US-Iran-Israel War: Hezbollah Attacks Golam Heights After Israel Bombs Isfahan

British Prime Minister ‌Keir Starmer may send thousands ⁠of interceptor drones to ‌West Asia, ‌The Telegraph ‌reported ⁠on Saturday (March 14, 2026). 

Military ⁠officials are examining whether the “Octopus” interceptor ‌anti-drone drone system, which is manufactured ‌in the U.K. for Ukraine to ⁠use against Russia, ‌can also be used to bolster British defences ‌against Iran’s Shahed drones, the report said.

Reuters ⁠could not ⁠immediately verify the ‌report.

The State Department has ordered all nonemergency government employees and family members of all of its workers to leave Oman due to “safety risks”.

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The United Arab Emirates has the right to defend itself against Iran’s ongoing strikes but chooses restraint, a senior UAE official has said, as Tehran continues its retaliatory attacks across the Gulf.

“The UAE has the right to defend itself against this imposed terrorist aggression, but it is still prioritising reason and logic, continuing to exercise restraint and seeking a way out for Iran and the region,” presidential adviser Anwar Gargash said late Saturday (March 14, 2026) on X.

The UAE “made sincere efforts until the very last moment to mediate between Washington and Tehran to avoid this war”, he wrote.

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Iraq will travel to Mexico for a 2026 World Cup playoff match despite calls for it to be postponed due to the West Asian war, the country’s football association said on Saturday (March 14, 2026).

“The national team will depart at the end of the week to Mexico via a private plane,” said Iraq football association president Adnan Dirjal in a statement, adding they had contacted FIFA to help facilitate the trip during the conflict in the region that has hampered flights.

The match date is set as 31st March as of now.

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The Saudi Ministry of Defence says it has intercepted and destroyed seven drones in Riyadh and the eastern regions.

Earlier, the ministry said it had intercepted three drones in eastern parts of the country.

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Israeli forces have launched an air raid on an apartment building in the Sharhabil area of the southern city.

We will bring you more when we have it.

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Dubai is scrambling to preserve its image as a safe haven despite Iran’s onslaught, with influencers rallying behind the government’s message as authorities crack down on those sharing footage of strikes.

For decades, the Gulf was seen as an oasis of safety in a tumultuous Middle East, with the United Arab Emirates branding itself the safest country in the world and boasting of its very low crime rates.

But that image has now been shattered.

Iran has fired over 1,800 missiles and drones at the Emirates, more than any other country targeted by Tehran in the conflict, upending its aura of tranquillity despite its air defence intercepting a vast majority of the projectiles.

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The Saraya Awliya al-Dam group says it carried out the attacks in response to the US and Israel’s killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and the deaths of its fighters.

The attacks included a US site in the northern city of Erbil and at the Victoria Base at the Baghdad airport, it added.

The situation in Iraq has seen a marked escalation. In one notable example, we understand that a missile hit the US Embassy in Baghdad on Saturday morning and damaged part of the air defence system.

Beyond that attack, there has been a growing number of strikes targeting US bases and interests across the country. The US Embassy has issued an alert urging American citizens to leave Iraq immediately, and there are reports of Iraqi armed factions offering rewards of up to $100,000 for information on Americans in the country.

The frequency of these attacks is clearly increasing, and they are not limited to Baghdad. Across Iraq and in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, US forces at bases and airports have come under fire. We had one French soldier killed when a base was hit.

There is a real concern now that there is an escalation, and Iraq is finding itself in the middle of it.

The U.S. Department of Defense on Saturday (March 14, 2026) identified ‌the six U.S. airmen who were killed in a ⁠plane crash over Iraq.

The airmen were on a KC-135 aerial refueling ‌tanker supporting U.S. attacks on Iran. The crash ‌involved another aircraft but was ‌not ⁠the result of ⁠hostile or friendly fire and is under investigation, the military has said.

Russia is supplying Iran with Shahed drones to use against the ‌U.S. and Israel, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told ⁠CNN in an interview excerpt aired on Saturday.

Zelenskyy told CNN’s ‌Fareed Zakaria that it is “100% facts” that Iran ‌has used Russian-made ‌Shaheds ⁠to attack U.S. ⁠bases.

Shahed drones have been linked to other attacks on countries in the region, ‌although their manufacturers are not always clear.

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The ‌Swiss government said on Saturday (March 14, 2026) that it discussed ⁠requests by U.S. military and official aircraft to fly ‌over the country, and based on ‌its law of neutrality, ‌rejected ⁠two Iran-related war ⁠flights but permitted three others.

“The law on neutrality prohibits overflights by parties to the ‌conflict that serve a military purpose related to the conflict. Permitted are ‌humanitarian and medical transits, including the transport of wounded persons, ⁠as well as overflights that are unrelated to the ‌conflict,” the government said in a statement.

A senior Japanese policy adviser said on Sunday (March 15, 2026) the threshold is “extremely high” for Tokyo to send its warships to help protect a shipping lane for oil in West Asia, hours after U.S. President Donald Trump’s call for other countries to do so.

“I regard the threshold as extremely high” for sending Japanese navy ships to the region under existing Japanese laws, Takayuki Kobayashi, the policy chief of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), said on Sunday (March 15) on the public broadcaster NHK’s political debate programme.

“Legally speaking, we do not rule out the possibility, but given the current situation in which this conflict is ongoing, I believe this is something that must be considered with great caution,” he said.

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Iran’s Revolutionary Guard issued a statement Sunday vowing to hunt down and kill Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to the state-run IRNA news agency.

“If the criminal Zionist prime minister is still alive, we will continue to pursue and kill him with full force,” the IRGC said in the statement.

Saudi Arabia's defence ministry said overnight that its forces intercepted and destroyed 26 Iranian drones over the kingdom, mostly near the capital Riyadh and in eastern regions.

At approximately 03:30 GMT, the United Arab Emirates reported that its air defence systems were actively engaging incoming missiles and drones launched from Iran. The announcement followed a drone strike on Saturday that caused a fire at the port of Fujairah, which houses a key oil export terminal on the country's east coast.

Around the same time, Bahrain stated that air-raid sirens had sounded across the country and instructed residents to move immediately to the nearest shelter.

The United States ordered non-emergency government employees and their family members to depart Oman overnight because of security concerns.

Kuwait reported on Sunday that its National Guard had shot down five Iranian drones during the past 24 hours.

Qatar issued an update late Saturday confirming it had successfully repelled missile and drone attacks throughout the day, but no new incidents were reported overnight.

Oil-loading operations at the United Arab Emirates’ Fujairah emirate, a major bunkering hub and crude export terminal, have resumed following a drone attack and fire a day earlier, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday (March 15, 2026).

Reuters could not immediately verify the report.

Fujairah, located outside the Strait of Hormuz, serves as the outlet for about 1 million barrels per day of the UAE’s Murban crude oil - a volume equal to about 1% of world demand.

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Iranian authorities have arrested at least 20 people in the country’s northwest on suspicion of cooperating with Israel, local media reported on Sunday (March 15, 2026), more than two weeks into the West Asian war.

The arrests took place during raids on networks linked to Israel in the West Azerbaijan province, the Fars news agency said, quoting provincial prosecutor Hossein Majidi.

“Twenty people were arrested and detained” after they were found to be “sending details of military, law enforcement and security locations to the Zionist enemy”, it added.

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Ukraine does not want to lose U.S. support for its war against Russia due to Washington’s conflict with Iran, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told journalists.

“We don’t want to lose the Americans” while they are “without a doubt currently preoccupied with the Middle East”, the Ukrainian leader said to the press, including AFP reporters, on Saturday (March 14, 2026). The comments were under embargo until Sunday.

“We are showing our willingness to help the United States and their allies in the Middle East” by offering to share Ukraine’s drone expertise, and “we strongly hope that as a result of the Middle East, the United States will not turn its back on the question of the war in Ukraine”, he added.

Iran’s Health Ministry reported that U.S. and Israeli strikes have killed 223 women and 202 children since the war began on Feb. 28, according to Mizan, the official Iranian judiciary news agency.

The Iranian Red Crescent has stated that more than 1,300 people have been killed overall.

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The International Organization for Migration said Sunday that deteriorating conditions in Iranian cities were “driving increasingly complex mobility patterns.”

It said the destruction of homes and facilities that provide basic services are pushing many Iranians to northern provinces, where they think they could be safer.

The U.N. agency said people have been displaced to more than 20 provinces and that shelters were facing strain throughout Iran.

Iranians are also fleeing to neighboring states, the agency said, including nearly 32,000 to Afghanistan and nearly 4,000 to Pakistan, even though airports and most border crossings — especially to Iraq — are closed.

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Bahrain said Sunday its air defenses have intercepted 125 missiles and 211 drones since the Iran war began.

The small island nation — home to the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet — has been among the most affected by Iranian strikes, which have hit ports, a hotel, a refinery and a water desalination plant.

Similar in size to Singapore and less than one-third the size of Rhode Island, it relies on U.S.-made air defense systems.

At least one person has been killed in the attacks.

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A tanker was seen loading oil Sunday on Iran’s Kharg Island, two days after the U.S. struck military facilities there.

The vessel-tracking platform TankerTrackers said seven more tankers are seen at the anchorage.

Five had already loaded fuel oil, while two are waiting to load, according to satellite imagery.

It wasn’t immediately clear who the tankers belong to.

The UK is “intensively looking” at what it can do to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz, which has been essentially blocked by Iran, leading to energy price spikes, according to British Energy Secretary Ed Miliband.

“We are talking to our allies. There’s different ways in which we can make maritime shipping possible. We are intensively looking with our allies at what can be done because it’s so important that we get the strait reopened,” Miliband said in an interview with the Sky News.

Miliband had earlier said there are a range of things the UK can do, including the use of autonomous mine-hunting equipment, but refused to speculate on how far along these proposals were.

Formula 1 and its governing body FIA said the Grand Prix races in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia will not happen in April because of safety concerns related to the Iran war.

"Due to the ongoing situation in the Middle East region, the Bahrain and Saudi Arabian Grands Prix will not take place in April,” F1 said. “While several alternatives were considered, it was ultimately decided that no substitutions will be made in April.”

F1 was due to race in Bahrain on April 12 and in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah on April 19.

The UAE’s Ministry of Defence says it has intercepted several ballistic missiles and drones launched from Iran.

The Lebanese group says on Telegram that its fighters hit an Israeli Merkava tank near the southern town of Taybeh.

Hezbollah says that the attack, which was carried out with a guided missile, caused the tank to catch fire.

Eli Cohen says on X that the 2022 maritime border agreement between Israel and Lebanon, which ended a long-running dispute over a gas field in the Mediterranean Sea, should be cancelled.

“The gas agreement in Lebanon was born in sin on the eve of elections”, the Israeli energy minister said on X. “It is a bad and illegitimate agreement and action must be taken to cancel it!”

Hezbollah said they launched a series of rockets on the Kilaa’ barracks in the Golan Heights.

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