In Beirut, Baghdad, and across the Middle East, the same pattern repeats: a leader is killed, a funeral fills the streets, and within weeks someone new is giving orders.Indeed, despite the setbacks faced by the regional network of armed groups aligned with Iran that calls itself the “axis of resistance,” it has not disappeared. U.S. forces have struck several groups linked to the Popular Mobilization Forces in Iraq, while Israel has sustained operations against Hizballah across southern Lebanon and Beirut.
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South Korean government sources speaking to a number of local media outlets have confirmed that MIM-104 Patriot long range air defence systems have been preparedfor redeployment in the Middle East, and that heavy U.S. aircraft transport planes, likely C-17s, have flown to Osan Air Force Base to move them. This follows multiple reports of an extreme depletion of Patriot and THAAD missile defences in the Middle East, after the U.S.
Chinese state media has published footage of the People’s Liberation Army Navy’s two Type 055 class destroyers operating under the Eastern Theatre Command Navy, otherwise referred to as the East Sea Fleet. Analysts have widely speculated that this may be intended to draw attention to the Type 055’s ability to shape the balance of power at sea in the region, in the expectation that fleet will receive two additional Type 055 class ships in 2026. The footage was published at a time of high tensions with both Japan and the United States.
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BREAKING: CENTCOM:
Last night, a U.S. service member passed away from injuries received during the Iranian regime’s initial attacks across the Middle East.
The service member was seriously wounded at the scene of an attack on U.S. troops in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on March 1.
This is the seventh service member killed in action during Operation Epic Fury.
This is the first U.S. soldier killed in Saudi Arabia; the previous six were killed in Kuwait.
A U.S. service member passed away Saturday night, days after being wounded in an Iranian attack on American forces in Saudi Arabia, U.S. Central Command said.
CENTCOM announced the death of the service member on Sunday afternoon, saying that the American was “seriously wounded at the scene of an attack on U.S. troops in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on March 1.” They are the seventh American service member to die during Operation Fury, the U.S. military’s name for combat operations against Iran.
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Nine days into the war with Iran, U.S. forces alongside the Israeli military continue to bomb targets around Iran and throughout the Middle East as the conflict shows no signs of ending.
U.S. forces have hit more than 3,000 Iranian targets as part of Operation Epic Fury, U.S. Central Command said, with fighter jets, bombers and missiles fired from destroyers. This weekend, President Donald Trump posted to social media saying that the U.S. military is expanding its range of targets and that Iran “will be hit very hard.
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