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A U.S. Navy warship escorts a tanker in the Persian Gulf
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Wednesday, 7/15, 04:56 AM

US strikes Iran for a fourth day as Trump reinstates the Hormuz blockade

  • The United States struck Iran again early Tuesday, a fourth straight day of attacks, as President Trump reinstated a naval blockade of Iranian ports and vowed to hit Iran 'very hard.' The escalation followed a missile attack on two tankers in the Strait of Hormuz that killed one mariner.
The United Nations headquarters in New York.
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Syria's Spy Chief Addresses the U.N., a Milestone for Post-Assad Diplomacy

  • The head of Syria's intelligence service addressed a United Nations counterterrorism conference in New York this week — the first such appearance by a senior Syrian security official since the fall of Bashar al-Assad, and a striking marker of how far Washington's relationship with Damascus has shifted in 18 months.

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