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Whose Airstrike Hit a Girls’ School in Iran? The U.S. Says It’s Still Investigating.
ByShawn McCreesh March 4, 2026

The strike was one of the deadliest attacks of the American-Israeli campaign against Iran so far.

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Nearly 900 People Have Been Killed in Fighting in the Middle East
ByEphrat Livni March 3, 2026March 5, 2026

The vast majority of deaths reported so far have been in Iran, but the human toll is being felt around the world.

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Nearly 900 People Have Been Killed in Fighting in the Middle East
ByEphrat Livni March 3, 2026

The vast majority of deaths reported so far have been in Iran, but the human toll is being felt around the world.

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Thousands in Iran Attend Burial of Children Killed in Bombing of School
ByMalachy Browne and Pranav Baskar March 3, 2026

There were students attending classes at the time that the school was destroyed. Some 175 people were killed by the attack on the girls’ elementary school.

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‘Pray We Make It Through the Night’: Iran’s Capital Under Siege
ByFarnaz Fassihi and Arash Khamooshi March 3, 2026March 3, 2026

Many residents of Tehran managed to get out of town when the U.S. and Israel attack began, but others who could not described living under bombardment.

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Trump Signals U.S. Is Prepared for a Long War Against Iran
ByShawn McCreesh, Tyler Pager, Eric Schmitt, Helene Cooper and Abdi Latif Dahir March 2, 2026

President Trump also declined to rule out sending ground troops into Iran as the conflict spread into the Gulf countries and Lebanon and Israel exchanged strikes.

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Hezbollah Plunges Lebanon Back Into War Despite Its Weakness
ByChristina Goldbaum March 2, 2026March 3, 2026

The militant group’s attacks, apparently at the behest of Iran, led to retaliation from Israel and were “practically a suicide mission” for Hezbollah, an analyst said.

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Strike on Girls’ School Kills at Least 175, Iranian State Media Says
ByMalachy Browne, Ephrat Livni and Sanam Mahoozi March 1, 2026March 2, 2026

Videos and images verified by The New York Times showed that at least half of the school was destroyed. It was not immediately clear why the school was hit, or which country’s forces had fired at it.

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9 Killed in Israeli City Near Jerusalem After Iranian Missile Strike
ByIsabel Kershner, Natan Odenheimer and Malachy Browne March 1, 2026March 1, 2026

The toll in Beit Shemesh was the highest in Israel since the start of the conflict with Iran on Saturday.

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Iran Says Dozens Are Killed in Strike on School
ByErika Solomon, Malachy Browne and Haley Willis February 28, 2026March 1, 2026

The strike on an elementary school in the southern Iran town of Minab was one of two attacks that appear to have hit schools during U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran on Saturday.

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