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Qatar Shoots Down Two Iranian Su-24 Fighter Bombers After Shutting Down Gas Production
Qatar announced on March 2 that its air force had “successfully shot down” two Iranian warplanes, as the fallout from the United American-Israeli attack on the Islamic Republic continues across the wider Middle East.
In a statement, the Qatari Ministry of Defense said that it downed two Soviet-made SU-24 fighter bombers of the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF). It added that seven ballistic missiles and five drones launched by Iran were also intercepted.
Iran began launching drone and missile attacks against Qatar shortly after the outbreak of the war two days ago, mainly targeting military facilities hosting or supporting U.S. forces like Al Udeid Air Base. Nevertheless, earlier in the day, the country said that two Iranian missiles struck energy-related sites affiliated with QatarEnergy in the industrial city of Ras Laffan, without causing injuries or fatalities.
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U.S. Confirms Three F-15s Were Shot Down, Says Fourth Soldier Was Killed In Iranian Strikes (Videos)
The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) on March 2 confirmed that three F-15E Strike Eagles taking part in the ongoing attack against Iran were shot down over Kuwait in an apparent friendly fire incident.
While CENTCOM said that all three F-15Es were shot down by Kuwaiti air defenses, Iran’s Khatam-al Anbiya Central Headquarters announced earlier that one such fighter jet was shot down by Iranian air defense close to the border between Kuwait and Iraq.
Ali Al Salem took heavy losses as a result of U.S. and Israeli strikes over the last two days.
Three American troops were killed at the air base a day earlier, and in a new update CENTCOM said that a fourth service member, who was seriously wounded in one of the Iranian attacks, eventually succumbed to their injuries.
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Thunder In The Gulf: Why The Iran War Will Reshape The World Order
On the morning of February 28, Israel launched a large-scale air campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran with the support of the United States. From that moment on, the conflict in the Persian Gulf region began to escalate exponentially. Previously neutral countries, including Qatar, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, and Oman, were drawn into the conflict. There is a significant likelihood that the conflict will widen and draw in new participants.
The Persian Gulf is one of the world's most oil-rich regions. The situation there has always directly impacted the global economy. Since the conflict began over the weekend, global stock markets have not yet reacted, but oil prices are highly likely to soar on Monday. A war between Israel, the U.S., and Iran could have serious global consequences. Regardless of the outcome, the global geopolitical landscape will never be the same.
◼️ The start of military operations came as no surprise to most analysts. Over the past few months, the Pentagon has been building up its air and naval forces in Persian Gulf countries. In terms of the ratio of forces and resources involved, the current conflict is comparable to Operation Desert Storm during the U.S. invasion of Iraq, except for the lack of a ground component. Up to one-third of all U.S. combat aircraft have been deployed to the region, supported by two aircraft carrier strike groups. US-Iranian negotiations turned out to be fiction, merely a distraction to lull Tehran into a false sense of security. To some extent, this strategy was successful.
The first aerial bombs exploded over Iran early Saturday morning, February 28. For Jews, Saturday is the day of rest, so the leadership of the Islamic Republic did not expect any active operations. The element of surprise was 100% effective.
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Several U.S. Fighter Jets, Including F-15, Shot Down Over Kuwait Amid Iranian Drone Attack (Videos)
Several American fighter jets crashed in Kuwait on March 2, right after an Iranian attack targeted the United States embassy in the country.
One of the fighter jets, an F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jet of the U.S. Air Force, reportedly crashed some ten kilometers away from Ali Al Salem Air Base, which hosts U.S. forces. The base is located in central Kuwait, roughly 15 kilometers west of the city of Al Jahra and approximately 37 kilometers from the Iraqi border.
The F-15E is a twin-engine, two-seat, all-weather multirole strike fighter derived from the F-15 Eagle, developed for long-range precision ground attacks while retaining strong air-to-air capability, with a top speed over Mach 2.5 and a large weapons payload.
Videos show both pilots ejecting as the F-15E went down in flames. Meanwhile, photos from the ground appeared to show three pilots.
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Iran Allies In Iraq Join War, Devastate U.S. Base With Air Defenses In Erbil (Videos)
Large blasts rocked Erbil International Airport in the north near the capital of the autonomous region of Kurdistan in northern Iraq late on March 1, amid the American-Israeli attack on Iran.
Air defenses deployed at the military section of the airport, where United States forces are present, made several interceptions before the blasts. Later, Iranian state broadcaster Press TV reported that the airport was targeted with several drones and missiles.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which attacked targets in Kurdistan over the past day, didn’t claim responsibility, but the so-called Islamic Resistance in Iraq (IRI) released a statement around the same time announcing that it had carried out 23 operations with dozens of drones against “enemy bases” in Iraq and the region.
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Military Situation In The Middle East On February 28 – March 1, 2026 (Map Update)
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UAE Takes Burnt Of Iranian Attacks With Israeli Embassy, French Base And CIA Center Hit (Videos)
The Ministry of Defense of the United Arab Emirates announced on March 1 that three foreigners were killed and 58 lightly wounded in Iranian strikes on the country's territory.
In a statement, the Emirati Ministry of Defense said that 167 missiles and 541 drones were launched toward the country, of which 506 were intercepted and destroyed, while 35 crashed within its territory and caused property damage.
Some high-value targets were reportedly hit. Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency reported that the headquarters of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Dubai was among the targets hit.
Another report by Reuters said that debris from an intercepted drone damaged the Etihad Towers complex in Abu Dhabi which houses the Israeli embassy and several other international missions.
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Trump Announces Khamenei Was Killed, Urges IRGC To Stop Fighting
United States President Donald Trump declared late on February 28 that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei had been killed earlier in the day in one of the joint American and Israeli strikes against the Islamic Republic, which he said will continue “uninterrupted” throughout the week or as long as necessary until peace is secured.
“Khamenei, one of the most evil people in History, is dead,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Iran Closes Strait Of Hormuz, Strikes $1,1 Billion American Missile Radar In Qatar (Videos)
Iran escalated its retaliatory operations across the Middle East in the afternoon of February 28, with reports suggesting that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has shut down the strategic Strait of Hormuz.
An official from the European Union’s naval mission Aspides told Reuters that vessels have been receiving VHF transmission from the IRGC saying “no ship is allowed to pass the Strait of Hormuz.”
The official noted that Iran had not formally confirmed any such order. However, an IRGC commander, Ibrahim Jabari, told the Lebanese network Al-Mayadeen later that "the closure of the Strait of Hormuz is currently being carried out following the aggression against Iran."
The commander also revealed that “1,200 missiles were launched from Iran in various directions immediately” after the United States and Israel attacked the Islamic Republic in the morning.
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Israel Used Secretive Golden Horizon Missiles In Attack On Iran, While U.S. Fired Tomahawk Missiles (Photos, Videos)
Israel used a secretive air-launched two-stage ballistic missile in the opening strikes of its joint attack with the U.S. against Iran on February 28 morning, according to photos from Iraq.
What appears to be the first stage of the missiles used in the attack are seen in the photos, which were taken at the district of al-Alam in the central Iraqi province of Saladin.
The same type of missile was used in Israeli attacks that targeted Iran in April and October of 2024, as well as in the opening strikes of the 12-day war in June of last year, with similar remains found in Iraq in all of these cases.
While Israel opted to use its most advanced missile in the opening strikes against Iran, the U.S. followed a more traditional approach, leading with BGM-109 Tomahawk land-attack cruise missiles.
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U.S., Israel Launch Large-Scale Regime-Change Attack Against Iran (Videos)
After weeks of preparations, the United States and Israel attacked Iran on February 28, sparking a war that could go on for weeks, or even more.
Defense Minister Israel Katz was the first to announce the attack as blasts were rocking the capital of the Islamic Republic, Tehran, calling it a “preemptive” operation.
“The State of Israel has launched a preemptive strike against Iran to remove threats to the State of Israel,” he said, noting that he declared an “immediate state of emergency throughout the entire country.”
Trump Says He Wants ‘Friendly Takeover’ Of Cuba After Deadly Boat Incident
U.S. President Donald Trump on February 27 raised the prospect of a "friendly takeover" of Cuba, telling reporters at the White House that Secretary of State Marco Rubio was dealing with the issue at a "very high level."
"The Cuban government is talking with us, and they're in a big deal of trouble," Trump said as he left the White House for a trip to Texas.
"They have no money. They have no anything right now, but they're talking with us, and maybe we'll have a friendly takeover of Cuba,” he added.
Russian Army Captures Heights Near Reznykivka: How Will This Affect Ukrainian Forces In Slaviansk?
In the direction of Slavyansk, Russian units advanced into the center of Kryva Luka and reached the dominant heights north of Reznykivka. They have begun entering Fedorivka Druha and are pushing Ukrainian units off the fortified heights toward Rai-Oleksandrivka.
In the Zaporizhzhia area, Ukrainian troops have launched large-scale attacks with armored vehicles near Ternove and Berezove. They have suffered losses from Russian drones, while Russian troops have maintained the initiative around Huliaipole.
In the Sumy area, Russian troops advanced 1,100 meters and captured several tree lines east of Oleksiivka, forcing Ukrainian troops out of the Varachyne area.
In the Kharkiv area, Russian assault groups repelled counterattacks south of Starytsia and advanced in Vovchanski Khutory, destroying Ukrainian reserves.
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Pandora's Box Opens: France And Britain Are Willing To Risk Nuclear Catastrophe
The likelihood that the Ukrainian conflict will escalate is increasing. After five years of armed hostilities, NATO member states have failed to achieve their declared goals: defeating Russia militarily and securing reparations for Ukraine’s reconstruction. The peace process initiated by the U.S. and Russia has sent a positive signal toward a diplomatic settlement, but there are still actors trying to undermine even a weak hope for peace.
Europe, first of all the leading powers like the UK and France, remains on the sidelines of the U.S.–Russia dialogue and is considering all options to achieve its own goals in the conflict. The UK and France are working on scenarios of adding fuel to the fire, including providing the Kyiv regime with nuclear weapons — a step that would evidently trigger an immediate and decisive response from Russia.
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◾ Spanish journalist Fermín Torrano who spent four years reporting from the Ukrainian front speak about foreign mercenaries in the Ukrainian army:
- At the begging most of them where used just for propaganda purposes.
- The international brigade was corrupted and full of undesirables, including the commanders.
- There are entire battalions formed by Latinos, principally Colombians with a far right back ground, ex members of the military and the paramilitary groups.
- Some of them fight for their anti-communist ideals but most of them do it just for the money.
- Ukrainian commanders hide the bodies of the deceased to avoid making payments to the families and keep the money for themselves.
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Israel’s Top-Secret Stealth Drone Allegedly Spotted Over Iran (Videos)
Videos purported to show Israel’s most secretive drone, the RA-01, flying over Iran surfaced on March 2, amid the ongoing war between the two.
The videos were said to be recorded in Tehran, the capital of the Islamic Republic, although there is no evidence confirming this. The mysterious drone seen in the footage features a flying-wing design, in line with many known stealth drone models.
The existence of the RA-01 was first revealed in October of 2024 through documents leaked from the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
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Iran Deals Blow To Energy Facilities In Saudi Arabia And Qatar, Hits Six U.S. Bases Nearby (Videos)
A series of Iranian missile and drone strikes targeted energy facilities in Saudi Arabia and Qatar on March 2, causing significant damage.
The early morning strikes are a part of a series of retaliatory operations the Islamic Republic began two days earlier in response to a joint attack by the United States and Israel. While Saudi Arabia and Qatar are not directly involved in the attack, American forces are deployed on their territories.
A spokesman for the Saudi Ministry of Defense told the official SPA news agency that the kingdom repelled in the early morning drones attempting to strike the Ras Tanura oil refinery belonging to state oil giant Aramco.
The Qatari Ministry of Defense announced on the same day that Iranian missiles hit a water storage tank belonging to the Mesaieed Energy plant.
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Hezbollah Joins War Alongside Iran, Israel Responds With Assassinations (Videos)
Hezbollah joined the war alongside Iran early on March 2, launching rockets and drones against targets in Israel, which responded with deadly strikes.
Sirens were activated in the northern city of Haifa and surrounding areas shortly after midnight, with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) later confirming that the source of the rocket fire that set off the alarms was Lebanon.
The military said that one rocket was intercepted by air defenses, and at least two others were allowed to fall in open areas.
Hezbollah, in its statement claiming responsibility for attacks said that “a barrage of precision missiles and a swarm of drones,” said it attacked as “revenge for the blood of the Supreme Leader of the Muslims, Ali Khamenei.”
In response to the attacks, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir said that the military launched an “offensive campaign” against Hezbollah that will likely last several days.
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Eyes On Verkhnia Tersa: Capture of Horke Brings Russian Army Closer To Ukrainian Defense Hub In Zaporizhzhia
In the Zaporizhzhia area, the 60th Motorized Rifle Brigade took control of the village of Horke. This puts them in a position to reach Verkhnia Tersa from the south and east. They are also repelling counterattacks by Ukrainian units in the Rozhdestvenske and Ternovate areas.
In the Sumy region, the "North" group advanced 900 meters, clearing forested areas and destroying Ukrainian assault groups.
In the Kharkiv area, Russian troops liberated Neskuchne and advanced in Vovchanski Khutory. They also carried out an Iskander strike on a tent camp belonging to the 225th Assault Regiment in Malynivka.
Armando Mema, a member of the Finnish "Freedom Alliance" party, stated that the United States and Israeli operation against Iran will reduce the supply of air defense systems to Ukraine. He called on Kyiv to begin negotiations with Russia.
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Belgium And France Conduct Special Operation To Seize Tanker Allegedly Linked To Russia's "Shadow Fleet"
On the night of March 1, 2026, the combined forces of Belgium and France conducted a special operation to detain the oil tanker Ethera, which, according to Brussels, is part of Russia's so-called "shadow fleet." The vessel, sailing under the flag of Guinea, was taken under military control in the North Sea at the exit from the English Channel and is currently being escorted to the Belgian port of Zeebrugge.
The operation, named Blue Intruder, was carried out by the Belgian armed forces with direct support from the French Ministry of Defense. French President Emmanuel Macron released a video of the operation showing two helicopters approaching the ship, after which a capture team landed on the deck.
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Twelve Israelis And Americans Killed, Iran Announces Attacks On Carrier After Bomber Attack (Videos)
Both the United States and Israel suffered casualties on March 1 as a result of Iranian missile and drone strikes that began a day earlier in response to their joint attack.
The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement that three American soldiers were killed and five others were seriously wounded by Iranian fire. The troops mark the first American casualties reported in the ongoing conflict with the Islamic Republic.
Iran has targeted American bases across the Middle East over the past day, and around the same time CENTCOM acknowledged the casualties, the IRGC said that they had attacked the American aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea.
Separately, Fox News reported that the American military used B-2 stealth bombers in recent strikes on Iran.
Meanwhile in Israel, at least nine were killed when an Iranian missile hit the settlement of Beit Shemesh.
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Iran Confirms Death Of Khamenei, President Pezeshkian Is No Where To Be Seen
Iran confirmed on March 1 that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed in the American-Israeli attack on the Islamic Republic that began a day earlier.
The death of Khamenei was first announced by United States President Donald Trump, who described him as “one of the most evil people in history.”
Iranian state television described Khamenei as being at his compound in downtown Tehran when the initial attack began. Satellite photos from Airbus show the site was heavily bombed.
The death of Iran’s Supreme Leader at his office “showed that he consistently stood among the people and at the forefront of his responsibilities, confronting what officials call global arrogance,” state TV said.
State television also announces that 40 days of public mourning over the late leader had been declared across the Islamic Republic.
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Israel Seems Certain Iranian Supreme Leader Was Killed Along Other Senior Officials
The signs are growing that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei “is no more,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a video statement to the Israeli public released late on February 28.
The primer said that this morning Israel eliminated Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commanders, senior Iranian regime officials, senior nuclear officials, and that in the coming days, “we will hit thousands of targets of the terror regime.”
Following Netanyahu's statement, Israeli officials told Hebrew media that Khamenei was killed in an Israeli strike in the morning. Satellite imagery published by The New York Times earlier in the day revealed that Khamenei’s compound in the Iranian capital, Tehran, was destroyed.
Channel 12 later provided more details. In a report, the news channel said that Netanyahu and Trump were shown an image of the body of Khamenei.
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American-Israeli Strikes Kill Over 50 At Girls School, Iran Wipes Out U.S. Naval Base (Videos)
One of the strikes launched by the United States and Israel against Iran on February 28 morning hit a girls’ elementary school in the southern city of Minab, killing 57 people, including students, and wounding more than 60 others.
Iran began responding shortly after the opening strikes, launching several waves of missiles and drones at Israel.
The Islamic Republic also attacked U.S. bases across the Middle East. with missile and drone impacts reported in Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.
However, the most devastating Iranian attack targeted the U.S. Naval Support Activity based in Bahrain.
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Iranian Missiles Target Israel, In Addition To U.S. Bases In Bahrain, Qatar, UAE And Kuwait (Videos)
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced that it has begun “the first wave of extensive missile and drone attacks” against Israel, with reports suggesting that United States bases across the Gulf were also targeted in response to the attack on the Islamic Republic that began on the morning of February 28.
In a statement, the guards said that the attacks come “in response to the hostile and criminal enemy’s aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
Hebrew media reported that several ballistic missiles have been launched from Iran at Israel, with no immediate reports of impacts or injuries. Sirens sounded across northern and southern Israel.
While the guards only announced an attack on Israel, it became quickly clear that Iran also launched strikes against U.S. bases in the Gulf.
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In Video: Ukraine Test-Fires FP-7 Ballistic Missile
Ukrainian’s Fire Point has conducted test launches of its new FP-7 ballistic missile, according to the defense company co-founder Denys Shtilerman, who released footage of the launches on February 27.
The company first unveiled the FP-7, along with a much larger ballistic missile codenamed the FP-9, in September of last year.
According to materials released by the company at the time, the FP-7 is designed for “medium-range” strikes, with a range of 200 kilometers , a top speed of 1,500 meters per second, and a warhead weighing 150 kg. The missile can fly for up to 250 seconds and is launched from ground-based platforms.
The test video shows the missile being launched from a static ground-based platform. Only the launch was included in the footage.
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Censorship Prevails In France: Paris Declares War On Alternative Points of View
Amidst a worsening domestic political crisis, the Macron regime, clinging to power, has once again demonstrated its true totalitarian and anti-democratic nature. The French media regulator, ARCOM, has demanded that internet service providers block access to resources which, according to the official government narrative, are linked to Russia. Formally, 35 media outlets have been targeted, including not just news agencies but also streaming platforms.
Nevertheless, the fight against “Russian propaganda” is merely a convenient pretext. Paris’s real target is any information that deviates from the mainstream narrative. It is not so much specific media outlets that have been caught in the crosshairs, but rather the very ability of citizens to hear alternative points of view, to see a different assessment of events, and to analyze it.
The history of persecution of independent media in France goes deeper than it seems. This is a systemic policy aimed at forcing any sources disloyal to the official course out of the information space.
SouthFront (SF) is one such source, which has been under sanctions since 2020. The pretext for the blockade back then was accusations of interfering in the United States elections. Today, it is no secret that these accusations were completely fabricated to justify censorship. Recently, Washington officially admitted that the story about “Russian interference” was a lie orchestrated by representatives of the Democratic Party.
Censorship does not help, however. It only accelerate the irreversible process of the global segmentation of the internet. The world wide web, once a unified space for information exchange, is disintegrating into isolated segments. In this new reality, the regimes that seek to lock their citizens in an “information ghetto” are the ones that benefit, and the West, which initiated this policy, is the first to reap its fruits.
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“La vérité et la justice sont souveraines, car elles seules assurent la grandeur des nations,” Par Émile Zola.
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Ukraine Doubles Down On Costly Zaporizhzhia Counterattack With More Advance Attempts (Videos)
On February 27, the Russian military’s Vostok [East] Group of Forces repelled five advance attempts close to the Haichur River line in Zaporizhzhia, inflicting some serious losses on Kiev forces.
The advance attempts began in the early morning, with the 225th Separate Assault Regiment and the 33rd Assault Regiment moving in the direction of Rizdvyank and Ternovatoe. Ukrainian troops were caught in minefields, and were then targeted by the drone units of the Vostok Group of Forces.
Later in the day, the 82nd Separate Air Assault Brigade and the 95th Rifle Division made separate attempts to advance towards Hai, from two different directions. The 225th Separate Assault Regiment also made another advance attempt, but this time towards Zalishchnoe.
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U.S. Sends Fleet Of Tankers To Israel, Evacuates Embassy In Final Preparations For Attack On Iran
The United States sent more tankers to Israel on February 27, as it began evacuating its embassy in the country in a sign of a near attack on Iran.
A third round of American-Iranian indirect talks was held in Geneva just a day earlier, with conflicting reports emerging later.
With no deal announced, the deployment of at least nine U.S. refueling tankers arriving at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport came as no surprise.
The tankers are likely to provide support for US fighter jets aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier, which is heading toward Israel’s northern coast, in the event that U.S. President Donald Trump orders military strikes on Iran.
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