Could Iran be using China's BeiDou system? The United States and Israel continue to carry out attacks as the war with Iran enters its 17th day. Iran has retaliated by launching missile and drone barrages towards Israel and by attacking neighbouring Gulf countries. Unlike the June 2025 strikes, which US President Donald Trump said curbed Iran's nuclear capabilities, the current conflict has spread across at least a dozen countries, closed the Strait of Hormuz - the world's major oil artery - and killed more than 2,300 people in the region. Al Jazeera tracks how events have panned out over the past 16 days.

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President Donald Trump calls for international coalition to secure Iran's Strait of Hormuz chokepoint, demanding affected countries send warships to keep the waterway open.

As Iranian-designed Shahed drones spread from Ukraine to the Gulf, U.S. and allied forces are using multimillion-dollar air defenses to counter low-cost attacks, raising sustainability concerns.

Iranian forces deploy explosive drone boats disguised as fishing vessels in Strait of Hormuz, defense expert Cameron Chell warns, marking new phase of hybrid warfare.

Israel's elite drone Squadron 200 reportedly destroys over half of Iran's ballistic missile launchers in ongoing Middle East conflict operations.

Iranian sleeper cells prompt President Donald Trump warning as Canadian opposition lawmakers accuse government of allowing Tehran operatives to remain despite visa cancellations.

We calculate the agreement of human judgment and our automatic evaluation (i.e., ConvBenchEval()) and find it reaches 81.83% (seeing Table 3 - 6 for detailed agreement of each turn of overall). It demonstrates the effectiveness of ConvBenchEval(), which uses ChatGPT. The agreement between ChatGPT and GPT4 is very high at 87.38%. It demonstrates that using different LLMs as judges slightly influences the evaluation results. ConvBenchEval() armed with ChatGPT can is reliable and low-cost. From the above tables, we also observe that though GPT4V is expensive and can capture images, its judgment performs worse than GPT4's judgment.