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U.S. Central Command said a service member seriously wounded in an Iranian attack on U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia on March 1 had died, raising the U.S. military death toll in the war to seven. The other six, Army reservists, were killed in a March 1 attack in Kuwait.
Israel's military said it destroyed the headquarters of the Revolutionary Guard Air Force in Tehran, which it said ran the Guard's ballistic missile command and drone units. Spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin said Israel hit more than 140 targets in Iran on Sunday alone.
Saudi Civil Defense said a military projectile fell on a residential area in Al-Kharj governorate, killing an Indian and a Bangladeshi resident and wounding 12 Bangladeshis. They were the first deaths Saudi Arabia had reported since the war began on Feb. 28.
The Israeli military said two soldiers were killed in combat in southern Lebanon, naming one as Master Sgt. Maher Khatar, 38, a combat engineer in the 91st Division from Majdal Shams. They were the first Israeli troop deaths since fighting with Hezbollah reignited.
Bahrain's Interior Ministry said an Iranian drone attack caused material damage to a water desalination plant early Sunday, and that missile debris wounded three people and damaged a university building in Muharraq. It was the first time an Arab country said Iran had targeted a desalination plant.
Kuwait's Defense Ministry said drones directly struck fuel tanks at Kuwait International Airport early Sunday, and a drone also hit the Public Institution for Social Security's headquarters, a government high-rise in the capital, where firefighters battled blazes. The Interior Ministry said two officers were killed on duty the same morning, without giving the circumstances.
Lebanon's health ministry said Israeli strikes since Monday had killed 294 people and wounded 1,023, without saying how many were civilians. Tens of thousands more have been displaced.
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said the United States struck a freshwater desalination plant on Qeshm Island in the Gulf, affecting the water supply of 30 villages, and called it a "blatant and desperate crime." The U.S. did not comment.
Kuwait Petroleum Corporation said it was making a precautionary reduction in crude oil production and refining, citing Iranian attacks on the country and threats to the Strait of Hormuz. It did not say how much output was cut and said it would restore production when circumstances permit.
In a prerecorded address on state TV, President Masoud Pezeshkian apologized to neighboring countries Iran had attacked and said forces should stop firing at them unless attacks on Iran came from their territory. He called the U.S. demand for unconditional surrender a "dream that they should take to their grave."
UNIFIL said three peacekeepers were wounded when heavy fire struck its base in the village of Al-Qawzah on Friday evening, calling it "unacceptable" that peacekeepers were targeted. Ghana's army separately said two of its soldiers were wounded when missiles struck its UNIFIL battalion headquarters; neither statement named who fired.
Israeli military spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin said more than 50 fighter jets dropped over 100 munitions on a deep underground bunker beneath residential neighborhoods in Tehran that Khamenei was meant to use to run the war, and that Iranian officials had kept using. Israel said it was still assessing the results.
President Trump told Axios he has to be involved in appointing Iran's next supreme leader, "like with Delcy [Rodriguez] in Venezuela," and called Mojtaba Khamenei, the late leader's son and the most likely successor, "a lightweight" and "unacceptable to me."
Iran's Martyrs' and Veterans' Affairs Organization said at least 1,230 people had been killed by U.S. and Israeli strikes as of March 4, up from just under 1,000 in the previous official count. The U.S.-based rights group HRANA counted 1,114 civilian deaths, including 181 children, with 926 more deaths under review.
Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry said drones launched from Iran struck the airport terminal in the Nakhchivan exclave and fell near a school in the village of Shakarabad at about noon, injuring two civilians. Baku summoned Iran's ambassador and reserved the right to respond; Iran denied carrying out the attack.
QatarEnergy said it had declared force majeure to affected buyers, formally releasing itself from delivery obligations after it stopped producing liquefied natural gas following Iranian drone attacks on Ras Laffan and Mesaieed on March 2.
Turkey's Defense Ministry said a ballistic missile fired from Iran crossed Iraqi and Syrian airspace toward Turkey and was destroyed by NATO air and missile defenses in the eastern Mediterranean. Interceptor debris fell in Dortyol, Hatay province, with no casualties.
Israeli army Arabic spokesman Col. Avichay Adraee told residents of southern Lebanon to evacuate their homes immediately and head north of the Litani River, warning that movement southward could put their lives at risk. The order widened Tuesday's evacuation call for more than 80 communities.
President Trump said he ordered the U.S. Development Finance Corporation to offer political risk insurance and guarantees for all maritime trade through the Gulf, especially energy, and that the Navy would escort tankers through the Strait of Hormuz "as soon as possible" if necessary.
Israeli military spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin said the air force destroyed a partly underground site in Tehran, which Israel calls Minzadehei, where it says scientists secretly developed knowledge for nuclear weapons. Israel did not say uranium was enriched there, and neither Iran nor the U.S. commented on the site.
The International Atomic Energy Agency said satellite imagery showed "some recent damage to entrance buildings" of the underground Natanz Fuel Enrichment Plant, with no radiological consequence expected and no additional impact detected at the plant itself.
In a March 2 letter to Senate President Pro Tempore Chuck Grassley, President Trump reported the Feb. 28 strikes on Iran under the War Powers Resolution, saying the threat had become "untenable" and that no U.S. ground forces were used. He wrote that it was "not possible at this time to know the full scope and duration" of the operations.
Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Mora Namdar urged U.S. citizens to "DEPART NOW" by commercial means from countries including Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, the UAE and Yemen, as well as the West Bank and Gaza.
Ebrahim Jabari, a senior adviser to the IRGC commander, said "the strait is closed" and that the Guard and navy would set ablaze any ship trying to pass, Iranian state media reported. Earlier Monday the IRGC said it hit the tanker Athe Nova with two drones, and MarineTraffic said transits had fallen about 70% since Saturday.
Qatar's Defense Ministry said its air force shot down two fighter aircraft incoming from Iran, while naval and air defenses downed seven ballistic missiles and five drones. Qatar's foreign ministry said Iranian attacks had targeted civilian infrastructure, including the international airport.
At the war's first Pentagon briefing, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the four U.S. dead were killed when a munition got past air defenses and hit a fortified tactical operations center in Kuwait, and said Iran had been "stalling" in talks. Gen. Dan Caine said the U.S. had local air superiority over Iran but its objectives would "take some time" and more Americans could die.
Prime Minister Nawaf Salam called Hezbollah's military operations "illegal acts," banned the group's military and security activity, confined it to politics and ordered the army and security agencies to stop rocket and drone launches and detain those responsible. He reaffirmed the 2024 ceasefire with Israel and called for resuming talks.
A bomb-carrying drone boat struck the Marshall Islands-flagged tanker MKD VYOM in the Gulf of Oman off Muscat, sparking a fire and killing one crew member from India, the Oman News Agency said.
Opening a special board session in Vienna, IAEA chief Rafael Grossi said the agency had no indication that Bushehr, the Tehran Research Reactor or other nuclear facilities had been damaged and no rise in radiation had been detected in neighboring countries, but Iran's regulator was not responding. Iran's envoy Reza Najafi said the strikes had targeted the Natanz enrichment site.
The Iranian Red Crescent Society said the strike campaign had killed at least 555 people in Iran since Saturday and that 131 cities had come under attack.