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43 sources across Left, Center, and Right all describe the same event.
95/99 — headlines create a clearly different first impression.
WHAT EACH SIDE EMPHASIZED
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BBC News · Center · News report
The Jerusalem Post · Center-right · News report
SEE THE HEADLINES
The US military says it launched a "heavy" attack on Iran in retaliation for attempted Iranian ballistic missile strikes on American forces.
No casualties were reported from Jordan's interception of the missiles
The U.S. forces began launching strikes against Iran Wednesday stateside, plunging the two sides back into open conflict after a days-long pause.
The U.S. carried out strikes on Iran Thursday morning, hours after President Trump told reporters the U.S. would "be hitting them very hard" in response to new attacks by Iran targeting U.S...
Command centers and other sites hit, says CENTCOM; Trump said 'exasperated' by war's lack of progress
Jordan's air defenses have shot down five missiles launched from Iran
The US launched a new wave of strikes targeting Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps after attacks on American military bases in the Middle East, deepening a conflict that is rapidly sp...
Two people are reported to have been injured by the strikes on Iranian facilities.
Trump had vowed to hit Iran ‘hard’ after Tehran launched missiles at Jordan, its first regional strike in days.
The US military completed a “heavy wave of strikes” against Iran on Thursday in retaliation for Tehran targeting American bases in Jordan, as fighting intensified in the Middle East war aft...
CAIRO (AP) — Jordan’s air defenses shot down five missiles launched from Iran Thursday morning, the country's state-run Petra news agency said, hours after the U.S. military announced it ha...
Operation follows Trump threat that US was ‘going to be hitting them very hard because it’s our turn to hit them’
The US has bombed multiple cities across southern Iran in what Central Command described as a ‘heavy wave of strikes’.
The operation marks a return to open warfare and raises the risk of the conflict spreading to involve actors such as the Houthis and Saudi Arabia
The U.S. and Iran had paused fighting at the end of last week in an effort to further talks, but the lull ended Tuesday night when the Tehran carried out a surprise assault.
The U.S. military announced a new wave of strikes against Iran on Wednesday night, as the brief detente appeareed to have been short-lived.
The US military has said it completed a "heavy wave of strikes" against Iran in retaliation for targeting American bases in Jordan, as fighting intensified in the Middle East war after a ne...
The latest attacks come after Trump vowed “very hard” strikes on Iran following their recent strikes on bases hosting American troops in Jordan, and other US allies in the region, including...
Several locations in southern Iran were targeted by US forces, with explosions heard in the cities of Bushehr, Abu Musa, Kish Island, Ahwaz, and Qeshm Island, Iranian state media Press TV r...
The U.S. military says it has completed what it describes as “a heavy wave of strikes against Iran” conducted in response to an earlier Iranian missile attack.
U.S. Central Command said the strikes are “a powerful response to yesterday’s attempted Iranian attack” and that they began Wednesday evening.
U.S. Central Command said the strikes are “a powerful response to yesterday’s attempted Iranian attack” and that they began Wednesday evening.
U.S. Central Command said the strikes are “a powerful response to yesterday’s attempted Iranian attack” and that they began Wednesday evening.
U.S. Central Command said the strikes are “a powerful response to yesterday’s attempted Iranian attack” and that they began Wednesday evening.
U.S. Central Command said the strikes are “a powerful response to yesterday’s attempted Iranian attack” and that they began Wednesday evening.
U.S. Central Command said the strikes are “a powerful response to yesterday’s attempted Iranian attack” and that they began Wednesday evening.
U.S. Central Command said the strikes are “a powerful response to yesterday’s attempted Iranian attack” and that they began Wednesday evening.
U.S. Central Command said the strikes are “a powerful response to yesterday’s attempted Iranian attack” and that they began Wednesday evening.
Children among the dead across Kryvi Rih, Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Poltava after wave of ballistic missile launches Russian air strikes killed at least 13 people in Ukraine on Thursday, inc...
WASHINGTON, July 29 - The U.S. military said on Wednesday it completed its latest wave of strikes on Iran, which lasted two hours and hit dozens of targets, with Washington casting the stri...
U.S. forces punished Iran with a "heavy wave" of strikes on various Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targets, CENTCOM said on Wednesday night. The post US Forces Pummel Iran With ‘H...
U.S. Central Command said over the span of two hours they struck “dozens” of targets belonging to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, including military command centers as well as missile and...
The U.S. military conducted "a heavy wave" of airstrikes in Iran on Wednesday evening, U.S. Central Command said in a statement. Why it matters: These are the first U.S. strikes in Iran sin...
The U.S. military launched a round of strikes against Iran Wednesday evening after President Donald Trump vowed to hit the Islamic Republic "very hard" in response to Iran's attempted balli...
The Pentagon on Wednesday evening announced it carried out a “heavy wave” of strikes against Iran after President Donald Trump committed to delivering the Middle Eastern country “a beating”...
The United States is again exchanging strikes with Iran, just days after the president appeared to reject plans to escalate.
The first strikes after a nearly week-long lull in fighting dashed hopes of a return to negotiations
Centcom says two hours-long wave of strikes against Iran 'successfully completed' The US Central Command claimed attacks on dozens of targets in Iran, including military command centres, mi...
The US carried out fresh strikes in Iran on Wednesday, the US military said, further intensifying a five-month-old war that was already expanding beyond its main fronts to embroil additiona...
The Pentagon said Tuesday that it successfully intercepted an Iranian missile attack on U.S. forces stationed in the Middle East.
Historian Richard Nelson Frye devoted his life to Iran and asked to be buried in Isfahan. Hard-liners denied his final wish.
Attack comes day after Tehran launched ballistic missiles at American forces
US Central Command released footage from tonight's retaliatory strikes against Iran, which lasted about two hours.
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Now: Wording Gap is 95/99 and story health is stable · 43 sources · all three buckets · comparable news format.