The Iranian girls’ school was hit by a US tomahawk cruise missile. NPR has confirmed the footage.
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The Iranian girls’ school was hit by a US tomahawk cruise missile. NPR has confirmed the footage.
New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an IRGC facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footage also shows smoke already rising from the vicinity of the girls’ school, where 175 people were reportedly killed, including children.
Russian state hackers are carrying out a global campaign to compromise Signal and WhatsApp accounts belonging to government officials and military personnel, Dutch intelligence warned Monday.
Oh, good. "this is now starting to look like a potential combination of the 1973 post-Yom Kippur War oil shock, the 2022 Russia-Ukraine War commodity shock, and the 2020-21 Covid supply chain shock."
Depends. Donning enemy uniforms for travel isn't necessary perfidy. Fighting in them would be. That's per DoD laws of war manual.
"Hezbollah and local residents said Israel had conducted some 40 airstrikes in the area to give cover to the special forces soldiers and allow them to withdraw."
Pretty serious allegation here. "Witnesses told the BBC that the Israeli soldiers had arrived disguised in Lebanese military fatigues and used ambulances with signs of Hezbollah's Islamic Health Organization."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Not sure it's worth paying much attention to every comment like this. It's broadly meaningless. But I would say UK naval deployments are not in aid of Trump, but as defensive measures to cope with fallout of the war.
Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.
Says it all. "Donald Trump wore a Trump-branded golf cap during the ritual dignified transfer of remains at Dover air force base in Delaware"
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Just arrived. Reckon the Iran naval & air defence chapter might need a bit of updating..
Terrific data deep dive with animated maps, showing how US/Israeli targeting shows a shift over the course of the war’s first week: from targeting army and drone/missile sites to targeting police and regime security, to enable an uprising.
economist.com/interactive/...
Starting to see Nordic countries detaining and boarding more shadow fleet ships. There has been a hard to understand hesitancy to do this www.dn.se/direkt/2026-...
Turns out they do have some cards.
Ollie Carrol, Anshel Pfeffer & I wrote last night on the challenge of intercepting Iranian Shaheds. More than 2,000 fired, some hitting important targets, including radars. This is a problem that Ukraine understands well. Understandably, it wants something in return www.economist.com/internationa...
Apparent Israeli SOF air-assault operation in Beqaa valley. Would be first IDF ground operation that far north in Lebanon since their naval SOF did a raid on the coast north of Beirut in 2024—and as far as I know, the first ground operation in Beqaa since a major raid on a Baalbek hospital in 2006.
in this former mining town, they know two things: Brexit means Brexit, and the Pahlavi dynasty (1925-1979) are the rightful rulers of Persia.
Judging from the prose, the Pentagon appears to be using AI to announce the death of soldiers. If it’s not AI, it’s a person who simply does not care.
Again, only one Arrow-3 launch over the night of March 5, this time from Tel Aviv.
Brings the total Arrow-3s recorded since the war started to 16. That is still below the number used during the first night of the 12-Day War alone
The White House released President Trump’s Cyber Strategy for America HT @ddimolfetta.bsky.social
"Cyberspace was born in America"
"President Trump will continue showing those who harm our interests and attack our values in cyberspace place themselves at risk"
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
I'm not sure how you judge that because the assessment isn't 'do I have enough munitions & all that goes into them for X targets', it's - in part- whether you can sustain a protracted war for longer than the other side. So possible that threshold already crossed?
Fascinating on the critical minerals consumed in US weapons in the past week and the time it will take to replenish those. Gallium is a particular concern.
foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/05/i...
Without the radar that battery is temporarily out of the fight and that means the Patriot batteries deployed to the base will have higher burden placed on them. THAAD and PATRIOT are meant to work together, with THAAD acting as upper layer and PATRIOT as lower layer.
Probably first major US loss of the conflict when it comes to ballistic missile defense. One of TPY-2 radars belonging to the THAAD battery deployed to Muwaffaq Salti Airbase in Jordan seems to have been struck. The full radar set goes over $200M.
"...war in Iran is very unpopular. Not merely negative-number ... but worst-ever-support-for-war-when-it-started unpopular. With just 38% of Americans in favor, support for bombing Iran is lower than retrospective support for the war in Iraq was in 2014." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-us-i...
You can see why Russia sees an opportunity to settle scores. "Russia is providing Iran with targeting information to attack American forces in the Middle East, the first indication that another major U.S. adversary is participating — even indirectly" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Reuters Exclusive
"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."
"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East."
The battle between the Pentagon and Anthropic couldn't have come at a worse time. AI safety is no longer a hypothetical problem; it's a real concern for the world we live in today. And the US Government's demand? Move faster and break more things. My cover story: www.economist.com/briefing/202...
