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Britain has confirmed that its forces intercepted a one-way attack drone launched from Iran toward Iraq, marking another sign of the United Kingdom’s growing military involvement in the escalating West Asia conflict. Image Via the British Royal Air Force In a statement issued on March 8, the UK Ministry of Defence said British forces “successfully engaged” the drone during defensive air operations conducted overnight in the region. The interception took place as Royal Air Force Typhoon fighters and F-35 jets continued defensive patrols across the region to monitor and respond to aerial threats linked to the widening confrontation between Iran, Israel and their allies. British officials did not specify the exact location of the interception but said the drone had been fired from Iranian territory toward Iraq. The UK has already deployed additional air assets to support allied operations aimed at countering missile and drone threats emerging from the conflict. According to the Ministry...

Israel said it carried out more than 100 airstrikes across Lebanon within the past 24 hours , targeting Hezbollah infrastructure, weapons depots and military sites as the conflict on Israel’s northern front intensifies. In a statement by Israeli military spokesperson Avichay Adraee on Sunday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said its strikes included an attack on a compound belonging to Hezbollah’s Radwan Force in Beirut’s southern Dahiya district , a stronghold of the Iran-backed group. Image Via: Avichay Adraee According to the IDF, the compound served as a headquarters and training facility where Radwan Force members were allegedly preparing attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians. Israeli forces also struck what they described as warehouses containing combat equipment and dozens of additional military sites linked to Hezbollah across Lebanon. #عاجل 🔸أكثر من 100 غارة نُفِّذت خلال الساعات الأربع والعشرين الماضية في أنحاء لبنان: جيش الدفاع هاجم مجمّعًا لوحدة قوة الرضوان في...

The Israeli military said it killed a Hezbollah militant cell and uncovered a cache of weapons during operations in southern Lebanon as tensions along the Israel–Lebanon border continue amid the wider West Asia conflict. In a statement by the Israeli Defense Forces’ Arabic-language spokesperson Avichay Adraee on Sunday, the IDF said troops from the 769th Brigade of the 91st Division detected a Hezbollah militant cell operating in the area during the past week. Image Via: IDF/Avichay Adraee According to the statement, an Israeli Air Force aircraft targeted the group shortly after it was identified , and killed its members. #عاجل القضاء على خلية إرهابية والعثور على مخزون من الوسائل القتالية في جنوب لبنان 🔸خلال الأسبوع الماضي وفي إطار خطة الدفاع الأمامي في منطقة جنوب لبنان رصدت قوات اللواء 769 التابعة للفرقة 91 خليةً من عناصر حزب الله الإرهابي حيث قامت طائرة تابعة لسلاح الجو باستهداف الخلية… pic.twitter.com/y3QrNAKx3F — افيخاي ادرعي (@AvichayAdraee) March 8, 2026 Israeli forces later d...

French President Emmanuel Macron has launched a flurry of emergency diplomatic calls with leaders across West Asia and the Caucasus as the Iran-centered conflict threatens to widen across the region. In a series of statements posted Sunday, Macron said he had spoken with the Emir of Kuwait, Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev, and Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani. Aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle; Via: FrenchEmbassyZA Macron said he also spoke with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian , pressing Tehran to halt its military strikes across the region and ensure the security of global shipping lanes. Macron said he raised France’s “absolute priority” of securing the safety and return of French nationals Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris, currently within the French Embassy compound, while urging Iran to immediately end attacks on regional countries and restore freedom of navigation by end...

The United States military has issued an unusual public safety warning directly to civilians inside Iran, cautioning them to stay away from areas used by the Iranian military to launch drones and ballistic missiles as the conflict in West Asia intensifies. Image Source: CENTCOMFarsi In a statement released on March 8 through its Farsi-language channel , the US Central Command (CENTCOM) accused Iran’s leadership of placing civilians at risk by operating military systems from densely populated urban areas. CENTCOM alleged that Iranian forces have been launching one-way attack drones and ballistic missiles from locations embedded within civilian neighborhoods in cities including Dezful, Isfahan and Shiraz. According to the US military, such locations lose their protected civilian status under international law when they are used for military purposes, potentially making them legitimate targets during armed conflict. “The Iranian regime is deliberately endangering innocent lives,” CENT...

India’s Parliament reconvenes on Monday under the shadow of a widening war in West Asia, with External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar scheduled to brief the Lok Sabha on the fast-evolving war between Iran, Israel, and the United States. According to the revised list of business circulated on Sunday evening, EAM Jaishankar will make an official statement in the Lower House on the situation in West Asia when the second half of the Budget Session begins.  Sansad TV Screengrab of EAM Jaishankar by ANI The announcement comes amid mounting concern in New Delhi over the safety of Indian nationals across the Gulf and wider West Asian region as military strikes and retaliatory missile attacks continue to escalate. The Ministry of External Affairs earlier said the government has already facilitated the return of more than 52,000 Indians between March 1 and March 7 after partial reopening of regional airspace. Commercial and special flights have been operating to bring stranded tr...

Iran’s powerful clerical body responsible for appointing the country’s supreme leader said on Sunday that it has selected a successor to the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, marking a major political turning point as the war involving Iran, Israel and the United States continues to intensify. A member of the Assembly of Experts, the institution constitutionally responsible for selecting and supervising the supreme leader , said the decision had already been made but the identity of the new leader would be revealed later. Image Source: Conflict Radar “The vote to appoint the leader has taken place and the leader has been chosen,” Ahmad Alamolhoda, a member of the Assembly of Experts, told Iran’s Mehr news agency, adding that the name would be formally announced later on Sunday. The development comes days after Khamenei was killed in the opening Israeli strike on Iran on February 28, an event that triggered a rapid succession process inside the Islamic Republic’s political system. Under Iran...

China warned on Sunday that the war involving Iran, Israel and the United States should never have occurred, calling for an immediate halt to military operations as the conflict continued to widen across the Middle East and beyond. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said the conflict was dangerous for the region and the wider international order, stressing that the use of force would only deepen instability. “This is a war that should not have happened—it is a war that does no one any good,” Wang said, urging all sides to stop military operations and prevent the crisis from spiralling further. Image Source: Mao Ning on X Warning against attempts to reshape Iran’s political system through force, Wang said efforts to pursue regime change would find little support internationally. He argued that the world cannot return to “the law of the jungle,” adding that armed conflict in the Middle East historically produces new cycles of instability rather than lasting solutions. China’s intervention...

Israel has launched fresh strikes on southern Lebanon, Beirut and an oil storage facility in Tehran as the war between Israel, the United States and Iran continued to widen across the Middle East, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warning that the next phase of the conflict would bring “many surprises.” Image Via: Mario Nawfal on X The latest Israeli attack targeted an oil storage facility in Iran’s capital, sending towering flames into the night sky in what appeared to be the first known strike on a civilian industrial installation since the war began. Verified video recordings captured and assessed by Associated Press journalists showed massive pillars of fire rising from the site, illuminating the skyline of Tehran, the news agency said.  At the same time, Israeli forces carried out strikes in southern Lebanon and parts of Beirut as fighting with the Iran-backed Hezbollah movement intensified along Israel’s northern frontier. Iran responded with new attacks across...