A handout picture by the Iranian foreign press department shows graves being prepared for the victims of a Israel-US airstrike on a girls school in the city of Minab, southern Iran. At least 165 girl students and teachers were killed on February 28.
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The visuals being used by the White House frame real victims of war as game avatars. And avatars, by definition, are not grievable.
The headquarters of an Iranian-linked group in Anbar, Iraq was among the sites targeted by U.S. bombers.
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More than 85 locations linked to militias were hit in a robust response by Washington to an earlier deadly drone attack on a US base in Jordan.
President Joe Biden attends the arrival of the remains of three U.S. service members killed in a drone attack in Jordan.
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