Updated at\u00a017.31 EST<\/p>\n
Key events<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n 29m ago<\/p>\n Lebanon bans Hezbollah military actions<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 1h ago<\/p>\n The day so far<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 1h ago<\/p>\n Israel working to intercept new missiles launched from Iran<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 2h ago<\/p>\n Trump claims Iran ‘would have had nuclear bomb three years ago\u2019<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 2h ago<\/p>\n US urges citizens to immediately depart over a dozen Middle Eastern countries<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 2h ago<\/p>\n Israeli military says it has launched new waves of strikes on Tehran<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 3h ago<\/p>\n Marco Rubio says US would not ‘deliberately’ target a school<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 3h ago<\/p>\n US attacked Iran ‘pre-emptively’ after learning Israel was going to launch strikes – Rubio<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 3h ago<\/p>\n Six US service members killed in Iran, military says<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 4h ago<\/p>\n Strait of Hormuz closed, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards says<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 4h ago<\/p>\n ‘Killing terrorists is good for America’: White House says 49 senior Iranian leaders killed in strikes<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 4h ago<\/p>\n US military claims it has destroyed all Iranian ships in Gulf of Oman<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 4h ago<\/p>\n Israel’s UN envoy says Iran operation will last ‘as long as it takes’<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 5h ago<\/p>\n UK ‘doesn’t believe in regime change from the skies’, says Starmer<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 5h ago<\/p>\n The day so far<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 6h ago<\/p>\n Israeli strikes kill over 50 in Lebanon<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 7h ago<\/p>\n Trump says US’s mission in Iran ‘substantially ahead’ and could last 4-5 weeks<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 7h ago<\/p>\n US continues to carry out ‘large-scale operations’ in Iran, Trump says<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 8h ago<\/p>\n Trump doesn’t rule out possibility of US boots on ground in Iran<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 8h ago<\/p>\n Trump on Iran strikes: ‘The big wave hasn\u2019t even happened’<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 9h ago<\/p>\n Iran Revolutionary Guards say targeted 500 US, Israeli sites<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 10h ago<\/p>\n IDF says it launched a ‘broad wave’ of attacks ‘in the heart of Tehran’<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 11h ago<\/p>\n Pentagon to brief media this morning on Trump’s Iran strikes<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 11h ago<\/p>\n Fourth US service member ‘killed in action’ – Centcom<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 11h ago<\/p>\n QatarEnergy halts liquefied natural gas production after attacks<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 12h ago<\/p>\n What we know so far…<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 12h ago<\/p>\n Two drones heading towards RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus intercepted, spokesperson says<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 13h ago<\/p>\n US says three jets ‘went down’ over Kuwait ‘due to an apparent friendly fire incident’<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 13h ago<\/p>\n Iran’s ‘reckless’ attacks threaten regional stability, US and allied Gulf states say<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 13h ago<\/p>\n Saudi Arabia halts some operations at Ras Tanura refinery after reported attack<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 14h ago<\/p>\n Mass evacuation of cities across Middle East may be necessary if nuclear power stations attacked, UN nuclear chief says<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 15h ago<\/p>\n IDF says ‘all options on table’ in response to question about possible ground invasion of Lebanon<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 15h ago<\/p>\n At least 555 people have been killed in Iran by US-Israeli attacks, Iranian Red Crescent Society says<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 15h ago<\/p>\n Saudi oil refinery reportedly halts operations after drone attack<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 16h ago<\/p>\n Kuwait says ‘several’ US warplanes have crashed in the country, with all the crew surviving<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 17h ago<\/p>\n Summary<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 17h ago<\/p>\n Israeli military says fighting Hezbollah could take ‘many’ more days<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 18h ago<\/p>\n US embassy in Kuwait warns of attack threat and urges people to take cover<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 18h ago<\/p>\n Israeli strikes in Lebanon kill 31 \u2013 report<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 18h ago<\/p>\n Iran launches another attack wave on Israel and Gulf cities<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 19h ago<\/p>\n Israeli general says strikes on Lebanon will intensify<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 19h ago<\/p>\n Iran’s security chief says it ‘won’t negotiate’ with US<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 20h ago<\/p>\n At least 10 killed in Israeli strikes on Beirut \u2013 report<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 21h ago<\/p>\n Streams of people flee Beirut amid airstrikes and evacuation orders<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 21h ago<\/p>\n UK responding to suspected drone strike at Cyprus base, says MoD<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 22h ago<\/p>\n Opening summary<\/p>\n <\/a>Show key events only<\/p>\n Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature<\/p>\n Loud explosions have reportedly been heard and clouds of smoke seen in the diplomatic quarter of Riyadh, the Saudi capital.<\/p>\n We\u2019ll bring you more on this soon.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a018.55 EST<\/p>\n Israel\u2019s military has just been quoted as saying it has launched fresh strikes on Hezbollah targets in Beirut, after warning it would press ahead with its campaign against the Iran-backed group.<\/p>\n \u201cThe IDF is currently striking Hezbollah command centres and weapons storage facilities in Beirut,\u201d said a statement from the military on Tuesday, quoted by AFP.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a018.50 EST<\/p>\n Lebanon bans Hezbollah military actions<\/p>\n Lebanon\u2019s government has taken the unprecedented step of banning Hezbollah\u2019s military and security activity, prompting the Iran-backed group to lash out at the decision.<\/p>\n The Lebanese prime minister, Nawaf Salam, was quoted by AFP as saying after an emergency cabinet meeting on Monday:<\/p>\n double quotation markThe Lebanese state declares its absolute and unequivocal rejection of any military or security actions launched from Lebanese territory outside the framework of its legitimate institutions.<\/p>\n This necessitates the immediate prohibition of all of Hezbollah\u2019s security and military activities, considering them to be outside the law, and obliging it to hand over its weapons.<\/p>\n Hezbollah is represented in both the government and parliament, and the government\u2019s move came hours after the Iran-backed militant group said it had attacked Israel<\/a> early on Monday to avenge the killing of Iran\u2019s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei.<\/p>\n File shot of Hezbollah fighters holding their group flags at a parade in Beirut. Photograph: Hussein Malla\/AP<\/p>\n Israel later began bombarding Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs and southern Lebanon, killing at least 52 people and wounded 154, according to the Lebanese government.<\/p>\n In response to the government\u2019s ban, the head of Hezbollah\u2019s parliamentary bloc, Mohammed Raad, condemned Beirut\u2019s \u201crash decisions\u201d, saying that \u201cthe Lebanese were expecting a decision rejecting the [Israeli] aggression\u201d.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a018.41 EST<\/p>\n Several international airlines are resuming a small number of flights from the United Arab Emirates as war-driven airspace closures strand tens of thousands of travellers.<\/p>\n Emirates, Etihad and FlyDubai said on Monday they would operate select departures and arrivals after having suspended flights over the weekend, the AP is reporting.<\/p>\n Dubai officials are telling passengers to go to the airport only if contacted.<\/p>\n Planes parked at terminal 3 of Dubai international airport on Monday. Photograph: Raghed Waked\/Reuters<\/p>\n Foreign governments are urging their citizens to shelter in place while officials explore evacuation options.<\/p>\n The German government said it planned to send planes to Oman and Saudi Arabia to evacuate ill travellers, children and pregnant people.<\/p>\n As reported earlier, the US state department has urged Americans to immediately depart more than a dozen Middle Eastern countries amid the war on Iran.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a018.19 EST<\/p>\n The day so far<\/p>\n The Israeli military says it has begun a new wave of strikes on Tehran. This came shortly after the military issued an evacuation warning for Tehran residents, especially those located near the headquarters of Iran\u2019s state broadcaster IRIB.<\/p>\n Israel\u2019s military said just after midnight (local time) on Tuesday that it was working to intercept a new wave of missiles launched from Iran, warning residents in multiple locations to seek shelter.<\/p>\n The US attacked Iran \u201cpre-emptively\u201d on Saturday to protect US forces from retaliation after learning that Israel<\/a> was going to strike, Marco Rubio told reporters on Monday.<\/p>\n The US state department has urged Americans to immediately depart more than a dozen Middle Eastern countries amid US-Israeli strikes against Iran.<\/p>\n White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has said that \u201c49 of the most senior Iranian regime leaders\u201d have been killed in the US-Israeli strikes on Iran, declaring that \u201ckilling terrorists is good for America\u201d. That number includes supreme leader Ali Khamenei.<\/p>\n The number of US service members killed in Iran<\/a> has risen to six, the US military said on Monday.<\/p>\n The US military said that it has struck over 1,250 targets in Iran since operations started on Saturday.<\/p>\n Israel and the US will not stop their military campaign against Iran until its objectives are achieve, Israel\u2019s ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, said earlier.<\/p>\n Earlier, UK prime minister Keir Starmer said that his government does not \u201cbelieve in regime change from the skies\u201d as he set out to parliament why Britain will not join its closest military partner in offensive action against Iran \u2013 suggesting that to do so would be unlawful.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Further to Chuck Schumer\u2019s comments<\/a> we brought you a few minutes ago, US senator Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the intelligence committee, has said there was no imminent threat from Iran to the United States before the bombing campaign.<\/p>\n Exiting the classified briefing on the war, Warner told the New York Times that if a threat to Israel<\/a> is now to be considered equivalent to an imminent threat to the United States, he said, then the Trump administration is \u201cin uncharted territory\u201d.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Israel working to intercept new missiles launched from Iran<\/p>\n Israel\u2019s military said just after midnight (local time) on Tuesday that it was working to intercept a new wave of missiles launched from Iran, warning residents in multiple locations to seek shelter.<\/p>\n \u201cA short while ago, the IDF identified missiles launched from Iran<\/a> toward the territory of the State of Israel. Defensive systems are operating to intercept the threat,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a017.48 EST<\/p>\n The US Senate\u2019s Democratic minority leader Chuck Schumer said a briefing from Trump administration officials about the US war with Iran \u201craised many more questions than it answered\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cLook, a whole lot of questions were asked. I found their answers completely and totally insufficient,\u201d Schumer told reporters as he exited the meeting. He departed without taking questions.<\/p>\n US secretary of state Marco Rubio as well as CIA director John Ratcliffe are among those briefing Congress leaders in a classified facility in the Capitol.<\/p>\n A reminder that you can follow our US politics live blog for more US-focused reaction and developments:<\/p>\n Share<\/a> in Larnaka<\/p>\n Over in Cyprus local officials are confirming that nearly all residents have been evacuated tonight from the village of Akrotiri surrounding the British RAF facility that has been targeted by combat drones.<\/p>\n \u201cEveryone has left with the exception of about 20 people who refused to leave\u201d the area\u2019s deputy mayor Giorgos Konstantinos told the Guardian. \u201cIt\u2019s been a mass evacuation given the circumstances and fear.\u201d<\/p>\n Police forces had been bolstered tonight around the RAF base from where non-essential personnel have also been removed to other parts of the sovereign base areas – a legacy of colonial rule – for safety following the midnight drone attack on Sunday.<\/p>\n It is still unclear if the unmanned vehicles, another two of which were intercepted earlier on Monday<\/a>, were deployed against the base from Iran, or fired by Iranian proxy forces in Lebanon.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Trump claims Iran ‘would have had nuclear bomb three years ago\u2019<\/p>\n Donald Trump has claimed, without evidence, that had he not ripped up the Iran<\/a> nuclear deal signed by former US president Barack Obama in 2015, Tehran would have had a nuclear bomb by now.<\/p>\n He wrote on his Truth Social platform:<\/p>\n double quotation markIf I didn\u2019t terminate Obama\u2019s horrendous Iran Nuclear Deal (JCPOA), Iran would have had a Nuclear Weapon three years ago. That was the most dangerous transaction we have ever entered into, and had it been allowed to stand, the World would be an entirely different place right now. You can blame Barack Hussein Obama, and Sleepy Joe Biden. THANK YOU PRESIDENT TRUMP!<\/p>\n The IAEA verified that Iran was complying with the JCPOA, which limited its uranium enrichment, at the time. It only breached those limits after Trump pulled the US out of the agreement in 2018.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a017.25 EST<\/p>\n Further to our earlier post<\/a>, the Israeli military said it has targeted the complex of Iran\u2019s state broadcaster IRIB in Tehran, following an evacuation warning for the area.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>US urges citizens to immediately depart over a dozen Middle Eastern countries<\/p>\n The US state department has urged Americans to immediately depart more than a dozen Middle Eastern countries amid US-Israeli strikes against Iran.<\/p>\n US citizens were urged to depart using commercial means from Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, the [occupied] West Bank and Gaza, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates and Yemen, according to Mora Namdar, the department\u2019s assistant secretary for consular affairs.<\/p>\n Hundreds of thousands of travellers are currently stranded in the Gulf states, as the airspace over some of the world\u2019s busiest international airports, including Dubai and Abu Dhabi, closed over the weekend.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a017.31 EST<\/p>\n The US embassy in Kuwait was struck by drones, three diplomatic sources have told AFP after smoke was seen rising from the diplomatic mission earlier.<\/p>\n One Kuwait-based diplomat and a Western diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the embassy had been damaged by a number of drones while a second Kuwait-based diplomat said the embassy building had been struck directly in the attack.<\/p>\n As an AFP correspondent saw smoke rising from the diplomatic mission on Iran\u2019s third day of retaliatory Gulf attacks, the US embassy said that people should not come to the facility, warning of \u201ca continuing threat of missile and UAV [drone] attacks over Kuwait\u201d.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a016.57 EST<\/p>\n Israel\u2019s military has issued a new evacuation warning for residents of the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon.<\/p>\n We will bring you the latest updates as we get them.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Israeli military says it has launched new waves of strikes on Tehran<\/p>\n The Israeli military says it has begun a new wave of strikes on Tehran. This came shortly after the military issued an evacuation warning for Tehran residents, especially those located near the headquarters of Iran\u2019s state broadcaster IRIB.<\/p>\n Israel\u2019s Channel 12 reports Iranian television is one of the targets of the latest strikes, citing an Israeli source.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a016.38 EST<\/p>\n The US will take action to mitigate a spike in energy prices after the Iran<\/a> conflict has sent oil prices rising, Marco Rubio said on Monday.<\/p>\n The US secretary of state said more detail on the plans would come on Tuesday. He spoke shortly after the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps announced it had closed the Strait of Hormuz \u2013 critical to the global flow of oil shipments \u2013 and would fire on any ships trying to pass.<\/p>\n Rubio told reporters: \u201cStarting tomorrow, you will see us rolling out those phases to try to mitigate against that … We anticipated this could be an issue.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Marco Rubio says US would not ‘deliberately’ target a school<\/p>\n US secretary of state Marco Rubio insisted the US would not \u201cdeliberately\u201d target a school, after Iran said 168 people died in an alleged US-Israeli strike.<\/p>\n \u201cThe United States would not deliberately target a school. Our objectives are missiles, both the ability to manufacture them and the ability to launch them,\u201d Rubio told reporters, while adding that the Pentagon was investigating the alleged incident.<\/p>\n The strike on school appears to be the worst mass casualty event of the US-Israeli-led bombing campaign on Iran<\/a> so far.<\/p>\n![\"Chris](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Chris_Stein.png\")
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