2026 Israeli–United States strikes on Iran and elsewhere in region - News and Discussion

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According to Iraqi media, US aircraft landed in the Iraqi desert off loading troops. When Iraqi Army reconnaisence sought to investigate the situation they came allegedly under fire from US troops suffering casualties and having the wounded being evacuated to Karbala Hospital.

Iraqi Al-Ahd Channel, citing sources: Four American aircraft carrying ~150 fighters landed at dawn on Monday in Wadi Abu Mintar in the Nukhaib Desert between Karbala and Anbar - The American aircraft departed after the landing to the Tenuum base located on the border strip between Iraq, Syria, and Jordan - A force from the 41st Brigade, 2nd Battalion, under the command of the battalion commander (A. 'A.), affiliated with the Iraqi Army, moved to reconnoiter the Nukhaib Desert, and as a result, an engagement and shelling occurred from the American forces. The attack led to the injury of Colonel Staff (H. 'A. Kh.), commander of the 2nd Battalion, and the martyrdom of ('A. 'A. K.) and the injury of two affiliates. The martyr and the wounded were evacuated to Karbala Hospital
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overscan (PaulMM) said:
I think there's a distinction to be made between News and "random guy on X" that seems to be eluding some posters in this topic.
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I mean, in many cases it's either citing local/regional news and OSINT stuff that's posted here. If it's just about a narrow definition of news, than the thread could be closed and we all just follow the American, Israeli and Iranian MoDs on twitter.
 
EmoBirb said:
According to Iraqi media, US aircraft landed in the Iraqi desert off loading troops. When Iraqi Army reconnaisence sought to investigate the situation they came allegedly under fire from US troops suffering casualties and having the wounded being evacuated to Karbala Hospital
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Most likely he's trying to spin the US-Israel arming the Kurds story into something that it clearly isn't.

We have unconfirmed reports of Kurds starting operations in western Iran. That's after receiving reports yesterday that Kurds have been armed by Israel and the US "since last year".
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The burning ship thing is BS by the way. The original claims it's FIRMS, but FIRMS adds opaque red squares over an old base layer. The ship wouldn't exist in that image, the red dot would be a square, it'd be bigger than just a part of a ship, and it wouldn't be half transparent.
Also when you zoom in you can see it's just a dot someone put on it.
 
Suchomimus has uploaded a video concerning the sinking of the Iranian frigate off Sri Lanka:


An American submarine has sunk the Moudge-class frigate the IRIS Dena near the coast of Sri Lanka.
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Edit: It hadn't occurred to me until I watched this video it's possible that this frigate might've been in the Indian Ocean to attempt a raid on Diego Garcia.
 
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NMaude said:
Edit: It hadn't occurred to me until I watched this video it's possible that this frigate might've been in the Indian Ocean to attempt a raid on Diego Garcia.
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The frigate was in the Indian Ocean because it participate in international exercises held by India. Though it is possible, that after the war started, the commander might try such raid.
 
BonPlan2 said:
Seems that USN silent service is training with real torpedos....
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We always did.


NMaude said:
Someone got to expend a Mk-48 ADCAP earshot.
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But this is super rare. Normally you only get to expend warshots in SINKEXes!

Someone gets to file paperwork for the Submarine Combat Patrol Pin, which has not been awarded since WW2!


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Oooh, did someone say Article 5? Iran trying to get everyone to attack them.


Dilandu said:
The frigate was in the Indian Ocean because it participate in international exercises held by India. Though it is possible, that after the war started, the commander might try such raid.
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That would certainly be my expectation, and what I would actively do in that situation.
 
Three News had an article on tonight's six o'clock news concerning the frigate's sinking and other Iranian war news:


Trump's Secretary of War celebrates an American sub sinking an Iranian warship, calling it "a quiet death".
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For the first time since the Second World War, an American submarine has torpedoed and sank an enemy warship.
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The Iranian navy ship was in international waters near Sri Lanka, nearly 4,000 kilometres from Iran, and most of the 180 crew on board are dead or missing.
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Elsewhere, NATO has shot down an Iranian ballistic missile heading towards Turkey.
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The New Zealand Defence Force is sending two planes to the region to evacuate stranded Kiwis in the coming days. And the war - now in its sixth day - has killed more than a thousand Iranians. Rebecca Wright begins our coverage.
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Edit: From 2:01 to 2:19 looks like the wreckage from a spent SM-3 Block-IA specifically the Mk-104 DTRM second-stage and its' strakes.
 
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looks like the aircraft that shot down the Fencers were Qatari F-15QAs, that would mean the first a2a kills by this newer variant
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Iranian bombers were ‘two minutes’ from striking US base before Qatar shot them down

Iranian Su-24 bombers came within minutes of striking Qatar’s Al-Udeid Air Base and a key gas facility before Qatari F-15 fighters shot them down in the air force’s first air-to-air combat mission amid escalating regional attacks
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Cyprus ‘disappointed’ in Starmer’s failure to protect island​

The people of Cyprus are “disappointed” by Sir Keir Starmer, the Mediterranean island’s high commissioner to the UK has said.
The Prime Minister announced he will send a warship to Cyprus after Iranian drones attacked RAF Akrotiri, a key British air base on the island, on Sunday.
However, HMS Dragon, a Type 45 guided-missile destroyer, was only deployed two days after the attack and it will not reach the territory for potentially two weeks.

Kyriacos Kouros, the Cypriot high commissioner to the UK, was asked on the BBC’s Newsnight programme whether the people of the island felt “protected” by Britain.
After pausing for five seconds to consider his reply, he said: “It’s not an easy question to ask a diplomat who represents a country and the host is Britain. So let’s say that the people are disappointed, the people are scared, the people could expect more.”
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Japan Prepares to Send SDF Aircraft to Middle East for Evacuations

Tokyo, March 5 (Jiji Press)--Japan's Defense Ministry is stepping up preparations to send Self-Defense Forces …
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Tokyo, March 5 (Jiji Press)--Japan's Defense Ministry is stepping up preparations to send Self-Defense Forces aircraft to evacuate Japanese nationals from the Middle East amid rising tensions in the region following the U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran.

The ministry "is taking concrete steps," such as assessing local conditions and considering specific routes for the expected mission, and "will start coordination for evacuation," Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said in a social media post Thursday.

The Japanese government evacuated five Japanese nationals from Israel to neighboring Jordan on Monday and two from Iran to neighboring Azerbaijan on Wednesday, both by land. "We are trying to find needs" for evacuation among the Japanese nationals, a senior SDF official said.

According to the Foreign Ministry, some 1,000 Japanese nationals are currently in Israel and about 200 in Iran.

"We have yet to decide" whether to send SDF aircraft, Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara said in a press conference Thursday. "We will take all possible measures to protect Japanese citizens, including preparations for evacuations," he stressed.
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Trump's Asian allies fear Iran war will sap defenses against China

Japanese lawmakers reeling from attacks on Iran by the United States and Israel gathered on Monday at the ruling party's offices in Tokyo to question bureaucrats about evacuation plans, energy stocks and the legal basis for U.S. action. But ‌one query posed at the closed-door meeting, described...
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Iran latest: UK PM Keir Starmer giving update on Middle East war

The PM uses a news conference to defend the UK's response to the Middle East war. In Iran, explosions are seen across Tehran after US-Israeli strikes, while Israel reports new Iranian attacks.
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How depleted weapons stockpiles could affect the Iran conflict

Weapons stocks will not alone decide the outcome of this conflict, but it's certainly a significant factor, writes the BBC's Jonathan Beale.
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Iranians describe life under US-Israeli strikes: 'Every day feels like a month'

Iranians are coping with daily strikes, internet blackouts, and security crackdowns - all while trying to stay in touch with loved ones.
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In a reversal of roles, the US government apparently asks Ukraine for anti-drone weaponry.
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US asked Ukraine for help fighting Iranian drones, Zelensky says

Ukraine's president says Kyiv will only help if doing so does not deplete its own air defences.
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The US has asked Ukraine for help defending Gulf allies against Iranian drones, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky.
He said Ukraine's partners had been reaching out and there had been "requests from the American side". The Pentagon declined to comment.
Zelensky made clear Ukraine would help only on the condition that its own defence was not weakened and that there were diplomatic gains for Kyiv - suggesting, in particular, that Ukraine would be willing to swap its interceptor drones for more US Patriot air defences to protect against Russian ballistic missiles.
The war in the Middle East has raised fears Ukraine could suffer if its allies are distracted by the conflict.
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A question, does anyone know of a recent decent enough rerview of iranian air defences? Specifically info as to roughly how many batteries of SAMs, especially of newer types such as Bavar, 3rd/15th of Khordad etc. they have, and also any info of estimated yearly production of SAM systems? I know of course about the 4 S-300 batteries, the 29 Tors, and there is some info on older systems, but beyond that not much else.

As an example this is an older review, but obviously this must be well outdated today.
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Iran's SAM Coverage

A blog about Iranian Military and Geopolitical affairs.
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Very curious about this engagement, the Fencers were 80 feet above the ground. I wonder how early they were detected.
 
I mean.. if you mass them in the Strait of Hormuz, they could do a lot of damage before being taken out. Any convoy will be a viable target.
 
ABC News has a short article out about Israeli and US strikes on 13 Iranian underground missile bases:

 
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Iran conflict and China: How it is unsettling Beijing and its ambitions

China is not feeling the shock of war in the Middle East - yet. But it is feeling the ripples.
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How Iran is using cheap drones to cause chaos across the Middle East - BBC News

Iran is using large numbers of low-cost, explosive‑laden Shahed drones in a bid to overwhelm air defences, strike critical infrastructure and spread fear in the region.
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Iran war: Why the boots on Iran's ground could be Kurdish

Iranian Kurdish opposition groups in exile in northern Iraq tell the BBC they have plans to cross the border but deny already doing so.
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