Thursday, 5 March, 2026 , 04:12 AFP —

Thursday, 5 March, 2026 , 01:49 AFP — Israel pounded Lebanon early Thursday and said it intercepted missiles from Iran as a widening war launched by the United States and Israel also brought fresh turmoil to Iraq.

Thursday, 5 March, 2026 , 00:26 AFP — Seeking to bring down Iran's Islamic republic, the United States and Israel could see a path by exploiting ethnic tensions, a strategy attractive to military planners but fraught with long-term risks.

Thursday, 5 March, 2026 , 00:04 AFP — A US submarine torpedoed and sank an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka on Wednesday, the Pentagon said, as the war launched by the United States and Israel spread to another region.

Wednesday, 4 March, 2026 , 21:21 AFP — President Donald Trump on Wednesday rated the US performance in the war with Iran as a 15 on a scale of 10, saying the Islamic republic's leaders were rapidly being killed, and vowing to push on.

Wednesday, 4 March, 2026 , 21:15 AFP — Two fighters from the powerful Tehran-backed Kataeb Hezbollah group were killed on Wednesday in a strike near their base in Iraq, as the war in the Middle East raged across multiple fronts.

Wednesday, 4 March, 2026 , 19:18 AFP — A US submarine torpedoed and sank an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka on Wednesday, the Pentagon said, as the effects of the war in the Middle East spread to yet another country.

Wednesday, 4 March, 2026 , 18:00 AFP — Here are the latest main events related to the war in the Middle East:

Wednesday, 4 March, 2026 , 17:40 AFP — New explosions were heard Wednesday evening in Erbil, the capital of Iraq's northern Kurdistan region, AFP journalists said.

Wednesday, 4 March, 2026 , 17:14 AFP — An explosion rocked a city in Iran's western Kurdistan province on Wednesday, according to video verified by AFP, on the fifth day of the US-Israeli war against the Islamic republic.