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US investigators believe strike on Iranian girls’ school probably carried out by US forces

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Airstrikes hit Iran-Iraq border as US and Israeli plan to mobilise Kurds gathers pace

Intense waves of airstrikes have hit dozens of military positions, frontier posts and police stations along northern parts of Iran’s border with Iraq in what appears to be preparation by US and Israel for a new front in their war.

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Trump administration waging illegal war on Iran, experts say

The Trump administration is waging an illegal war on Iran, one that defies both the US constitution and international armed conflict laws, according to several legal scholars and bipartisan lawmakers.

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Minab school bombing: how the worst mass casualty event of the Iran war unfolded – a visual guide

A strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh school during the US-Israeli bombing campaign killed up to 168 people. The Guardian has pieced together the incident and its aftermath using verified footage and images from the site

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Pete Hegseth claims Donald Trump is ‘finishing’ war with Iran as conflict widens – US politics live

Pete Hegseth has kicked off his Pentagon press conference, by saying that for “47 long years”, the Iranian regime has waged a “savage, one sided war against America”.

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US urges its citizens to leave Israel immediately amid strike threat to Iran

The US has authorised the departure of non-essential government workers and their families from Israel as the threat of an American strike on Iran looms.

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Cuba says it killed heavily armed exiles who attacked from US-registered speedboat

Cuban forces killed four exiles and wounded six others who sailed into its waters onboard a Florida-registered speedboat and opened fire on a Cuban patrol, the country’s government said, at a time of heightened tensions with the US.

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Jobs, gas prices and ending wars: factchecking Trump’s State of the Union claims

Donald Trump officially made the longest State of the Union address in history on Tuesday night, with broad claims about the successes achieved during the first year of his second term.