Strikes, attacks, interceptions, deployments, and security incidents.
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United Hatzalah said an Iranian barrage on Sunday damaged 23 sites around Tel Aviv, and Magen David Adom said two men were lightly wounded. A later barrage damaged an apartment in Bnei Brak and hurt people there and in Ramat Gan and Petah Tikva.
Iran's judiciary news agency Mizan claimed without evidence that U.S. forces were using the civilian ports of Jebel Ali, Khalifa and Fujairah, called them legitimate targets and told people nearby to evacuate. Earlier Saturday a drone interception sparked a fire near Fujairah's port, and Iran's joint command threatened U.S.-linked oil facilities if its own energy sites were hit.
A missile struck a helipad inside the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad's Green Zone, two Iraqi security officials said, and video obtained by AP showed smoke rising from the compound; the embassy did not immediately comment. It had renewed its Level 4 security alert a day earlier, warning of attacks by Iran and aligned militias.
Trump said U.S. Central Command had 'obliterated every MILITARY target' on Kharg Island, the terminal for about 90% of Iran's oil exports, but chose not to hit its oil infrastructure and would reconsider if Iran interfered with shipping in Hormuz. CENTCOM later said more than 90 targets, including mine and missile storage, were hit; Iranian media reported at least 15 explosions and no damage to oil facilities.
U.S. officials said elements of the Japan-based 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit and the amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli were ordered to the region; CBS said such a group typically numbers about 5,000 sailors and Marines across several ships. AP said the force was more than a week's sailing from the waters off Iran.
At a Pentagon briefing, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said U.S. and Israeli forces had struck more than 15,000 targets, Iran's missile launches fell 90% and drone launches 95% on Thursday, and Mojtaba Khamenei was 'wounded and likely disfigured.' He gave no evidence for the leader's condition and said Friday would bring the highest volume of U.S. strikes yet.
Iranian state TV reported a large blast near Ferdowsi Square, down Enghelab Street from Tehran University, as crowds marked Quds Day; earlier that morning Israel had posted a Farsi warning to evacuate the area. The Israeli military later suggested the strike was its own, noting that the judiciary chief was at the rally, which security official Ali Larijani also attended.
Magen David Adom said one person was moderately hurt and 57 lightly injured, mostly by glass, when a strike hit the Arab-Israeli village of Zarzir early Friday, damaging homes and cars. Hezbollah said it had fired rocket salvos toward northern Israel that morning; AP's first report described it as a missile attack.
A U.S. KC-135 refueling aircraft supporting operations against Iran went down in western Iraq after an incident involving a second KC-135, which landed safely, Central Command said, adding that the loss was not due to hostile or friendly fire. Rescue efforts were underway and the crew's status was unknown that night; an Iraqi intelligence source told CBS News the plane went down near Turaibil on the Jordanian border.
Israeli military Arabic-language spokesman Avichay Adraee told Lebanese residents to move north of the Zahrani River, which at its midpoint lies about 56 kilometers from the border, as Israel acted against Hezbollah. Earlier, Defense Minister Israel Katz said he and Netanyahu had ordered the military to prepare to expand operations in Lebanon and warned Israel would "take the territory" if Lebanon's government did not stop Hezbollah.
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.
Israeli jets struck Beirut's southern suburbs on Wednesday evening after Hezbollah fired dozens of rockets at once into northern Israel, one of its largest attacks of the conflict; the Israeli military said about 200 rockets from Lebanon were fired in coordination with Iranian ballistic missiles. Lebanon's Health Ministry said 634 people, including 91 children, had been killed and more than 1,500 wounded since the fighting began.
Ebrahim Zolfaqari, spokesman for Iran's central military command, said an alleged U.S.-Israeli strike on an Iranian bank was "forcing our hand to target economic centres and banks linked to the U.S. and Zionist regime in the region," and told people to stay at least a kilometer away from such banks.
U.S. officials told CBS News that Iran appeared ready to lay naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz using small craft carrying two or three mines each. Trump then said U.S. forces had destroyed 10 "inactive" mine-laying boats, and Central Command later put Tuesday's tally at 16 minelayers among multiple Iranian naval vessels destroyed.
At a Pentagon news conference, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday would be "yet again our most intense day of strikes inside Iran" and that Iran had fired its fewest missiles of the war in the previous 24 hours. Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine said U.S.-Israeli strikes had hit some 5,000 targets and cut Iran's missile launches by 90%.
IRGC spokesman Ali Mohammad Naeini said Iran "will not allow the export of even a single liter of oil from the region to the hostile side and its partners until further notice," calling U.S. efforts to control oil and gas prices "temporary and ineffective." The Guard also said "it is we who will determine the end of the war."
Trump posted that if Iran "does anything that stops the flow of Oil within the Strait of Hormuz" it would be hit "TWENTY TIMES HARDER than they have been hit thus far," threatening targets that would make it "virtually impossible for Iran to ever be built back, as a Nation." At a news conference earlier Monday he warned Iran would pay an "incalculable" price.
Turkey's presidential office said a ballistic missile fired from Iran toward Turkey was "engaged and neutralized by NATO air and missile defense elements" over Gaziantep's Sahinbey district, with no casualties. Ankara summoned Iran's ambassador to demand an explanation; NATO had also intercepted an Iranian missile over Turkey on March 4.
Submunitions from an Iranian missile's cluster warhead struck at least six sites in central Israel on Monday morning, including Yehud, Or Yehuda, Holon and Bat Yam. One man was killed at a construction site in Yehud and a second worker there died of his wounds the next day; both were Petah Tikva residents.
Bahrain said an Iranian drone attack hit a residential area of Sitra island near energy infrastructure, wounding 32 Bahraini citizens including children, four of them critically. State oil company Bapco later declared force majeure on its oil shipments after an attack apparently set its sole refinery, at Sitra, ablaze; it said it could still meet local demand.
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.
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.
An Israeli strike hit a room in the Ramada Hotel in Beirut's seaside Raouche district, killing four people and wounding 10, Lebanon's Health Ministry said. Israel's military later said the navy strike killed five commanders of the Revolutionary Guard's Quds Force Lebanon and Palestine corps who were "hiding in a civilian hotel."
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.
An Israeli special forces unit landed near the eastern Lebanese town of Nabi Chit and clashed overnight with Hezbollah and local gunmen, backed by airstrikes. Lebanon's health ministry said 41 people were killed and 40 wounded, including three Lebanese soldiers; the IDF said the raid sought information on navigator Ron Arad, missing since 1986, and found no evidence.
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.
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.
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.