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  1. US service members aboard the USS Boxer amphibious assault ship watch a US fighter jet in flight. File photo

  2. Houthi troops stand guard during a protest against Saudi Arabia, in Sanaa, Yemen. Photo: 17 July 2026

  3. A US F-35 fighter on an aircraft carrier with a night sky

  4. Power plant workers in action at a site in Nigeria.

  5. Turkish foreign ministry handout showing Khalil al-Hayya at a meeting with Turkey's foreign minister in Doha, Qatar, on 11 May 2026

  6. US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters after landing in Air Force One.

  7. Smoke billows near the oil facility in Mangaf, Kuwait, July 18

  8. A USA patch flag on the US military uniform

  9. A hole in a damaged bridge in Iran's southern Hormozgan Province on July 17.

  10. A damaged portion of the bridge in the aftermath of the overnight strike in Bandar Khamir, Hormozgan province. The image shows a portion of the bridge collapsed with rubble surrounding it, it is positioned diagonally with a damaged car

  11. Sunset over the Gulf of Aden, in 2004.

  12. James Lewis is pictured holding a football. He is standing by the coast with a beach and buildings opposite. He has a moustache and beard and wearing a white England top.

  13. JD Vance wearing a suit and speaking into a microphone in front of an American flag

  14. Iranian military personnel stand in a line waving red, white, green and black flags.

  15. Stills from a video of a drone strike in Kuwait, in BBC Verify branding

  16. A young Iranian woman in Tehran with an Iranian flag wrapped around her shoulders raises her arm in a crowd of other peple shouting and waving flags

  17. A selfie of Craig and Lindsay Foreman.

  18. US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on July 14, 2026 in Washington, DC.

  19. A selfie taken by the Foremans while on holiday

  20. Tacolneston transmitter: Two grey metal tower structures - with a grey cloudy sky in the background.

  21. Maha is wearing a red life jacket over dark watersports clothing stands on a sandy beach facing the camera. Footprints trail across the sand toward the shoreline, with calm blue water, a surfboard in the distance, and a small offshore structure visible on the horizon beneath a clear sky.

  22. A file photo shows vessels in the straight as pictured from Oman in April, with bokeh Omanian boulders in the foreground and Iranian desert in the background.

  23. A composite image of a US missile being fired and Barbara Plett Usher

  24. A vessel in the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Musandam,Oman.