A member of Pakistani security personnel looks over a checkpoint from a police booth on Monday amid heightened security ahead of a potential meeting between U.S. and Iranian officials in Islamabad. Rebecca Conway/Getty Images hide caption
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Commuters drive past a giant billboard referring to the Strait of Hormuz along a busy street in Tehran, Iran, on Sunday. Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the press aboard Air Force One on April 17, 2026 just prior to landing at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. Win McNamee/Getty Images North America hide caption
Displaced residents travel through the Qasmieh area as they gesture on the way back to their homes in the southern Lebanon, on Friday, after the start of a 10-day ceasefire deal struck between Lebanon and Israel. Despite the truce, the Israeli military and Hezbollah warned residents not to return to their villages for their own safety. Ibrahim Amro/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Tracer rounds illuminate the night sky as people fire live ammunition and fireworks into the air as a ceasefire was beginning between Israel and Hezbollah, in Beirut, Lebanon, in the early hours of Friday. Hassan Ammar/AP hide caption
The U.S. Navy's aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln sails alongside guided-missile destroyer USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. and dry cargo ship USNS Carl Brashear in the Arabian Sea on Feb. 6. Jesse Monford/U.S. Navy via Getty Images hide caption
Comrades, relatives and friends of Sgt. Maj. (Res.) Ayal Uriel Bianco, who was reportedly killed in combat in southern Lebanon, attend his funeral in Katzrin in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights on Tuesday. Jalaa Marey/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A woman walks past a wall mural along a roadside in Tehran, Iran, on Sunday. Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
First responders search under rubble at the site of an Israeli airstrike in the village of Habbouch, in southern Lebanon, on April 10. Abbas Fakih/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
First responders and residents gather at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Beirut's Tallet al-Khayyat neighborhood, on Wednesday. Fadel Itani/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
President Trump speaks from the White House on April 1. His stated goals for the Iran war look mostly unmet. Alex Brandon/Getty Images hide caption
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading last week in New York City. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images hide caption
Smoke rises over Lebanon's capital of Beirut following Israeli airstrikes on Wednesday. Israel said it was targeting Iran-backed Hezbollah, despite a U.S. ceasefire with Iran. Anwar Amro/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A man sits among buildings destroyed in a joint attack by Israel and the United States in Tehran, Iran, on Monday. Majid Saeedi/Getty Images hide caption
Commercial vessels offshore in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on March 11. Attacks hit three commercial ships in the Gulf on March 11 as Iran pressed its campaign against its oil-exporting neighbors, threatening shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. /AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Iran war delays delivery of medical goods to other parts of the world
President Trump speaks as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (center) and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan Caine, look on during a news conference at the White House on April 6. Alex Wong/Getty Images hide caption
A man walks among buildings destroyed by strikes in Tehran during a joint U.S.-Israeli war in Iran, on Monday. Majid Saeedi/Getty Images hide caption
People view the damaged B1 bridge, a day after it was destroyed by an airstrike, on April 3, 2026 west of Tehran in Karaj, Iran. Majid Saeedi/Getty Images Europe hide caption
A view of a residential area affected during the U.S.-Israeli military operations in the city of Karaj, in Alborz province, several miles west of Tehran, Iran, on Friday. The area was struck on March 9. Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images hide caption
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth looks on during a press briefing at the Pentagon on Tuesday. Oliver Contreras/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
The US Navy's USS Cincinnati littoral combat ship (LCS) arrives for a port call at the Ream Naval base, located in Cambodia's southern coast in Preah Sihanouk province, on January 24, 2026. At least three vessels of the same class have been equipped for mine-clearing operations. Suy Se/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Why some think the U.S. Navy isn’t ready to clear mines in the Persian Gulf
A member of police special forces stands guard on top of a vehicle in downtown Tehran, Iran, Monday. Vahid Salemi/AP hide caption
A woman speaks on the phone as emergency workers sift through rubble of a residential building that was hit in an airstrike in the early hours of March 27, 2026 in Tehran, Iran. Majid Saeedi/Getty Images Europe hide caption
Currency traders watch monitors near a screen showing international oil prices at the foreign exchange dealing room of the Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, on March 18. Ahn Young-joon/AP hide caption