“If a U.S. role were to be confirmed, the strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East.” www.reuters.com/world/middle...
There’s been a few other good pieces on this theme the last day or two.That’s because it’s a real thing. There’s a real sense of shock and betrayal which is not like past episodes of grumbling and intra-alliance bargaining.
Official statements placing U.S. forces in the area – along w/ analysis of social posts, videos, sat. images – suggest U.S. forces bombed a school in Minab, Iran during strikes targeting an IRGC base. Over 150 were killed, Iranian officials say. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...
BBC Verify has pieced together verified videos, satellite imagery and expert views after a deadly attack near a primary school in Minab, souther Iran, which suggest the area was hit more than once "by multiple simultaneous or near-simultaneous strikes".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
APNewsAlert: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Bahrain says an Iranian missile hit a state-run oil refinery.
U.N. peacekeepers in southern Lebanon say they have seen and heard clashes, including ground combat, in southern Lebanon as more Israeli forces have moved across the border. apnews.com/live/iran-wa...
“Just another faceless three-digit number of Muslim children extinguished from existence and relegated to A11...” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...
Airstrike kills Iran-aligned militia commander south of Baghdad – police sources reut.rs/4l8FU4N
AP: In a phone call with Iraqi Kurdish officials late Sunday, Trump asked them to militarily support Iranian Kurdish groups in operations in Iran and to open the border to allow the the groups to move freely back and forth. apnews.com/article/kurd...
Meanwhile… “The White House just posted a video mixing real footage from the Iran strikes with a kill streak animation from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3”
One woman who called the State Department helpline looking for help said they told her to "stop ranting and raving" and hung up on her.
Another woman said they asked her how to spell Oman.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/t...
A power blackout has hit all of Iraq’s provinces, according to the electricity ministry.
The government has blamed a technical fault, caused by a sudden drop in gas supplies to the Rumaila gas-fired power plant in Basra.
Power outage hits all of Iraq, electricity ministry says, after a key gas field in the Kurdish region halted operations due to security concerns, and production stopped at another major oil field near Basra because of a tanker shortage in the Persian Gulf. apnews.com/live/iran-wa...
Trump & Hegseth have, in the run-up to this war, taken a sledge-hammer to the teams inside the U.S. military that were focused on limiting civilian casualties in combat & investigating potential war crimes: www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Iran has now partially blinded key radar systems the US & the Gulf States rely on for missile defense. Qatar's Ministry of Defense just confirmed destruction of the $1.1 billion US-operated AN/FPS-132 Block 5 Upgraded Early Warning Radar (UEWR) which gives early warning of ballistic missile launches
Sri Lanka recovers 87 bodies from Iranian warship sunk off its coast by a U.S. submarine — an apparently unprovoked attack that Pete Hegseth referred to as "quiet death," saying the ship "thought it was safe in international waters” when U.S. forces hit it with a torpedo. apnews.com/article/sri-...
Amazing hire for @nytimes.com (and a world-class fumble for the Post) - @yjtorbati.bsky.social is everything a journalist should be. So thrilled to keep reading her work www.nytco.com/press/our-ne...
Turkey says NATO defences destroyed incoming missile from Iran reut.rs/4u9Sox5
At least four killed in Israeli strike on building in Lebanon's Baalbek reut.rs/3OKGfi4
It appears we may have replaced Ayatollah Khamenei with Ayatollah Khamenei
This should end well.
In the fog of war, Google fools itself: Its reverse-image tool, Lens, can’t reliably spot AI-generated or misleading visuals — and its AI Overviews end up repeating the hoaxes.
More in Reality Check: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/googles-ai...
So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for:
- Who takes over;
- Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation;
- How to defend US bases in the region;
- Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and
- How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed.
Thousands in Iran attend burial of children killed in bombing of school. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/w...
All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post — including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East — based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.
Breaking - US consulate in Dubai has been hit and is on fire
@cnn.com
The UN refugee agency is mobilizing across the Middle East region and is urging all countries to keep their borders open for those fleeing www.unhcr.org/news/briefin...
As I watch footage of explosions in Beirut and dust clouds towering above apartment blocks in Tehran, I keep coming back to something that I witnessed back in the summer of '04, during my first tour in Iraq. But first, let's start with a question:
Have you ever heard someone wail?
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Iran human rights group HRANA:
"The total number of reported civilian deaths stands at 742, including 176 children under 18, with 624 reported deaths currently . under review"
"Reported civilian injuries since 28 February 2026 stand at 971, including 115 children"
www.en-hrana.org/the-third-da...
