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An airstrike on a Popular Mobilization Forces site belonging to the 19th Brigade of Ansar Allah al-Awfiya in the Akashat desert area near Iraq's western border killed at least 14 fighters and wounded 36 early Thursday, two PMF officials said, blaming the United States and Israel. It was the force's biggest loss since the war began.
A strike on a car along Beirut's Ramlet al-Bayda seafront, where dozens of displaced families were sheltering in makeshift tents, killed at least seven people and wounded 21, Lebanon's Health Ministry said. Israel's military said it was not aware of a strike at that location, AP reported.
Fire crews battled a blaze at fuel storage tanks at Oman's Port of Salalah, the Oman News Agency said, with videos showing thick black smoke and large flames. Kuwait's Foreign Ministry condemned what it called Iran's targeting of the port and its fuel tanks as a "dangerous escalation" that threatened global trade.
Three Iraqi security officials told AP a missile landed on the helicopter landing pad of the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad on Saturday evening, with no casualties reported. A source told CBS News that U.S. air defenses intercepted some Iranian missiles believed to be aimed at the embassy.
The USS George H.W. Bush carrier strike group is primed to deploy to the Middle East after finishing pre-deployment exercises off Norfolk, a U.S. official told CBS News. It is expected to overlap with the USS Gerald R. Ford, now in the Red Sea, and the USS Abraham Lincoln, already in the region.
At least two drones struck energy infrastructure and a compound housing foreign oil company offices and warehouses in Iraq's Basra province, setting fires at facilities linked to U.S. energy-services firms, two Iraqi security officials told AP. Casualties were not immediately clear.
Satellite images, expert analysis and U.S. and Israeli military disclosures suggest the Feb. 28 blast that killed scores of pupils at a girls' school in Minab, next to a Revolutionary Guard base, was likely caused by U.S. airstrikes, AP reported. A person familiar with the U.S. inquiry told CBS News investigators believe the U.S. may have been responsible because Israel was not operating in the area; the White House said no conclusions had been reached.
Russia has provided Iran with information that could help it strike American warships, aircraft and other assets in the region, two officials familiar with U.S. intelligence told AP. They said the intelligence has not shown Russia directing what Iran does with it.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard claimed it hit an American oil tanker in the northern Gulf, but maritime security firms said the target appeared to be the Bahamas-flagged Sonangol Namibe. Its operator said a small vessel approached the ship at anchor near Khor al-Zubair, Iraq, before a loud bang breached a ballast tank; all 23 crew were safe and there was no cargo or pollution.
Iraq's Electricity Ministry said the national grid was "completely shut down across all Iraqi provinces" after a sudden drop in gas supplies to a key power plant, AFP reported. Iraq's Oil Ministry also halted production at a major field near Basra, citing a shortage of tankers in the Gulf, AP reported.
Iran's Fars news agency said U.S. and Israeli jets struck the Assembly of Experts grounds in Tehran and a building in Qom, but said the sites had been evacuated and no one was killed. Israeli military spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin said Israel hit a building in Qom where clerics were expected to meet to choose Khamenei's successor.
Vessels in the Gulf received VHF messages from Iran's Revolutionary Guard saying "no ship is allowed to pass the Strait of Hormuz," an official with the EU's Aspides naval mission said. Britain's UKMTO said it had multiple such reports but could not confirm them, Iran made no formal announcement, and some major oil traders had already halted shipments through the strait.
Iranian state media said a strike during the U.S.-Israeli attack hit a girls' elementary school in Minab, Hormozgan province, where the Revolutionary Guard has a base. The reported toll rose through the day from five to at least 40, and state media put it at 165 by Sunday.