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March 8 (Reuters) - The Iranian army said on Sunday that at least 104 people were killed and 32 were wounded in an attack by the U.S. on an Iranian warship off Sri Lanka's coast last week. A U.S. submarine sank the frigate Dena in the Indian Ocean about 19 nautical miles off Sri Lanka's southern port city of Galle on Wednesday, killing dozens of sailors and dramatically widening Washington's pursuit of the Iranian navy. (Reporting by Menna Alaa El-Din and Elwely Elwely; Editing by Alexandra Hudson)

March 8 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump is weighing the option of deploying special forces on the ground to seize Iran’s near-bomb-grade uranium, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday, citing three diplomatic officials briefed on the matter. Reuters could not immediately verify the report. (Reporting by Rhea Rose Abraham in Bengaluru)

By Orhan Qereman QAMISHLI, Syria March 8 (Reuters) - Kurdish residents of northeast Syria warned Iran's Kurds against aligning with the U.S. to fight the Iranian government, citing their own experience in Syria in recent months as evidence their Iranian counterparts would be "abandoned." Iranian Kurdish militias based in northern Iraq have consulted with the United States in recent days about whether and how to attack security forces in western Iran, as the United States and Israel pound Iran with air strikes, Reuters has reported.

Amb. Mike Waltz: 'Iran has been at war with us' and 'Trump is ending it'  NBC News

Israel launches new wave of strikes across Iran, warns it will target every successor of Khamenei  Fox News

Fed officials are watching Iran war for inflation impact  Yahoo Finance

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Lebanon registers more than half a million displaced by Israeli attacks Lebanon's social affairs minister said on Sunday that more than half a million people had been registered as displaced since the outbreak of the new war between Israel and Hezbollah. In a press briefing, Haneen Sayed said that the total number of people who registered their names on a website affiliated with the ministry reached 517,000, including 117,228 people in government shelters. A displaced person sits outside a car loaded with belongings, following an escalation between Hezbollah and Israel amid the US-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Beirut, Lebanon, 8 March, 2026. (Reuters)

‘Putin smiled’: Ukraine hurries to adapt as US focus moves to Iran  The Guardian

Israeli strikes kill six people in southern Lebanon Six people were killed in Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon’s Nabatieh governorate, the National News Agency (NNA) reported. The report said the strikes “completely” destroyed the buildings in the town of Doueir and killed five members of the same family and one of their acquaintances. The civil defence agency and Red Cross teams are working to recover the bodies and transport them to local morgues, it said.

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Iran accused of attacks in UAE and Bahrain, smoke blankets Tehran from Israeli strikes  NewsNation

Close Up: Iran conflict hits home with deaths of two Iowa soldiers  KCCI

Attacks on Tehran’s Fuel Storage and Energy Infrastructure Will Have Consequences  Middle East Forum

‘The Air is Unbreathable’: Tehran Shrouded in Cloud of Toxic Smoke After Israel Strikes Fuel Depots  Time Magazine

What we know on the ninth day of the US and Israel’s war with Iran  RNZ

Israel Strikes Energy Infrastructure Crucial to Iran’s Well-Being  The New York Times