Tensions across the Middle East continue to escalate following coordinated U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran and Tehran’s retaliatory attacks in the Gulf region, with military operations and regional security developments continuing to unfold.
Outgoing projectiles streaked across the night sky over southern Beirut early Thursday (March 5), authorities reported.
Thousands of Lebanese have already fled their homes in Hezbollah-controlled suburbs of southern Beirut and other southern areas, which were heavily affected during the 2024 conflict.
The overnight rocket activity highlights ongoing instability in Lebanon as regional tensions continue to escalate.
Sirens echoed across Jerusalem overnight on Thursday (5 March) after the Israeli army reported identifying missiles launched from Iran toward its territory.
Hours earlier, alerts were issued across Tel Aviv, where witnesses saw interceptions lighting up the night sky.
Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Defense said Thursday that its forces intercepted several drones approaching from the east.
One drone was destroyed near the northern Al-Jawf region, close to the Jordanian border, while three others were intercepted over the central Al-Kharj province earlier the same morning.
The ministry confirmed the intercepts on X, underscoring ongoing security concerns along Saudi Arabia’s northern and central borders amid the escalating Middle East conflict.
At least 87 Iranian sailors were killed and 32 rescued after a U.S. submarine struck the IRIS Dena in the Indian Ocean, Sri Lankan authorities said Thursday. The survivors are recovering at the National Hospital in Galle, with most suffering only minor injuries and expected to be released the same day, authorities said.
Officials said 87 bodies were recovered by military rescuers following an early-morning distress call from the warship on Wednesday, and search and rescue operations continued for an estimated 60 crew members still unaccounted for.
The strike, occurring hundreds of miles from the Gulf amid U.S. and Israeli operations against Iran, marks a dramatic escalation of the conflict.
“An American submarine sank an Iranian warship that thought it was safe in international waters… Quiet death,” U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said at the Pentagon.
A Pentagon video released showed the vessel hit by a massive explosion at the rear, lifting it from the water before it sank from the stern.
The first UK government-chartered flight to evacuate British nationals from the Middle East failed to depart as planned, Sky News reported Thursday.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Thursday (5 March) urged de-escalation in the Middle East while stressing that Iran must be prevented from developing nuclear weapons.
“The world wants to see a de-escalation,” Albanese said during a joint press conference in Canberra, adding that the region has seen “attacks on civilian and tourist areas as well.”
Carney warned that hostilities are expanding and said certain conditions must be met before a ceasefire could be possible. “Right now we have a spreading of hostilities… there needs to be the ending of targeting civilians, civilian infrastructure,” he said.
Asked whether Canada could join military action if the conflict widens, Carney said he could “never categorically rule out participation,” adding that Canada would “stand by our allies” and defend its citizens if necessary.
A charter flight carrying American citizens departed the Middle East on Wednesday (4 March) the U.S. State Department said, without disclosing further details.
The flight marks the first confirmed evacuation of people from the area affected by conflict facilitated by the United States, days after Washington and Israel launched military operations targeting Iran.
The State Department added that “additional flights will be surged throughout the region.”
“For operational security purposes, additional information about ongoing transportation operations will not be released at this time,” the department said in a media note issued Wednesday evening.
A senior State Department official said earlier on Wednesday that the agency had assisted nearly 6,500 Americans by providing critical information and helping arrange transportation options.
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More than 200 people died on Tuesday in a landslide triggered by heavy rains at the Rubaya coltan mine in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the country's mines ministry said on Wednesday.
Iran launched a wave of missiles at Israel early on Thursday, sending millions of residents into bomb shelters as the U.S.-Israel war with Iran entered its sixth day and just hours after moves to halt the U.S. air assault were blocked in Washington.
Iranian sailors who survived a U.S. submarine strike in the Indian Ocean were recovering at a hospital in the Sri Lankan port city of Galle, authorities said on Thursday (5 March), a day after at least 87 were killed in the attack.
A power outage struck most of Cuba, including Havana, the state electric utility said on Wednesday (5 March), as the Communist-run government grapples with increased pressure from the Trump administration that has curtailed oil shipments.
U.S. President Donald Trump said the U.S. military has enough stockpiled weapons to fight wars "forever"; in a social media post late on Monday. The remarks came hours before conflict in Iran and the Middle East entered its fourth day.
U.S. first lady, Melania Trump chaired a UN Security Council meeting on children and education in conflict on Monday (2 March), a move criticised by Iran as hypocritical following U.S. and Israeli strikes that triggered a UN warning about risks to children.
A torpedo from a U.S. submarine sunk an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka, U.S. Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth told reporters as the Iranian conflcit entered its fifth day on Wednesday.
Shahid Motahari Sub-Speciality Hospital in northern Tehran and parts of the Golestan Palace were bombed on day two of the U.S.‑Israel strikes. AnewZ Touraj Shiralilou is in Iran's capital city and said that the facility was flattened in an airstrike.
At least 42 people have been killed and 104 wounded in fighting between Afghanistan and Pakistan, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said on Tuesday. The latest death toll figures come as fighting between the two neighbours enters its sixth day.
Iran launched a wave of missiles at Israel early on Thursday, sending millions of residents into bomb shelters as the U.S.-Israel war with Iran entered its sixth day and just hours after moves to halt the U.S. air assault were blocked in Washington.
Iranian sailors who survived a U.S. submarine strike in the Indian Ocean were recovering at a hospital in the Sri Lankan port city of Galle, authorities said on Thursday (5 March), a day after at least 87 were killed in the attack.
The White House says deploying United States ground troops in Iran is not currently part of the military strategy in the ongoing conflict with Tehran.
Israel has warned residents to leave a significant area in southern Lebanon, instructing them to move north of the Litani River as hostilities with the Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah intensified on Wednesday.
A U.S. submarine strike sank an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka, leaving at least 80 dead, the country’s deputy foreign minister said. Meanwhile, Iran postponed the funeral of its late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, according to state media.
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