US & ‘Israel’ at war with Iran | Day 32 coverage
The 2026 Iran War began on February 28 when the United States and ‘Israel’ launched an operation dubbed Epic Fury by the US and Lion's Roar by ‘Israel’, unleashing nearly 900 airstrikes in 12 hours on Iranian missile systems, air defenses, nuclear facilities, military bases, and leadership targets.
Yemen’s Houthi movement entered the war early, launching missile and drone attacks toward ‘Israel’ and expanding the war beyond the Gulf and Levant theaters.
This direct assault followed years of shadow war, including the first-ever Iran-‘Israel’ missile exchanges in April and October 2024 and a limited 12-day war in June 2025 that damaged Tehran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and dozens of top officials were killed in the opening salvo, while a US Tomahawk strike on a school adjacent to a naval base near Bandar Abbas killed about 170 civilians, mostly children.
Iran responded within hours by firing hundreds of ballistic missiles and launching thousands of drones at ‘Israel’, US bases in the Gulf, and targets in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait.
Tehran restricted passage through the Strait of Hormuz—through which 20% of global oil flows—disrupting shipping and spiking oil prices.
The retaliation reignited fighting with Hezbollah in Lebanon, prompting ‘Israeli’ strikes there and spreading the conflict regionally while hitting civilian infrastructure, including hospitals, airports, and heritage sites.
Over the next three weeks, US-‘Israeli’ forces conducted sustained air campaigns that destroyed much of Iran’s air-defense network, missile production sites and navy assets.
Iran appointed Mojtaba Khamenei as the new supreme leader, but pragmatic senior official Ali Larijani was assassinated in an ‘Israeli’ strike on March 17.
More than 80,000 civilian sites were hit, including 260 medical facilities and UNESCO-listed buildings, causing widespread blackouts, fuel shortages, toxic pollution, and over 2,000 total deaths across Iran, ‘Israel’, Lebanon, and Gulf states.
The war remained active in its fourth week with ongoing US-‘Israeli’ airstrikes on remaining Iranian targets and Iranian retaliatory barrages, including recent cluster-munition attacks on ‘Israel’ and a failed long-range missile attempt at Diego Garcia.
Trump has threatened to destroy Iran’s power plants unless the Strait of Hormuz reopens fully but has signaled possible winding down or deals, which Tehran denies pursuing.
US-'Israeli' air strikes hit PMF bases in Babil and Anbar
Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Forces said US-'Israeli' forces carried out airstrikes on two of its bases in Babil and Anbar provinces.
According to a PMF statement, three airstrikes hit the 45th Brigade in the Jurf al-Nasr sector of Babil province, while another strike targeted the 31st Brigade in the al-Karma sector east of Anbar. No casualties were reported.
US logistics camp near Baghdad airport targeted
A source from the Iraqi police said that a new attack targeted the US logistics support camp near Baghdad airport.
Iran fires 5,558 missiles, drones at seven Arab states since start of war
Data compiled by Anadolu Agency from official sources shows that since the outbreak of the regional war, Iran has launched at least 5,558 missiles and drones, alongside two fighter jet strikes, targeting seven Arab countries.
Dubai says incident involving Kuwaiti oil tanker under control
Dubai authorities said they are responding to an incident involving a Kuwaiti oil tanker that was targeted by a drone in Dubai waters.
The Dubai Government Media Office said relevant teams are handling the situation, with marine firefighting units actively working to control the blaze.
‘Israeli’ soldiers killed, wounded in south Lebanon fighting
‘Israeli’ sources said several soldiers were killed and wounded during fighting in southern Lebanon over the past few hours, as clashes with Hezbollah continue to escalate along the northern front.
The reports come amid a string of recent incidents involving ‘Israeli’ forces, including earlier announcements of soldiers killed and others seriously wounded in combat operations near the border.
Netanyahu says Iran regime will collapse internally
‘Israeli’ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday he believes Iran’s Islamic republic will “collapse internally,” while stressing that such an outcome is not the stated goal of the ongoing US-‘Israel’ war.
Speaking to Newsmax, Netanyahu said current efforts are focused on weakening Iran’s capabilities rather than pursuing regime change.
“I think this regime will collapse internally,” he said. “But at the moment, what we’re doing is degrading their military capacity, degrading their missile capacity, degrading their nuclear capacity, and also weakening them from the inside.”
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