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Listen to this article | 8 minsinfoAn explosion erupts following strikes near Azadi Tower close to Mehrabad international airport in Tehran, March 7, 2026 [AFP]By Priyanka Shankar and ReutersPublished On 8 Mar 20268 Mar 2026Click here to share on social mediashare2Share
googleAdd Al Jazeera on GoogleinfoThe United States and Israel are continuing large-scale strikes on Iran, including an attack on an oil depot on Saturday, as the conflict has widened to include the Gulf region as well as Lebanon and Iraq.
Iran has said the US will pay for waging war and continued its retaliatory strikes on Israel and US military assets in Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, despite Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian promising on Saturday to halt attacks on Gulf states as long as their territories were not used to attack Iran.
Here is where things stand on day nine of the war:
In Israel Iranian strikes: The Israeli military said Iran launched several missiles towards Israel. Air raid sirens were activated in southern Israel, including in the Negev Desert. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) described the latest attack as the “27th wave of Operation True Promise”. In the US Timeline of the war: President Trump said the war would continue for “a little” while, and that it was going “unbelievably good” for the US military. The White House has said the campaign may last four to six weeks. US casualties: The caskets of the six American service members killed in the retaliatory Iranian strikes against the US arrived in the US. Trump presided over the arrival ceremony of the slain soldiers as commander-in-chief of the US military. He described their deaths as a “very sad day” for the Americans. Pentagon chief threat: US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a new threat to Iran. “If you kill Americans, if you threaten Americans anywhere on earth, we will hunt you down without apology and without hesitation, and we will kill you,” he said on X. Nuclear stockpile: Axios reported that the US and Israel have discussed the possibility of deploying special forces to seize Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium. The news outlet said the mission would likely take place “at a later stage” of the war. Advertisement In Lebanon, Iraq Israeli forces bombed a hotel in downtown Beirut, killing at least four people and wounding 10 others. The Israeli military said it struck “key commanders in the Quds Force’s Lebanon Corps” who were operating in Beirut. Early on Sunday, Israel carried out a raid on the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital. Israel threatened the residents of Arnoun, Yohmor, Zrariyeh East and Zrariyeh West villages in southern Lebanon with an imminent attack, ordering them to flee north of Nabatieh governorate immediately. Hezbollah said it targeted Israeli forces in the town of Marba in southern Lebanon. Growing numbers of residents have fled areas, including Tyre and Beirut’s southern suburb of Dahiyeh. Schools in Beirut are now being used as shelters. Kurdish Peshmerga forces shot down a drone over the Kurdish area of Sulaimaniyah in northern Iraq amid a series of aerial attacks on the region, according to news outlet Rudaw. Trump said he did not want to make the war “more complex than it already is” by allowing the Kurds to join the war. Earlier, multiple publications had reported that Trump was in active talks with Iranian and Iraqi Kurdish groups, and that Washington had hoped to use them to spur a popular uprising. Iraqi Brigadier General Haider al-Kharki has said neither Iraqi forces nor members of the regional Kurdish Peshmerga forces have crossed into Iran since the US-Israel war on the country started.
