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.

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 Iran’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.

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.

Kurdish paramilitary forces in Iraq have launched a ground military offensive into Iran against the Islamic Republic, with thousands of Kurdish fighters beginning to take combat positions inside Northwestern Iran on Monday, March 2, an Iranian Kurdish official tells i24NEWS.

Multiple strikes now across the Iranian capital of Tehran.

The Israeli Air Force has begun an additional wave of strikes targeting military infrastructure belonging to the Iranian regime across Tehran.

Speaking to reporters earlier during an event at the White House, President Trump said that things are going well on the “warfront” with Iran, stating that on a scale of 1 to 10 he would rate it “about a 15,” before claiming, “I think if we didn't do it first, they [Iran] would have done it to Israel, and give us a shot if that was possible.”

U.S. officials have confirmed to Fox News that a “thousands of Iraqi Kurds have launched a ground offensive in Iran.”

Multiple confirmations now including from Barak Ravid of Axios, citing a senior U.S. official, “Kurdish-Iranian militias have launched a ground offensive in northwestern Iran.”

Israeli officials confirm to N12 that Kurdish forces have engaged Iranian forces in Northwestern Iran.

Reports of gunfire and explosions over the Black Sea coastal city of Sukhumi in the Russian-backed Georgian breakaway nation of Abkhazia, amidst a possible drone attack, with air defense and electronic warfare activity confirmed by the Abkhazian Ministry of Defense.

The U.S. Senate just blocked the efforts of Democrats to force U.S. President Donald J. Trump to withdraw all stop the operation of U.S. forces against Iran.
The vote was 47-53.

The Deputy Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister of Iraqi Kurdistan had denied all reports today from media outlets, citing American, Israeli and Kurdish officials, regarding the start of a ground offensive by Iranian-Iraqi Kurds against forces of the Islamic Republic in Northwestern Iran.

After UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced that UK and Ukrainian counter unmanned aircraft systems (C-UAS) experts would be deploying to Gulf states to aid in C-UAS efforts, Tom Cotterill, defense editor at The Telegraph, has said that British C-UAS experts who trained alongside Ukrainians have now arrived in the Middle East.

The Saudi Ministry of Defense has announced that air defenses successfully intercepted three cruise missiles earlier outside Al-Kharj, to the south of the capital of Riyadh, that were launched by Iran.

Footage showing what appears to be an exoatmospheric ballistic missile interception, likely by a U.S. Army THAAD or U.S. Navy SM-3, earlier over Northeastern Syria near the border with Turkey. Unconfirmed reports suggest that the Iranian ballistic missile was attempting to target Incirlik Air Base, in what would be the second attack today against the territory of Turkey by Iran.

Video credit: @MHJournalist

Israeli strikes reported against a high-rise residential building in Beirut, Lebanon.

Footage posted by U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) showing highlights from the first “100 Hours” of Operation Epic Fury, the ongoing strike campaign against Iran.

U.S. Marine Corps Veteran Sgt. Brian McGinnis seen being manhandled and having his arm visibly broken by officers with the U.S. Capitol Police assisted by Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT), after McGinnis interrupted a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support to protest Israel and the ongoing war with Iran.

Senate Republicans respond to today’s incident involving Sen. Tim Sheehy and a Marine Veteran during a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support.

Per Fox News, U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth will travel to Central Command (CENTCOM) headquarters at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida tomorrow to be briefed by CENTCOM Commander Adm. Brad Cooper on ongoing operations against Iran.