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Iran has warned people to evacuate three major ports in the United Arab Emirates, including the busiest in the Middle East, as its war with the U.S. and Israel enters its third week

U.S. president has called on allies to send ships to the Strait of Hormuz to help keep the critical shipping channel open

Iran-US-Israel War Today Update: Donald Trump Says US May Strike Iran’s Kharg Island Again 'Just for Fun' After Claiming American Forces ‘Totally Demolished’ Strategic Oil Export Hub  The Sunday Guardian

"I'd Do A Number": Trump's Warning To Hit Iran's Kharg Island, 38 Years Ago  NDTV

Explosions heard as sirens sound across central Israel Air raid sirens sounded across central Israel as “loud explosions” were reported during a missile attack from Iran, Israel’s Channel 12 said. Reports said debris fell in parts of central Israel, while the Magen David Adom ambulance service treated four people who were injured while heading to shelters. The Israeli Home Front Command later said the incident was over.

Iran has warned people to evacuate three major ports in the United Arab Emirates, including the busiest in the Middle East, as its war with the U.S. and Israel enters its third week

Middle East war live: Trump urges China, UK and Japan to send warships to open Strait of Hormuz  Financial Times

What we know on the 16th day of the US and Israel’s war with Iran  CNN

Why Republicans Won’t Call the Iran Conflict What It Is  The Fulcrum

Security officials say embassy complex was struck by a drone, after strikes killed three members of Iran-backed Kataeb Hezbollah, and reportedly wounded its leader The post US urges citizens to leave Iraq after attack on embassy in Baghdad appeared first on The Times of Israel.

Live updates: Iran war news; crew killed in plane crash identified, F1 calls off Middle East races  CNN

US regulator threatens license revocation of media over Iran war coverage  US Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr threatened to revoke broadcast licenses over coverage of the US-Israeli military operation in Iran after criticism from President Donald Trump. “Broadcasters that are running hoaxes and news distortions … have a chance now to correct course before their license renewals come up,” Carr wrote on X, warning that stations must operate “in the public interest” or risk losing their licenses. On Saturday, Trump wrote on Truth Social: "The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal (in particular), and other Lowlife 'Papers' and Media actually want us to lose the War... Their terrible reporting is the exact opposite of the actual facts!” Senator Elizabeth Warren criticised the remarks, calling them “straight out of the authoritarian playbook.” Broadcasters that are running hoaxes and news distortions - also known as the fake news - have a chance now to correct course before their license renewals come up. https://t.co/7bBgnsbalw March 14, 2026

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With Trump declaring "there are almost no targets left to strike" and Hegseth saying "you don't have to roll 200,000 people in there and stay for 20 years," the air phase of Operation Epic Fury appears to be entering its terminal stage. The political decision on ground deployment is drawing closer. I've been tracking the reporting on this and broke down what I think are the five realistic options Washington is actually weighing: 1. SOF Limited Strike — The Maduro-capture template applied to nuclear facilities. Small elite team, air defenses already suppressed, in-and-out. The critical unknown: Natanz and Fordow are buried far deeper than anything the Venezuela operation dealt with, and Iran's mountain terrain makes extraction far harder than Iraqi plains. 2. Kurdish Proxy + U.S. Air Cover — CIA has reportedly been in contact with Iranian/Iraqi Kurdish groups for months. Mirrors the SDF-vs-ISIS model from Syria. The problem: Kurdish forces fighting the IRGC on Iranian soil is a fundamentally different proposition than fighting ISIS in the Syrian desert. 3. Coalition of the Willing (Iraq War model) — Saudi Arabia and UAE are already on the U.S. side. But Iran is 3–4× Iraq's size, 3.5× the population, and predominantly mountainous. Christopher Freibel's warning applies: "An Iran operation would make the Iraq mission look simple — and the Iraq mission was not simple." 4. Libya Model — Support internal uprising + limited air/special ops. Iran has seen its largest protests since 1979. But the protesters are unarmed, there's no Benghazi-style organized rebel force outside Kurdish areas, and the IRGC has already killed an estimated 7,000–32,000 protesters (sources vary widely). 5. Full-scale invasion — Military analysts put the troop requirement at 500k–1M. With 1.3M total active duty, this would hollow out U.S. commitments in Korea, Europe, and the Pacific. Political feasibility near-zero even within the GOP. My assessment: Washington is most likely pursuing a composite approach — continue degrading from the air, arm Kurdish forces for a proxy ground offensive in the west/northwest, and hold the SOF nuclear-site option in reserve for when air defenses are fully suppressed. The historical warning that haunts all of this: every major U.S. ground war began as a "limited intervention." Vietnam advisors → 550,000 troops. Afghanistan counterterrorism → 20-year war. Iraq "Shock and Awe" → decade-long occupation. "Mission creep" isn't a hypothetical — it's the base case. Happy to discuss any of the options in detail. Full analysis here if anyone wants the sourcing: https://sonoadhuc130127.substack.com/p/will-the-us-send-ground-troops-to submitted by /u/Pristine_Level7023 to r/MiddleEastNews [link] [comments]

Hollywood will convene Sunday night for a nail-biter Academy Awards that’s steering toward a coronation for either Paul Thomas Anderson or Ryan Coogler

FPV drones enter Iran vs US-Israel war: All about the low-cost ‘kamikaze’ weapons  The Times of India

For Xi, Iran War Reinforces View of U.S. as Dangerous Superpower  WSJ

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US embassy urges Americans leave Iraq after second attack The US Embassy in Baghdad urged all American citizens to leave Iraq immediately after the embassy compound was attacked overnight for the second time since the war with Iran began. Meanwhile, an Iraqi armed group has claimed responsibility for attacks targeting American interests in Iraqi Kurdistan, as militias intensify drone and rocket strikes against US facilities and personnel across the country.