South Korea cannot stop Washington from redeploying some weapons stationed in the country, President Lee Jae Myung said on Tuesday, after reports that US Patriot missile defence systems were being sent to the conflict in the Middle East www.al-monitor.com/originals/20... @AlMonitor

Trump says will waive some oil sanctions as Iran war roils markets - His comments came after speaking to the leader of Russia f24.my/Bn4p.BS

Iranian ballistic missile and drone attacks targeting Prince Sultan Air Base force the US to disperse KC-135 aerial refueling tankers and evacuate them from the Saudi Air Base defencesecurityasia.com/en/us-evacua...

Army unit’s moves trigger speculation as US plots next steps in Iran war - The abrupt cancellation of a training event has put a spotlight on the 82nd Airborne Division, which specializes in ground combat and other fraught missions www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

US Aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford now operating in the Middle East’s waterways, an arrival that could signal intensified U.S. attacks against Iran - Ford, with destroyer USS Bainbridge, transited the Suez Canal on Thursday www.stripes.com/theaters/mid... www.stripes.com/theaters/mid...

Full article: Iranian strikes conducted over the weekend and on Monday damaged structures that are part of or near communication and radar systems on at least seven U.S. military sites across the Middle East, according to a New York Times analysis www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/w...

EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s Orwellian Board of Peace Consists Entirely of Human Rights Abusers An Intercept analysis finds that every single Board of Peace member state has been rebuked for human rights violations. theintercept.com/2026/03/02/t...

U.S. Military Joins Drug War in Ecuador: “It Wasn’t Going to Be Just Boat Strikes Forever” theintercept.com/2026/03/04/u...

Rubio Admits That America Is Fighting Israel’s War theintercept.com/2026/03/03/r...

One former senior [US] official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive planning, acknowledged it was likely that the US could run low on interceptors before Iran runs out of ballistic missiles and drones www.al-monitor.com/originals/20... @AlMonitor

Maersk halts cargo bookings in and out of the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia until further notice english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-...

🇮🇷💥🇺🇸 Satellite imagery suggests Iranian strikes hit several U.S. missile-defense radar sites across the Middle East, including a $1.1 billion AN/FPS-132 early-warning radar in Qatar and AN/TPY-2 radars linked to THAAD systems in the UAE, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia.

Souda Bay, Crete, houses US air and naval forces currently 2 F-35, 4 A-10, 5 Air refueling KC-135 for aerial refueling, 3 “Poseidon” naval assistance - The base can be used for refueling of US aircraft coming for Ramstein heading for the Middle East www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2026/02/28/u...

Iran struck a base housing American troops in Kuwait, killing three US service members, military officials said on Sunday - Central Command: five service members “seriously wounded” and several others “sustained minor shrapnel injuries and concussions” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/u...

At least 150 tankers, including those carrying crude and LNG, dropped anchor in open Gulf waters beyond the Strait of Hormuz -Dozens more were stationary on the other side of the chokepoint, shipping data showed on March 1 www.straitstimes.com/world/middle...

U.S. AND ISRAEL BEGIN "MAJOR COMBAT OPERATIONS" IN IRAN - Operation Epic Fury, as the Pentagon dubbed the attack, started exactly as Trump's 10-day deadline to Iran expired - Israel's name for the joint operation is Lion's Roar www.axios.com/2026/02/28/i...

Trump has dismissed Vice Admiral Fred Kacher, deputy director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for issuing warnings to him about what might go wrong in a new war against Iran, Reuters report. www.reuters.com/world/us/pen...

A number of oil tankers are avoiding sailing through Hormuz shipping strait, with some shipowners taking a caution-first approach after the US and Israel bombed Iran

JUST IN: 🇮🇷 Iran warns "no ship" is allowed to pass through the Strait of Hormuz in response to US and Israel attacks. Roughly 20% of the world's oil supply passes through this strategic waterway.

Satellite images show that the US Navy has withdrawn all of its vessels from its base in Bahrain. Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260226-us-...

A detachment of F-22 Raptors, the US Air Force’s top-tier stealth fighter jets, departed RAF Lakenheath in England and arrived in Israel late on Tuesday - A group of USAF KC-46 and KC-135 refueling tankers also departed RAF Mildenhall www.al-monitor.com/originals/20... @AlMonitor

Sahar Vardi, an antimilitarist activist from Jerusalem, explores how the Israeli arms industry has “gone underground” in her latest post for @972mag.com www.972mag.com/israel-arms-...

South Korea and the US will conduct major joint military drill Freedom Shield from March 9 to 19, military officials said - They said the exercise by the allies next month would incorporate deterrence scenarios related to North Korea's nuclear weapons www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Michael Roberts: Ukraine- Russia four years on thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2026/02/24/u...

Europe's main military powers (France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Britain) to develop low-cost air-defence systems- First project of Low-Cost Effectors and Autonomous Platforms' initiative (LEAP) delivered in 2027 www.reuters.com/business/aer...

WSJ: Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates won’t allow the U.S. aircraft to use their respective airspace to strike Iran - However that may only count for the first US strike - If Iran strikes back on US bases then it becomes 'defensive' www.wsj.com/world/middle... @WSJ

The USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier, has entered the Mediterranean. Part of its strike group, the USS Mahan, is already crossing the Strait of Gibraltar. The carrier is expected to reach the Middle East within days and be ready for potential operations.

The US is pushing NATO to slash many of its foreign activities including ending a key alliance mission in Iraq, four NATO diplomats told POLITICO - The US has also in recent months lobbied to scale down NATO’s peacekeeping operation in Kosovo www.politico.eu/article/us-p...

'De VS hebben hun grootste troepenmacht in de Golfregio opgebouwd sinds de invasie van Irak in 2003. Het doel van een mogelijke aanval op Iran is echter nog onbekend. Opties variëren van een aanval op nucleaire installaties tot het omverwerpen van het Iraanse regime.' www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

The US is in the process of withdrawing all of its roughly 1,000 troops from Syria, according to three American officials - Troops will withdraw from the remaining U.S. locations over the next two months www.wsj.com/world/middle... @WSJ

Moon of Alabama: "The real threat is not a one off campaign but a constant deterioration of the Iranian state should the U.S. decide to wage a long campaign of attrition against it as it did against Iraq between the two Gulf wars" www.moonofalabama.org/2026/02/u-s-...

Philippine ambassador: The US Typhon missile system in northern Luzon and the anti-missile launcher Navy Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System that was deployed in April last year to Luzon have remained in the Philippines apnews.com/article/phil...

US and Dutch Pilots Allegedly Flying Ukrainian F-16s in Combat, Sources Say theaviationist.com/2026/02/17/u... @The Aviationist

First day of Ukraine-Russia talks in Geneva - British delegation, led by prime minister Keir Starmer's security adviser Jonathan Powell, was spotted at the venue of the talks in the morning to meet with US envoys - French delegation is also in Geneva genevasolutions.news/global-news/...

@keesamok · How Will the US Attack Iran? @LarrySonar21 larrycjohnson.substack.com/p/how-will-t...

Iran has more options up its sleeve than Trump and Netanyahu assume www.opendemocracy.net/en/iran-isra...

UK Palestine Action ban ruled unlawful, in humiliating blow for ministers - Thousands arrested for supporting group since proscription are now in legal limbo as Home Secretary Mahmood says she will appeal www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

AFP and Syrian military sources: US forces withdraw from Syria’s Al-Tanf base - During the Syrian civil war and the fight against ISIS, US forces were deployed in the country’s Kurdish-controlled northeast and at Al-Tanf ara.tv/kvv8d

@historiek.bsky.social De Stasi beschikte over een bron binnen het NAVO-hoofdkwartier: Rainer Rupp, alias “Topas” historiek.net/topas-stasi-...

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon plans to withdraw most of its troops by mid 2027 www.arabnews.com/node/2632460...

US forces in Qatar’s al-Udeid, the biggest US base in the Middle East, put missiles on mobile truck launchers as tensions with Iran ratcheted up since January, analysis of satellite images shows www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

Pentagon is sending about 200 troops to locations across Nigeria in the coming weeks to help train its military to fight Islamist militants - They will augment a small US team who assist local soldiers with identifying potential terrorist targets www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...

📣 Overwinning! We winnen de rechtszaak tegen UNAMAR voor de illegale uitvoer van wapens naar Saoedi-Arabië. Boetes, voorwaardelijke straffen en een duidelijk signaal dat het Wapenhandeldecreet strikt moet worden nageleefd én niet mag worden versoepeld ✊🏽 www.vredesactie.be/nieuws/2026/... 📷️ Tom Fisk

Reuters: Ethiopia builds secret camp to train Sudan RSF paramilitary fighters, United Arab Emirates financed the camp’s construction and provided military trainers and logistical support - A sign that the conflict in Sudan sucks in regional powers www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Internal document: Hanoi is planning for a 2nd American invasion, although “currently there is little risk of a war against Vietnam" - US policy heightening tensions and fueling repression the88project.org/research/han...

Dockworkers in more then 20 Mediterranean ports announce coordinated action against the growing militarization of transport infrastructure, as well as port management’s and governments’ complicity in the genocide in Gaza peoplesdispatch.org/2026/01/30/d...

Palestine Action activists cleared of aggravated burglary at Israeli defence firm site - None of the six activists were convicted of any offence over break-in at Elbit Systems factory near Bristol in 2024 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

'Oekraïne mag met de nieuwe EU-lening van 90 miljard euro ook cruciale wapens kopen in het Verenigd Koninkrijk en de Verenigde Staten. EU-lidstaten hebben daarover woensdag een akkoord bereikt.' www.telegraaf.nl/buitenland/a...

The US has dispatched a small team of military officers to Nigeria, the commander of Africa Command told reporters on Tuesday - US has supplied Nigeria with military equipment and carried out reconnaissance missions across Nigeria apnews.com/article/nige...

A new set of foreign satellite images obtained by Global Times from MizarVision shows that as of January 25, the number of KC-135 aerial refueling aircraft parked on the apron at Al Udeid Air Base had increased significantly www.globaltimes.cn/page/202601/...