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United Hatzalah said an Iranian barrage on Sunday damaged 23 sites around Tel Aviv, and Magen David Adom said two men were lightly wounded. A later barrage damaged an apartment in Bnei Brak and hurt people there and in Ramat Gan and Petah Tikva.
India's Foreign Ministry said the gas carriers Shivalik and Nanda Devi had passed through the strait, after Iran's ambassador to India said some Indian vessels were being allowed through. Reuters, cited by CBS, reported 22 Indian-flagged gas carriers were making the passage.
Trump said U.S. Central Command had 'obliterated every MILITARY target' on Kharg Island, the terminal for about 90% of Iran's oil exports, but chose not to hit its oil infrastructure and would reconsider if Iran interfered with shipping in Hormuz. CENTCOM later said more than 90 targets, including mine and missile storage, were hit; Iranian media reported at least 15 explosions and no damage to oil facilities.
U.S. Central Command said all six airmen aboard a KC-135 refueling plane that went down in western Iraq on Thursday were dead and that the loss was not due to hostile or friendly fire. U.S. officials told CBS a second KC-135 was damaged but landed safely, while Iran-backed Iraqi militias claimed they shot the plane down.
President Emmanuel Macron said Chief Warrant Officer Arnaud Frion of the 7th Alpine Chasseurs Battalion died after a drone struck the Mala Qara base in Iraq's Irbil region, a Kurdish base where French troops were training Iraqi units. France's armed forces ministry said six other soldiers were in hospital.
The Treasury Department issued a one-month license authorizing delivery and sale of Russian crude and petroleum products loaded onto ships on or before March 12. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the narrow measure covers only oil in transit; analysts had estimated about 125 million barrels were at sea.
Two tankers, the U.S.-owned, Marshall Islands-flagged Safesea Vishnu and the Maltese-flagged Zefyros, were attacked and caught fire near Basra, killing an Indian sailor; Iraq's ports authority said 38 crew were rescued and halted operations at all of the country's oil terminals while commercial ports stayed open.
Israeli jets struck Beirut's southern suburbs on Wednesday evening after Hezbollah fired dozens of rockets at once into northern Israel, one of its largest attacks of the conflict; the Israeli military said about 200 rockets from Lebanon were fired in coordination with Iranian ballistic missiles. Lebanon's Health Ministry said 634 people, including 91 children, had been killed and more than 1,500 wounded since the fighting began.
The Security Council voted 13-0, with China and Russia abstaining, for a Bahrain-drafted resolution demanding an immediate end to Iranian attacks on Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE and condemning any Iranian move to obstruct navigation through the Strait of Hormuz. A Russian draft urging all sides to halt hostilities, without naming any country, failed to get the nine votes needed.
The Thai-flagged bulk carrier Mayuree Naree was hit by two projectiles about 10 nautical miles off Oman in the Strait of Hormuz, damaging its engine room and starting a fire; Oman's navy rescued 20 of its 23 Thai crew and three were believed trapped. Iran's Revolutionary Guard claimed the attack, saying the ship ignored its warnings, hours after a container ship was hit off the UAE's Ras al-Khaimah.
Abu Dhabi authorities said a drone attack caused a fire at a facility in the Ruwais industrial complex, with no injuries. ADNOC shut the Ruwais refinery, which can process up to 922,000 barrels a day, as a precaution while other operations at the complex continued, a source told Reuters.
Oil whipped from nearly $120 a barrel back toward $90 on Monday and the S&P 500 erased a 1.5% drop to close up 0.8% as Trump told CBS News the war was "very complete, pretty much" and "very far ahead of schedule," and said he was "thinking about taking over" the Strait of Hormuz.
Submunitions from an Iranian missile's cluster warhead struck at least six sites in central Israel on Monday morning, including Yehud, Or Yehuda, Holon and Bat Yam. One man was killed at a construction site in Yehud and a second worker there died of his wounds the next day; both were Petah Tikva residents.
Brent crude traded at $101.19 as futures reopened Sunday evening, up 9.2% from Friday, then spiked to $119.50 early Monday before easing; U.S. crude peaked at $119.48. Japan's Nikkei 225 fell more than 6% soon after the open and South Korea's Kospi sank more than 8% at one point, triggering a trading halt.
Iran's Assembly of Experts said in a statement carried by state TV that it had chosen Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, the second son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as the Islamic Republic's third supreme leader. The Revolutionary Guard, President Masoud Pezeshkian and Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf quickly pledged their support.
An Israeli strike hit a room in the Ramada Hotel in Beirut's seaside Raouche district, killing four people and wounding 10, Lebanon's Health Ministry said. Israel's military later said the navy strike killed five commanders of the Revolutionary Guard's Quds Force Lebanon and Palestine corps who were "hiding in a civilian hotel."
Flames lit up the night sky over Tehran after strikes hit an oil storage facility near a key refinery, Iran's IRNA news agency said, adding the refinery was not damaged. Israel's military later confirmed striking several fuel storage complexes it said supplied Iran's military, and Iranian state media threatened to hit refineries in Haifa.
The State Department approved the sale of 12,000 1,000-pound bombs to Israel late Friday, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio declaring an emergency to waive congressional review. A revised list released Saturday showed at least $650 million in expedited munitions, including general-purpose bombs worth $151 million and $209 million and critical munitions worth $298 million.
An Israeli special forces unit landed near the eastern Lebanese town of Nabi Chit and clashed overnight with Hezbollah and local gunmen, backed by airstrikes. Lebanon's health ministry said 41 people were killed and 40 wounded, including three Lebanese soldiers; the IDF said the raid sought information on navigator Ron Arad, missing since 1986, and found no evidence.
Benchmark U.S. crude rose above $90 a barrel on Friday for the first time since October 2023, and Brent also broke $90. The U.S. average gasoline price rose 34 cents in a week to $3.32 a gallon, according to AAA.
President Trump wrote on Truth Social that "There will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!" and said the U.S. and allies would rebuild Iran after it chose a "GREAT & ACCEPTABLE" leader. The Dow fell more than 900 points and Brent crude broke $90 a barrel after the post.
The Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control issued a license allowing Russian crude and petroleum products already at sea to be offloaded in India from March 5 to April 4, applying only to oil bought by an Indian company and delivered to an Indian port. U.S. crude futures had climbed above $80 that afternoon.
The House voted 212-219 against a war powers resolution to halt U.S. attacks on Iran without congressional approval, with four Democrats joining all but two Republicans to defeat it, a day after the Senate rejected a similar measure.
The Israeli army ordered residents of Burj al-Barajneh, Hadath, Haret Hreik and Shiyah in Beirut's southern suburbs, Hezbollah's stronghold, to leave immediately, the first time it called on wide swaths of the capital to evacuate. Roads jammed as residents fled, two hospitals evacuated, and Lebanon's health ministry put the death toll since Monday at 123.
The Senate voted 47-53 against a war powers resolution that would have required congressional approval before further attacks on Iran. Republican Sen. Rand Paul voted for it and Democratic Sen. John Fetterman voted against.
A U.S. submarine sank the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena with a torpedo in international waters off Galle, Sri Lanka, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said. Sri Lanka's navy said it recovered 87 bodies and rescued 32 of the roughly 180 sailors aboard; the ship was returning from a naval review in India.
The Israeli military said soldiers of its 91st Galilee Division had deployed beyond the five posts Israel already held in southern Lebanon, in what it called an enhanced forward defense posture. It warned residents of at least 80 southern Lebanese towns and villages to leave and not return.
Saudi Arabia's Defense Ministry said two drones struck the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh, causing a small fire and limited damage. The embassy told Americans in Riyadh, Dhahran and Jeddah to shelter in place and closed for the day.
Central Command said U.S. forces recovered the remains of two service members who had been unaccounted for at a facility struck in Iran's first attacks, bringing the U.S. dead to six; a U.S. official said all six were Army soldiers from the same logistics unit in Kuwait. CENTCOM said 18 service members had been seriously wounded.
Before a Medal of Honor ceremony at the White House, Trump said the U.S. had projected four to five weeks but had the capability "to go far longer," and listed four aims: destroying Iran's missiles, wiping out its navy, preventing a nuclear weapon and stopping Iran from arming forces abroad. He called the strikes "our last, best chance."