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An Israeli airstrike on a refugee camp in central Gaza has killed at least 35 people, including seven children, according to hospital officials. Meanwhile, Israeli war cabinet divisions are spilling into the open.

The Israeli military said Friday it recovered the bodies of three hostages — Shani Louk, Amit Bouskila, and Itshak Gelernter — in the Gaza Strip.

Israeli military said it would also target every person who seeks to appoint a successor for killed supreme leader Ali Khamenei Full report: Iran rejects Trump’s demand for unconditional surrender as a ‘dream’ Tell us: how have you been affected by the latest events in the Middle East? The Israeli military said it launched a wave of strikes “across Iran” on Sunday, targeting military sites. A military statement said it had “initiated a wave of strikes targeting the Iranian terror regime military infrastructure across Iran”. Continue reading...

Live updates: Iran war news; Tehran nears decision on new supreme leader  CNN

Oil prices ‘could breach $100 a barrel within days’ amid supply disruption from Iran war  The Guardian

The Iran War Is Heightening Stock Market Volatility -- but This $7.8 Trillion Figure Is an Objectively Bigger Worry for Wall Street  Yahoo Finance

Foreign secretary hits back at former prime minister, saying Britain had to ‘learn the lessons’ of Iraq war Middle East crisis – live updates Yvette Cooper has rejected Tony Blair’s assertion that the UK should have supported Donald Trump’s initial airstrikes on Iran, saying Britain had to “learn the lessons” of mistakes made in Iraq. At a private lunch event on Friday, the former Labour prime minister said Keir Starmer “should have backed America from the very beginning” and let the Trump administration use British airbases, adding: “If they are your ally and they are an indispensable cornerstone for your security … you had better show up when they want you to.” Continue reading...

China warns of spread of ‘flames of war’ from Iran  CNN

Iranians are using a border crossing into Turkey as one of the only ways out during the war in Iran, with the country's airspace closed

Iran's players sang the national anthem and saluted before their last group match at the Women's Asian Cup on Sunday in Australia, having stayed defiantly silent earlier in the tournament. When Iran faced South Korea on Monday in their opening game the players stood motionless, two days after the US and Israel began a war against the country. But on Thursday in their second game, against hosts Australia, all the Iranian players saluted and sang the anthem on Queensland's Gold Coast.

Iran's players sang the national anthem and saluted before bowing out of the Women's Asian Cup with defeat in their last group match on Sunday in Australia. When Iran faced South Korea on Monday in their opening game the players stood motionless, two days after the US and Israel began a war against the country. But on Thursday in their second game, against hosts Australia, all the Iranian players saluted and sang the anthem on the Gold Coast. Against the Philippines on Sunday they again sang and saluted as the rain came down on Queensland's Gold Coast.

By Emilie Madi and Khalil Ashawi HAZMIEH, Lebanon, March 8 (Reuters) - Just days ago, Hussain Khrais was proudly showing off his newly restored home in south Lebanon, fixed up after being badly damaged in 2024 clashes between Israel and Hezbollah. But a new war has since erupted and his home is in the line of fire again. Khrais fled his hometown of Khiyam, about five km (three miles) from the border with Israel, as Israel pounded Lebanon with heavy airstrikes last week in retaliation for Iran-backed group Hezbollah's rocket and drone fire into Israel.

Olga Garbuz tells Anjana Sankar in Dubai how she fled Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine four years ago with her daughter, only to find war following her to the Gulf

Critics say brash, bombastic Fox News host out of his depth to guide US military through murky new Middle East conflict Brash and bellicose, he sounded more like a cartoon bully than a sombre statesman. “Death and destruction from the sky all day long,” Pete Hegseth, wearing a red, white and and blue tie and pocket square, bragged to reporters at the Pentagon near Washington. “This was never meant to be a fair fight, and it is not a fair fight. We are punching them while they’re down, which is exactly how it should be.” Hegseth, 45, a former Fox News TV host who now commands the world’s most powerful military, has this week become the face of Donald Trump’s war in Iran. That has set off for alarm bells for critics who warn that the Secretary of Defense – pointedly rebranded “Secretary of War” – has rapidly transformed the Pentagon into the staging ground for an ideological and religious crusade. Continue reading...

Scotland's papers: 'Day of glory' and Blair rebukes Starmer over Iran war  BBC

March 8 (Reuters) - The Israeli military warned it would continue pursuing every successor of Iran's next supreme leader. In a post on X in Farsi, the Israeli military also warned it would pursue every person who seeks to appoint a successor for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, referring to the clerical body charged with choosing the Islamic Republic's supreme leader. (Reporting by Menna Alaa El-Din and Muhammad Al GebalyEditing by Bernadette Baum)

Here are the latest events in the Middle East war on Sunday: - Fuel depots hit - Fuel distribution in the Iranian capital has been temporarily halted after US-Israeli strikes on depots, an official said. Huge fires burned after the strikes on five facilities in and around Tehran, casting a dark haze across the city as morning broke, AFP journalists said. - Khamenei successor - Iran's clerical body tasked with choosing the country's next supreme leader has agreed on a candidate but the name is yet to be announced, members said.

ROME, March 8 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump praised Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and said she was willing to help the United States and Israel in their war with Iran, Italy’s Corriere della Sera reported on Sunday. Speaking to the newspaper in a telephone call on Saturday, Trump described Meloni as “a great leader” and said Italy was doing what it could to assist. * "I love Italy, I think she is a great leader," Trump was quoted as saying of Meloni.

Cold open on the Ryan Gosling-hosted episode saw Colin Jost as Hegseth performing a keg stand and giving a shout out to embattled actor Shia LaBeouf