Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said
Monday that Ukraine is prepared to help the United States confront Iran,
citing Kyiv's hard-won experience fighting Tehran-designed Shahed
drones during Russia's invasion.
In a series of international media interviews, Zelenskyy said Ukraine
has developed expertise that could help defend American personnel and
allied interests as tensions rise in the Middle East.
His comments came after President Donald Trump called on other
nations to help protect commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, a
crucial global trade route for oil shipments, following America's launch
of "Operation Epic Fury" against Iran.
Iranian officials have since threatened ships attempting to pass through the waterway.
"Hopefully China, France, Japan, South Korea, the UK, and others,
that are affected by this artificial constraint, will send Ships to the
area so that the Hormuz Strait will no longer be a threat by a Nation
that has been totally decapitated," Trump wroteon Truth Social on March 14.
Countries including Australia, Japan and Italy have reportedly declined to join the effort.
Zelenskyy told the New York Post that Ukraine "reacted immediately" when the United States launched operations against Iran.
"Whenever it is possible for us to help defending civilians or U.S.
nationals, without second thought we sent our teams," he explained,
adding that Ukraine hopes to assist the U.S. military with its
experience against Shahed drones.
He also told the Post that Ukraine had already sent experts on Iranian drones to the Middle East.
In a separate social media post, Zelenskyy said Ukraine should not be viewed only as a country asking for aid.
"I would like the U.S. not to perceive Ukraine as a country that merely asks for help," he wroteon X. "That is not the case. Ukraine is defending interests and values."
"Of course, the U.S. is right when it says it is farther from this
war than Europe," Zelenskyy continued. "That is understandable. But we
see U.S. allies in the Middle East, and we see what – and who –
threatens them."
Zelenskyy also said Ukraine could make a broader contribution.
"We could build the world's biggest drone factory," he suggested.
"The United States would provide production and financing. Ukraine would
provide the technology and experience."
"We can use it to defend American soldiers on bases," the Ukrainian leader offered.
He made similar remarks to i24NEWSand The Jerusalem Post, arguing that Ukraine has effectively become a testing ground for Iran's drone warfare.
"Ukraine was kind of an experiment place for these drones in the end," Zelenskyy told The Jerusalem Post. "You can't even compare the first class [of] Shahed, what was at the very beginning of the war, and today's Shahed."
Trump, however, dismissed the offer.
"We don't need help," Trump told NBC Newson Saturday. "The last person we need help from is Zelenskyy."
Shutdown enters its second
month, the toll it's taking on Transportation Security Administration
(TSA) agents and the traveling public gets worse with each day.
Meanwhile, of course, we leave our country more vulnerable to attack from jihadists infuriated by the Iran conflict.
They couldn’t win at the ballot box, so Democrats are trying to jam
their woke reforms through on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE) by partially shutting down the government and leaving the
Department of Homeland Security without some of its crucial funding.
If
this continues, Acting Deputy TSA Administrator Adam Stahl
warned
Tuesday on Fox & Friends, they may have to shut down some airports
altogether.
Agents are at their wits’ end, Stahl told the outlet. They’re running out of options:
We're
doing absolutely everything we can. We have a national deployment
office force, and we've fully depleted that. So at this point, we're
fully stretched, and frankly, there's not much else we can do.
But
as the weeks continue, if this continues, it's not hyperbole to suggest
that we may have to quite literally shut down airports. Particularly
smaller ones, if call-out rates go up.
Not only could some smaller airports be shut down, causing even
further travel chaos, but the plight of some of the approximately 50,000 agents who are working without pay is getting dire:
A
lot of these officers can't afford to come in. I talked to one officer
this week — she's a single mother, and she has a special needs child,
and she can't afford to pay for her special needs child’s childcare…
I
believe it's frankly unconscionable that we have Senate Democrats that
are playing [games], they're holding our folks' financial livelihood
hostage, over political games, political partisanship.
Meanwhile, travelers are seeing more and more scenes like this one:
This isn't travel delays... it's total system breakdown.
Many
students are on Spring Break, with more coming soon. Maybe this circus
will convince many of the liberal ones to rethink their allegiances:
Airlines
are expecting a record-breaking spring travel period, with 171 million
passengers expected to fly, up 4% from the same two-month period last
year.
Some airports have closed a number of security checkpoints
and others are working to raise money to help TSA workers buy food or
other essentials as they go without pay.
As of this
writing, it’s unclear when the next vote on funding will take place. In
the meantime, TSA agents, their families, travelers, and regular
Americans continue to pay the price for the juvenile antics of
congressional Democrats.
Thanks, Chuck.
Editor’s Note: Democrats are fanning the flames and raising the rhetoric by comparing ICE to the Gestapo, fascists, and secret police.
Imagine how much government waste there is and how ineffective Democrats
have been with taxpayer money that they continue to ask for new
"programs" and show little to nothing for it, and now the liberal media
is calling them out on it, and to their faces.
The Daily Show host Jon Stewart usually criticizes Democrats and
Republicans, but through his political advocacy, he is more of a
progressive, so we know he sides with the Democrats more often than not.
However, even for a progressive like Stewart, the government's wasteful
spending was too much to ignore.
On Monday, he had San Jose
Mayor Matt Mahan (D) as a guest. Mahan is currently running for governor
in California, backed by Silicon Valley donors like Sergey Brin.
Despite that, among the current candidates, he is arguably the best
Democrat in the race. He has done some good for San Jose, far more than
Gavin Newsom (D) can say about his tenure as governor.
During the
conversation, Stewart brought up how Democrats ask for more money from
taxpayers but have nothing to show for it when asked about what the
taxpayer money resulted in.
"So, for Democrats, it's
always been interesting that they have had trouble connecting the money
that they're asking to raise through taxes to the value it's providing
to taxpayers. So, to the point of like there's a lot of referendums up
there now [California]. A billionaire's tax or getting people that pay
$100,000 not to have to pay any income tax. But I think too often the
politicians haven't connected that money to real value. I don't think
people trust that the money will be spent responsibly or have any
efficacy."
There is no better example of what Stewart is talking about than
California. We have seen career politicians consistently make bold
promises, such as building more housing, cutting red tape, ending homelessness, and making life more affordable.
Yet
they fail on every single issue on which they made a campaign promise.
However, they simultaneously raise taxes to fund said promise, so we're
getting little to nothing of what was promised, but we're still paying
more in taxes. This is the Democrat Party in a nutshell.
There is a lot of incompetence in California governance as well as
corruption. There must be repercussions for wasting taxpayer money.
These politicians can't continue getting exposed for their fraud and
corruption, whether it is in California, Minnesota, or any other state,
and not face the political repercussions for it, because if they walk
freely from this, the next person who comes in can do the same thing
while taxpayers continue to get ripped off and have no say in the
matter.
You
do realize I’m trying to help America eliminate fraud and waste right?
No need to try and make me look like the bad guy for exposing fraud.
People are over it. Start working for the people and not against them.
Mahan
would be far better than the leading Democrats, Rep. Eric Swalwell
(CA-14), former Rep. Katie Porter, and billionaire environmentalist Tom
Steyer, because not only does Mahan sound like a moderate, but he has
made progress in San Jose when it comes to homelessness, something Newsom has failed to do time and time again.
The
good news is that Republican candidate Steve Hilton is polling in first
place as the June primary approaches. If the field stays the same way,
and nobody else drops out, Hilton and Riverside Sheriff Chad Bianco (R)
could advance to the general election as the top two candidates. The
chances that the Democrat machine allows that to happen are slim, but
right now, there is a chance.
🚨NEW
POLL: A new UC Berkeley Citrin Center for Public Opinion
Research-POLITICO poll finds Hilton consolidating GOP support in
California’s governor’s race. pic.twitter.com/mO0SH83CwA
Let’s get this out of the way:
some very good people have some very bad ideas. It’s how the late
Justice Antonin Scalia defended his, at times, brutal critiques of his
colleagues' legal opinions, especially those of his good friend, the
late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Jessica Tarlov is a liberal, but she’s not like Joy Reid or most of
the MSNBC hosts who truly embody the gruesome twosome: holding terrible
views while also being downright awful people.
She also knows her role, too. She’s foil, though, at times, has doled out some excellent points, and I say with fire coming out of my mouth. A broken clock is right twice a day. Luckily, Tarlov, co-host of The Five, often takes “Ls.”
Her
rant about the SAVE Act, also known as the SAVE America Act, which
cleared a key procedural hurdle yesterday, was obnoxious to the hilt.
First, for those who take the Chuck Schumer route on this bill, you
can’t say something is Jim Crow 2.0 when damn near 80 percent of black
Americans support voter ID laws. Second, Tarlov went there, adding that
adoptees, women, and others will be disenfranchised because, apparently,
there is an epidemic of Americans who don’t have identification. That’s
crap, and her co-hosts knew it.
Greg Gutfeld was merciless in
his mocking of Tarlov’s point, with Dana Perino being equally skeptical.
The worst is that Tarlov is adamant that people don’t know how to get
ID cards. Or that women are too stupid to figure this out, especially
regarding any new documentation for those who get married.
What the hell are these arguments? It’s truly a waste of time, since
71 percent support the SAVE Act, according to a Harvard University poll.
It may be unintentional on Tarlov’s part, but this position on
IDs is paternalism on steroids: the people are too stupid to figure out
IDs, so the government should allow illegal aliens to vote in our
elections. If the government can’t dole it out itself, then no one can.
That’s
inherently wrong. We defeated the British Empire, but now we can’t
figure out how to get ID cards. It’s such a tired, boring, and wrong
policy take.
Senate Republicans
have issued a brutal response to Democrats who have refused to vote in
favor of the common-sense election integrity measures laid out in the
SAVE America Act.
.@SenJohnBarrasso:
"You need to present a photo I.D. to buy a beer, to board a plane, and
to do so many other things that are part of American life—why not to
vote?... The SAVE America Act is the best way to secure and safely
provide elections that represent the viewpoints of the… pic.twitter.com/37zyS8rUar
.@LeaderJohnThune
on the SAVE America Act: "Pretty much everything you do in your daily
life involves showing an I.D., whether it's opening a bank account,
getting a hotel room, picking up prescription drugs... These are things
that are just basic, fundamental aspects of our… pic.twitter.com/ayetSntNrB
SENATOR
CRUZ: “You need a photo ID to enroll in college. You need a photo ID to
open a bank account. You need a photo ID to check into a hotel.”
“And
I got to admit, this is my personal favorite: You need a photo ID —
actually, two photo IDs — to shovel snow in New York City.” pic.twitter.com/mdcUCuJdyn
🚨 BREAKING: Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) just stormed the Senate floor with COMMON SENSE amendments to the SAVE America Act
The amended bill will: 1. Require voter ID 2. Require citizenship 3. No rigged mail-in voting 4. No men in women's spots 5. No transgender mutilation of kids… pic.twitter.com/dLjxNLZqsU
In response to Republicans successfully advancing the SAVE
Act to floor debate, Democrats have pulled out the most inane arguments
to oppose it. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer labeled the bill to
require a photo ID and proof of citizenship in order to vote “cynical”
and “below democracy.” Schumer and Sen. Amy Klobuchar warned of the
leftist boogeyman Elon Musk and the “DOGE Squad.”
🚨 JUST IN: Chuck Schumer announces Democrats will do WHATEVER IT TAKES to keep illegal aliens voting in elections
"If
MAGA want to bog down the Senate over a debate on voter suppression,
Dems are ready. We're ready to be here all day, all night, as long as it
takes!"
🚨
LMFAO! Senate Democrats just broke out into a PANIC on the floor that
Elon Musk would be deploying a computer system to purge the voter rolls
if the SAVE America Act passes
“Pretty much everything you do in your daily life involves
showing an I.D.,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune said in response to
the crying of Democrats. “These are things that are just basic,
fundamental aspects of our everyday life. We certainly ought to be able
to apply them to something as important as voting in this country.”
One
lone Democrat, Sen. John Fetterman, has indicated that he may support
the SAVE Act, but would only do so if Republicans cut out the provision
against mail-in ballots.
🚨
JUST IN: Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) announces he will VOTE 'YEA' on any
legislation put forth by Senate Republicans that requires voter ID
nationwide and nothing else
"Keep it basic: PHOTO ID to vote. Stop turning this into a Christmas list and attacking vote-by-mail. If GOP… pic.twitter.com/120SIRcOYc
A federal district court on Monday permanently barred several
Arkansas public-school districts from complying with state law requiring
the Ten Commandments to be displayed in classrooms.
The ruling specifically applies to the six school districts named in
the lawsuit: Fayetteville, Bentonville, Conway, Lakeside, Siloam
Springs, and Springdale. While the injunction technically only covers
these districts, it still sets a massive legal hurdle for the law’s
enforcement statewide.
Judge Timothy Brooks, appointed by former President Barrack Obama,
argued that the law is “coercive” and “the only reason to display a
sacred, religious text in every classroom is to proselytize to children.
The State has said the quiet part out loud,” according to the court
documents, which were provided online by ACLU Arkansas.
On the flip side, the state’s lawyers noted that the act’s purpose is
“to acknowledge the historical importance of the Ten Commandments,”
according to the document.
An amendment to a previous law, Act 573,
through donations or voluntary contributions, requires the display of
representations of the U.S. and Arkansas flags and the national motto “In God We Trust,” in addition to the Biblical Ten Commandments.
In his ruling, Judge Brooks highlighted several statements made by
lawmakers during floor debates to demonstrate the law’s underlying
religious intent.
He pointed to arguments emphasizing the Ten Commandments’ role in
shaping U.S. morality and society, citing one representative who said
that “reading and meditating” on the commandments teaches children to
appreciate the “virtues and qualities that we should all aspire to as
Christians.”
The
Ten Commandments memorial rests in the lobby of the rotunda of the
State Judicial Building November 18, 2002 in Montgomery, Alabama. (Photo
by Gary Tramontina/Getty Images)
Judge Brooks ultimately grounded his decision in the Establishment
Clause of the First Amendment, which prohibits the government from
making laws “respecting an establishment of religion.” While the court
document notes that one representative argued this clause shouldn’t
apply to state laws, the ruling reaffirmed that it does.
The lawsuit was brought by a diverse group of parents — including
those who are Jewish, Catholic, and secular — who argued that the
displays “infringe on their right” to direct their children’s religious
upbringing.
Some pointed out that the specific version of the Ten Commandments
required by the law is from the King James Bible, and they expressed a
desire to discuss faith with their children at times and in ways they
deem personally appropriate.
Addressing the claims that the requirement is the same as a monument
featuring the Ten Commandments on government property or prayers at the
start of a town council meeting, Brooks further detailed his dissent to
this view.
“Children cannot similarly avoid reading the Ten Commandments posted
in their classrooms for thirteen years of compulsory schooling,” he
said.
In response to the ruling, Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R-Ark.)
posed to X on Monday, saying, “We will appeal this ruling and defend our
state’s values.”
“In Arkansas, we believe murder is wrong and stealing is bad – and
there’s nothing wrong with our students learning that too,” she added.
In Arkansas, we believe murder is wrong and stealing is bad – and there’s nothing wrong with our students learning that too.
— Sarah Huckabee Sanders (@SarahHuckabee) March 16, 2026
While the injunction is not a statewide ban, as it only permanently
enjoins the specific defendants in this case from enforcing the law, the
decision heightens the national debate over similar mandates.
In Louisiana, a federal appellate court recently upheld a similar
requirement, though that ruling left the door open for future
challenges. Meanwhile, Texas is also currently defending a 2025 law that
is mired in its own legal battles.
Given these conflicting outcomes in lower courts, legal experts and
surfacing reports suggest that the issue is likely headed for the U.S.
Supreme Court (SCOTUS) to provide a final, nationwide resolution.
Joe Kent walked off the job as director of the National
Counterterrorism Center on March 17, 2026, announcing his resignation in
a public post and immediately fueling chaos inside the national
security community. For a nation at war, that kind of spectacle is not
principled dissent — it is dereliction at the worst possible time, and
Americans deserve better from those entrusted with our safety.
Make
no mistake: leaving a critical post in the middle of a conflict is not a
noble act of conscience, it is abandoning the watch. Conservatives who
believe in duty and service should bristle when officials choose
headlines over the hard work of protecting citizens; the job of a
counterterrorism chief is to analyze threats and advise leaders, not to
generate cable-news drama.
Kent justified his decision by claiming
Iran posed no imminent threat to the homeland and by asserting the war
was started under pressure from what he called the Israeli lobby, a
charge that was explicitly laid out in his resignation post. Those are
explosive allegations to make while walking away from the responsibility
to brief the president and coordinate intelligence — if he truly
believed those things, the responsible path would have been to stay and
fight from within, not to retreat to social media.
This
resignation also comes from a man who was confirmed to the post only
months earlier amid controversy, after a Senate vote that cleared him
despite serious questions raised about his past participation in
partisan chats and other red flags. Voters and patriots have a right to
know why someone with a checkered background was put in charge of such a
vital mission, and why he thinks quitting now advances America’s
security rather than damages it.
The timing of Kent’s exit hands
the media and our enemies a propaganda victory. When our
counterterrorism chief deserts his post, it creates doubt about the U.S.
intelligence posture abroad and sows confusion at home, weakening
morale among the men and women in uniform who count on cohesive
leadership. No serious patriot should cheer a resignation that plays
into the narrative that Washington is fracturing at the moment our
troops need unity most.
If Kent had genuine concerns about
politicization of intelligence or undue influence, there were formal
channels, oversight committees, and loyal colleagues who would have
listened and acted without handing our adversaries a headline. Instead,
he chose the performative route — a move that will be spun into talking
points by every anti-American outlet that wants Washington to appear
incompetent.
Greg Kelly was right to call this reckless. Real
conservatives defend our country by defending the institutions that keep
us safe, not by grandstanding when the cameras roll. Kent’s resignation
should be a wake-up call: Americans must demand leaders who stay,
fight, and fix what’s broken from inside the tent, not abandon it when
the going gets tough.
New York’s new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, chose St. Patrick’s Day to step
onto a pulpit of grievance instead of offering a simple greeting to
Irish Americans celebrating their faith and heritage. Mamdani’s
prominence as the city’s mayor makes his words matter to every New
Yorker, and when the occupant of Gracie Mansion trades holiday goodwill
for political theater it becomes a story about priorities and loyalties.
Videos
and social posts from the celebrations show Mamdani invoking the
history of British colonization in Ireland and linking that narrative to
the contemporary Palestinian cause, a message that trended across
social media on March 17. Many Americans tuned into the parades and
toasts expecting unity and a nod to faith; instead they got an
ideological lecture that made a sacred feast into a foreign-policy
sermon.
St. Patrick’s Day began as a Christian feast honoring a
missionary and bishop who brought the Gospel to Ireland, and for
generations it has been a day of church, family and cultural remembrance
before it became the excuse for green beer and parades. Ordinary
citizens who show up to mass, hand out shamrocks, or march with their
children should not be minimized by politicians who treat their holiday
as another platform for factional battles.
Conservative voices
aren’t surprised by the stunt; this is exactly the sort of
identity-politics playbook that substitutes moralizing for governing.
When leaders prioritize scoring rhetorical points with activist bases
over preserving the traditions that bind communities together, they fuel
division and erode trust in public office — and that is bad for New
York families and small businesses trying to get through another
expensive March.
What landed especially poorly was the tone: a
holiday message that should have uplifted parish halls, veterans’
groups, and Irish-American families instead spotlighted overseas
grievances and revived wedge issues. Hardworking Americans don’t want
their holidays hijacked by virtue-signaling from politicians; they want
leaders who respect the faith, history, and unity those days are meant
to represent, not turn them into campaigns for grievance.
A note
on reporting: contemporaneous coverage of the mayor’s St. Patrick’s Day
remarks has been strongest on social platforms and community forums
where video clips circulated widely, while mainstream national outlets
have not uniformly focused on the incident, leaving much of the initial
reaction to the grassroots conversation online. That means readers
should be aware they are seeing a mix of raw clips and opinion, and
voters should demand clearer, on-the-record explanations from their
elected officials rather than taking politicized soundbites as the whole
story.
Israel said Tuesday it killed two senior Iranian
security officials in overnight strikes in a major blow to the country’s
leadership. Tehran defiantly fired new salvos of missiles and drones at
its Gulf Arab neighbors and Israel in a war that showed no signs of
abating.
Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council,
and Gen. Gholam Reza Soleimani, the head of the Revolutionary Guard’s
all-volunteer Basij force, were “eliminated last night," Israeli Defense
Minister Israel Katz said.
Following the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in an
airstrike on the first day of the war, Larijani was considered one of
the most powerful figures in the country.
Both men were key to Iran’s violent crackdown on protests in January
that challenged the theocracy’s 47-year rule. Iranian state media did
not immediately confirm either death.
The killings would strip Iran of important leaders as the Islamic
Republic faces its greatest test in recent decades in its war with the
United States and Israel.
With concerns growing about a global energy crisis, Iran fired new
attacks at several of its Gulf Arab neighbors and oil infrastructure
throughout the region. Dubai, a major transit hub for international
travel, briefly shut its airspace, the second disruption to flights in
the city in as many days.
An Iranian official defiantly said Tehran had no intention of
relinquishing its tight grip on shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, a
crucial waterway for oil.
The Israeli military also said it had begun a “wide-scale wave of
strikes” across Iran’s capital and was stepping up strikes on
Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon.
Larijani hails from one of Iran’s most famous political families. A
former parliamentary speaker and senior policy adviser, he was appointed
to advise the late Khamenei on strategy in nuclear talks with the Trump
administration.
Larijani was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury in January as Tehran
violently suppressed nationwide protests. It identified him as being
“responsible for coordinating the response to the protests on behalf of
the supreme leader of Iran.”
Soleimani has also been sanctioned by the U.S., as well as the
European Union and other nations over his role in helping suppress
dissent for years through the Basij.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has not been seen in public
since succeeding his father, who was killed in the opening day of the
war. Israel suspects Khamenei was wounded.
Iran kept up the pressure on the energy infrastructure around the
region, hitting an oil facility in Fujairah, an emirate in the United
Arab Emirates that has been repeatedly targeted. State-run WAM news
reported that no one had been injured in the blast from the drone
strike.
Also Tuesday, a tanker anchored off the coast of Fujairah sustained
minor damage when it was hit by debris from an interception, the United
Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center, run by the British military,
reported. Nobody was injured.
A man was killed by the debris of a missile intercepted over Abu
Dhabi, the eighth person to die in the UAE since the start of the war,
authorities said.
Iran’s attacks on Gulf nations and its grip on the Strait of Hormuz,
through which a fifth of the world’s oil is transported, have given rise
to increasing concerns of a global energy crisis and are unnerving the
world economy.
A handful of ships have crossed through the strait, and Iran has said
the vital waterway technically remains open — just not for the United
States, Israel and their allies. About 20 vessels have been struck since
the war began.
“They are flying, launching missiles, should we just sit back and do
nothing in response?” Iran’s parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Bagher
Qalibaf, asked in an interview on state television.
With oil prices rising, U.S. President Donald Trump said he had
demanded that roughly a half-dozen countries send warships to ensure
ships can pass through the Strait of Hormuz. But his appeals brought no
immediate commitments, with many saying they are hesitant to get
involved in a war with no defined exit plan and skeptical that they
could do more than the U.S. Navy.
The UAE shut down its airspace early Tuesday as its military reported
it was “responding to missile and drone threats from Iran.” The closure
was soon lifted, and not long after the sounds of explosions could be
heard as the military worked to intercept incoming fire.
The episode showed the balancing act Emirati authorities face in
trying to keep their long-haul carriers, Emirates and Etihad, flying as
Iranian attacks continue to target the country. The UAE said its air
defenses responded to 10 ballistic missiles and 45 drones Iran fired
Tuesday at the country.
Countries around the region also came under fire: Saudi Arabia said
it intercepted drones, while air defenses could be heard targeting
incoming fire over Doha, the capital of Qatar. Attacks from Iran-linked
proxy forces continued in Iraq, where the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad was
hit with shrapnel from intercepted drones.
The Israeli military early Tuesday said it had launched new attacks
across Tehran and targeted Hezbollah militants in the Lebanese capital.
In Iran, it said it hit command centers, missile launch sites and air
defense systems. There was no immediate confirmation from Iran, where
little information has been coming out due to internet outages,
round-the-clock airstrikes and tight restrictions on journalists.
More than 1,300 people have been killed in Iran since the start of the conflict, according to the Iranian Red Crescent.
Israel did not immediately release details of its attacks on Lebanon,
but the Lebanese army said two of its soldiers were seriously wounded
in an airstrike on the village of Kfar Sir.
Israel’s strikes have displaced more than 1 million Lebanese — or
roughly 20% of the population — according to the Lebanese government,
which says some 850 people have been killed.
Some Israeli troops have pushed into southern Lebanon, and there are fears Israel is preparing a large-scale invasion.
Israel reported two Iranian salvos early Tuesday fired toward Tel
Aviv and an area south of the Sea of Galilee, and then more later in the
day. More launches from Lebanon were also reported.
In Israel, 12 people have been killed by Iranian missile fire. At least 13 U.S. military members have been killed.
