Archives for March, 2026

A Patriot anti-missile battery launcher, deployed by Dutch NATO soldiers, is seen March 11, 2003 at the Diyarbakir military airport in southeastern Turkey.

NATO deploys new Patriot battery to Turkey as Fidan in Riyadh for regional talks

The deployment to a key Turkish airbase likely signals NATO planners’ heightened concern over Turkey’s military assets.

A bus carrying members of the Iranian women's national soccer team arrives at the Gurbulak Border Gate, a crossing point between Turkey and Iran, as they travel to their home country after five players withdrew the asylum claims they had lodged in Australia over safety concerns about returning due to not singing the national anthem at a women's Asian Cup match earlier this month, in the eastern Agri province, Turkey, March 18, 2026. REUTERS/Ali Ihsan Ozturk

Iranian women's soccer team arrive back in Iran after some withdrew asylum claim

Reuters

One building collapsed during Israel's strikes on Beirut on Wednesday

Israel conducts wave of strikes on Beirut, knocks out southern bridges

Agence France-Presse

FILE PHOTO: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves during a meeting in Tehran, Iran, February 17, 2026. Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo

Factbox-Which key Iranian figures have been killed in US-Israeli strikes?

Reuters

The Indian vessel 'Nanda Devi' carrying liquefied petroleum gas docked in Gujarat on March 17 after Iran allowed it to pass through the Strait of Hormuz

Iran condemned as UN maritime body holds emergency talks on Mideast shipping

Agence France-Presse

Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) personnel prepare humanitarian aid packages for the first French humanitarian flight to Beirut, carrying 60 tonnes of relief supplies and pharmaceutical products, at Paris‑Charles de Gaulle Airport, in Roissy‑en‑France near Paris, France, March 12, 2026. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes

France says it's unreasonable to expect Lebanon to disarm Hezbollah amid bombing

Reuters

Turkish news agency DHA said the Iranian women's football team had left Istanbul Airport under police escort and headed to a hotel in the city

Iran women's football team arrive in eastern Turkey, heading home

Agence France-Presse

FILE PHOTO: The sun sets on the U.S. Capitol building, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., January 30, 2026. REUTERS/Kylie Cooper/File Photo

US senators to grill Trump intelligence team, weeks into Iran war

Reuters

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with the press before departing from the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 13, 2026. REUTERS/Kent Nishimura

Trump and his allies use familiar tactic to help Iran war messaging: attacking the press

Reuters

FILE PHOTO: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi attends a press conference on the sidelines of the National People's Congress (NPC), in Beijing, China, March 8, 2026. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo

China will continue mediating for Middle East ceasefire, foreign minister says

Reuters

A campaign sticker adorns a phone case during an event with Melat Kiros, Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Colorado's 1st Congressional District, and members of Washington, D.C.'s Ethiopian diaspora at Punch Bowl Social in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., March 15, 2026. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz

Iran war fuels tensions in US Democratic primary races

Reuters

Hani Ghadban, 56, from southern Lebanon, sits on the floor as he prepares to break his fast at iftar during Ramadan, as his family takes refuge in a school that has been turned into a shelter, following an escalation between Hezbollah and Israel amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Beirut, Lebanon, March 16, 2026. REUTERS/Claudia Greco

In Lebanon, war dictates pace of Ramadan for displaced families

Reuters

FILE PHOTO: Ali Larijani, former chairman of the parliament of Iran, attends a press conference after meeting with Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri in Beirut, Lebanon November 15, 2024. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani/File Photo

Kremlin condemns US-Israeli 'murder' of Iran’s leaders after Ali Larijani killing

Reuters

Authorities in Tel Aviv have issued guidelines to local residenct on how to look after pets during air raid alerts

Israelis shelter with pets from threat of Iran missiles

Agence France-Presse

FILE PHOTO: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov attends a meeting between Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Central African Republic's President Faustin-Archange Touadera at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia March 5, 2026. Alexander Zemlianichenko/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

Kremlin says WSJ report on Russia sharing drone technology with Iran is 'fake news'

Reuters

An Iranian security force officer stands guard next to a huge billboard of Iran's newly nominated supreme leader Ayatollah Mojataba Khamenei (pointing) during Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day rally, a commemoration in support of the Palestinian people on the last Friday of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, in Tehran on March 13, 2026. On February 28, Israel and the United States launched strikes on Iran, killing its supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (photo bottom L) and triggering a war that spread across the M

Analysis

Israel sees long road to Iran regime change as IRGC tightens grip

While the large number of Iranian leaders killed is clearly destabilizing the regime, its toppling could still take a long time, Israeli officials told Al-Monitor.

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