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<\/p>\n 33m ago<\/p>\n UAE says it was exposed to over 1,000 attacks from Iran<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 1h ago<\/p>\n Fire near US embassy in Dubai<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 1h ago<\/p>\n Trump says US Navy to escort tankers through Strait of Hormuz ‘if necessary’<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 2h ago<\/p>\n France sending only aircraft carrier to Mediterranean and further defences to Cyprus, Macron says<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 2h ago<\/p>\n British F-35 jets shoot down drones over Jordan, Iraq and Qatar<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 2h ago<\/p>\n Israeli military says it struck a compound in Iran operated to develop capabilities for nuclear weapons<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 2h ago<\/p>\n US military says it has hit more than 1,700 targets since beginning of operation against Iran<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 3h ago<\/p>\n Israel says it killed commander of Iran’s Quds Force in Lebanon<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 3h ago<\/p>\n The day so far<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 4h ago<\/p>\n Trump says he is ‘not happy’ with UK and ‘cuts off’ all trade with Spain over Iran<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 4h ago<\/p>\n Trump insists Israel did not force US hand and repeats claim Iran was going to attack first<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 6h ago<\/p>\n IDF claims to have struck building housing Iran’s Assembly of Experts – report<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 7h ago<\/p>\n IDF announces more strikes on Tehran<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 8h ago<\/p>\n Tens of thousands of people left stranded in the Middle East as conflict complicates routes home<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 8h ago<\/p>\n UK considering sending warship to Cyprus to defend RAF airbase<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 8h ago<\/p>\n Interim summary<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 9h ago<\/p>\n UAE air defences tallied 186 missiles, 812 drones launched toward country since start of conflict<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 9h ago<\/p>\n Drone crashes near Salalah port in Oman<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 9h ago<\/p>\n Amid soaring energy prices, QatarEnergy to halt production of some downstream products<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 10h ago<\/p>\n Iran\u2019s women\u2019s team decline to sing national anthem before Asian Cup tie<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 10h ago<\/p>\n At least 30,000 displaced in Lebanon, UN says<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 11h ago<\/p>\n IAEA confirms damage to Iran’s Natanz nuclear site<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 11h ago<\/p>\n Iranian Red Crescent updates death toll to 787<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 12h ago<\/p>\n Albanese working with UAE over Australians stranded because of flight disruptions<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 12h ago<\/p>\n State media: Oman port targeted in suspected drone strike<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 12h ago<\/p>\n Israel accuses Spanish prime minister of being on wrong side of history<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 13h ago<\/p>\n Trump criticises Starmer, laments US-UK relationship in interview with The Sun<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 13h ago<\/p>\n IDF positions soldiers in southern Lebanon<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 14h ago<\/p>\n Israel\u2019s Iran war brings new Gaza siege that threatens hunger crisis<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 14h ago<\/p>\n Interim summary<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 14h ago<\/p>\n US orders ‘non-emergency\u2019 staff to leave Qatar and Kuwait<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 15h ago<\/p>\n US orders ‘non-emergency\u2019 staff to leave Bahrain, Jordan and Iraq<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 16h ago<\/p>\n Iran claims attack on US air base in Bahrain<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 16h ago<\/p>\n US claims to have destroyed Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ command facilities<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 16h ago<\/p>\n Opening summary<\/p>\n <\/a>Show key events only<\/p>\n Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature<\/p>\n Three paramedics have been killed and six were wounded in Lebanon\u2019s Tyre district as they were recovering victims after an airstrike, according to the World Health Organisation\u2019s office in Lebanon.<\/p>\n The WHO said health workers \u201cmust never be targeted\u201d.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has given more details on a drone striking a car park adjacent to the U.S. consulate in Dubai.<\/p>\n He said: \u201cAs I came in, I also saw the media reports about Dubai\u2019s consulate. The last update I had with seconds before getting before these cameras was that a drone unfortunately struck a parking lot adjacent to the to the Chancery building, and then set off a fire in that place.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAll personnel are accounted for. As you\u2019re aware, we began drawing down personnel from our diplomatic facilities in advance of this,\u201d Rubio added.<\/p>\n He said: \u201cBut our embassies and our diplomatic facilities are under direct attack from a terroristic regime\u201d.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>UAE says it was exposed to over 1,000 attacks from Iran<\/p>\n The UAE\u2019s foreign ministry said it has been exposed to over 1,000 attacks from Iran since it launched retaliatory strikes in the region in response to US-Israeli strikes.<\/p>\n It added it did not allow its territory to be used in any attack on Iran<\/a> and it has not taken any decision to change its defensive stance towards the attacks, Reuters reports.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a015.57 EST<\/p>\n Israel\u2019s UN envoy Danny Danon told reporters the Lebanese government should act now against Hezbollah to prevent further escalation.<\/p>\n Danon added more than a year since the UN security council reaffirmed that Hezbollah must disarm and withdraw from south Lebanon, \u201cit has done the exact opposite.\u201d<\/p>\n He added: \u201cWe expect the Lebanese Government to restrain Hezbollah. Take control, act now to prevent further escalation.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a016.03 EST<\/p>\n Fire near US embassy in Dubai<\/p>\n Authorities have put out a limited fire in the vicinity of the US consulate in Dubai due to a drone strike and no injuries were reported, Dubai\u2019s media office said.<\/p>\n Smoke was seen rising from an area near the consulate, two witnesses told Reuters.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a015.56 EST<\/p>\n Trump says US Navy to escort tankers through Strait of Hormuz ‘if necessary’<\/p>\n Donald Trump has said the US Navy will begin escorting tankers through the strait of Hormuz as soon as possible \u201cif necessary\u201d.<\/p>\n In a post on Truth Social, the US president also said he had ordered the United States Development Finance Corporation to provide insurance and guarantees for the financial security of all maritime trade, including oil tankers, traveling through the Gulf region.<\/p>\n Iran closed the strait of Hormuz, one of the world\u2019s most critical shipping routes, last night, and threatened to attack any ship that tries to pass through, causing oil prices to soar.<\/p>\n Sustained disruption of shipping traffic in the strait, through which roughly 15% of the world\u2019s oil and 20% of its liquefied natural gas passes, poses significant risk to the global economy.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a014.52 EST<\/p>\n France sending only aircraft carrier to Mediterranean and further defences to Cyprus, Macron says in Paris<\/p>\n The French president Emmanuel Macron said in a televised address to the nation that he has ordered the French aircraft carrier, the Charles de Gaulle, its air assets and its frigate escort to set sail for the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n He said France has defence agreements with Qatar, Kuwait and the UAE and must show solidarity, but he said any action by France was \u201cstrictly defensive\u201d.<\/p>\n France must support its allies in the region and show it was a partner to be trusted, Macron said, adding that French anti-air systems and air radars had been deployed and would continue to be so.<\/p>\n France would also send defence systems to Cyprus and a frigate which would arrive off the coast of Cyprus tonight, the president said.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a014.37 EST<\/p>\n British F-35 jets shoot down drones over Jordan, Iraq and Qatar<\/p>\n The UK\u2019s Ministry of Defence said earlier that British F-35 jets had shot down hostile drones over Jordan, Iraq and Qatar.<\/p>\n UK forces are \u201cactively defending partners across the region as part of co-ordinated defensive action\u201d, the MoD said in a statement<\/a> on its website<\/p>\n It said this was the first time an RAF F-35 has destroyed a target on operations.<\/p>\n double quotation markRAF F-35B jets shot down drones over Jordan – the first time an RAF F-35 has destroyed a target on operations \u2013 supported by Typhoon jets and a Voyager tanker aircraft. A British counter-drone unit neutralised drones in Iraqi airspace heading towards Coalition forces, whilst an RAF Typhoon operating with the joint UK-Qatar 12 Squadron shot down an Iranian one-way attack drone directed at Qatar using an air-to-air missile on Monday.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a014.20 EST<\/p>\n Israeli military says it struck a compound in Iran operated to develop capabilities for nuclear weapons<\/p>\n The Israeli military said that it has struck a compound in Iran that it said aimed to develop \u201cnecessary capabilities\u201d for nuclear weapons, without providing any evidence for the assertion.<\/p>\n I\u2019ll bring you more on this as we get it.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>US military says it has hit more than 1,700 targets since beginning of operation against Iran<\/p>\n The US military has hit more than 1,700 targets in Iran since it began its operations in the country on Saturday, according to an update from the US Central Command.<\/p>\n The targets hit include missile sites, navy ships, submarines and control centres, it said.<\/p>\n Centcom added that the US used aircraft – including multiple fighter jets – as well as missile systems and ships to carry out the attacks.<\/p>\n Centcom is prioritising \u201clocations that pose an imminent threat\u201d, it said.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Israel says it killed commander of Iran’s Quds Force in Lebanon<\/p>\n The Israeli military said it has killed the commander of Iran\u2019s Quds Force in Lebanon, Daoud Ali Zadeh, in a strike on Tehran.<\/p>\n The Quds force is the unit of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in charge of foreign operations.<\/p>\n Iran has not yet commented on the IDF claim.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a014.11 EST<\/p>\n The US embassy in Beirut is closing until further notice \u201cdue to ongoing regional tensions\u201d.<\/p>\n In a post<\/a> on X, the embassy said regular and emergency consular appointments have been cancelled. \u201cWe will communicate when the Embassy returns to normal operations,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>The day so far<\/p>\n Donald Trump has claimed Iran was going to attack before he did, walking back his secretary of state Marco Rubio\u2019s assertion that Israel triggered the war. \u201cI think they were going to attack first, and I didn\u2019t want that to happen. So, if anything, I might have forced Israel\u2019s hand,\u201d Trump told reporters as he met German chancellor Friedrich Merz at the White House.<\/p>\n Trump said that the US and Israel<\/a> are hitting Iran \u201cwhere it is much more appropriate\u201d adding, \u201ceverything has been knocked out\u201d. This comes after the worst mass casualty<\/a> of the strikes so far, which was on a girls\u2019 elementary school in southern Iran. The devastating attack killed at least 168 people (our visual guide is here<\/a>). Iran, Trump said, \u201chave no navy, it\u2019s been knocked out, they have no air force, it\u2019s been knocked out, they have no air detection, that\u2019s been knocked out \u2026 Just about everything has been knocked out.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump also said he was upset with British prime minister Keir Starmer, who has not joined the US-Israeli attack on Iran but did let US forces use UK bases. \u201cI\u2019m not happy with the UK,\u201d the US president said. \u201cIt\u2019s taken three, four days for us to work out where we can land,\u201d Trump said. Referring to Starmer, he added: \u201cThis is not Winston Churchill that we\u2019re dealing with.\u201d<\/p>\n It came as Trump said the United States would cut off all trade with Spain after the country refused to let the US military use its bases for missions linked to strikes on Iran. \u201cSpain has been terrible,\u201d Trump told reporters, adding that he had told Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to \u201ccut off all dealings\u201d with Spain. \u201cWe\u2019re going to cut off all trade with Spain. We don\u2019t want anything to do with Spain,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n The Iranian Red Crescent Society said at least 787 people had been killed since the conflict began. The worst mass casualty event of the US-Israeli military assault so far has been the direct strike on a girls\u2019 elementary school in Minab on Saturday, which killed up to 168 people. You get a sense of the devastation through our visual guide, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Israel launched further strikes in Tehran and Beirut, saying it was targeting Iranian military sites and the Iran-backed group Hezbollah, as its troops intensify their incursion into Lebanon. Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 52 people and displaced at least 30,000 in Lebanon.<\/p>\n Israel also struck the building of Iran\u2019s assembly of experts, which is responsible for electing Iran\u2019s next supreme leader. Iranian news agencies confirmed that attack and said there were no casualties (the building wasn\u2019t in use at the time).<\/p>\n Iran continues to retaliate by striking US targets and allies, prompting the US to close embassies in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Lebanon and warn Americans to leave more than a dozen countries in the region (many are scrambling to do so, and we have a story on that here<\/a>).<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a013.49 EST<\/p>\n France will deploy anti-missile and anti-drone systems to Cyprus, the Mediterranean island\u2019s government said, following a drone attack on a British base.<\/p>\n After four Greek F-16 fighter jets arrived on the island and two Greek frigates set sail for Cypriot waters, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said Cyprus had secured additional backing from key EU partners.<\/p>\n \u201cFrance\u2019s assistance has been finalised and concerns a frigate equipped with anti-ballistic and anti-drone systems,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Saeed Shah<\/p>\n Fear, defiance, and quiet celebration intermingled in Tehran with everyday chores, locals said, as Iran\u2019s capital continued to be rocked by American and Israeli airstrikes.<\/p>\n Residents said that many had moved to the countryside or were trying to do so, believing that it was safer away from military targets. In Tehran, military and police installations were located in residential areas. There were rumours that security forces were moving into schools and mosques.<\/p>\n Reza, a carpenter who did not want to give his full name, said over the phone that vital public services like hospitals were open, but schools were closed. More security forces and their vehicles were visible on the streets, he said.<\/p>\n \u201cThe situation in Tehran is very tense, people are scared, and everyone is trying to stay home,\u201d said Reza. \u201cPeople are gripped by huge fear about more airstrikes.\u201d<\/p>\n Amid an internet blackout, people were struggling to figure out how much of Iranian media reports about airstrikes at home and the country\u2019s successes in hitting Israel and other nations was true. Some said that they were surprised how strong Iran\u2019s military appeared to be, targeting many nations simultaneously and managing to keep up the barrage.<\/p>\n The streets of Tehran were quiet, but grocery shops and even restaurants were open. When there were airstrikes, people rushed to the roofs of their buildings to see what was hit.<\/p>\n The Guardian spoke to residents among the few in Tehran who had internet access over encrypted services, and reached others on their landlines.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Oman\u2019s foreign minister reaffirmed on Tuesday his country\u2019s call for an immediate ceasefire in the conflict between Iran and the US and Israel<\/a> and a return to responsible regional diplomacy.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are off-ramps available, let\u2019s use them,\u201d Badr Albusaidi said in a post on X.<\/p>\n The Gulf country had been mediating talks between Iran<\/a> and the United States before the Israeli and US airstrikes began on Saturday.<\/p>\n Share<\/a> Israel and the US\u2019s war on Iran is just days old, yet it is already unfolding as an environmental catastrophe that will reverberate across the region for years to come.<\/p>\n As the death toll mounts, so too is the devastation from oil spills from damaged supertankers, heavy metal contamination from bombed military sites and leaks of volatile chemicals from damaged fossil energy infrastructure.<\/p>\n![\"Angelique](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Angelique_Chrisafis.png\")
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