NEW: IDF sources say an Israeli fighter jet was nearly shot down during an airstrike in Iran, but the attempt failed due to the pilot’s alertness.

Israel says multiple attempts have been made to down Israeli jets over Iran.

🇮🇷🇰🇼⚡️- BREAKING: Several drones have struck Kuwait International Airport.

🇮🇷🇰🇼⚡️- The airport's radar system was struck and damaged, no casualties.

🇨🇭🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Switzerland closed its airspace for U.S. military flights linked to the Iran war, citing the nation's tradition of neutrality in armed conflicts.

The Iraqi resistance has released a video of an FPV drone flying freely over US Victoria Base near Baghdad International Airport. It highlights the lack of any attempt by US forces to shoot down the drone, which eventually strikes a target. The use of FPV drones could soon spread across Iraqi territory, thereby increasing the number of casualties (WIA or KIA) among US forces and allied Kurdish militias in the area. 🇮🇶 🇺🇸

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🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: Chinese satellite imagery indicates that the USS Abraham Lincoln has moved away from Iran’s coast and is now operating near Salalah, Oman, behind the coastal mountain range. The carrier is now more than 1,100 km from Iran, after previously being observed about 350 km from the Iranian coast.

The USS Gerald R. Ford has also repositioned, moving further south in the Red Sea and operating off the coast of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - Earlier this week, US Central Command (CENTCOM) repudiated Iranian claims that the two aircraft carriers retreated from the Arabian Sea.

The open-source satellite imagery now available proves the carriers have indeed repositioned to be out of range of Iranian missiles.

Palantir has demonstrated its Maven Smart System, which uses artificial intelligence to analyze intelligence data and help plan military operations.

There goes Weeb Union in his cart.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- BREAKING: The US is set to announce a coalition of multiple countries that will escort commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Район Покровска, Гришино. В принципе, привязки уже появляются. На данный момент можно сказать, что ведётся зачистка н.п.

Добропольский выступ, северный фланг. Бойцы 150-й МСД расширили зону контроля в районе Новопавловки. Идут бои за Павловку.

Reporter: Are you ready to officially declare victory?

Trump: No, I don’t want to do that. There’s no reason to.

It appears Strait of Hormuz has been partially mined by Iran.

The Pakistani Aframax tanker Karachi transited on March 15–16 with AIS turned on, openly broadcasting its position, unusual if the area were fully mined.

Its route hugged Iranian waters, suggesting controlled or safer lanes.

Countries responding to Trump’s proposed Strait of Hormuz naval coalition:

🇫🇷 France: Refused to join.

🇦🇺 Australia: Declined participation.

🇯🇵 Japan: Refused deployment.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom: Reluctant.

🇰🇷 South Korea: Reviewing the proposal.

🇨🇳 China: Rejecting military involvement.

🇩🇪 Germany – Explicitly refused.

🇮🇹 Italy – Part of the EU Aspides mission discussion but no commitment to Hormuz deployment.

🇮🇳 India – Not joining coalition; pursuing direct diplomacy with Iran and escorting some tankers independently.

Professor John Mearsheimer:

Israel has become an albatross around America’s neck.

A great power should not allow a minor power to shape its grand strategy.

It just goes to show you how enormously powerful the lobby is.

When you look at this conflict, it is seriously eroding our capability to contain China in East Asia. We’re pulling THAADs and Patriots out of South Korea and Japan. This is truly remarkable.

We have been shortchanging East Asia.

We have been shortchanging our containment policy in East Asia for quite a while now because of Israel, and the situation is now only getting worse.