🇺🇦 — Ukraine has sent 201 drone experts to the Middle East (Ukrainian President via AFP)

🇨🇳 — China’s arms imports more than halved (-72%) between 2016–20 and 2021–25 (SIPRI)

🇨🇴🇪🇨 — Bombings on the border between Ecuador and Colombia have left 27 ”charred bodies” (Colombian President)

🇸🇴 — Somalia’s South West State is severing all relations with the country’s federal government (South West officials)

🇮🇷🇮🇱 — Israeli airstrikes killed the commander of Iran’s Basij paramilitary force (IRCG via Fars New Agency)

🇦🇿 — Azerbaijan will keep its borders closed until the summer of 2026 to “prevent the spread of COVID-19” (AZERTAC)

🇱🇧🇸🇾🇺🇸 — The US denies seeking to draw Syria into hostilities against Hezbollah in Lebanon (US Special Envoy for Syria)

🇮🇳 — India was the second-largest recipient of major arms in 2021–25, behind Ukraine (SIPRI)

🇮🇷 — Iran confirms the death of Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Ali Larijani (Fars News Agency)

🇳🇬 — Multiple suicide bombings killed at least 23 people in Maiduguri, Nigeria (Nigerian police)

🇭🇺🇸🇰 — Hungary and Slovakia have agreed to build a new oil pipeline linking the two countries (Slovak Energy Ministry)

🇹🇲 — Turkmenistan’s armed forces are experiencing mass resignations and desertions (The Times of Central Asia)

🇮🇷🇦🇪 — The UAE intercepted over 2,000 projectiles launched by Iran since the start of the war (UAE Defense Ministry)

🇱🇧🇸🇾 — Lebanon has transferred 132 Syrian detainees to their home country (Syrian Embassy in Lebanon via SANA)

🇨🇳🇯🇵 — The number of Chinese visitors to Japan plummeted by 45.2% year-over-year in February (JNTO)

🇮🇷🇮🇱 — Israel has authorized its military to kill any Iranian official identified by intelligence (Israeli Defense Minister)

🇮🇶🇹🇷 — Iraq has resumed oil exports from its fields in Kirkuk to the Turkish port of Ceyhan after a three-year hiatus (NOC)

🇮🇷🇸🇪 — Iran executed a Swedish national (Swedish Foreign Minister)

🇮🇷🇮🇱🇶🇦 — Qatar condemns Israel’s attack on an Iranian gas field as an “irresponsible act” (Qatari Foreign Ministry)

🇹🇷 — Turkish defense company Baykar unveiled the K2, a new AI-powered one-way attack drone (Breaking Defense)

🇦🇫🇵🇰 — Pakistan will temporarily halt its military operations against Afghanistan (Pakistani Information Minister)