The Latest: Trump seeks help opening Strait of Hormuz as Iran war chokes oil shipping

U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday helium has demanded astir 7 countries nonstop warships to support the Strait of Hormuz unfastened arsenic fears of a planetary vigor situation persist. Iranian strikes connected commercialized ships successful and astir the strait, and adjacent conscionable the menace of attacks, person slowed shipping determination to a trickle.

The U.S. and Israel person kept pummeling what they picture arsenic subject targets successful Iran’s capital, and Israel stepped up its run against Iran-backed militants successful Lebanon. More than 1 cardinal radical person been displaced successful Lebanon — astir 20% of the nation’s colonisation — arsenic U.N. peacekeepers accidental Israel is massing crushed troops on the border.

Iran has retaliated with persistent drone and rocket attacks connected neighboring countries, including lipid fields successful Iraq and the United Arab Emirates, wherever a drone onslaught temporarily closed Dubai’s airport, a important question hub.

The warfare has killed astatine slightest 1,300 radical successful Iran, astatine slightest 880 successful Lebanon and 12 successful Israel, according to officials successful those countries. The U.S. subject says 13 U.S. work members person been killed and astir 200 wounded.

Here is the latest:

Israel brings journalists to the Old City beatified tract damaged by shrapnel

Near the extortion of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate successful Jerusalem’s Old City, wherever shrapnel from an intercepted Iranian rocket fell Monday, Israel’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Oren Marmorstein accused Tehran of targeting beatified sites and trying to “escalate” the conflict.

Shrapnel besides fell adjacent the Western Wall, the holiest tract wherever Jews tin pray, and wrong the Al Aqsa Mosque compound, the third-holiest tract successful Islam.

Missile strikes connected Jerusalem successful the past person been rare, seemingly due to the fact that of the beingness of the mosque and the adjacent aureate Dome of the Rock.

Qatar reports rocket and drone attacks without casualties

Qatar’s Defense Ministry said it intercepted each of the drones — without saying however galore — and 13 missiles, portion 1 rocket landed successful an uninhabited area.

No casualties were reported, it said.

Fire astatine a UAE lipid tract aft a drone attack

No casualties were reported aft the drone deed the Shah lipid tract Monday evening successful Abu Dhabi, the superior of the United Arab Emirates, according to the sheikhdom’s media office.

It’s the 2nd onslaught connected an lipid installation successful the UAE connected Monday, aft a occurrence broke retired successful the Fujairah Oil Industry Zone pursuing a drone attack.

Israeli service says much missiles are fired from Iran

Moments later, sirens sounded successful parts of cardinal Israel and the West Bank

Kuwait reports much rocket and drone attacks

Kuwait’s Defense Ministry says aerial defence systems were responding to rocket and drone attacks Monday evening. It said explosions could beryllium heard amid the interception operations.

Israel approves caller conflict plans for continued crushed cognition successful Lebanon

The military’s main of staff, Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, said the Isareli service is “determined to deepen the cognition until each of our objectives are achieved.”

Speaking connected a sojourn to the bluish border, Zamir said “We are preparing for what comes adjacent and reinforcing the Northern Command with further troops successful bid to fortify the guardant antiaircraft posture, deepen the harm to Hezbollah, and propulsion the menace distant from the communities successful the north.”

The service said successful a connection that Zamir approved plans for “continued limited, targeted operations.”

A subject spokesperson said earlier connected Monday that the service had deployed further crushed troops into Lebanon for what it calls a “limited and targeted operation.”

Economic conditions are getting hard for Iranians amid war

A Tehran nonmigratory said workers paid by the time were struggling particularly hard due to the fact that of the war. The net blackout besides has hammered businesses that usually trust connected online sales.

“Money has go scarce, radical cannot bargain things, and businesses are being damaged,” the nonmigratory said, speaking connected information of anonymity for fearfulness of reprisals from the government.

The streets were busier than astatine the opening of the war, helium said, due to the fact that radical were increasing hopeless and needed to gain money.

Stores inactive had food. Fuel was not successful abbreviated supply. Utilities were inactive functioning. And radical could inactive retreat wealth from banks, helium said. But helium said radical were profoundly anxious arsenic the attacks persisted.

Even earlier the war, Iran’s system had been crippled by planetary sanctions.

UN adds to media speculation of a UN-led inaugural astir the Strait of Hormuz

U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric raised speculation astir an eventual U.N.-led inaugural aft saying the planetary interaction of restrictions oregon closure of the captious Strait of Hormuz “cannot beryllium underestimated.”

He referred to behind-the-scenes negotiations that led to the July 2022 woody that allowed Ukrainian atom exports done the Black Sea aft Russia’s invasion, saying “silence was the amended fractional of valor.”

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres “remains precise overmuch engaged and successful predominant interaction with elder officials successful the portion and beyond,” helium said, “but we’re not going to beryllium feeding the speculation.”

Dujarric said Guterres volition caput to Brussels connected Tuesday for meetings with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and different EU officials.

EU considers contiguous steps to easiness vigor costs amid the Iran war

As the Iran warfare sends vigor costs higher crossed the 27-nation European Union, Energy Commissioner Dan Jørgensen said EU vigor ministers met Monday successful Brussels to sermon targeted, impermanent steps to little bills for businesses and susceptible households.

Over the longer term, helium said the EU volition treble down connected cleanable vigor and home accumulation to trim reliance connected volatile planetary markets, referencing the EU’s propulsion to chopped dependence connected Russian vigor aft Moscow’s 2022 penetration of Ukraine.

“Now Europe faces again an existential choice: Stay babelike connected volatile planetary vigor markets, oregon yet instrumentality power of our ain vigor future,” helium said.

About 200 US troops wounded since commencement of the Iran war, subject says

About 200 U.S. troups person been wounded since the commencement of the Iran warfare though much than 180 work members person returned to duty, Capt. Tim Hawkins, the spokesperson for U.S. Central Command, told The Associated Press.

Hawkins said 10 work members are considered earnestly wounded.

The erstwhile update released past week by the Pentagon enactment the fig of wounded unit astatine astir 140 and 8 arsenic “severely injured.”

CENTCOM has not said erstwhile oregon wherever those troops were wounded, oregon fixed details connected the benignant of injuries.

Since the warfare successful Iran began, 13 U.S. work members person been killed.

An airstrike turns a constabulary presumption successful a Tehran vicinity to dust

A nonmigratory of Tehran was driving Monday erstwhile an airstrike destroyed a constabulary presumption successful the Iranian superior and heavy damaged vicinity shops nearby. It appeared the constabulary presumption had been abandoned days ago.

“The blast was truthful beardown it shook our eardrums. The cars successful beforehand of maine were astir wholly destroyed," the nonmigratory said, speaking connected information of anonymity for fearfulness of reprisals from the government.

He rapidly drove successful reverse to get away. Others abandoned their cars, helium said.

The authorities sealed disconnected the country and detained anyone trying to photograph it.

“The concern felt similar the extremity of the world,” helium said.

A drone onslaught targets an lipid tract successful confederate Iraq

Two Iraqi information officials said that the Majnoon lipid tract successful Iraq's confederate Basra state was targeted by 2 drones Monday.

No casualties were reported, and it was not instantly wide if determination was harm to the facilities.

Iraq’s lipid manufacture has been severely impacted by the American-Israeli warfare with Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a captious lipid trading corridor.

Another information authoritative said that aerial defenses changeable down a drone that attempted to people a U.S. logistics enactment halfway adjacent the Baghdad airport. The officials spoke connected information of anonymity due to the fact that they were not authorized to remark publicly.

Iran and Iran-backed Iraqi militias person launched dozens of attacks against U.S. facilities successful Iraq since the opening of the war.

United Nations peacekeepers spot Israeli buildup successful confederate Lebanon

There’s an “evident” buildup of Israeli troops wrong Lebanese territory successful astatine slightest six locations adjacent the Blue Line, the borderline with Israel, said the U.N. peacekeeping unit spokesperson Kandice Ardiel.

UNIFIL peacekeepers person besides seen clashes astir the villages of Odaisseh and Khiam successful the region. In immoderate cases, she said, Israeli crushed incursions reached astatine slightest 5 kilometers (3 miles) into Lebanese territory, though forces person not established imperishable positions that deep.

The Israeli subject has said it is moving much troops into Lebanon arsenic it attempts to propulsion Hezbollah distant from the borderline but has not fixed numbers.

U.N. peacekeepers person not been capable to determination astir oregon show the concern afloat due to the fact that of the existent fighting, Ardiel noted.

Strike successful Iraq kills 6 fighters with a unit that erstwhile fought the Islamic State group

Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces said Monday that 1 of its checkpoints successful Anbar state was deed and different 4 fighters were besides wounded successful summation to the six killed.

The PMF is simply a web of mostly Shiite, Iran-backed militias formed to combat the Islamic State radical aft extremists seized ample parts of Iraq successful 2014. Baghdad incorporated the PMF into its equipped forces successful 2016.

In practice, immoderate factions person continued to run extracurricular authorities power and person attacked U.S. troops during the existent American-Israeli warfare with Iran.

There was nary contiguous remark from the U.S. oregon Israel connected the strike.

Germany’s Merz warns Israel that a crushed violative successful Lebanon could spur an ‘exodus of refugees’

Speaking successful Berlin, the German chancellor condemned Hezbollah for entering the struggle “on behalf of Iran” and called connected the Lebanese militant radical to halt attacking Israel and to disarm.

At the aforesaid time, helium urged Israel to debar attacking civilians successful Lebanon and said a wider crushed warfare “would further exacerbate the already highly tense humanitarian situation.”

“We truthful impulse our Israeli friends: Do not instrumentality this path,” Merz said of a broader crushed offensive. “It would beryllium a mistake.”

Germany’s Merz says Iran warfare tin lone extremity with a governmental solution

“Bombing it into submission is, successful each likelihood, not the close approach,” to creating a antiauthoritarian authorities successful Iran, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said. “There volition beryllium nary subject solution here.”

Responding to Trump’s calls to nonstop warships to constabulary the Strait of Hormuz, Merz said “NATO is simply a antiaircraft alliance, not an interventionist one.” Mertz spoke Monday aft gathering with the Dutch premier minister.

NATO troops deployed for 18 years to Afghanistan and its 2011 aerial run helped topple Libya’s precocious person Moammar Gadhafi.

Jerusalem’s Old City country is deed by shrapnel from an Iranian rocket interception

There were nary reports of injuries aft chunks of twisted metallic smashed into areas of Israeli-annexed eastbound Jerusalem, including the Old City.

Shrapnel deed the rooftop of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate successful Jerusalem, according to the Patriarchate, conscionable meters from the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, wherever galore Christians judge Jesus was crucified and roseate from the dead.

Israel’s Fire and Rescue work said a ample portion from an intercepted rocket struck a location successful eastbound Jerusalem’s Silwan neighborhood, which is adjacent to the Old City walls.

Another ample fragment landed successful the gait of a location successful Sheikh Jarrah, conscionable northbound of the Old City, according to the Jerusalem Governate. Both are predominantly Palestinian neighborhoods.

Although wartime harm to the Old City is comparatively rare, it contains sites that are ineffable to Jews, Muslims and Christians, meaning immoderate hits oregon near-misses sharpen the conflict’s stakes.

Trump says he’s frustrated astir a deficiency of ‘enthusiasm’ from different countries to articulation successful policing the Strait of Hormuz

The president said astatine an lawsuit astatine the White House connected Monday that “numerous countries” person told him “they’re connected the way” to assistance constabulary the strait but helium complained astir their reluctance.

“The level of enthusiasm of enthusiasm matters to me,” helium said.

He seemed to suggest their hesitancy showed a deficiency of reciprocity by countries that person defence agreements with the U.S.

“I cognize that we’ll support them and if ever needed, if we ever needed help, they won’t beryllium determination for us,” helium said.

Egypt’s apical diplomat is visiting determination allies

To reiterate Cairo’s enactment for nations impacted by Iranian aerial attacks, Egypt’s Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty connected Monday concluded a circular of visits to Oman, Qatar, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.

His talks successful Riyadh are expected to sermon de-escalation efforts and “creating a coordinated Arab determination to support sovereignty and resources of Arab countries,” according to a Foreign Ministry statement.

A caller connection is issued successful the sanction of Iran’s caller ultimate person amid reports helium was wounded successful an airstrike

Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei said each those antecedently appointed to authorities positions by his father, the precocious Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, volition stay successful their posts.

Mojtaba Khamenei has not been seen successful nationalist since helium was chosen to regenerate his father, who was killed successful the archetypal question of U.S.-Israeli airstrikes connected Iran. Mojtaba Khamenei’s connection Monday was carried connected respective semiofficial quality sites.

The decease toll successful Lebanon from Israeli strikes increases to 886

That’s up from 850 killed arsenic of Sunday, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry.

On Monday, the ministry said the decease toll includes astatine slightest 111 children and 67 women. The fig of wounded has climbed to 2,141 people, including 332 children and 362 women.

The latest circular of warring betwixt Israel and Hezbollah began connected March 2. Israel says it is striking Hezbollah militants and infrastructure.

The Israeli strikes person mostly been successful confederate and eastbound Lebanon arsenic good arsenic parts of Beirut, and person targeted buildings, vehicles and adjacent tents for internally displaced people.

More than 800,000 radical — astir 1 retired of each 7 residents of Lebanon — person been displaced aft Israel ordered radical to evacuate ample swathes of the country.

Israeli ambassador doesn’t regularisation retired sending navy to constabulary Strait of Hormuz but says it should beryllium a planetary effort

A time aft Trump demanded different countries to articulation a conjugation to constabulary the Strait of Hormuz, Israel’s envoy to the U.N. tried to marque the lawsuit that the load shouldn’t beryllium conscionable connected America’s closest state successful the region.

“We recognize the request to enactment the effort of the U.S. and it should beryllium a planetary effort,” Danny Danon said. “You look astatine Israel, a tiny state and you cognize Iran is I deliberation 80 times bigger than Israel and we instrumentality a batch of the load for the world.”

Israeli ambassador says ‘a fewer players’ are trying to mediate talks with Lebanon

Israel’s U.N. ambassador Danny Danon told reporters Monday that a fewer countries are trying to mediate and big talks betwixt Israel and Lebanon but that his state is determined to “degrade” Hezbollah’s capabilities earlier immoderate negotiations tin instrumentality place.

“Our connection to the Lebanese authorities is simple: measurement up. Step in,” Danon said. “Since the ceasefire successful November 2024, the Lebanese authorities has not done what it needed to bash to dismantle Hezbollah.”

He added, “Lebanon indispensable restrain Hezbollah now, oregon we will.”

IEA says exigency lipid stocks could beryllium tapped again if needed

The 32 subordinate countries of the International Energy Agency could merchandise much lipid from exigency stockpiles if necessary, connected apical of 400 cardinal barrels announced past week. That was the connection Monday from IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol.

Birol said past week’s merchandise was a “buffer for now” that had helped restrain the summation successful lipid prices. But helium added determination are “a batch of stocks near contempt this immense release.”

That means “we tin bash much later, arsenic and if needed.”

Birol says members person a further 1.4 cardinal barrels successful reserves oregon manufacture stocks that governments could access.

The IEA caput says the azygous astir important origin for a instrumentality to unchangeable flows of lipid and state would beryllium a resumption of tanker postulation done the Strait of Hormuz.

Before the Iran war, the planetary system consumed astir 101 cardinal barrels of lipid a day. Brent crude is trading astatine implicit $100 a barrel.

Shrapnel from Iranian rocket barrage falls adjacent the Church of the Holy Sepulchre successful Jerusalem

Shrapnel from an interception fell connected the rooftop of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate successful Jerusalem, according to the Patriarchate. That’s conscionable meters from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, built connected the spot wherever Christian contented holds that Jesus was crucified, buried and resurrected.

There were nary contiguous reports of injuries from the impact.

Jerusalem’s Old City, wherever determination are beatified sites ineffable to Muslims, Christians, and Jews, has travel nether uncommon occurrence this war. In past rocket exchanges with Iran — including the 12-day-war — the metropolis had been spared the harm seen successful adjacent cities similar Tel Aviv oregon Beersheba.

But since the commencement of the astir caller war, shrapnel has struck aggregate sites adjacent to the Old City, including homes successful eastbound Jerusalem, a main road into Jerusalem and a performance venue successful West Jerusalem.

Falling lipid prices nonstop stocks higher

Oil prices are down, and stocks are up Monday, though specified moves person been speedy to alteration since the warfare successful Iran began.

The S&P 500 roseate 1% successful aboriginal trading, coming disconnected its 3rd consecutive losing week, its longest specified streak successful a year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 325 points, oregon 0.7%, arsenic of 9:35 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 1.2% higher.

The operator for markets erstwhile again was the terms of oil. A tube of benchmark U.S. crude fell 4.1% to $94.62, easing immoderate unit disconnected the system aft topping $102 earlier successful the morning. Brent crude, the planetary standard, fell 1.4% to $101.72 per tube aft earlier getting arsenic precocious arsenic $106.50.

Oil prices person been mostly ripping higher from astir $70 per tube since the United States and Israel began their attacks connected Iran.

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Lebanon’s overseas ministry criticizes Hezbollah implicit shooting astatine UN peacekeepers

In a Monday statement, the ministry recalled the government’s determination which prohibits “the subject and information activities of Hezbollah.”

It added that the ministry’s presumption successful the substance is wide successful which “no equipped radical operating extracurricular the authorization of the state” volition beryllium permitted to gully Lebanon further into instability successful work of agendas that tally antagonistic to Lebanon’s nationalist interests.

The ministry was seemingly referring to Iran, Hezbollah’s main backer.

The U.N. peacekeeping unit successful Lebanon known arsenic UNIFIL said Sunday that peacekeepers were fired upon, “likely by non-state equipped groups” connected 3 abstracted occasions portion conducting patrols astir their bases successful 3 villages successful confederate Lebanon.

The U.N. peacekeeping unit did not accidental Hezbollah was down the attacks.

Genesis Prize doubles grant to histrion Gal Gadot

Israel’s Genesis Prize says it’s doubling the prize it’s awarded to Israeli histrion Gal Gadot to $2 cardinal to beforehand healing and resilience successful Israel.

The “Wonder Woman” prima was named this year’s laureate successful November for her enactment of Israel. She dedicated the $1 cardinal prize to organizations that “help Israel heal” aft much than 2 years of war.

The Genesis Prize, on with the Jewish Funders Network, a radical of philanthropic leaders, said Monday they were doubling that acquisition with matching funds.

“At a clip erstwhile Israel’s caregivers are stretched beyond capacity, we indispensable guarantee that those who are helping others heal person the enactment they need,” Andres Spokoiny, president and main enforcement of the network, said successful a statement.

The prize is granted each twelvemonth to a idiosyncratic for their nonrecreational achievements, contributions to humanity and committedness to Jewish values.

White House property caput Karoline Leavitt says China travel could beryllium postponed

Leavitt says “leader-to-leader” talks betwixt Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are happening and that “at this point,” Trump looks guardant to visiting China.

But those dates “may beryllium moved,” she said.

“As commander-in-chief, it’s his fig 1 precedence close present to guarantee the continued occurrence of this Operation Epic Fury,” Leavitt told reporters astatine the White House connected Monday morning.

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent downplays lipid terms surge

The treasury caput followed Trump’s pb Monday and dismissed concerns astir rising lipid prices since the commencement of the Iran war.

Bessent accused the media of “trying to marque it into immoderate situation that it’s not,” and helium insisted prices would travel down aft the struggle ends.

“I don’t cognize however galore weeks it volition be, but connected the different broadside of this, the satellite volition beryllium safer, and we volition beryllium amended supplied,” Bessent said connected CNBC.

He said the Treasury Department hasn’t traded lipid futures to effort to headdress prices. Asked whether it would going forward, the caput said: “I’m not definite nether what authorization oregon what auspices” that would happen.

Trump’s Interior Secretary Doug Burgum told Bloomberg Television implicit the play that the medication has talked astir that strategy.

UAE reports attacks by 6 missiles and 21 drones

The United Arab Emirates was attacked Monday with six ballistic missiles and 21 drones coming from Iran. That’s according to the Emirati Defence Ministry.

The ministry tallied 304 ballistic missiles, 15 cruise missiles and 1,627 drones since the commencement of the war.

The attacks killed 7 radical including 2 troops, it said.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer defends determination to disagree with Trump

Starmer has defended resisting Trump’s unit for the U.K. to articulation the warfare against Iran, saying helium has “stood by my principles.”

Trump has berated the British person for limiting the usage of U.K. bases by American warplanes and declining to nonstop an craft bearer to the Middle East. Trump complained to the Financial Times that “when I asked for them to come, they didn’t privation to come.”

Starmer said astatine a quality league Monday that British troops should lone beryllium sent into enactment that is ineligible and has “a due thought-through plan.”

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