{"id":515060,"date":"2026-03-03T02:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T02:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/515060\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T02:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T02:34:08","slug":"trump-speaks-israel-lebanon-uae-kuwait-attacked-petrol-prices-set-to-rise-us-soldiers-kiled-etihad-emirates-flights-resume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/515060\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump speaks; Israel, Lebanon, UAE, Kuwait attacked; petrol prices set to rise; US soldiers kiled; Etihad, Emirates flights resume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the US and Israel\u2019s military campaign against Iran intensifies, Iran\u2019s retaliatory attacks have targeted Israeli and US military bases in at least nine countries so far \u2013 Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Oman and Cyprus.<\/p>\n<p>Another major front opened in Lebanon yesterday, after fire was exchanged between the Israeli military and Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon said the US and Israel\u2019s joint forces had hit more than 1000 targets in Iran since Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Where Israel and the US have struckIran: Iran, and its surrounding waterways, have been the targets of most US and Israeli strikes. Tehran, Iran\u2019s capital, has been hit by at least 13 strikes, BBC Verify reported.\u00a0Lebanon: The Israeli military has issued evacuation orders to parts of Beirut after it intercepted a drone fired by Lebanese militant group Hezbollah yesterday and launched strikes against known Hezbollah strongholds in Beirut.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Iran has responded with a series of retaliatory strikes across the Middle East, heavily concentrated in the Persian Gulf region.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s counter-strikesSaudi Arabia: Iranian drones targeted Saudi\u2019s largest oil refinery, causing it to close after a fire erupted at the facility.\u00a0Qatar: Iranian strikes were reported on a major gas plant.UAE: Iranian strikes have killed three in Dubai.\u00a0Kuwait: One death has been reported as a result of an Iranian strike.\u00a0Cyprus: An Iranian drone hit a British RAF base yesterday.Bahrain: The country\u2019s National Communication Centre reported an Iranian attack on the service centre of the US Navy\u2019s Fifth Fleet.Israel: 11 people have been killed in Iranian counter-strikes.\u00a0Jordan: Iranian ballistic missile strikes reportedly damaged military assets.\u00a0Oman: Iran hit a Palau-flagged oil tanker on Sunday off Oman\u2019s Musandam peninsula, injuring four people.Iraq: The city of Erbil has been battered with more than 70 Iranian missile and drone strikes since the start of the conflict, Iraq\u2019s Foreign Ministry said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Our map marks where strikes have been exchanged in the conflict so far.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the US and Israel\u2019s military campaign against Iran intensifies, Iran\u2019s retaliatory attacks have targeted Israeli and US&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-515060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}