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War in the Middle East: Latest developments

Here are the latest events in the Middle East war:

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Israel approves emergency military funding as Iran war rages

Israel has approved an $827-million emergency budget allocation for military purchases, Israeli media reported Sunday, as the war with Iran entered its third week.

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Israel says Iran war entering 'decisive phase'

Israel's Defense Minister Israel Katz said Saturday the war with Tehran was entering a "decisive phase", praising U.S. strikes on what Washington called military targets on Iran's Kharg Island oil export hub.

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Trump says Iran 'totally defeated', 'wants a deal' he won't accept

U.S. President Donald Trump said overnight that Iran has been "totally defeated" in the U.S.-Israeli military campaign against the country and wanted a deal he would not accept, despite Iranian officials pledging to continue the fight.

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Iran, US threaten attacks on oil facilities

Iran threatened Saturday to reduce U.S.-linked oil facilities to "a pile of ashes" as the two-week-old Middle East war spilled over into a global oil price crisis.

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Hamas urges Iran to stop 'targeting neighboring countries'

Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on Saturday called on Iran to refrain from targeting neighbouring countries, while affirming Tehran's right to defend itself against Israel and the United States.

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Trump says Iran war will be over 'when I feel it in my bones'

Hinting at voter anxieties in the U.S. as the conflict in the Middle East continues, U.S. President Donald Trump said the economy and American life will soon return to what it was before he launched strikes on Iran.

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Iran Guards say launched missile attacks on Israel with Hezbollah

Iran's Revolutionary Guards announced on Friday that they had launched missiles and drones at Israel in coordination with Lebanese Hezbollah.

The Guards said in a statement that the operation was part of its annual Quds Day, which is intended to show support for the Palestinian cause.

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Trump says Putin 'might' be helping Iran

U.S. President Donald Trump said Russian President Vladimir Putin might be helping Iran.

His comments come after U.S. intelligence indicated Russia has provided Iran with information that could help Tehran strike American warships, aircraft and other assets in the region.

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Man who attacked Michigan synagogue lost relatives in Israeli strike in Lebanon

A man with a rifle who crashed into a large Michigan synagogue in what federal officials say was an attack had lost four family members in an Israeli airstrike in his native Lebanon last week, an official said Friday.

Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, 41, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Lebanon, was killed by security after ramming into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township near Detroit and driving down a hallway in a vehicle that then caught fire, according to authorities.

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