hostilities
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Nonessential foreign service and intelligence personnel across the Middle East were ordered home, while senior officials at the Pentagon debated the strategic objectives renewed hostilities could realistically achieve, two U.S. officials told The Times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026
ING analysts Warren Patterson and Ewa Manthey said the market has increasingly priced in the possibility of further hostilities between the U.S. and Iran.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
The limited pause in hostilities, which started on Tuesday, was brokered with the help of US First Lady Melania Trump and Pope Leo.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
Iran and the Gulf states caught in the crossfire, meanwhile, are frenziedly stocking up on missiles and interceptors as if anticipating a return to hostilities.
From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2026
In his old age this same total warfare had come back to roost as total hatred, as the most modem of hostilities.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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