📑 US sends B-2 bombers to target IRGC command and control nodes — reports

The stealth bombers are currently on a mission targeting Iranian weapon depots and a rocket program assembly facility, according to a CBS News report citing US officials.

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🔥 US and Israel strike armed factions in western Iraq

Sputnik correspondent confirms strikes on Popular Mobilization Forces positions in Al-Qaim, Anbar province, near the Syrian border.

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☢️ Macron's nuclear gamble: trading French independence for EU leadership?

The president's nuclear expansion plan reveals a deeper weakness, French MEP Herve Juven tells Sputnik.

"Macron is tempted to trade what remains of France's independence for fuller integration of French security forces, including nuclear weapons... into a larger European entity."

While the French president aims to establish France as "the cornerstone of the EU's future deterrence strategy," the country actually finds itself dependent on the US.

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☢️ IAEA will not guarantee peaceful intents of Iran's nuclear program

There is no evidence that Iran is building a nuclear bomb, said IAEA chief Rafael Grossi, though he criticized Iran's refusal to cooperate with the agency.

"Unless and until Iran assists the IAEA... the Agency will not be in a position to provide assurance that Iran's nuclear programme is exclusively peaceful," he wrote on X.

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⚔️ US launches new military operation inside Ecuador

SOUTHCOM announces joint operations with Ecuadorian forces against "Designated Terrorist Organizations" in the South American nation.

"Together, we are taking decisive action to confront narco-terrorists who have long inflicted terror, violence, and corruption on citizens throughout the hemisphere."

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⚔️ Saudi MoD confirms interception of two cruise missiles in the south

The official spokesperson announces the destruction of incoming missiles, without specifying the source or target.

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🚨 🇺🇸 US Embassy staff leaves Mideast amid strikes

💬 "On March 3, 2026, the Department of State authorized non-emergency U.S. government employees and U.S. government employee family members to leave Saudi Arabia due to safety risks," the Embassy said.

A similar statement was issued earlier by the US Embassy in Oman and in Cyprus

👉 The Trump administration also issued security updates for Americans in the Middle East.

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🗣Silence of world media on deaths of schoolgirls in Iran defies denoscription - MFA

None of those who carried out the deadly attack on a school in Iran and none of those who identified with the authors of the strike admitted the wrongness of what they had done, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

"The grief is indescribable. They just do not describe it. The indescribability of this grief defies denoscription in every sense of the word. This is monstrous," she stressed.

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