Military and conflict reporting on Iran — strikes, escalation with Israel and the United States, proxy forces across the region, and defence developments — collected from independent English-language outlets.
An aerial view shows the apparent point of impact on the roof of a building that Iranian media said was hit by a US strike while a wedding celebration was taking place, Kuhestak, southern Iran, September 2, 2026. /VCG US strikes against Iran between August 30 and September 2 killed at least 18 people and injured 142 others, according to Iran's Health Ministry.
US vice-president says he’s ‘extremely skeptical’ of Iran reports when asked whether US was responsible for deaths The US vice-president, JD Vance, said “sometimes things happen” when asked on Thursday whether an American strike was responsible for killing four people, including a child, at a wedding celebration in southern Iran this week. The strike hit Kuhestak, a town in Sirik county on the strait of Hormuz. The toll was reported not by the Iranian government but by the Iranian Red Crescent, a member of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement that operates independently of Tehran and is generally treated by international monitors as a credible source on casualty figures.
US military says 87 vessels diverted so far in Strait of Hormuz US Central Command (Centcom) said it has redirected a total of 87 vessels in the Strait of Hormuz amid the naval blockade of Iran. Centcom also said in its update that it has disabled three ships so far and boarded another two to ensure “total compliance” with the blockade.
Israeli attack injures two Palestinian children in occupied West Bank Israeli forces shot and injured two Palestinian children in Beit Fajjar, south of Bethlehem, the Wafa news agency reported. The children were wounded when Israeli forces opened fire with live ammunition during a raid on the town, the report said.
Vance says US probing air strike on wedding party in Iran US Vice President JD Vance on Thursday said the United States is investigating an air strike that Iran says struck a wedding party in Iran. "We're investigating it because obviously we care. We want to know," Vance told reporters during a White House press briefing.
The detentions were reported to the US-led International Monitoring and Implementation Mechanism but Israeli military has not commented.
Far-right Israeli minister sets out plan to forcibly displace Palestinians from Gaza Far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir said it was a "realistic" plan to forcibly remove Palestinians from Gaza and send them abroad. Ben Gvir said his plan aims to displace 250,000 Palestinians from the strip in the first year, followed by roughly 2 million residents over the next six years. Speaking in the run-up to closely contested Israeli elections next month, Ben-Gvir said, there are countries “ready” to take the displaced Palestinians.
Lebanon receives first prisoner of five to be freed by Israel Lebanon said it received a man freed from Israeli detention on Thursday, as Israel announced it would release five people detained from the country's south. The announcement came after Lebanon said its army received a man returned by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the first since Beirut called in August talks for the release of an initial group improsoned by Israel since the start of war in 2024.
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US diplomat Boulos won't name 'at least 12 countries' involved in Sudan war Submitted by Oscar Rickett on Thu, 09/03/2026 - 15:51 Trump adviser does not name UAE, Egypt or Turkey, saying 'we are not here to go into these details' Massad Boulos, senior advisor to the US president on Arab and Middle Eastern Affairs, speaks with the media outside the White House in Washington, DC, 21 July 2026 (AFP) Off US President Donald Trump’s senior adviser on African and Arab affairs has said “at least 12 countries” are involved in the Sudan war but has declined to name them. Massad Boulos, whose son Michael is married to Trump’s daughter Tiffany, told the BBC’s Focus on Africa that “all of the neighbouring countries in the region are participating in one way or another, or facilitating certain acts” in the war. “As for the military support, this is done currently by all the neighbouring countries in addition to some other regional actors.
Washington, DC [US], September 3 (ANI): Seven months into the Iran war, US President Donald Trump is privately weighing a declaration that the war is over, even while the Pentagon lengthens troop deployments in West Asia, pointing to the possibility that the tensions may continue into next year, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
Death toll from Israeli settler attacks spirals in 'most violent' year for West Bank Submitted by Fayha Shalash on Thu, 09/03/2026 - 13:59 Thousands of attacks by Israeli settlers and soldiers have left at least 76 Palestinian dead in 2026 An Israeli settler attacks a left-wing activist at an Israeli outpost in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian village of Jannatah, just south of the city of Bethlehem on 25 August 2026 (Ilia Yefimovich / AFP) Off During a settler attack aimed at stealing sheep, the Israeli army killed a Palestinian boy and a young man on Wednesday evening in the village of Al-Mughayyir, east of Ramallah. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, Omar Muhammad Na’san, 19, and Khalil Rasem Shahada, 16, were shot dead by Israeli soldiers. Marzouq Abu Na’im, a member of the village council and an activist documenting settler attacks there, told Middle East Eye that armed settlers attacked a house to steal livestock.
Tehran launched retaliatory attacks on US military facilities across the region after the latest bombardment US President Donald Trump has congratulated Secretary of War Pete Hegseth over the latest American strikes on Iran, despite one of the attacks hitting a wedding and killing several civilians.
Vice President J. D. Vance says Washington is investigating the strike, which killed five people The deadly strike on a wedding in southern Iran earlier this week was likely a direct hit by a US munition, Reuters reports, citing its own analysis.
Vice President J. D. Vance says Washington is investigating the strike, which killed five people The deadly strike on a wedding in southern Iran earlier this week was likely a direct hit by a US munition, Reuters reports, citing its own analysis.
President said Howard Lutnick had Venezuela operation on his mind when he was discussing Iran war on CNBC Donald Trump has claimed his commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, erroneously stated that no Americans had been killed in the war with Iran because he was thinking about a previous US operation, in Venezuela. The claim, at odds with the Pentagon’s count of 18 US service members dead in the US-Israel war on Iran, sparked a swift backlash as Trump struggles to end the conflict after six months. Continue reading...
Israel returns body of Palestinian teenager it killed in 2025 Israel has returned the body of 15-year-old Palestinian Jadallah Jihad Jumaa Jadallah, whom its forces shot dead in November 2025. Palestinian authorities received his remains in the occupied West Bank months after his killing, according to the Wafa news agency. Jadallah’s family will now make arrangements for his burial.
Air bases used by US in the UAE and Kuwait hit as the Israeli defence chief says Iran’s regime fears collapse due to economic pressures Iran has continued to demonstrate an ability to target bases in the Gulf used by the US despite six months of war and a new sanctions regime described by the Trump administration as an “economic D-day”. As Iran’s military targeted US bases in the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, despite threats of further strikes by the US president, Israel’s defence chief warned that economic pressures from the sanctions could lead Tehran to escalate to more “extreme measures”. Continue reading...
How Israel armed Argentina to kill British soldiers during Falklands War Submitted by Imran Mulla on Thu, 09/03/2026 - 12:13 As the Falklands issue raises its head again, MEE looks back at how Israel caused the deaths of dozens of British soldiers by arming the Argentinian dictatorship in the 1980s Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin (R) with his military chief Rafael Eitan in the Golan Heights in the 1980s (Wikimedia Commons) Off Tensions between Britain and Israel are rapidly escalating with Andy Burnham's government gearing up to announce a raft of strong measures on the occupied West Bank, including a ban on goods from illegal Israeli settlements. In response, Israel has threatened Britain. "If Britain acts against Israel, Israel will act against Britain," Foreign Minister Gideon Saar warned this week.
Israel releases five Lebanese men detained in southern Lebanon Israel has released five Lebanese men its forces detained in areas under military control in southern Lebanon, according to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office. The office said Israeli interrogators found that the men had no affiliation with any armed organisation and that authorities had no grounds to continue holding them.
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