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The Israeli Air Force has begun an additional wave of strikes targeting military infrastructure belonging to the Iranian regime across Tehran.
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Speaking to reporters earlier during an event at the White House, President Trump said that things are going well on the โ€œwarfrontโ€ with Iran, stating that on a scale of 1 to 10 he would rate it โ€œabout a 15,โ€ before claiming, โ€œI 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.โ€
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U.S. officials have confirmed to Fox News that a โ€œthousands of Iraqi Kurds have launched a ground offensive in Iran.โ€
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Multiple confirmations now including from Barak Ravid of Axios, citing a senior U.S. official, โ€œKurdish-Iranian militias have launched a ground offensive in northwestern Iran.โ€
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Israeli officials confirm to N12 that Kurdish forces have engaged Iranian forces in Northwestern Iran.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Israeli strikes reported against a high-rise residential building in Beirut, Lebanon.
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Footage posted by U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) showing highlights from the first โ€œ100 Hoursโ€ of Operation Epic Fury, the ongoing strike campaign against Iran.
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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.
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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 Subcommitteeโ€ฆ
Senate Republicans respond to todayโ€™s incident involving Sen. Tim Sheehy and a Marine Veteran during a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support.
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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.
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The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Office has just published a new advisory about a suspected attack on a merchant ship in the Northern Persian Gulf 30NM southeast of Mubarak Al Kabeer, Kuwait. The ship reported a large explosion on the port (left) side of the ship and a visible oil sheen on the water as a small craft departed the vicinity.
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Worrying reports of an incident earlier today over Iran. More details are expected to be revealed soon.
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On Monday, a Qatari F-15QA shot down a pair of Iranian Su-24s that were detected crossing that Persian Gulf at low-altitude in the direction of Qatar, with officials telling CNN that the Su-24s came โ€œwithin two minutesโ€ of launching strikes on U.S. forces at Al Udeid Air Base.
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The U.S. Department of Defense has identified the fifth soldier of six that were killed while serving with the U.S. Armyโ€™s 103rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command at the Port of Shuaiba in Kuwait on Sunday, after the Tactical Operations Center (TOC) they were in was struck by a one-way attack drone launched from Iran. The fifth soldier is identified as Maj. Jeffrey R. O'Brien, 45, of Indianola, Iowa, who died on March 1, 2026, in Kuwait.
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The U.S. Department of Defense had identified who is believed to be the sixth and final reserve soldier with the U.S. Armyโ€™s 103rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command that was killed in an Iranian drone strike at the Port of Shuaiba in Kuwait on Sunday, as Chief Warrant Officer 3 Robert M. Marzan, 54, of Sacramento, California, who was at the scene of the incident and has been missing since March 1, 2026. Positive identification of Chief Warrant Officer 3 Marzan will be completed by the medical examiner, as an investigation continues into the attack on the Port of Shuaiba.
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