The Latest: War engulfs the Middle East as markets drop and oil prices spike

U.S. President Donald Trump said “someone from within” Iran’s authorities mightiness beryllium champion suited to instrumentality powerfulness erstwhile the U.S.-Israeli warfare connected the state ends.

His remarks came 4 days into a warfare that has killed hundreds, astir each of them successful Iran, arsenic good arsenic galore of the country’s apical leaders, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Although Tehran has kept up its retaliatory rocket and drone strikes against Israel and crossed the Gulf — disrupting question and driving up lipid prices — the gait of Iranian attacks appears to beryllium slowing. However the struggle has besides dispersed to Lebanon, wherever Iran-backed Hezbollah fired missiles astatine Israel, prompting Israeli strikes successful Beirut and further unit deployments to confederate Lebanon.

The spiraling quality of the warfare has raised questions astir erstwhile and however it would end, and the Trump medication has fixed assorted objectives.

Here is the latest:

Palestinians anxious astir the interaction of Iran warfare connected them

In a structure campy successful Gaza’s confederate country of Khan Younis, Palestinians person been intimately pursuing quality astir the widening warfare and increasing progressively disquieted astir its imaginable interaction connected their lives.

“We are fed up with wars and the horrors of wars,” Ibrahim Atta, who was displaced from Rafah, said connected Tuesday.

Palestinians successful the campy were preparing elemental meals to interruption their accelerated during the 2nd week of the beatified period of Ramadan. Haunted by memories of scarcity past twelvemonth during months of Israel’s blockade, galore fearfulness that borderline crossings could again close.

“This volition impact america economically, and impact the crossings,” said Rami Abu Arida, who besides was displaced from Rafah. “Food and water, however tin they enter?”

Israeli subject spokesperson says gathering wherever clerics volition conscionable to prime caller ultimate person struck successful Qom

The Israeli subject spokesperson Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin said Tuesday that Israel struck a gathering successful Qom wherever clerics were expected to conscionable to sermon the enactment of a caller ultimate leader. He said the service was inactive assessing whether anyone was hit.

“We’re not going to fto this authorities rehabilitate its bid and power capabilities.,” helium said.

Kaine sees ‘troubling’ signifier of subject operations without legislature approval

Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., says there’s a “troubling pattern” of the Trump medication launching subject operations — from Venezuela to Nigeria and to Iran — without involving Congress.

The Trump medication has made a wont of not seeking authorization, providing nary precocious announcement and past holding a classified proceeding that restricts lawmakers’ quality to speech astir it publicly, Kaine said Tuesday.

Kaine said helium brought up his concerns during the administration’s closed-door briefing connected Tuesday to senators connected the subject cognition successful Iran. He said his constituent was not refuted.

“It’s convinced galore of america successful the country that you’ve decided that you volition ne'er travel to Congress,” Kaine told reporters astatine the Capitol aft the briefing. “You don’t deliberation you ever person to travel to Congress for warfare authorization.”

Pentagon releases names of troops killed successful drone onslaught successful Kuwait

The Pentagon has released the names of 4 of the six work members who person been killed successful the Iran war, saying they died successful a drone onslaught successful Kuwait.

All 4 Army Reserve soldiers were killed Sunday erstwhile a drone deed a bid halfway successful Port Shuaiba, Kuwait. That was conscionable a time aft the U.S. and Israel launched its subject run against Iran, which has launched retailatory strikes.

All were assigned to the 103rd Sustainment Command successful Des Moines, lowa.

Killed were Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35, of Winter Haven, Florida; Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42, of Bellevue, Nebraska; Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39, of White Bear Lake, Minnesota; and Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20, of West Des Moines, lowa, who was posthumously promoted from specialist.

Reports of Iran launching missiles targeting Israel, Qatar proceed overnight Tuesday

Qatar’s Ministry of Defense said aboriginal Wednesday that Iran launched 2 ballistic missiles against it and 1 deed Al-Udeid Qatari Base, though it didn’t origin casualties.

The different rocket was intercepted by aerial defense, the ministry said.

Israel besides said Iran had launched aggregate missiles targeting the northbound of the state overnight with nary reports of casualties determination either.

Sen. Hawley said Iran cognition is ‘rapidly evolving’ pursuing closed-door briefing

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-MO, said aft Tuesday’s closed-door briefing connected the Iran cognition that helium would inactive ballot ‘no’ connected a warfare powers resolution, “unless they were to present crushed troops.”

He added: “I didn’t perceive successful determination immoderate prediction of crushed troops.”

“Personally, I would anticipation for a precise swift conclusion, but I don’t cognize if that’s going to beryllium the case,” helium said.

Hawley said helium learned much astir the scope of the operation, which helium said was “quite large” and “rapidly, rapidly evolving.”

“The briefers emphasized this, it’s truly astir changing by the hour,” helium said.

Commercial formation planned from Dubai to Sydney to repatriate 24,000 stranded Australians

A commercialized formation is planned from Dubai to Sydney to commencement repatriating 24,000 Australians stranded successful the United Arab Emirates by the Iran war, Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong says.

Wong said the formation was scheduled to permission Dubai connected Wednesday.

“This is simply a consular situation that dwarfs immoderate that Australia has had to woody with successful presumption of numbers of people,” Wong told Australian Broadcasting Corp.

She and Australian Prime Minister Anthnony Albanese had spoken to United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who is besides the UAE’s lawman premier minister.

“The champion mode to get radical retired is to get commercialized flights started. I asked if they could look astatine commercialized flights restarting. Obviously it’s precise unpredictable and I recognize determination is simply a formation scheduled from Dubai to Sydney. Obviously we would accidental to radical connected the crushed you request to guarantee you enactment successful interaction with your hose successful narration to that formation if you are connected it. Flights person been cancelled and changed astatine abbreviated notice,” Wong said.

She did not place the airline.

Health officials accidental 50 killed, much than 300 wounded successful Israeli strikes successful Lebanon

The decease toll implicit the past 2 days successful Lebanon has risen to 50, with 335 wounded, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said Tuesday evening.

On Monday, Hezbollah launched missiles toward Israel for the archetypal clip successful much than a year, and Israel responded by bombarding confederate Lebanon and the confederate suburbs of Beirut with strikes. No casualties person been reported from the Hezbollah attacks successful Israel.

It is not wide however galore of those killed successful Lebanon were civilians, but the wellness ministry said earlier Tuesday that they included 7 children. Officials with Hezbollah and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant radical were besides killed.

First authorities evacuation level from Jordan lands successful Prague

The archetypal authorities evacuation level landed successful Prague precocious Tuesday. The airbus that belongs to the Czech subject has a capableness for immoderate 40 passengers and was flying from Jordan.

Another 2 authorities planes are expected to get during the night. One of them volition alert from Egypt to instrumentality location Czech nationals who traveled determination by buses from Israel. The different 1 volition transport radical from Oman.

“It was perfect. We saw everything we wanted to successful Jordan,” said Zdenek Viktorin, who was traveling with his household of four. He said that helium didn’t expect the warfare could commencement during their stay. “When the politicians accidental 1 time that the talks are good and the different time (the war) begins, that’s hard to comprehend.”

In neighboring Slovakia, the archetypal 2 evacuation planes sent by the Slovak authorities to Jordan landed successful the Slovak superior Bratislava connected Tuesday with 127 radical connected board. The authorities plans astatine slightest 10 specified flights from the Middle East.

US and Israel person ‘superiority’ and power astir each Iran's airspace, Israeli diplomat says

“I’m definite we volition beryllium capable to amusement that superiority successful the adjacent fewer days,” Israeli ambassador Danny Danon told reporters astatine the United Nations.

He cautioned, however, that portion U.S.-Israeli attacks person degraded Iranian capabilities and it’s harder for them to motorboat missiles, “they enactment missiles underground, successful caves, successful concealed locations.”

He said Israel has told its ain citizens and radical successful the region, “give america immoderate much time” to further degrade the Iranian subject and execute its objectives: “no atomic weapons, nary rocket threat, nary panic infrastructure.”

“It volition not proceed forever,“ Danon said.

UAE says it has been attacked by 1,000 Iranian drones and missiles truthful far

The United Arab Emirates said Tuesday connected X that it retains the close to self-defense, insisting that the Gulf monarchy is not portion of the U.S.-Israel warfare against Iran and that it hasn’t authorized the usage of its territories for attacks against Iran.

The UAE Defense Ministry besides released a breakdown of its rocket and drone interceptions. It said Iranian drones struck wrong its territory 57 times retired of much than 800 detected, portion lone 1 of 186 ballistic missiles managed to hit. All 8 Iranian cruise missiles were intercepted, the ministry said. It was not imaginable to independently precise those figures.

Venezuelan authorities supporters clasp a solidarity march for Iran

Dozens of Venezuelan authorities supporters connected Tuesday marched successful the superior successful solidarity with Iran and mourning Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed connected the archetypal time of the war.

Demonstrators wore T-shirts with the photograph of erstwhile Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, whom the U.S. subject captured from the superior Caracas successful a stunning cognition 2 months ago.

Two women astatine the caput of the objection carried photos of Khamenei and of precocious Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who orchestrated Iran’s 1979 Islamic gyration and ruled arsenic ultimate person for a decade.

“We are present to springiness our enactment to the Iranian diplomatic practice successful Caracas,” Yoser Quijada, an engineer, said. “We are present with our beingness telling them that the radical of Venezuela, the bosom of the Venezuelan people, is unneurotic with the bosom of the Iranian people.”

Rubio pushes backmost successful a testy speech astatine the Capitol

The caput of authorities insisted that Trump made the determination to onslaught Iran due to the fact that this past play presented what helium called a unsocial accidental for the ngo to beryllium successful.

“The president is determined we were not going to get deed first. It’s that simple,” Rubio said up of a closed-door briefing for lawmakers.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to reporters arsenic helium arrives for an quality briefing with apical lawmakers connected Iran, astatine the Capitol successful Washington, Monday, Mar. 2, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to reporters arsenic helium arrives for an quality briefing with apical lawmakers connected Iran, astatine the Capitol successful Washington, Monday, Mar. 2, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Rubio was revisiting his remarks from a time earlier that person generated fierce blowback. At the time, helium said Trump believed Israel was determined to enactment and wanted the U.S. to spell archetypal with a pre-emptive onslaught connected Iran to forestall immoderate retaliation connected American bases and operations successful the region.

“We are not going to enactment American troops successful harm’s way,” helium said.

Amid the administration’s shifting reasons for the warfare with Iran, Rubio besides returned to Trump’s archetypal rationale. “There is nary mode successful the satellite that this terroristic authorities was going to get atomic weapons, not nether Donald Trump’s watch,” helium said.

Iranian drone hits adjacent US consulate successful Dubai

An Iranian drone slammed into a parking batch extracurricular the U.S. consulate successful Dubai, sparking a tiny fire, according to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Although the gait of Iranian rocket and drone strikes has slowed, Tuesday’s near-miss shows that Iran is inactive capable to get munitions past American interceptors.

Rubio told reporters astatine the U.S. Capitol that each of the consulate unit successful Dubai had been accounted for.

“We began drafting down unit from our diplomatic facilities successful beforehand of this,” Rubio said.

Satellite imagery shows Iran’s statesmanlike analyzable destroyed

Before-and-after images published by the Colorado-based outer institution Vantor connected Tuesday showed the domed extortion of Iran’s statesmanlike analyzable destroyed, aligning with Israel’s earlier claims of an overnight strike.

Numerous munitions were dropped connected what Israel’s subject said was among the astir heavy secured sites successful Tehran. Iranian officials and authorities media person not yet acknowledged the harm oregon reported casualties from the strike.

UN authoritative says humanitarian fallout successful Middle East escalations is ‘increasingly daunting’

In a connection Tuesday, U.N. humanitarian main Tom Fletcher warned astir the interaction the ongoing struggle successful the Middle East is having connected civilians successful astir a twelve countries successful the portion conscionable days aft U.S. and Israel began to onslaught Iran.

“First, civilians are paying the terms crossed the region. Civilians indispensable beryllium protected - afloat stop. Yet strikes are hitting homes, hospitals, and schools,” Fletcher said. “Civilians and civilian infrastructure person been nether onslaught successful Iran, Lebanon, Syria, the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and beyond.”

Fletcher added that portion contingency plans crossed Iran and different adjacent countries person been activated, the already constricted beingness by planetary organizations wrong the Islamic Republic person made assistance workers’ challenges overmuch greater. Beyond the countries present progressive successful the wider determination conflict, Fletcher said the impacts connected the civilians volition worsen already dire humanitarian situations successful places similar Afghanistan and the occupied Palestinian territories.

Trump pitches a program to support lipid and different commercialized moving done the Persian Gulf

Trump said connected societal media helium ordered the United States’ improvement concern limb to supply governmental hazard security for tankers carrying lipid and different goods done the Persian Gulf “at a precise tenable price.”

Political hazard security is simply a benignant of sum intended to support firms against fiscal losses caused by unstable governmental conditions, authorities actions, oregon violence.

He said that, if necessary, the U.S. Navy would escort lipid tankers done the Strait of Hormuz. About a 5th of the world’s lipid passes done the strait. The disruption to that postulation caused by the warfare has pushed lipid prices higher.

The Navy has astatine slightest 8 destroyers and 3 smaller littoral combat ships successful the region. These ships person antecedently been utilized to escort merchant shipping successful the portion and successful the Red Sea.

Israel says it destroyed Iran’s reconstituted concealed atomic headquarters

Israel’s subject says it destroyed what it calls Iran’s concealed atomic headquarters, and claims Iran moved enactment into hidden bunkers, known arsenic Minzadehei.

On Tuesday, an Israeli subject spokesperson said the tract supported probe tied to a cardinal constituent for atomic weapons. Israel does not accidental Iran enriched uranium there.

There was nary contiguous nationalist remark from the U.S. oregon Iran astir the tract Israel named.

Israel says Iran tried to rebuild and fell parts of its programme aft past year’s strikes. The United States said arsenic precocious arsenic past week that those strikes destroyed Iran’s atomic program.

U.S. officials besides impeach Iran of trying to restart parts of the programme but bash not accidental Iran was restarting enrichment.

Turkey’s apical diplomat criticizes Iran’s ‘flawed strategy’ of attacking Gulf states

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan connected Tuesday accused Iran of attacking Gulf neighbors that had worked to forestall war, calling it a strategy of “If I go, I volition instrumentality the portion with me.”

He called Iran’s strikes connected countries mediating betwixt Tehran and Washington an “incredibly flawed strategy” and warned the struggle could widen if Gulf states retaliate.

In an interrogation with authorities broadcaster TRT, Fidan said Gulf states, including Qatar, had pushed for diplomacy until the past hr earlier the U.S.-Israeli warfare began Saturday.

“I judge that if the Iranians had amended understood the unit President Trump was facing and fixed him thing successful advance, the unit from Israel mightiness not person been truthful effective,” helium said.

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