March 6, 2026
Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani told Poland’s Radoslaw Sikorski that Iran’s recent moves in the region are inconsistent with “good neighbourliness” and have no justification, according to a readout from Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
For his part, Sikorski expressed Poland’s concern over the escalating conflict in the Middle East and called for a return to negotiations and the “rule of reason”.
Israel claims to
strike ‘over 400’ targets in western Iran
The Israeli army says it hit more than 400 targets in Iran today, including ballistic missile launchers and storage facilities for unmanned aerial vehicles.
In western Iran’s Shahroud area, Israeli forces destroyed a truck that was transferring air defence systems to another location, the army claimed on Telegram.
The army attached an aerial photo of what appeared to be a truck on an unidentified road. There was no immediate response from Iran.
CENTCOM claims
Iran used attack drones in residential Bahrain areas
Iranian forces fired seven attack drones at residential neighbourhoods in Bahrain on Thursday evening, the head of the US military’s Middle East-based Central Command (CENTCOM), Brad Cooper, has said.
In a statement published on social media, Cooper accused Iran of “deliberately” targeting civilians across the Middle East.
“This is unacceptable and will not go unanswered,” he said.
Prominent
satellite firm to hold back Gulf state images
Planet Labs PBC, a leading provider of high-resolution images taken from space, says it would hold back images of Gulf states for 96 hours.
“All new imagery collected over the Gulf States and adjacent conflict zones [not including Iran] will be subject to a mandatory 96-hour delay before it is made available in our archive”, the company said.
“This measure is intended to prevent adversarial actors endangering the safety of allied and NATO-partner personnel and civilians there,” it added.
The satellite images produced by the California-based company are normally available almost immediately to its clients, including media outlets, companies and researchers.
It did not say if it had acted at the request of US authorities. “As the conflict evolves, the area impacted may change,” it added.
Hezbollah says
it launched drone attack on Israeli base in Golan Heights
Hezbollah says it launched a drone attack targeting an Israeli military site in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights.
In a statement, the group said its fighters carried out an aerial attack with a squadron of drones against the Katsafia base at about 3:00pm local time (13:00 GMT) today.
Hezbollah said the attack was carried out in response to Israeli strikes on Lebanon.
Iranian military
claims attack on US base in Bahrain results in casualties
An Iranian attack on a US base in Bahrain has resulted in deaths and injuries, Tasnim news agency is reporting, citing the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters – which assumes operational command of Iran’s armed forces during wartime.
Al Jazeera could not independently verify the report, and the US has yet to comment on the alleged incident.
Germany
withdraws more troops from Middle East
Germany has pulled additional Bundeswehr troops out of the Middle East as tensions rise during the seventh day of the US–Israeli war on Iran, according to a German military spokesperson.
The spokesperson told Reuters that soldiers deployed with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) are being withdrawn because of the security situation. Germany had already sharply reduced its military presence in Erbil in northern Iraq.
German media outlet RND reported that troops stationed in Bahrain have already returned to Germany and that preparations for withdrawals from Kuwait are under way.
RND also said soldiers and staff from the German embassy in Baghdad were being relocated to Jordan. Germany’s foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
About 500 German soldiers are deployed across the region, mainly in Iraq and Jordan, though officials have recently moved personnel out of some camps and reduced contingents amid rising security risks.
Israeli attack
in Lebanon’s Majdal Selm kills family of 9, Lebanese state media reports
An Israeli airstrike on a house in southern Lebanon’s town of Majdal Selm has killed nine members of the same family, Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reports.
Most of those killed were women and children, NNA said, without providing more details.
Canada says
3,500 nationals seek assistance to leave Middle East, Gulf regions
Canada’s Foreign Minister Anita Anand says that approximately 3,500 nationals requested to leave the Middle East and Gulf regions.
“As of this morning, more than 108,000 Canadians in the region have registered with Global Affairs. Of these, approximately 3,500 Canadians have contacted Global Affairs to request assistance in departing”, Anand told a virtual briefing on the latest situation of Canadians in the region.
“At this time, our government continues to provide three types of departure options: first, charter flights, second, block bookings and third, ground transportation, when and where it is safe to do so.”
Describing the situation in the region as “volatile and unpredictable”, the minister stressed that Ottawa has “no intention to participate in Operation Epic Fury”.
“We were not consulted on this military operation and have not participated,” she said.
More Israeli air
strikes in southern Lebanon
Two Israeli air strikes have targeted the town of Hanin, our colleagues on the ground report.
In addition, Israeli forces have targeted the Kfarjouz area in Nabatieh, also in southern Lebanon.
Israel says
Hezbollah fired about 70 rockets since midnight
Israel’s military says Hezbollah has fired about 70 rockets towards Israel since midnight.
Military spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani said many of the launches came from southern Lebanon.
“After midnight yesterday, around 70 rockets were launched towards the direction of Israel,” Shoshani told journalists.
He claimed that since Israel began striking in Lebanon earlier this week, Israeli forces have hit “more than 500 targets across Lebanon” and killed 70 Hezbollah fighters.
Lebanon’s Health Ministry says Israeli attacks in the country since Monday have killed a total of 217 people, many of whom are civilians.
NRC warns of
‘humanitarian catastrophe’ amid Israeli evacuation orders in Lebanon
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has called on Israel to immediately “reverse mass evacuation orders” in Lebanon, warning they risk triggering a humanitarian catastrophe as hundreds of thousands flee their homes.
In an email statement sent to Al Jazeera, the rights group said it estimates about 300,000 people have already been displaced in “less than 100 hours” since Israel launched a wave of air strikes on southern Lebanon, the capital Beirut, and other parts of the country.
“Families who had barely begun rebuilding their lives are now forced to flee once again,” said Maureen Philippon, country director for NRC in Lebanon.
“People left their homes in the middle of the night with nothing but the clothes they were wearing. Once again, civilians are paying the highest price. If implemented, the latest evacuation orders from Israel could yet produce a humanitarian crisis unlike anything we have seen in over two years.”
The NRC warned that the number of people forced to flee could exceed 1 million if the orders are fully implemented.
Hezbollah
announces latest attack on Israel
The Lebanese group says it attacked Israel’s Omeid airbase near the city of Safad with a drone swarm at 3pm (13:00 GMT) today.
50,000 Syrians
flee Israeli strikes in Lebanon, UN says
Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodor cites the UN’s International Organisation for Migration, which said that this number does not include those who may have fled yesterday, when Israel ordered the entire population of Beirut’s southern suburbs to displace.
Prior to the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad last year, Lebanon hosted more than 1 million Syrian refugees who fled the country’s civil war.
Saudi Arabia
says intercepts missile
The Saudi Ministry of Defence says on X that a cruise missile was intercepted and destroyed “east of Al-Kharj Governorate”.
Iraq PM,
Kurdistan president discuss regional security after attacks
Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani has discussed regional security developments with Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani following attacks reported in several Iraqi cities.
In a phone call on Friday, the two leaders rejected attacks targeting locations across Iraq, including in the Kurdistan region, according to a statement from the prime minister’s office on X.
They also reaffirmed their commitment to preventing Iraqi territory from being used as a launching point for attacks against neighbouring countries.
Both sides stressed the need for national unity to confront current security challenges and preserve Iraq’s stability, sovereignty and national security, according to the statement.
Israel’s attacks
on Lebanon bring ‘misery and suffering’: UN
Lebanese civilians are “paying a painfully heavy price” in Israel’s expanded bombing campaign and ground incursions, the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has warned.
The breadth of mass evacuations in suburban Beirut and the Bekaa Valley “makes them very difficult for the population to comply with and therefore brings into question their effectiveness, a requirement under international humanitarian law, and risks amounting to prohibited forced displacement”, spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani wrote in a statement Friday.
Combined with attacks on residential buildings, Israel is “bringing more misery and suffering to an already weary civilian population”.
“We urge the parties to step back from the brink of a major escalation of this conflict in Lebanon,” Shamdasani added.
UAE says
industrial fire caused by drone debris is under control
A fire at Fujairah Oil Industry Zone in the United Arab Emirates was sparked by falling debris after air defences successfully intercepted a drone, state media reports.
Emirates News Agency (WAM) wrote in a brief social media post that the flames are now under control.
The zone flanks the Port of Fujairah and comprises the Middle East’s largest commercial storage capacity for refined oil products, according to its website.
US military
forming plan to move ships through Strait of Hormuz
White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett has told CNBC and Bloomberg that the US military is considering ways to get ships moving again through the strait, but did not provide more details on timing or approach.
The conflict has effectively cut off access to the waterway, a key route for roughly one-fifth of the world’s supply of oil and liquefied natural gas.
Footage shows
Israelis partying in bomb shelters
There are more than 11,770 public bomb shelters across Israel where people can take cover during air attacks.
Footage shared on social media showed some Israelis partying in several of those shelters, as they celebrated the Jewish Purim festival amid the ongoing wars with Iran and Lebanon.
US moving
‘thousands’ of citizens out of Middle East: Trump
In his latest Truth Social post, US President Donald Trump has claimed that the Department of State is “moving thousands of people out of various Countries throughout the Middle East”.
“It is being done quietly, but seamlessly”, the president said, praising Secretary of State Marco Rubio for “doing a great job!”
The State Department said yesterday that 20,000 Americans had returned home and that it was ramping up chartered flights, without providing more details.
The Trump administration has received criticism over evacuations after urging Americans to leave more than a dozen countries in the Middle East on Tuesday.
How many
countries has Trump ordered attacks in?
While Trump promised to be the “president of peace”, he has launched US military operations in eight different countries while in office.
His latest attacks in Iran have triggered a broad conflict drawing in many Middle East nations and have drawn accusations of international law violations.
Watch a breakdown of Trump’s war record here:
Spain’s PM calls
for cooperation with US despite tensions over Iran strikes
Spain’s Prime Minister Sanchez has called for “loyal cooperation” with the US despite growing tensions between the two allies over Washington’s strikes on Iran.
Speaking alongside Portuguese Prime Minister Montenegro, Sanchez said relations with Washington should take place “with respect, in a spirit of loyal cooperation and on an equal footing”.
Sanchez again criticised the strikes by the US and Israel on Iran, describing them as an “extraordinary mistake” and saying they were “not in accordance with international law”.
President Trump previously criticised Sanchez’s government, calling Spain a “terrible” ally and threatened to sever trade ties.
Sanchez responded by reiterating his opposition to the war and his refusal to allow the US to use bases in southern Spain to launch strikes on Iran.
Hezbollah says
it launched two rocket attacks at northern Israel
Hezbollah says it has fired rockets at two locations in northern Israel in response to Israeli attacks across Lebanon.
In two statements, the group said its fighters targeted Malkia and Ramot Naftali with rocket barrages today.
Hezbollah said the first attack struck Malkia at about 9:00am local time (07:00 GMT), while a second barrage targeted Ramot Naftali at about 2:00pm local time (12:00 GMT).
Iran’s
Revolutionary Guard says it targeted US bases in UAE, Kuwait
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard says it has targeted United States forces at two military bases in the Gulf, according to Iranian state media.
The report said the attacks targeted al-Dhafra airbase in the United Arab Emirates and Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait, both of which host US military personnel.
No immediate details were provided about possible damage or casualties.
- US President Donald Trump wants “unconditional surrender” from Iran, warning there will not be a deal without that.
- Massive explosions hit several locations across Iran today as the war enters its seventh day.
- Israeli jets have bombed southern and eastern Lebanese towns as well as targeting the southern suburbs of the capital Beirut.
- At least 1,332 people have been killed in US and Israeli attacks on Iran since Saturday, and the semi-official Fars News Agency reports that two schools were hit by missiles in the town of Parand, southwest of the capital Tehran.
- Iran continued to target Gulf countries from the UAE to Qatar and Bahrain, while Israel’s Tel Aviv came under combined drone and missile attacks late on Thursday night.
- Visit our live tracker for the latest on casualty figures from across the region.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani told Poland’s Radoslaw Sikorski that Iran’s recent moves in the region are inconsistent with “good neighbourliness” and have no justification, according to a readout from Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
For his part, Sikorski expressed Poland’s concern over the escalating conflict in the Middle East and called for a return to negotiations and the “rule of reason”.
The Israeli army says it hit more than 400 targets in Iran today, including ballistic missile launchers and storage facilities for unmanned aerial vehicles.
In western Iran’s Shahroud area, Israeli forces destroyed a truck that was transferring air defence systems to another location, the army claimed on Telegram.
The army attached an aerial photo of what appeared to be a truck on an unidentified road. There was no immediate response from Iran.
Iranian forces fired seven attack drones at residential neighbourhoods in Bahrain on Thursday evening, the head of the US military’s Middle East-based Central Command (CENTCOM), Brad Cooper, has said.
In a statement published on social media, Cooper accused Iran of “deliberately” targeting civilians across the Middle East.
“This is unacceptable and will not go unanswered,” he said.
Planet Labs PBC, a leading provider of high-resolution images taken from space, says it would hold back images of Gulf states for 96 hours.
“All new imagery collected over the Gulf States and adjacent conflict zones [not including Iran] will be subject to a mandatory 96-hour delay before it is made available in our archive”, the company said.
“This measure is intended to prevent adversarial actors endangering the safety of allied and NATO-partner personnel and civilians there,” it added.
The satellite images produced by the California-based company are normally available almost immediately to its clients, including media outlets, companies and researchers.
It did not say if it had acted at the request of US authorities. “As the conflict evolves, the area impacted may change,” it added.
Hezbollah says it launched a drone attack targeting an Israeli military site in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights.
In a statement, the group said its fighters carried out an aerial attack with a squadron of drones against the Katsafia base at about 3:00pm local time (13:00 GMT) today.
Hezbollah said the attack was carried out in response to Israeli strikes on Lebanon.
An Iranian attack on a US base in Bahrain has resulted in deaths and injuries, Tasnim news agency is reporting, citing the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters – which assumes operational command of Iran’s armed forces during wartime.
Al Jazeera could not independently verify the report, and the US has yet to comment on the alleged incident.
Germany has pulled additional Bundeswehr troops out of the Middle East as tensions rise during the seventh day of the US–Israeli war on Iran, according to a German military spokesperson.
The spokesperson told Reuters that soldiers deployed with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) are being withdrawn because of the security situation. Germany had already sharply reduced its military presence in Erbil in northern Iraq.
German media outlet RND reported that troops stationed in Bahrain have already returned to Germany and that preparations for withdrawals from Kuwait are under way.
RND also said soldiers and staff from the German embassy in Baghdad were being relocated to Jordan. Germany’s foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
About 500 German soldiers are deployed across the region, mainly in Iraq and Jordan, though officials have recently moved personnel out of some camps and reduced contingents amid rising security risks.
An Israeli airstrike on a house in southern Lebanon’s town of Majdal Selm has killed nine members of the same family, Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reports.
Most of those killed were women and children, NNA said, without providing more details.
Canada’s Foreign Minister Anita Anand says that approximately 3,500 nationals requested to leave the Middle East and Gulf regions.
“As of this morning, more than 108,000 Canadians in the region have registered with Global Affairs. Of these, approximately 3,500 Canadians have contacted Global Affairs to request assistance in departing”, Anand told a virtual briefing on the latest situation of Canadians in the region.
“At this time, our government continues to provide three types of departure options: first, charter flights, second, block bookings and third, ground transportation, when and where it is safe to do so.”
Describing the situation in the region as “volatile and unpredictable”, the minister stressed that Ottawa has “no intention to participate in Operation Epic Fury”.
“We were not consulted on this military operation and have not participated,” she said.
Two Israeli air strikes have targeted the town of Hanin, our colleagues on the ground report.
In addition, Israeli forces have targeted the Kfarjouz area in Nabatieh, also in southern Lebanon.
Israel’s military says Hezbollah has fired about 70 rockets towards Israel since midnight.
Military spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani said many of the launches came from southern Lebanon.
“After midnight yesterday, around 70 rockets were launched towards the direction of Israel,” Shoshani told journalists.
He claimed that since Israel began striking in Lebanon earlier this week, Israeli forces have hit “more than 500 targets across Lebanon” and killed 70 Hezbollah fighters.
Lebanon’s Health Ministry says Israeli attacks in the country since Monday have killed a total of 217 people, many of whom are civilians.
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has called on Israel to immediately “reverse mass evacuation orders” in Lebanon, warning they risk triggering a humanitarian catastrophe as hundreds of thousands flee their homes.
In an email statement sent to Al Jazeera, the rights group said it estimates about 300,000 people have already been displaced in “less than 100 hours” since Israel launched a wave of air strikes on southern Lebanon, the capital Beirut, and other parts of the country.
“Families who had barely begun rebuilding their lives are now forced to flee once again,” said Maureen Philippon, country director for NRC in Lebanon.
“People left their homes in the middle of the night with nothing but the clothes they were wearing. Once again, civilians are paying the highest price. If implemented, the latest evacuation orders from Israel could yet produce a humanitarian crisis unlike anything we have seen in over two years.”
The NRC warned that the number of people forced to flee could exceed 1 million if the orders are fully implemented.
The Lebanese group says it attacked Israel’s Omeid airbase near the city of Safad with a drone swarm at 3pm (13:00 GMT) today.
Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodor cites the UN’s International Organisation for Migration, which said that this number does not include those who may have fled yesterday, when Israel ordered the entire population of Beirut’s southern suburbs to displace.
Prior to the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad last year, Lebanon hosted more than 1 million Syrian refugees who fled the country’s civil war.
The Saudi Ministry of Defence says on X that a cruise missile was intercepted and destroyed “east of Al-Kharj Governorate”.
Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani has discussed regional security developments with Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani following attacks reported in several Iraqi cities.
In a phone call on Friday, the two leaders rejected attacks targeting locations across Iraq, including in the Kurdistan region, according to a statement from the prime minister’s office on X.
They also reaffirmed their commitment to preventing Iraqi territory from being used as a launching point for attacks against neighbouring countries.
Both sides stressed the need for national unity to confront current security challenges and preserve Iraq’s stability, sovereignty and national security, according to the statement.
Lebanese civilians are “paying a painfully heavy price” in Israel’s expanded bombing campaign and ground incursions, the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has warned.
The breadth of mass evacuations in suburban Beirut and the Bekaa Valley “makes them very difficult for the population to comply with and therefore brings into question their effectiveness, a requirement under international humanitarian law, and risks amounting to prohibited forced displacement”, spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani wrote in a statement Friday.
Combined with attacks on residential buildings, Israel is “bringing more misery and suffering to an already weary civilian population”.
“We urge the parties to step back from the brink of a major escalation of this conflict in Lebanon,” Shamdasani added.
A fire at Fujairah Oil Industry Zone in the United Arab Emirates was sparked by falling debris after air defences successfully intercepted a drone, state media reports.
Emirates News Agency (WAM) wrote in a brief social media post that the flames are now under control.
The zone flanks the Port of Fujairah and comprises the Middle East’s largest commercial storage capacity for refined oil products, according to its website.
White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett has told CNBC and Bloomberg that the US military is considering ways to get ships moving again through the strait, but did not provide more details on timing or approach.
The conflict has effectively cut off access to the waterway, a key route for roughly one-fifth of the world’s supply of oil and liquefied natural gas.
There are more than 11,770 public bomb shelters across Israel where people can take cover during air attacks.
Footage shared on social media showed some Israelis partying in several of those shelters, as they celebrated the Jewish Purim festival amid the ongoing wars with Iran and Lebanon.
In his latest Truth Social post, US President Donald Trump has claimed that the Department of State is “moving thousands of people out of various Countries throughout the Middle East”.
“It is being done quietly, but seamlessly”, the president said, praising Secretary of State Marco Rubio for “doing a great job!”
The State Department said yesterday that 20,000 Americans had returned home and that it was ramping up chartered flights, without providing more details.
The Trump administration has received criticism over evacuations after urging Americans to leave more than a dozen countries in the Middle East on Tuesday.
While Trump promised to be the “president of peace”, he has launched US military operations in eight different countries while in office.
His latest attacks in Iran have triggered a broad conflict drawing in many Middle East nations and have drawn accusations of international law violations.
Watch a breakdown of Trump’s war record here:
Spain’s Prime Minister Sanchez has called for “loyal cooperation” with the US despite growing tensions between the two allies over Washington’s strikes on Iran.
Speaking alongside Portuguese Prime Minister Montenegro, Sanchez said relations with Washington should take place “with respect, in a spirit of loyal cooperation and on an equal footing”.
Sanchez again criticised the strikes by the US and Israel on Iran, describing them as an “extraordinary mistake” and saying they were “not in accordance with international law”.
President Trump previously criticised Sanchez’s government, calling Spain a “terrible” ally and threatened to sever trade ties.
Sanchez responded by reiterating his opposition to the war and his refusal to allow the US to use bases in southern Spain to launch strikes on Iran.
Hezbollah says it has fired rockets at two locations in northern Israel in response to Israeli attacks across Lebanon.
In two statements, the group said its fighters targeted Malkia and Ramot Naftali with rocket barrages today.
Hezbollah said the first attack struck Malkia at about 9:00am local time (07:00 GMT), while a second barrage targeted Ramot Naftali at about 2:00pm local time (12:00 GMT).
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard says it has targeted United States forces at two military bases in the Gulf, according to Iranian state media.
The report said the attacks targeted al-Dhafra airbase in the United Arab Emirates and Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait, both of which host US military personnel.
No immediate details were provided about possible damage or casualties.
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