🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 The U.S. now has 15 bombers (12 B-1Bs and 3 B-52s) at RAF Fairford in the UK flying missions against Iran.

Footage shows U.S. B-1B bombers being loaded with bunker-buster JDAM bombs at RAF Fairford.

This suggests improving air superiority over parts of Iran, allowing bombers to carry out direct strikes on hardened targets such as bunkers and underground facilities instead of relying only on cruise missiles.

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🇮🇷⚔️🇺🇸🇦🇪 Chinese sailors filmed Iranian missile strike on the Fujairah oil storage facility in the UAE.

Patriot interceptors attempted two interceptions, firing six missiles, but failed to stop the strike.

The video is a few days old.

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🇮🇱🇸🇴⚔️🇾🇪 Israel is quietly exploring plans to establish a security presence or potential military base in Somaliland, near the entrance to the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.

The move would give Israel a strategic position to monitor and potentially conduct operations against Houthi forces in Yemen.

The idea follows Israel’s recognition of Somaliland in December, opening the door for deeper security cooperation, intelligence sharing, and possibly a permanent foothold near one of the world’s most important maritime trade routes.

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🇺🇸🛢 Trump says US will tap Strategic Petroleum Reserve — POLITICO

President Donald Trump said Wednesday the U.S. will release crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, its boldest attempt yet to bring down oil prices that have spiked since the U.S. launched its war against Iran.

“We’ll do that, and then we’ll fill it up,” Trump told Cincinnati news station Local 12 in an interview Wednesday afternoon. “I filled it up once, and I’ll fill it up again. But right now, we’ll reduce it a little bit, and that brings the prices down.”

Trump did not specify how much oil his administration would release or the timing of the move. It comes after the International Energy Agency announced earlier Wednesday it would coordinate the largest release of reserves in the body’s history, consisting of 400 million barrels of oil, from its 32 members, which include the U.S., Japan, Germany, the U.K. and France.

📝: Contrary to what Trump says, he did not fill up the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve, failing on yet another campaign promise of his. On top failing to fill it up after former president, Joe Biden, emptied it for the 2022 Midterms, Donald Trump attacked Iran seemingly oblivious to the consequences such an action would have on gas prices.

🔗 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/11/trump-strategic-petroleum-reserve-00823816

🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 President Trump declared victory in the war with Iran.

"(...) And we've won, oh let me tell you, we've won. You never like to say too early that 'you've won' but we've won (...)".

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🇮🇷⚔️🇺🇸 White House correspondent for CBS News, Jennifer Jacobs wrote on X/Twitter:

Multiple US and state law enforcement and intel officials told CBS News there is no credible intelligence underpinning the bulletin distributed on the unverified possibility that Iran could retaliate for American attacks by launching drones at the West Coast. "This is not actionable,” a California-based federal law enforcement official told CBS.

“All this means is we got this information and we want to get it out to law enforcement executives to make sure they’re up to speed on it,” another California law enforcement official said. “There is absolutely nothing more to it.”

The bulletin to local law enforcement by the FBI’s Los Angeles division stemmed from an apparent tip that surfaced **prior** to the Iranian conflict.

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🇺🇸🌾🚜 Iowa farmer:

"We've had this huge jump in fertilizer prices because of this conflict. With 30% of fertilizer coming through the Strait or Hormuz, we've only been in conflict for 12 days here, and our fertilizer costs have jumped 77%".

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🇮🇷⚔️🇦🇪 UAE has faced more than 3× the number of Iranian drones and missiles compared to Israel.

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🇸🇩⚔️🇸🇩 The Sudanese Army (SAF) started a major offensive against the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Kordofan.

The RSF's main supplier, the UAE, hasn't been able to deliver any ammunition or fuel in close to two weeks as continued Iranian attacks have kept the Emirati Air Force grounded, hiding away in reinforced aircraft shelters.

The longer Iran bombs the UAE, defeat for the RSF looks ever so certain.

An RSF defeat would be a great victory for Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and a major defeat for Ethiopia on top of the UAE, reshaping the balance of power in the Horn of Africa.

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🇧🇭🇯🇴 Bahrain called in Jordanian Riot police last week, a first for the country since 2011 during the Arab Spring.

Bahrain is a kingdom led by a Saudi-backed Sunni dynasty, the Al Khalifa Family, ruling over a majority Shia population with strong cultural and historic ties to Iran.

In 2011, after protests toppled the Tunisian and Egyptian governments, the Shias of Bahrain and some Sunni Arabs tried to topple the Khalifa Family only for the revolt to be put down by Saudi and Emirati troops.

Last week, after Iran started bombing the country, protests broke out against the Bahraini government over its alliance with the U.S. which ultimately made the country a target for Iran.

Bahrain's king, Hamad bin Isa al Khalifa, called in Jordan riot police to quell the unrest last week and seemingly succeeded in doing so.

🔗 https://capitalandempire.com/p/bahrain-imports-anti-riot-troops

🇱🇧❌🇮🇱 — Hezbollah launches towards Tel Aviv.

🇮🇷❌🇮🇱 — Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps joins the missile party.

🇮🇱🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — 5 explosions occurred before sirens were activated in Central Israel amidst the Hezbollah missile attack.