War in the Middle East

IDF Releases List of Senior Iranian Officials Killed in Joint U.S.-Israeli Strikes

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The IDF published a list of Iranian officials killed in Saturday’s joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran. “Hundreds of Israeli Air Force fighter jets, directed by precise IDF intelligence, struck hundreds of military targets belonging to the Iranian terror regime across Iran,” the release stated. The army listed the following security and ...

Khamenei Has Been Killed in Iran Strikes, Israeli Media Reports

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A senior Israeli official said that Ayatollah Khamenei has been killed in strikes in Tehran, Israel’s N12 News reports. According to AFP, Israeli media has reported that a photo of Khamenei's body was shown to Trump and Netanyahu, according to Axios’ Barak Ravid Khamenei’s body has reportedly been found and recovered in his ...

30 Bombs Dropped on Compound of Iran's Khamenei: Israel's Channel 12

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The joint US-Israeli operation against Iran on Saturday involved the dropping of 30 bombs on the compound of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Israel's Channel 12 network reported. "Thirty bombs were dropped on the complex. Ali Khamenei was underground, but probably not in his own bunker," Channel 12's Amit Segal, ...

New Strikes on Iraq Base Housing Pro-Iran Group: Sources

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New strikes hit an Iraqi military base housing the pro-Iran armed group Kataeb Hezbollah just hours after an earlier attack blamed on the US killed two fighters, several sources told AFP. "New stikes hit the Jurf al-Nasr base," said a source from the Hashed al-Shaabi, a former paramilitary group now integrated into the regular army. A Kataeb ...

Loud Explosions Heard Across the Gulf

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AFP correspondents heard a loud explosion in Dubai on Saturday and one of them saw a plume of smoke rising from the city. The explosions came in the wake of wide-ranging Iranian attacks on the Gulf, in retaliation for US and Israel strikes on Iran. Residents and AFP correspondents in the Emirati, Qatari and Bahraini capitals heard more ...

Israelis Shelter Underground as Iran Fires Missiles

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Across Israel, city streets stood deserted on Saturday as residents took cover in shelters, while the blasts from Iranian missiles being intercepted reverberated overhead. It was the second time in under a year that Israelis were undertaking this grim wartime routine, having first fled Iranian missiles during a 12-day war between the arch-foes ...

Top Turkey Diplomat Spoke to Iran FM Over 'Ways to End the Attacks': Ministry Source

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Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan spoke by phone to his Iranian counterpart and several other regional diplomats Saturday about ways to "end the attacks" triggered by Israel-US strikes on Iran, a ministry source said. During his talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, "the latest developments in our region were ...

Inside the Historic 2026 U.S. Military Buildup Leading to the Iran Strikes

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The U.S. and Israel have begun conducting joint strikes on Iran on February 28 following a historic U.S. military buildup in the Middle East. This is Beirut compiled a timeline of the 2026 buildup leading up to the attacks, revealing preparations for using large amounts of force against Iranian targets. The 2026 U.S. Military Buildup The U.S. ...

Gulf Countries Respond to Regional Escalation

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United Arab Emirates In an official statement, the UAE said, “The Iranian attack on our territory is a serious escalation and a cowardly act.” The UAE added that it reserves the right to respond to the missile attack in accordance with international law after Iranian ballistic missiles targeted U.S. military bases in the Gulf. The ...

Five Killed in South Syria by Depot Explosion, Not Iran Missile: State TV

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A detonation in an ammunition and missile depot in southern Syria's Sweida killed five people on Saturday, state media said, after initial reports blamed an Iranian missile. "The explosion that occurred today in the city of Sweida was caused by the detonation of an ammunition and missile depot belonging to the National Guard," a ...

France Seeks UN Security Council Meeting on Iran-U.S. Conflict

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French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday called for an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council after the US and Israeli strikes on Iran and Tehran's retaliation, saying the escalation "must stop". "France is calling for an urgent meeting of the United Nations Security Council," Macron wrote on X. "The ongoing ...

Trump: ‘Sometimes You Have to’ Use the Military

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President Donald Trump expressed his dissatisfaction with the rounds of nuclear talks between U.S. and Iranian officials. “I’d love to not use [the military] but sometimes you have to,” Trump said in a press briefing. “They should make a deal, and they don’t want to quite go far enough,” he said, “every ...