Military and conflict reporting on Iran — strikes, escalation with Israel and the United States, proxy forces across the region, and defence developments — collected from independent English-language outlets.
Washington, DC [US], September 3 (ANI): Seven months into the Iran war, US President Donald Trump is privately weighing a declaration that the war is over, even while the Pentagon lengthens troop deployments in West Asia, pointing to the possibility that the tensions may continue into next year, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
Death toll from Israeli settler attacks spirals in 'most violent' year for West Bank Submitted by Fayha Shalash on Thu, 09/03/2026 - 13:59 Thousands of attacks by Israeli settlers and soldiers have left at least 76 Palestinian dead in 2026 An Israeli settler attacks a left-wing activist at an Israeli outpost in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian village of Jannatah, just south of the city of Bethlehem on 25 August 2026 (Ilia Yefimovich / AFP) Off During a settler attack aimed at stealing sheep, the Israeli army killed a Palestinian boy and a young man on Wednesday evening in the village of Al-Mughayyir, east of Ramallah. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, Omar Muhammad Na’san, 19, and Khalil Rasem Shahada, 16, were shot dead by Israeli soldiers. Marzouq Abu Na’im, a member of the village council and an activist documenting settler attacks there, told Middle East Eye that armed settlers attacked a house to steal livestock.
Tehran launched retaliatory attacks on US military facilities across the region after the latest bombardment US President Donald Trump has congratulated Secretary of War Pete Hegseth over the latest American strikes on Iran, despite one of the attacks hitting a wedding and killing several civilians.
Vice President J. D. Vance says Washington is investigating the strike, which killed five people The deadly strike on a wedding in southern Iran earlier this week was likely a direct hit by a US munition, Reuters reports, citing its own analysis.
Vice President J. D. Vance says Washington is investigating the strike, which killed five people The deadly strike on a wedding in southern Iran earlier this week was likely a direct hit by a US munition, Reuters reports, citing its own analysis.
President said Howard Lutnick had Venezuela operation on his mind when he was discussing Iran war on CNBC Donald Trump has claimed his commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, erroneously stated that no Americans had been killed in the war with Iran because he was thinking about a previous US operation, in Venezuela. The claim, at odds with the Pentagon’s count of 18 US service members dead in the US-Israel war on Iran, sparked a swift backlash as Trump struggles to end the conflict after six months. Continue reading...
Israel returns body of Palestinian teenager it killed in 2025 Israel has returned the body of 15-year-old Palestinian Jadallah Jihad Jumaa Jadallah, whom its forces shot dead in November 2025. Palestinian authorities received his remains in the occupied West Bank months after his killing, according to the Wafa news agency. Jadallah’s family will now make arrangements for his burial.
Air bases used by US in the UAE and Kuwait hit as the Israeli defence chief says Iran’s regime fears collapse due to economic pressures Iran has continued to demonstrate an ability to target bases in the Gulf used by the US despite six months of war and a new sanctions regime described by the Trump administration as an “economic D-day”. As Iran’s military targeted US bases in the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, despite threats of further strikes by the US president, Israel’s defence chief warned that economic pressures from the sanctions could lead Tehran to escalate to more “extreme measures”. Continue reading...
How Israel armed Argentina to kill British soldiers during Falklands War Submitted by Imran Mulla on Thu, 09/03/2026 - 12:13 As the Falklands issue raises its head again, MEE looks back at how Israel caused the deaths of dozens of British soldiers by arming the Argentinian dictatorship in the 1980s Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin (R) with his military chief Rafael Eitan in the Golan Heights in the 1980s (Wikimedia Commons) Off Tensions between Britain and Israel are rapidly escalating with Andy Burnham's government gearing up to announce a raft of strong measures on the occupied West Bank, including a ban on goods from illegal Israeli settlements. In response, Israel has threatened Britain. "If Britain acts against Israel, Israel will act against Britain," Foreign Minister Gideon Saar warned this week.
Israel releases five Lebanese men detained in southern Lebanon Israel has released five Lebanese men its forces detained in areas under military control in southern Lebanon, according to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office. The office said Israeli interrogators found that the men had no affiliation with any armed organisation and that authorities had no grounds to continue holding them.
Ben Gvir set to unveil $20bn plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza within seven years Submitted by Elis Gjevori on Thu, 09/03/2026 - 12:35 The far-right leader will make the plan a condition for joining any future Israeli coalition Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (C) storms Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem on 23 July 2026 (Ilia Yefimovich/AFP) Off Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir will unveil a plan on Thursday to "encourage voluntary emigration from Gaza ", making it a central plank of his election campaign and a key demand for joining any future coalition. Ben Gvir, who leads the Jewish supremacist Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party, has called the ethnic cleansing plan “Disengagement 710”. Israeli media reports that the far-right minister has spent months developing the proposal, which aims to force 250,000 Palestinians from Gaza during its first year.
US attack kills six Iranian navy personnel, Tasnim reports Six members of Iran’s navy were killed in a US attack this week, according to the semi-official Tasnim news agency.
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said the innocent blood of our martyrs killed by the US criminal forces will not be forgotten and the shedding of the blood will not go unpunished.
ABU DHABI, 3rd September, 2026 (WAM) -- The United Arab Emirates has condemned in the strongest terms the hostile attack by Iran targeting the brotherly State of Kuwait, with missiles and drones. In a statement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) affirmed that this hostile attack constitutes a flagrant violation of the sovereignty of Kuwait and a threat to its security and stability.
Iran warns ‘dark months’ await US economy after renewed attacks Iranian First Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref says Washington has transformed Tehran’s security and defence calculations, warning that Iran will deliver an “asymmetrical” and “multi-layered” response. “The Americans should start thinking about stockpiling gasoline and fuel. Dark months await the American economy,” Aref wrote on X.
Following revelations from the UN nuclear watchdog that the former Syrian regime failed to report holding nuclear material and the discovery in May of an undeclared chemical weapons cache, the Security Council meets Thursday at 10am (local time) to be briefed on latest developments and discuss the way ahead.
Peacekeepers in Lebanon have reported a marked deterioration in the security situation along the Blue Line of separation, with Israeli forces intensifying their military footprint in violation of a landmark Security Council resolution, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said on Thursday.
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The commander of Iran’s Army Ground Force announced readiness of his forces to confront threats.
Iran confirms missile and drone attacks on US bases in UAE and Kuwait Iran’s army says it launched missiles and suicide drones at US military bases in the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait early today. The strikes hit satellite communications systems, equipment warehouses and hangars housing American fighter jets at Kuwait’s Ahmed Al Jaber Air Base, the army said. Iranian forces also targeted US positions and radar systems at Al Minhad Air Base in the UAE.
Israel admits it assassinated senior Assad official in Syria in 2008 Submitted by Alex MacDonald on Thu, 09/03/2026 - 10:17 New book says Muhammad Suleiman oversaw construction of nuclear reactor in Deir Ezzor Muhammad Suleiman was a senior aide to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (AFP) Off Israel has admitted to assassinating a senior aide to former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in 2008, after years of official silence. In a new book by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, he admits to the killing of Muhammad Suleiman. The Syrian officer was a chief military and intelligence aide who was also in charge of the construction and security of the Syrian nuclear facility in Deir Ezzor.
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