Crude oil prices are exploding right now, with Crude Oil WTI up over 10 points in the last few hours, continuing to rise past $116/barrel as the ongoing war in the Middle East shows no signs of ending soon.

Large fire seen burning this morning at the primary refinery for the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) near the capital Manama, following a combined drone and missile attack earlier by Iran against Bahrain.

Another angle of the fire currently burning at the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO), following an attack this morning by Iran.

Newly released video shows the moment that a BGM-109 Tomahawk Land Cruise Attack Missile (TLAM) fired by the U.S. Navy struck a facility operated by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the Southern Iranian city of Minab on February 28, 2026. In the video, smoke can be seen rising on the right side of the screen from several other buildings that had previously been struck, one of those being the Shajareh Tayyebeh Girls’ Primary School, where upwards of 175 children were killed in what appears to have been a U.S. missile strike on the first day of Operation Epic Fury.

The Turkish Ministry of National Defense has announced that NATO air and missile defense assets in the Eastern Mediterranean, likely an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer with the U.S. Navy, intercepted an Iranian ballistic missile this morning over Turkey, with debris from the intercept falling onto an open area in Gaziantep.

The U.S. Embassy in Ankara has ordered all non-essential personnel to depart the Consulate in Adana, located near NATO’s Incirlik Air Base, which has been targeted several times in the last week by ballistic missiles fired by Iran, while urged Americans to immediately leave Southeastern Turkey.

The UAE Ministry of Defense has published the latest data, as of March 9, regarding the number of Iranian drones and missiles fired at and intercepted by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) since the start of military operations by Israel and the United States on February 28:

- 1359/1440 One-Way Attack Drones
- 233/253 Ballistic Missiles
- 8/8 Cruise Missiles

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has published footage showing strikes against surface-to-air systems and ballistic missile launchers in Iran.

Footage shows a vessel with the Iranian Naval Forces, believed to likely be a Shahid Soleimani-class missile corvette operated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN), explode today off the coast of Bandar Lengeh in the Persian Gulf, following a strike by the United States.

The UAE Ministry of Defence announced this morning the death of two members of the Emirati Armed Forces, following a helicopter crash due to a technical malfunction while performing their national duty, Monday, March 9, 2026.

Sailors on a cargo ship in the Arabian Sea film BGM-109 Tomahawk Land Attack Cruise Missiles (TLAM) fly overhead heading towards targets in Iran, in addition to several naval vessels, including the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) carrying out flight operations involving F/A-18E/F Super Hornet attached to Carrier Air Wing Nine (CVW-9).

The U.S. Department of Defense has identified a soldier who died of injuries sustained in an Iranian strike on the Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia on March 1, 2026, as Sgt. Benjamin N. Pennington, 26, of Glendale, Kentucky, who was assigned to 1st Space Battalion, 1st Space Brigade, out of Fort Carson, Colorado. This now makes 7 Americans killed-in-action, with an additional New York National Guardsman passing due to a medical episode in Kuwait.

This is also the first confirmation from either Saudi Arabia or the United States that Iran was able to successfully strike Prince Sultan Air Base near Riyadh.

According to a federal alert sent to law enforcement agencies seen by ABC News, U.S. officials have intercepted an encrypted communication believed to have originated in Iran that may serve as “an operational trigger” for “sleeper assets” outside the country based on “preliminary signal analysis.”

Three B-52H “Stratofortress” Long-Range Strategic Bombers with the U.S. Air Force’s 5th Bomb Wing, based out of Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota, landed earlier today at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, England, joining a number of B-1B Lancers that have already begun carrying out strike missions on targets in Iran.

Video credit: @AirportAction

As oil prices surge to levels not seen since 2022, the meeting of G7 finance ministers has reportedly agreed to, for now, not release their respective countries’ oil reserves today, per a G7 official, with ministers reportedly choosing to defer said decision to their respective leaders. However, a number of nations, including Germany and Japan, have voiced their willingness and/or desire to move forward with such a move, amidst the ongoing conflict between Iran and the U.S./Israel.

Video footage shows the moment that several cluster munitions from an Iranian medium-range ballistic missile impacted this morning in Central Israel.

According to Reuters, citing two sources close to the matter, Saudi oil giant Aramco has reduced output at two of its oil fields, amidst ongoing Iranian drone and ballistic missile strikes on oil and gas infrastructure in Saudi Arabia and the wider Gulf region. This follows similar actions from Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates, who have all seen their oil and gas infrastructure targeted by Iran since the start of the conflict in the Middle East.

Per a release from Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), MSC has made an “End of Voyage Declaration” for all exports from the Arabian and Persian Gulf, citing the ongoing conflict between Iran and the U.S./Israel.