🇺🇸🇹🇷 — Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, during a meeting with ruling AK Party deputies, announced plans for a broad diplomatic campaign in the summer of 2025 to address the U.S. administration's approach toward the Kurdish PKK/YPG groups.
— Turkish outlet Hurriyet
🇮🇱🇪🇬 — IDF soldiers stationed at Kibbutz Kadesh Barnea in the Nitzana area, near the border with Egypt, reported hearing gunfire coming from the Egyptian side.
The soldiers are currently scanning the area. There are no casualties, and no signs of gunfire have been detected at their position so far.
— Israeli Broadcasting Authority
🇮🇱🇮🇷 — Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi:
"Israel will never be able to attack Iran. Even with American support and assistance, they are incapable of carrying out military operations".
🇯🇴🇵🇸 — Jordan has banned weekly demonstrations in support of Gaza, after claiming to have foiled a plot to carry out armed attacks.
— Israeli Broadcasting Authority citing Palestinian sources close to Hamas
🇮🇱🇵🇸🇫🇷 - Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar:
"The French will lose their regional influence and harm their standing if they recognize a Palestinian state".
🇾🇪 — Yemeni government sources told Asharq Al-Awsat that the Houthis are planting mines in Hodeidah and other populated areas in anticipation of a ground military operation, which they expect to be launched by Yemeni government forces in coordination with the US.
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🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇹🇴🇲 - The second round of indirect talks between Iran and the US has begun at the Omani Embassy in Rome.
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🇦🇿🇸🇾 — Syrian President al-Sharaa has asked Azerbaijani President Aliyev to involve Azerbaijan's state oil company, SOCAR, in the development of oil and gas fields in northeastern Syria — a region largely controlled by the SDF.
Damascus is attempting to implement a balanced policy with this move, believing that the presence of a close Israeli ally in the country could help ease tensions with Israel.
— Middle East Eye
🇱🇧 - Wafiq Safa, head of Hezbollah's Liaison and Coordination Committee:
"The talk of disarmament is only found on social media and among inciters.
Whatever you hear is nonsense—don't be affected by it. There is no force that can disarm us".
🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 - US President Trump:
"I wouldn't say I waved off an Israeli attack on Iran, but I'm not in a rush to do it".
🇺🇸🇾🇪🇸🇦 - A Yemeni official told the Israeli Broadcasting Authority:
"There is a unique opportunity to eliminate the Houthis through a ground maneuver by local forces. The key is taking control of the port city of Hodeidah in western Yemen. That is their beating heart".
IBA also cited an unnamed Saudi royal family member who urged U.S. cooperation with the Yemeni government on launching a ground offensive.
🇷🇺🇦🇫 — Russia has removed the Taliban from its list of terrorist organizations and lifted the ban on the group.
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🇸🇾🇹🇷 - Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan:
"There will never be any form of federal structure in Syria, and no armed group other than the national army will be tolerated under any circumstances".
🇭🇺🇮🇱 - The International Criminal Court (ICC) has launched proceedings against Hungary for failing to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his recent visit to the country.
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🇺🇸🇦🇪🇾🇪 - The UAE denied media reports that it is involved in talks with the US over a land offensive by Yemen against the Houthis.
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🇮🇱🇪🇬 — Following a search operation by the IDF in the Kadesh Barnea area, the army ruled out the possibility of a security incident.
— Israeli Broadcasting Authority
🇮🇱🇵🇸 — Israel is considering the re-arrest of Palestinian prisoners who were previously released in past exchange deals, due to Hamas' ongoing refusal to engage in a new exchange agreement.
— Israeli Channel 12
🇱🇧 — At least one was killed and three others were injured due to a munitions explosion in a Lebanese Army engineering vehicle in south Lebanon.
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🇮🇱🇱🇧 — The Lebanese Army has announced that, in coordination with the Intelligence Directorate, it has foiled a new rocket attack toward Israel.
Several rockets and their launch platforms were seized, and multiple suspects were arrested.
🇮🇱🇮🇷 - A senior Iranian security official told Reuters:
"We have intelligence from reliable sources that Israel is planning a major attack on Iran's nuclear sites.
We are prepared for any possible Israeli strike and the response will be harsh and decisive".
🇺🇸🇦🇫🇾🇪 — The BBC, citing a UN report, claims that the Taliban has sold U.S.-made weapons and military equipment—left behind by the U.S. Army after its 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan—to militant groups, including the Houthis.
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🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 - Israel has not ruled out an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities in the coming months, despite U.S. President Trump informing Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu that the U.S. won't back such action for now.
- Reuters citing an Israeli official
🇱🇧 — Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem:
"We will confront those who attack the resistance and want to disarm us, and we advise that no one play this game with us".
🇫🇷❌🇾🇪 — French Armed Forces announces that French Navy's Vessels intercepted Houthi drones flying towards it on the Red sea
📌 Red Sea | Interception by a 🇫🇷 frigate of an aerial drone coming from Yemen, threatening maritime traffic.
➡️ Constant vigilance to ensure freedom of navigation and maritime security from Suez to Hormuz.
🇺🇸🇾🇪🇨🇳 - U.S. officials speaking to the Financial Times claim that CGSTL, a Chinese satellite company with ties to the country's military, is providing the Houthis with imagery to help them target U.S. warships and international vessels in the Red Sea.
The officials added that Washington has repeatedly warned China, but Beijing has ignored these concerns.
🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 - Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's Office, in its first response to the New York Times report:
"Netanyahu's actions delayed Iran's nuclear program by about a decade. As the PM has repeatedly stated: Israel will not allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon".
🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 - Five U.S. military cargo planes carrying advanced missile interception systems landed at Nevatim Airbase in anticipation of a potential Iranian counterattack.
- Israeli Channel 14
🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 - Israel had recently developed plans to attack Iranian nuclear sites in May, including a plan that would have combined an Israeli commando raid on underground facilities with a bombing campaign. Israel has long prepared for such an operation, rehearsing bombing runs and assessing how much damage it could inflict with or without American support.
However, U.S. President Donald Trump blocked the planned Israeli strike in favor of negotiating a deal with Iran to limit its nuclear program.
- New York Times
🇮🇱🇱🇧🇵🇸 - The Lebanese Army has announced that it has identified the group responsible for the rocket launches toward Israel on March 22 and 28, 2025, which includes both Lebanese and Palestinians.
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🇱🇧🇮🇶 - The Iraqi Foreign Ministry has summoned the Lebanese ambassador to Baghdad to express its disapproval of comments made by Lebanese President Joseph Aoun regarding the PMF.
"The PMF is an important part of Iraq's military and security system. It would have been better not to involve Iraq in Lebanon's internal crisis or to use an official Iraqi institution as an example in this context," the Iraqi Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
