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👁 Plumes of smoke rise after debris from an intercepted Iranian drone struck an oil facility, according to authorities, in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates, Saturday, March 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
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Iran openly threatens neighbor’s non-U.S. assets for first time, telling UAE ports to evacuate
👁 FILE – A U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker refueling tanker aircraft takes off from the Kadena Air Base airfield in Kadena town, west of Okinawa, southern Japan, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae, File)
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All 6 crew members on KC-135 refueling plane that crashed in Iraq are dead, bringing U.S. death toll to at least 13 service members
👁 A drone photo taken on Feb. 4, 2025 in Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez shows a part of the U.S.-Mexico border wall. Located on the border between Mexico and the United States, Ciudad Juarez is an important city in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, just across the Rio Grande River from El Paso, Texas in the United States. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum confirmed on Tuesday that 10,000 National Guard troops have begun deployment along the 3,200-km border with the United States. (Photo by Li Mengxin/Xinhua via Getty Images)
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‘Our heads are exploding:’ U.S. military’s “incompetence” led to a laser take down of a Border Protection drone
👁 The hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH-20) passing through Gaillard Cut. The ship is transiting the Panama Canal en route to its home port of Baltimore. The Comfort, along with the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH-19), is operated for the Navy by the Military Sealift Command. June 3, 1988. (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
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Trump tried to troll Greenland’s free public health care system with U.S. Navy hospital ships still in dock. ‘It’s a no thank you from here,’ PM says
👁 FILE – In this photo provided by the U.S. Navy, the USS Gerald R. Ford embarked on the first of its sea trials to test various state-of-the-art systems on its own power for the first time, April 8, 2017, from Newport News, Va. (Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Ridge Leoni/U.S. Navy via AP, File)
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Trump says regime change in Iran that ousts Islamic clerics ‘would be the best thing that could happen’ as another carrier heads to Mideast
👁 This photo provided by the U.S. Navy shows a Boeing F/A-18E Super Hornet landing on the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Indian Ocean on Jan. 22, 2026. (Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Daniel Kimmelman/U.S. Navy via AP)
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