🇭🇺🇸🇰 — 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)

🇫🇷 — France will name its future aircraft carrier “France Libre” (French President)

🇮🇱🇱🇧 — Israel struck two bridges over Lebanon’s Litani River (Israeli Defense Minister)

🇦🇫🇵🇰 — Afghanistan confirms that it has paused its “defensive operations” against Pakistan (Taliban-led government)

🇨🇴🇪🇨 — Ecuador denies accusations that it bombed targets in neighboring Colombia (Ecuadorian President)

🇮🇸🇪🇺 — Iceland expressed hope that it will join the EU as early as 2028 (Icelandic Foreign Minister via Reuters)

🇮🇷🇶🇦 — Qatar reports that an Iranian attack caused a fire at Ras Laffan Industrial City (Qatari Interior Ministry)

🇮🇷🇶🇦 — Damages caused by an Iranian attack on Ras Laffan Industrial City are “extensive” (Qatar Energy)

🇮🇷🇮🇱 — Israel struck multiple Iranian vessels in the Caspian Sea (IBA)

🇨🇷🇨🇺 — Costa Rica will close its embassy in Cuba to “​cleanse the hemisphere of Communists” (Costa Rican President)

🇻🇪 — Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez dismissed her defense minister (statement on X)