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The Israeli Air Force has announced that fighter and strike aircraft targeted Iranian air defense and detection systems at Mehrabad International Airport in Tehran early Wednesday.
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Per Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a single Mk. 48 torpedo was used to sink the IRIS Dena off the coast of Sri Lanka.
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When asked on Russia and China's statements on the ongoing strikes against Iran and if it factors into the U.S. decision-making process, U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said โ€œI donโ€™t have a message for them and they are not really a factor here.โ€
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Photo from the briefing at the Pentagon detailing strikes from both the U.S. and Israel and strikes from Iran.
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Video just now released showing the sinking of the IRIS Dena off the coast of Sri Lanka with a Mk. 48 Torpedo.
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Final moments of the IRIS Dena before heading to the bottom of the Indian Ocean, after being torpedoed this morning by a submarine with the U.S. Navy.
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An Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer with the U.S. Navy, positioned in the Eastern Mediterranean, utilized a Standard Missile 3 (SM-3) to intercept an Iranian medium-range ballistic missile that was launched overnight at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey, a U.S. military source told @michaeldweiss with The Insider.
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An Iraqi security source told Al Arabiya, the Logistics Support Headquarters for the U.S. Embassy was targeted at the Camp Victory Complex near Baghdad International Airport.
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Wow, overhead imagery dated March 3, 2026, shows a massive hole in the burned out hull of the Russian-flagged liquified natural gas tanker, M/T ARCTIC METAGAZ, part of Russiaโ€™s โ€œshadow fleetโ€ sanctioned by the United States, which reportedly caught fire yesterday in the Mediterranean after being targeted by an unidentified naval drone near Malta.
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U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has published stills from todayโ€™s targeting of the IRIS Shahid Sayyad Shirazi, a Soleimani-class corvette with Iranโ€™s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN), off the coast of Bandar Abbas in the Strait of Hormuz. CENTCOM states that more than 20 ships with the IRGCN and Iranian Navy have been targeted and sunk since the start of Operation Epic Fury.
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Video filmed from the deck of a bulk cargo ship in the Middle East shows several BGM-109 Tomahawk Land Attack Cruise Missiles (TLAM) launched by the U.S. Navy pass overhead on their way towards targets in Iran.
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B-2A โ€œSpiritโ€ Long-Range Strategic Stealth Bombers with the U.S. Air Force are expected to land at the British air base in Diego Garcia and at RAF Fairford โ€œin a matter of daysโ€ to join attacks on Iran, according to sources who spoke to The Telegraph.
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Reports of explosions and the activation of air defenses near Erbil International Airport in Kurdistan, Northern Iraq.
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Iraq has been plunged into a nationwide blackout, as explosions and possible strikes are reported across several areas of the country, according to sources with Iraqโ€™s Electricity Ministry to Rudaw English.
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Footage of additional U.S. strikes against ballistic and cruise missile launch sites in the south of Iran, published by U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM).
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The UK Ministry of Defense has announced that a Shahed-like attack drone which struck RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus overnight on March 2 was determined to have not been launched from Iran, likely instead originating from Lebanon.
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Two Shahed-style attack drones, likely launched by Iranian-backed groups in Lebanon at RAF Akrotiri and/or other British bases in Cyprus, were downed Wednesday over the Eastern Mediterranean approaching Cyprus by F-16C Fighting Falcons with the Greek Hellenic Air Force.
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During a closed-door briefing Tuesday with lawmakers on Capitol Hill, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine acknowledged that Iranโ€™s Shahed-style attack drones represent a major challenge, posing a bigger problem than anticipated, adding that air defenses will not be able to intercept them all, two sources in the briefing told CNN.
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Most leave has been cancelled for soldiers, warrant officers, and officers in the Azerbaijani Armed Forces, with troops being placed on combat alert and deployed to the border with Iran, as the ongoing war between Israel, Iran and the United States enters its fourth day and continues to spread across the Middle East, sources have told the independent media outlet Qazetchi.
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