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The war US, Israel, and Iran entered into its ninth day on Sunday.
US President Donald Trump said he does not neeed UK to send aircraft carriers to the Middle East for a war "they have already won."
The United States struck more than 3,000 targets during the first week of the Iran war, the US military said on Friday. Iran targeted Qatar with 10 drones, Doha's defence ministry said in a statement as the Islamic republic pressed its air campaign against Gulf states.
The Israeli military announced that it has killed Hezbollah commander Zaid Ali Jumaa in Beirut. Lebanon was pulled into the rapidly escalating conflict on Monday after Iran‑backed Hezbollah launched attacks on Israel in retaliation for the killing of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
Saudi Arabia said a military projectile killed two people, an Indian and a Bangladeshi national, marking its first reported deaths linked to the conflict, according to a report by Associated Press
ترامپ میگفت قیمت نفت خیلی بالا نخواهد رفت حالا که بالا رفته میگوید به زودی اصلاح میشود!
— محمدباقر قالیباف | MB Ghalibaf (@mb_ghalibaf) March 8, 2026
اگر جنگ همینطور ادامه پیدا کند نه راهی برای فروش نفت میماند و نه توانی برای تولید آن.
نه تنها منافع آمریکا که منافع کشورهای منطقه و جهان را هم پای توهمات نتانیاهو میسوزانند. #اول_اسرائیل
Nearly 83 children were killed among the 394 people during the conflict between Israel and the Hezbollah militant group over the past week, AP reported quoting Lebanon’s health minister as saying on Sunday.
UAE’s Defense Ministry says it has intercepted all 16 missiles, while the 17th fell into the sea. It also says it intercepted most of the drones, but four of them fell in UAE territory, according to AP.
Iranian news agency Mehrr news reported as saying that Iran has chosen its new supreme leader. However, the country has not disclosed any details so far.
Israel has struck southern Lebanon and Beirut again early Sunday and killed 12 more people, the Lebanese health ministry said, as the war in the Middle East keeps escalating.
Israeli officials said the strikes targeted commanders of the Lebanese branch of Iran's Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised “many surprises” for the next phase of the conflict.
(Source: PTI)
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) claims that its forces targeted Al-Adiri airbase in Kuwait with drones and missiles, according to the Fars news agency.
The report quoted IRGC as saying that the base destroyed US helicopter repair centres, fuel tanks and command centre.
“After this wave of attack, a terrible fire broke out in this base, and thick, black smoke is still rising from this base and can be seen from far away,” the report said.
(Source: Al Jazeera)
At least four tanker drivers have been killed in Israel’s attacks on Iranian oil depots in Tehran and the province of Alborz, according to the Fars news agency.
The Israeli attacks hit four oil storage facilities and one oil production transfer centre in Tehran and Alborz, it said.
Despite the attack, “there is no shortage of fuel distribution” and security forces “are currently engaged in firefighting operations,” it said.
Bahrain says Iran drone attack damages desalination plant.
(Source: Bloomberg)
Bahrain’s Interior Ministry says sirens have been activated in the country. “Citizens and residents are urged to remain calm and head to the nearest safe place,” it said in a brief statement.
(Source: Al Jazeera)
Israel has raided on the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital Beirut.
(Source: Al Jazeera)
Hezbollah says targeted Israel army site southeast of Tel Aviv.
While speaking to reporters aboard in a US air force fighter jet, President Donald Trump said that Iran's apology to its neighbours is s surrender in the war.
Kuwait’s government says its air defences have intercepted and destroyed three ballistic missiles a short while ago.
It also said firefighters are trying to control and put out two blazes after drone attacks on the fuel tanks at the Kuwait International Airport and the main building of its Public Institution for Social Security.
(Source: Al Jazeera)
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(Source: IndiGo statement)
'The United Kingdom, our once Great Ally, maybe the Greatest of them all, is finally giving serious thought to sending two aircraft carriers to the Middle East. That’s OK, Prime Minister Starmer, we don’t need them any longer — But we will remember. We don’t need people that join Wars after we’ve already won!" Donald Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
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