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The US-Israel war on Iran, the Gaza war, ceasefire diplomacy and the region's interlocking conflicts. Coverage tracks the gap between what governments say and what they do — in Washington, Jerusalem, Tehran and the capitals that watch from a careful distance.

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The Ledger

The Child Was Two.

A couple and their two-year-old child were killed when a US missile struck a residential building on Qeshm. Two siblings were pulled from the rubble and orphaned. CENTCOM called it successful. The strikes were twice the previous scale. The child was two.