US President Donald Trump said that although much of Iran's strategic Kharg Island was destroyed in a US air strike, he may order further attacks as the US-Israeli war with Iran entered its third week amid fresh violence across the Middle East.
Drone and missile attacks struck targets in Baghdad and the United Arab Emirates on March 14 as the war between Iran and a US-Israeli coalition continued to ripple across the Middle East, while Tehran said oil exports from its key Kharg Island terminal were continuing despite US strikes there.
Efforts to negotiate an end to Russia’s war against Ukraine have slowed to a crawl as the United States focuses on a widening conflict with Iran, leaving Ukrainians and their allies weighing what comes next for diplomacy -- and the battlefield.
The US has sunk 60 Iranian navy vessels and destroyed most of Iran's conventional fleet. But the Strait of Hormuz remains effectively closed because Iran doesn't need a navy to keep ships out.
Iranian officials went on the offensive on March 11 to knock down rumors over newly appointed Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei's state of health, saying he was injured in the air strikes that killed his father and other family members, but is "safe and sound."
US President Donald Trump will determine what constitutes "unconditional surrender" by Iran in the face of US-Israeli bombardment, the White House said on March 10, amid questions about how long the war may last.
When Iran's Assembly of Experts convened under threat of US-Israeli air strikes to select a new supreme leader, it chose the one name guaranteed to be read as a provocation in the United States and Israel: another Khamenei.
Iran has named hard-liner Mojtaba Khamenei to replace his father, the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as supreme leader, likely putting him directly in the sights of the US and Israeli militaries.
The war in Iran is widening across the Middle East and beyond, with incidents stretching from the Persian Gulf to the South Caucasus and raising fears the conflict could escalate into a broader regional confrontation.
With Iran coming under daily attack from US and Israeli air strikes, the toll of the expanding war is adding up both physically and mentally for the country's 92 million people.
In Iran’s northwestern neighbor, Azerbaijan, there are fears that the country could become embroiled in the US-Israeli war against the Islamic republic. On March 5, drones hit Azerbaijan’s Nakhchivan region near the Iranian border.
The United States is considering supplying weapons to Iranian Kurdish groups based in neighboring Iraq, according to reports. The move comes as the United States and Israel wage an aerial bombardment of Iran.
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