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Nato confirms interception of Iranian missile heading to Turkey Nato on Friday confirmed its air defences had shot down a third ballistic missile that was fired from Iran towards Turkey. "NATO remains vigilant and stands firm in its defence of all allies," Nato spokesperson Allison Hart said.

Trump eases Russian oil sanctions as Iran war sends prices spiking  NBC News

Nissan’s Middle East distribution faces disruption by Iran war as CEO confirms parts supply intact  Automotive News

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Four Airmen Confirmed Dead in KC-135 Crash, First Air Force Fatalies in US-Iran War  Air & Space Forces Magazine

4 US service members killed in crash: Iran war updates  USA Today

U.S. Says Four Killed in Refueling Plane Crash in Iraq  WSJ

In a special wartime episode, Turkey expert examines how the players on war zone's northern edge are reacting to attacks by Tehran, and how the conflict affects ties with Israel The post Gallia Lindenstrauss: Iran war reaches Kurds, Turkey and Azerbaijan appeared first on The Times of Israel.

Eight killed in Israeli strike on south Lebanon village, health ministry says An Israeli strike killed eight people in Mieh Mieh, a south Lebanese village near the port city of Sidon on Friday, according to the health ministry, which added that nine others had been wounded. An AFP photographer on the scene saw paramedics working to evacuate people from the targeted building in the village. The building is part of a complex, most of whose residents are Palestinians. A man carries two children in his arms as he flees the site of an Israeli strike that targeted a neighborhood in the town of Mieh Mieh, some five kilometers east of the southern Lebanese city of Sidon on 13 March, 2026. (Mahhmoud Zayyat / AFP)

President posts on Truth Social to ‘watch what happens today’ and says it is an ‘honor’ to be killing regime’s leaders Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Middle East liveblog – latest updates Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth is set to give another morning media briefing, updating on the US war on Iran, alongside general Dan Caine. You can follow along at 8am ET via our Middle East live blog, which will have all the news lines here: Iran’s Navy is gone, their Air Force is no longer, missiles, drones and everything else are being decimated, and their leaders have been wiped from the face of the earth. Watch what happens to these deranged scumbags today. They’ve been killing innocent people all over the world for 47 years, and now I, as the 47th President of the United States of America, am killing them. What a great honor it is to do so! The US Senate failed to pass a funding bill to reopen the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), amid a partial shutdown that has lasted almost a month. In a surprising twist, a White House event in honor of Women’s History Month ended with a medal being presented to… Donald Trump. The US temporarily suspended sanctions on the sale of Russian oil issuing a Treasury Department license to allow the sale of Russian crude oil and petroleum products loaded on vessels through April 11. “Looks like we fought Iran and Russia won,” Brian Schatz, a Democratic senator from Hawaii observed. Two Democratic senators, Elizabeth Warren and Chris Van Hollen, called for the US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, “to be fired immediately” over the killing of dozens of seven to 12-year-old Iranian schoolgirls in a missile attack on the first day of the US-Israeli war on Iran. The suspect who killed one person and injured two others at Old Dominion University was identified by authorities as Mohamed Jalloh, a former member of the army national guard who pleaded guilty in 2016 to attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State. The FBI said it is investigating the ramming of a car into a Michigan synagogue as “a targeted act of violence against the Jewish community”. Continue reading...

TEHRAN, Mar. 13 (MNA) – The Iranian Ministry of Health on Friday announced that 11 children, under five-year-old, have been martyred in the recent US-Israeli aggression.

The Uncanny Echoes of Iraq in Trump’s War With Iran  New Lines Magazine

By John Irish PARIS, March 13 (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will seek reassurances of support from one of Kyiv’s key Western allies on Friday, arriving in Paris at a time when the war in the Middle East is diverting attention from Ukraine’s fight against Russia. The widening conflict has raised questions about the supply of weapons – notably air defences – from Western partners to Ukraine, as Gulf Arab states draw down their own air defence stocks to repel daily attacks by Iran.

Germany’s Merz says Berlin is not part of the Iran war German ⁠chancellor Friedrich ⁠Merz has said there is no reason for Berlin to consider providing military protection for the sea route through the Strait of Hormuz. "Germany is not part of this (Iran) war, and we do not want to become part of it," he said.

If the current war ends with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps emboldened, many worry that Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, will increase efforts to pursue a nuclear weapon to deter future attacks, similar to North Korea.

Why would Trump launch a foreign war when he is so domestically weak? Precisely because he is weak In the lead-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, members of the George W Bush administration presented the case for war exhaustively, repeatedly, and in public. The then national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, who played a major role in green-lighting waterboarding of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, wrote an editorial in the New York Times claiming that Iraq was lying about its so-called “weapons of mass destruction”. Meanwhile, Colin Powell, then the secretary of state, went to a meeting of the United Nations security council in New York. There, before America and the world, he held up a tiny vial of substance meant to represent anthrax, a chemical weapon that had terrorized the US in a series of mail attacks just over a year before; Powell claimed that Iraq had the weapon and was willing to use it. Bush himself routinely addressed the American people, making the case for war. They were all lying, it turned out, but the lie served a purpose: it was a concession to the idea that the American people would have a say in whether or not their country went to war. Continue reading...

The war is not over even if the stock market wants it to be  Axios

The podcast host and author of The Persian reflects on why Israel’s precision in Iran caught him off guard As the author of a novel depicting the Mossad’s snatch-and-assassination squads inside Iran, David McCloskey was less shocked than most by the stunning killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the theocratic regime’s most powerful figure, in a strike carried out by Israel. What caught him more off guard were reports that the up-to-the-minute, pinpoint accurate intelligence essential for its success was provided by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Continue reading...

4 more U.S. deaths, vague threat from Trump as Iran war nears 2-week mark  Yahoo

Iran says no one can exclude it from the World Cup later this year, in response to President Donald Trump's warning that their "life and safety" would be at risk in the US. The Iranian team also said in the social media post on Thursday that the United States should not be allowed to co-host the tournament if it could not guarantee the safety of the teams taking part. Trump's comments came just two days after he told FIFA chief Gianni Infantino the Iranian players would be welcome despite the Middle East war.