TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) announced a drone attack targeting the Palmahim airbase and the Shin Bet (Shabak) headquarters in occupied Palestine, according to a new statement.
Israel to expand operations in Lebanon after Hezbollah barrage, defence minister says The Israeli military has been instructed to expand its operations in Lebanon, defence minister Israel Katz said on Thursday, after Hezbollah a heavy barrage of fired rockets at Israel overnight. Katz warned Lebanese President Joseph Aoun that if the Lebanese government could not prevent Hezbollah from attacking Israel, Israel "would do it ourselves", according to a statement released by his office.
Pars Today – Iran’s minister of foreign affairs said that the country’s powerful Armed Forces will take revenge for the crime of attacking national infrastructure.
If regime holds, control of enriched uranium may be ultimate measure of US-Israeli success, insiders say Middle East crisis – live updates Israel did not have a realistic plan for regime change when it attacked Iran, multiple Israeli security sources have said, with expectations that airstrikes could drive a popular uprising driven by “wishful thinking” rather than hard intelligence. Iran has now survived nearly two weeks of bombing raids and the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and Trump is publicly contemplating ending an increasingly costly war . Continue reading...
Iran will 'abandon all restraint' if US, Israel attack Gulf islands Iran's powerful parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf warned on Thursday that Tehran will "abandon all restraint" if the United States and Israel attack any of its islands in the Gulf. "Any aggression against soil of Iranian islands will shatter all restraint. We will abandon all restraint and make the Persian Gulf run with the blood of invaders," said Ghalibaf in a post on X.
Golestan palace in Tehran, a world heritage site, and buildings in historic city of Isfahan harmed, despite Unesco sending coordinates Middle East crisis – latest updates The governor of the historic Iranian city of Isfahan has accused the US and Israel of a “declaration of war on a civilization” as heritage sites across the country suffer damage in their bombing campaign. The most serious confirmed damage to date has been to Tehran’s Golestan palace, dating back to the 14th century, and the 17th-century Chehel Sotoon palace in Isfahan. Continue reading...
The differences between what Trump and Netanyahu want out of this war are starting to show and complicating how it will end When the US and Israel launched an attack on Iran to start a war that is now entering its third week, it was the start of something unprecedented; the first joint Israeli-American war. Even though the US has long been a close military ally of Israel, this has never happened before. Unlike last year’s “12-day war” where Israel launched a war that the US joined near the very end with a single set of strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, this Israeli-American war on Iran is deeply coordinated at the operational level between both belligerents day in and day out.
Iran’s armed forces are facing acute supply shortages, rising desertions and deepening friction between the regular army (Artesh) and the Revolutionary Guards, according to informed sources who described a military system under growing strain as the war intensifies.
MANAMA, 12th March, 2026 (WAM) -- Bahrain Defence Force (BDF) General Command said that its air defence systems have intercepted and destroyed 112 missiles and 186 drones targeting the Kingdom since the onset of the blatant Iranian attacks.
Strikes kill nine people near Iraq-Syria border, security officials say Air strikes killed at least nine Iran-backed fighters in Iraq on Thursday near the Iraqi-Syrian border, two senior security officials told AFP. Another 10 fighters were wounded in the strikes that targeted a base belonging to Harakat Ansar Allah al-Awfiya, the officials added on condition of anonymity, with one saying that the death toll could rise. "The base was destroyed, and the rescue teams who arrived at the site were also targeted," one of the officials said.