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Security personnel stand guard as an ambulance enters inside the Karapitiya hospital, following a submarine attack on the Iranian military ship, IRIS Dena, off the coast of Sri Lanka, in Galle, Sri Lanka on March 5, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters Authorities at the National Hospital in Galle and navy sources said 87 bodies were brought in by…
Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut’s southern suburbs, Lebanon, on March 5, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP An air strike hit the Hezbollah stronghold of south Beirut on early Thursday (March 5, 2026), AFPTV images showed, shortly after Israel issued a warning ahead of an attack. Israel’s military earlier told residents to…
President Donald Trump on Tuesday (March 3, 2026) said that “someone from within” the Iranian regime might be the best choice to take power once the U.S.-Israel military campaign is completed — but said “most of the people we had in mind are dead.” The president, who four days ago had emphatically called on Iranians…
The Iran war has effectively halted oil tanker movement in the key Strait of Hormuz. But it’s also disrupting the wider global supply chain beyond oil, affecting everything from pharmaceuticals from India, semiconductors from Asia and oil-derived products like fertilisers that come from the West Asia. Cargo ships are stuck in the Gulf or making…
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U.S. President Donald Trump’s top national security advisers spent much of the day on Tuesday (March 3, 2026) making the case to Congress for the U.S.-Israel war on Iran, describing a rapidly evolving operation and leaving open the possibility of sending in American troops, Democrats and Trump’s fellow Republicans said. Secretary of State Marco Rubio,…
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The United Nations human rights office has called for an impartial investigation into the reported attack on a girls’ school in Iran, describing the incident as “horrific”. U.N. High Commissioner Volker Turk urged the forces behind the strike to examine the circumstances and share findings. Source link
Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to reporters before his scheduled House and Senate Intelligence Committees briefing about Iran on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Monday, March 2, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP The United States attacked Iran only after learning that ally Israel was going to strike and fearing Tehran would retaliate against U.S….
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In this video grab taken from footage broadcast by the U.K. Parliamentary Recording Unit (PRU) via the Parliament TV website on March 2, 2026, Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer, makes a statement to parliament on the situation in West Asia following the actions of the U.S. and Israeli militaries in Iran over the weekend. |…
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Smoke billows from an oil tanker under U.S. sanctions, that was hit off Oman’s Musandam peninsula, in this screen grab from a video obtained by Reuters on March 1, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters The attack on Skylight, a tanker with 15 Indian and 5 Iranian seafarers on board, has brought to the fore the…
Protesters gesture, as Hezbollah supporters rally in solidarity with Iran, after U.S. and Israeli strikes killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Beirut, Lebanon, on March 1, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters Israeli military said on Monday (March 2, 2026) that projectiles launched from Lebanon resulted in sirens sounding in several areas in northern…
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