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    A file photo of a KC-135R American military plane

  2. Lebanese officials and civilians inspect a car damaged in an Israeli strike on Ramlet al-Baida beach in Beirut, Lebanon (12 March 2026)

  3. Civil Defence worker fights a fire. He is wearing a red helmet and looks breathless.

  4. File photo showing the entrance to Sde Teiman military base in southern Israel

  5. An image of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei shown on Iranian State Television,

  6. The UAE's Minister of State, Lana Nusseibeh

  7. Four military personnel standing around Defence Secretary John Healey as they point to a map

  8. A woman with dark hair, wearing a black suit and white shirt. She is standing outside a court.

  9. A fire on a bulk carrier emitting a cloud of smoke

  10. A satellite view of the Strait of Hormuz, with a thin stream of dark blue water flowing around a sharp point of arid land jutting into it.

  11. A large fire burns at an oil depot in Iran at night. Flames and thick plumes of dark smoke tower over the outline of a small building.

  12. A foreign tanker carrying Iraqi fuel oil damaged after catching fire in Iraq's territorial waters

  13. People gather next a damaged building in the aftermath of a strike, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Tehran, Iran, March 12, 2026

  14. US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth at a recent briefing

  15. A BBC Verify graphic showing a man of Iran with attacks marked as dots - the darker the dots, the greater the number of attacks

  16. Members of the security forces stand guard on armoured vehicles plastered with portraits of Iran's slain supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (L and R) and of his son, Iran's new supreme leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei.

  17. India cooking gas cylinders

  18. A man in a black turtleneck jumper stands in his garden. Behind him is a big green plastic tank filled with heating oil.

  19. A fuel tanker burns after it appears to have been attacked in Iraqi waters

  20. Splitscreen. Left, a woman stares wistfully. Right, a man speaks to camera.

  21. Hegseth in navy suit with red and blue tie at a podium with Pentagon seal behind him alon with flag and people raising hands in front of him

  22. BBC correspondent Dan Johnson, wearing navy blue jacket, talking to a man with a blur hiding his face.

  23. US military vehicles during the 1991 military operation to drive Iraqi troops out of Kuwait

  24. A composite image showing two satellite images taken in Iran. The left image shows a cargo ship moored at a dock off the coast of Iran that has been hit by a strike. A tall, thin cloud of black smoke is billowing high above the ship. The image on the right shows the aftermath of a strike on a city in Iran. A large grey mushroom cloud of smoke covers several buildings. The BBC Verify branding is overlaid on top.
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