At least 912 people killed in Israeli attacks on Lebanon At least 912 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on Lebanon since 2 March, the country's Ministry of Public Health is reporting. It added that another 2,221 have been wounded since Israel renewed its assault.
The UN investigates strike on Iranian girls' school Submitted by MEE staff on Tue, 03/17/2026 - 13:39 Initial investigations by US and independent groups point to US responsibility Coffins on the day of the funeral of victims of a reported strike on a school in Minab, Iran, 3 March 2026 (Amirhossein Khorgooei/ISNA/WANA/Reuters) Off A UN fact-finding group has begun investigating an air strike that hit Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in the southern city of Minab on the first day of the US-Israeli war on Iran. The attack, which killed at least 175 people, most of them children, is also being probed by US military investigators, with preliminary findings saying the US military was responsible for the attack, Reuters reported. The New York Times reported that officers at US Central Command had created the target coordinates for the strike using outdated data provided by the Defense Intelligence Agency, citing people briefed on the investigation.
The US-Israeli war on Iran is founded on two huge miscalculations Submitted by Meron Rapoport on Tue, 03/17/2026 - 14:23 If Trump and Netanyahu fail, it will be because they believed the Islamic Republic could be easily toppled and Hezbollah was a spent force Police stand guard on a street, with a large billboard featuring Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the background, in Tehran, 12 March 2026 (Reuters/Alaa Al-Marjani) Off More than two weeks since Israel and the US attacked Iran , inflicting "death and destruction from the sky all day long" as US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said , it seems that at the foundation of the decision to go to war were two major miscalculations. One is almost entirely an American miscalculation regarding the possibility of toppling the Iranian ruling establishment, and the other is an Israeli misreading of Hezbollah and its potential response. "If we had not acted immediately, within a few months Iran’s industries of death would have become immune to any strike," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday in his first televised speech since the war began.
Elbit Systems reports surge in demand amid US-Israeli attacks on Iran Israel's largest weapons company is reporting a surge in demand amid US-Israeli attacks on Iran, following record revenues as a result of its 2 year genocide in Gaza. Elbit chief executive Bezhalel Machlis said on Tuesday that Israel's "success" Iran is generating "a lot of interest and a lot of traction". Machlis told Reuters that "there is a lot of interest in many countries who are suffering from the same enemy," citing Abraham Accords countries, but without specifying which.
Top UK official judged Iran 'posed no nuclear threat' just before war began Submitted by Imran Mulla on Tue, 03/17/2026 - 14:14 Starmer's national security adviser attended US-Iran talks days before US and Israel attacked Tehran Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks to the media on the situation in the Middle East, at Downing Street in central London on 16 March (AFP) Off Britain believed Iran did not pose a nuclear threat and saw no evidence of an imminent Iranian attack on Europe when the US -Israeli attack on Iran began, it has emerged. Jonathan Powell, the prime minister's national security adviser, attended the final talks between the US and Iran, which ended two days before the attack started, the Guardian reported on Tuesday. Powell reportedly judged that Tehran's offer on its nuclear programme was "surprising" and that progress had been made.
Macron rules out French participation in operations to unblock Hormuz Strait French President Emmanuel Macron has ruled out the country's participation in operations to unblock the Strait of Hormuz, adding that France was carrying on with work to prepare a coalition that could provide freedom of navigation once hostilities ended. "We are not party to the conflict and therefore France will never take part in operations to open or liberate the Strait of Hormuz in the current context," Macron said at the start of a cabinet meeting to discuss the conflicts in the Middle East.
With the US-Israeli invasion, Iran re-enters history: Opinion I anians have a very long historical memory. The way they talk about the Alexander invasion of Persia in 344 BC, it is as if it happened last week on Tuesday. The subsequent Arab and Mongol conquests of the seventh and 13th centuries happened just a few days ago.
Israeli air strike kills two Lebanese soldiers in southern Lebanon Two Lebanese soldiers have been killed in an Israeli air strike in southern Lebanon, the country's military is reporting. In a post on X, the Lebanese army reported that the soldiers were targeted when they were travelling on motorcycles between Zebdin and Nabatieh.
(260317) -- JERUSALEM, March 17, 2026 (Xinhua) -- This photo released by the Israeli Prime Minister's Office on March 17, 2026 shows Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) speaking on the phone. The Israeli Prime Minister's Office released a photo showing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking on the phone, allegedly "ordering the elimination of senior Iranian regime officials.
One killed, nine wounded in Israeli attack on Beirut's airport road At least one person has been killed, and nine others wounded in an Israeli airstrike on Beirut's airport road, the Lebanese Health Ministry's emergency operations centre is reporting.
With the US-Israeli invasion, Iran re-enters history Submitted by Hamid Dabashi on Mon, 03/16/2026 - 05:48 For Iranians, the current assault is part of a much longer history in which repeated invasions have tested the country's civilisation but never succeeded in breaking it An Iranian flag flutters as a digger arrives to remove debris from buildings destroyed in US-Israeli military strikes on the capital Tehran, on 15 March 2026 (Atta Kenare/AFP) On Iranians have a very long historical memory. The way they talk about the Alexander invasion of Persia in 344 BC, it is as if it happened last week on Tuesday. The subsequent Arab and Mongol conquests of the seventh and 13th centuries happened just a few days ago.
Israeli military issues alert for incoming Iranian missile attack Israel’s army has said its air defences are working to intercept incoming missiles fired from Iran. The Home Front Command announced in a post on X that an alert had been sent to residents in the targeted areas, instructing them to flee to shelters. Earlier, Israeli media reported that emergency teams are “responding to reports of impact sites” after sirens were activated in central Israel.
US National Counterterrorism Center director resigns over war in Iran The head of the United States' National Counterterrorism Center, Joseph Kent, has resigned over the US-Israeli attacks in Iran, saying in a letter to President Donald Trump posted on X that "Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation".
Trump on Monday complained that U. S. allies are reluctant to answer his call for a multinational mission to escort oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, with no country so far stepping forward to send warships.
Joe Kent announced his resignation as director of the National Counterterrorism Center. He said that pressure from Israel had pushed President Trump into war against Iran.
Hezbollah claims attack on Israeli forces in southern Lebanon Hezbollah has said its fighters fired rockets at a group of Israeli soldiers in southern Lebanon's Khiam. In a post on X, the group said the rocket salvo targeted the group who were near a municipal building in the town. This follows another attack claimed by the group, which targeted Israeli soldiers inside a tent in the town of Maroun al-Ras, also in southern Lebanon.
Israel said on Tuesday that it had killed two more high-ranking figures, including the man who had essentially been running Iran for weeks.
Tel Aviv [Israel], March 17 (ANI): Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz on Tuesday confirmed Ali Larijani, Iranian Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, was killed by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in an overnight airstrike in Tehran as the conflict in West Asia escalates.
Iran war could plunge 45 million into acute hunger, says UN agency Submitted by Peter McNamara on Tue, 03/17/2026 - 11:48 Spiralling costs and choked aid routes are likely to affect the most vulnerable as the war's end edges no closer Afghan men queue to receive packages of fortified biscuits distributed by the United Nations World Food Programme in the Laja Mangal district of Paktia province on 16 March 2026 (AFP) Off The number of people who experience acute hunger could leap to 364 million globally if the war on Iran continues until June, the World Food Programme said on Tuesday. "This would take global hunger levels to an all-time record and it's a terrible, terrible prospect," the WFP’s deputy executive director Carl Skau said in Geneva. Analysis by the UN agency has shown that since US and Israeli attacks on Iran began at the end of February, valuable aid routes to countries already suffering from chronic food insecurity have been blocked and shipments have been delayed.
On the 18th day of the war in Iran, the Israeli army announced that Gholamreza Soleimani, head of the Organization for the Mobilization ...
