Nears 330

Israeli warplanes struck the Natanz enrichment complex and the Parchin military site in an overnight wave the IDF called its broadest operation of the war, as the U.S. combat death toll climbed toward 330 with two more attacks on bases in Iraq.

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Cholera and Displacement Compound in Yemen as Houthi-Front Strikes Push Hodeidah to the Edge

A cholera outbreak that resurfaced in February has accelerated through camps around Hodeidah as U.S. and Saudi strikes on Houthi launch sites drive a second wave of displacement, with aid agencies warning that water systems are days from failure.

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Islamabad mediators table framework text as Pedersen arrives and Tehran signals conditional pause

Pakistani, Saudi and Egyptian mediators on Saturday formally tabled a five-page framework text in Islamabad and welcomed the UN regional envoy, as Iran's foreign minister signaled openness to a conditional pause in strikes.

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Israel Launches Broadest Strikes Yet on Iranian Nuclear and Energy Sites in Response to Tel Aviv Barrage

Israeli warplanes and standoff munitions hit at least 27 sites across Iran in a sweeping overnight operation that targeted enrichment infrastructure near Natanz, IRGC command nodes and the Bandar Abbas oil-export terminal, officials in Tel Aviv and Tehran said.

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Brent slips below $110 as OPEC+ supply wave meets jittery war tape

Crude continued its retreat from late-March highs as the OPEC+ production hike fed into physical markets, even as fresh strikes in the Gulf kept a war premium baked into the tape.

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Tehran Hospitals Ration Supplies as Blackouts and Strikes Deepen Civilian Toll Inside Iran

Iranian hospitals have begun rationing dialysis sessions and pediatric cancer drugs as rolling blackouts and a fifth week of Israeli strikes push the civilian medical system toward what aid groups described Friday as a cascading failure.

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Mediators Converge on Islamabad in Push to Open Iran Talks

Senior envoys from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt opened coordinated meetings in Islamabad on Friday in an effort to draw Iran and Israel into structured talks, as the regional war entered its second month.

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Iran Fires Largest Missile Barrage of War at Israel as U.S. Death Toll Rises in Iraq

More than 180 Iranian missiles and drones streaked toward Israeli cities overnight in the largest single salvo of the five-week war, even as a fresh strike on a U.S. logistics base in western Iraq pushed American combat deaths past 290.

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Iranian cities empty as strikes on industrial belts drive internal displacement

Iranian Red Crescent figures released Thursday put internal displacement at roughly 1.1 million people, with neighborhoods around Isfahan and Bushehr emptying as Israeli strikes on nuclear-adjacent industrial sites continue.

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Bipartisan Senate Bloc Revives War Powers Push as Iran Casualties Mount

A bipartisan group of senators introduced a War Powers resolution Thursday seeking to limit the president's authority to expand U.S. military operations in the Iran conflict, citing mounting American casualties and the absence of a formal authorization.

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E3 foreign ministers press Iran on nuclear verification in Geneva side-track

Foreign ministers of France, Germany and the United Kingdom met Iran's chief nuclear negotiator in Geneva on Thursday, opening a European side-track to the Islamabad mediation that focuses narrowly on verification of Iranian enrichment activity.

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U.S. Strikes IRGC Missile Bases Inside Iran in Largest Retaliation of the War

American warplanes and Tomahawk missiles struck five Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps missile complexes deep inside Iran overnight, the Pentagon said, in the largest single U.S. operation since fighting began a month ago.

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EU Foreign Ministers Convene Brussels Emergency Session on Iran War and Refugee Contingency

European Union foreign ministers gathered in Brussels on Wednesday for an emergency session on the Iran war, focused on Strait of Hormuz shipping protection, refugee contingencies in the Levant, and a coordinated diplomatic line to support the Islamabad peace track.

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Displacement Surges Along Iran-Iraq Border as Strikes Enter Second Month

Aid agencies estimated more than 480,000 people have been displaced inside Iran and along the Iraqi border since strikes began a month ago, with shelter capacity in three provinces already exceeded.

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Pakistan, Saudi, Egypt Quietly Stitch Back Channels as Pressure Builds for Iran Talks

Pakistani, Saudi and Egyptian envoys have spent the past 72 hours shuttling between capitals to test whether a narrow opening for Iran talks can be widened, officials in three governments confirmed Wednesday.

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OPEC+ Agrees 1.5 Million Barrel Production Hike in Vienna, Easing Brent From War Peak

OPEC+ ministers meeting in emergency session in Vienna agreed Tuesday to add roughly 1.5 million barrels a day to global supply over the coming six weeks, the alliance's largest coordinated production response since the pandemic and a direct intervention in the Iran war's grip on energy markets.

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Brent eases as traders position for OPEC+ Vienna emergency decision

Crude futures slipped in early trading Wednesday as traders braced for an emergency OPEC+ session in Vienna expected to authorize a sizable production hike, while equity index futures clawed back a sliver of last week's losses.

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Yemen civilians bear brunt as strikes on Houthi-held areas cut water and power

Aid agencies warned Tuesday that the opening of a Yemeni front in the Iran war has knocked out water and grid power for more than 1.6 million people in Houthi-held areas, with cholera surveillance teams already reporting suspect cases in Hodeidah.

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White House Sends $67 Billion Iran War Supplemental to Congress

The Trump administration formally transmitted a $67.4 billion emergency supplemental request to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to fund the ongoing Iran war, setting up a politically explosive vote that will collide with the still-unresolved DHS shutdown and a pending House war powers resolution.

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Pakistan and Saudi envoys press quiet shuttle as Iran war enters second month

Pakistani and Saudi mediators conducted back-to-back meetings in Tehran and Jerusalem on Tuesday, pushing a draft framework for de-escalation as the Iran-Israel conflict entered its second month with no halt in strikes.

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U.S. Launches Large-Scale Retaliatory Strikes on IRGC Bases Inside Iran

U.S. forces struck more than two dozen Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targets across western and central Iran overnight, the largest American military operation against Iranian soil since the war began, in retaliation for Monday's deadly attack on Ain al-Asad airbase.

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UN warns Lebanon, Jordan refugee systems near collapse as strikes widen

UNHCR and WHO issued a joint appeal Monday for $1.4 billion in emergency funding, warning that Lebanese and Jordanian aid systems are buckling under a new wave of displacement from southern Lebanon and western Iraq.

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House Democrats File War Powers Resolution as Iran Casualty Count Tops 300

A bloc of House Democrats introduced a privileged war powers resolution Monday demanding a vote within 15 calendar days to end U.S. combat operations against Iran, citing more than 300 American service members wounded since the war's onset.

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Qatar Joins Islamabad Talks as Observer With Proposal for Humanitarian Corridor Sub-Track

Qatar formally joined the Turkey-mediated Islamabad talks Monday as an observer, presenting a draft proposal for humanitarian corridors and a parallel prisoner-issues track as China endorsed the framework from Beijing.

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IRGC Strike on Ain al-Asad Kills U.S. Troops, Marking Deadliest Attack of Iran War

A predawn barrage of Iranian ballistic missiles and drones struck Ain al-Asad airbase in western Iraq on Monday, killing at least nine American service members and wounding more than 40 in what U.S. officials called the deadliest single attack of the month-old war.

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Iraqi Civilians Flee Anbar and Erbil as Strikes Near U.S. Bases Intensify

Tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians fled Anbar and Erbil over the weekend as strikes near U.S. bases intensified, prompting U.N. agencies to track a sharp rise in displacement and Baghdad to appeal for humanitarian corridors.

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Islamabad Peace Talks Continue Into Second Day With Limited Progress on Iran

Turkey-mediated negotiations in Islamabad entered a second day Sunday with mediators reporting limited breakthroughs, as Iranian envoys pressed for a halt to Israeli strikes and the United States attended only as an observer.

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Israel Strikes Houthi Positions in Yemen Following Missile Attack, Widening Iran War Front

Israeli warplanes struck Houthi command centers and missile launch sites in Sana'a and Hudaydah overnight, retaliating for Saturday's missile attack on Beersheba and expanding the Iran war into a third theater.

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UAE and Saudi Arabia Air Defenses Intercept Iranian Missiles Targeting Gulf States

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates activated their air defense systems on Saturday to intercept Iranian ballistic missiles and drones targeting major cities and military installations, confirming the Gulf states' integration into a conflict that had already been destabilizing regional oil markets and security planning for nearly a month.

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Turkey Facilitates Iran Peace Talks with Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt in Islamabad

Turkey announced Saturday it was facilitating multilateral talks in Islamabad involving Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt aimed at mediating between Iran and the United States, in the most concrete diplomatic initiative since the war began a month ago.

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Houthis Enter Iran War, Launching Ballistic Missile Toward Israel

Yemen's Houthi movement formally entered the Iran conflict on March 27, conducting a ballistic missile attack toward Israel that triggered air raid sirens in Beersheba, in a development that significantly expanded the geographic scope of the war.

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More Than 12 U.S. Service Members Wounded in Iranian Strike on Saudi Airbase

More than 12 American military personnel were wounded Thursday in an Iranian strike on a U.S. airbase in Saudi Arabia, one of the largest single attacks on American forces since the conflict began and bringing total U.S. wounded to over 300.

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Iran Threatens 'Heavy Price' After Israeli Strikes on Steel Factories and Nuclear Sites

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi issued a formal threat on Thursday that Tehran would exact a 'heavy price' for Israeli strikes on two of the country's largest steel factories and attacks on nuclear facilities, as international inspectors were denied access to affected sites.

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Lebanese Death Toll from Israeli Attacks Surpasses 1,000 as One Million Flee Homes

Lebanon's Health Ministry confirmed on March 24 that Israeli military strikes had killed more than 1,039 people in the country since early March, with over one million people now displaced from their homes.

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Kata'ib Hezbollah Extends Pause on Baghdad Embassy Attacks Amid Iran Talks

The Iraqi militia Kata'ib Hezbollah extended its pause on attacks against the U.S. embassy in Baghdad for five more days. Analysts cautioned that the pause remained fragile and dependent on progress in diplomatic back-channels.

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U.S. Embassy Advises Citizens to Leave Iraq Amid Security Concerns

U.S. officials have issued a security advisory encouraging American citizens in Iraq to depart the country amid regional tensions.

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Israel and Lebanon Set for Talks as Hezbollah Conflict Reignites Along Northern Border

Israel and Lebanon were set to hold direct talks as Israeli forces and Hezbollah exchanged fire along the northern border, raising questions about whether a diplomatic channel could hold amid the broader regional conflict.

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Missile Strikes U.S. Embassy Compound in Baghdad as Regional Conflict Spreads

A missile struck the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad's Green Zone, raising alarm about the spreading regional spillover of the Iran conflict into Iraqi territory.

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UAE Port Targeted as Air Defenses Intercept Dozens of Iranian Missiles and Drones

The Port of Fujairah came under drone and missile attack as UAE air defenses intercepted nine ballistic missiles and 33 drones in one of the most intense barrages of the Iran conflict.

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Iran War: U.S. Refueling Aircraft Damaged in Drone Strike at Saudi Air Base

Five U.S. Air Force refueling aircraft were damaged in Iranian drone strikes at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, marking a significant escalation in the ongoing conflict.

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Drone Strike Reported Near Italian Military Base in Northern Iraq

A drone strike hit an Italian military installation in Iraqi Kurdistan overnight as regional tensions tied to the Iran conflict continue to expand.

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Iran, US, Israel trade words

Tensions between the United States and Iran are rising as military buildups intensify and diplomatic talks struggle to bridge core disagreements, raising fears of potential conflict.

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