Topic: Defence — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-03 04:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US President Donald Trump told CNN on Monday that his military is "knocking the crap" out of Iran and that the "big wave" is yet to come.
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[2026-03-03 03:56 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: US military also says three US fighter jets were shot down over in ‘friendly fire’ incident, all six crew members survived
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[2026-03-03 03:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Smoke emits from Afghan side as trucks are parked along roadside following cross-border clashes between Pakistan and Afghan forces, at near Torkham border crossing point, Pakistan, Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Maaz Awan)
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[2026-03-03 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A traveler checks departure times as many flights are cancelled at Beirut Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026, as many airlines canceled flights due to the conflict involving the United States, Israel and Iran. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
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[2026-03-03 01:52 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Refusal to allow use of bases in Rota and Morón follows Pedro Sánchez’s condemnation of US-Israeli action
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[2026-03-03 01:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Three United States fighter jets were “mistakenly” shot down over Kuwait, the US military has said, amid Washington’s joint offensive with the Israeli military against Iran.
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[2026-03-03 01:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Iran appeared determined to avenge the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other senior Iranian officials following the start of the US-Israeli assault on Saturday, as Tehran continued to strike back at Israel and United States military assets across the Gulf on Monday.
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[2026-03-03 01:05 UTC+10:00] [Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: View image in fullscreenTehran, Iran A ball of smoke rises after a strike in Tehran on MondayPhotograph: Mohsen Ganji/APShareView image in fullscreenTehran, Iran The strikes, which reportedly include attacks on government and military command centres, have led to significant casualties and triggered retaliatory missile launches by Iranian forces at US and allied bases in the region Photograph: BERNO/SIPA/ShutterstockShareView image in fullscreenBeirut, LebanonSmoke rises after an Israeli strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs, after an escalation in tensions between Hezbollah and IsraelPhotograph:
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[2026-03-03 01:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey and Green Party leader Zack Polanski have urged Prime Minister Keir Starmer to put the UK's decision to allow the US to use its military bases to a vote in Parliament.
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[2026-03-03 00:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth told a press conference at the Pentagon on Monday that the aim of the military campaign against Iran is to destroy missiles and other security infrastructure.
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[2026-03-03 00:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Only one in four Americans approves of the US military campaign against Iran, a Reuters/Ipsos poll published on Monday has indicated.
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[2026-03-03 00:47 UTC+10:00] [war] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The president said if military strikes in the Middle East continue, the supply of weapons to fend off Moscow’s long attack could be affected
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[2026-03-03 00:45 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Auto news: Public electric car charging cables cut and stolen at shopping centre
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[2026-03-03 00:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A child plays next to an open air exhibition of destroyed Russian military equipment in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
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[2026-03-02 23:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Three American fighter jets were mistakenly downed by friendly Kuwaiti fire Monday during an Iranian air assault, the U.S. military said.
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[2026-03-02 23:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: The intensifying military action in the Middle East will have serious consequences for Africa, the West African economic community ECOWAS has said in a statement.
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[2026-03-02 23:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The Lebanese government has outlawed all security and military activities of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has announced.
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[2026-03-02 22:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: President Donald Trump told the UK’s Daily Telegraph he was "very disappointed" with Prime Minister Keir Starmer's initial refusal to let Washington use British military bases in its war against Iran.
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[2026-03-02 22:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Lebanese government has imposed an "immediate ban" on Hezbollah's military and security activities and called on the group to hand over its weapons to the state, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam announced on Monday.
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[2026-03-02 22:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Lebanon’s Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has issued a statement saying Hezbollah’s military and security activities are banned, hours after Israel responded to the Iran-linked group’s rocket and drone attacks by launching air strikes on southern Beirut.
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[2026-03-02 22:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: French Marine officers wait atop “Le Vigilant” nuclear submarine at L’Ile Longue military base, near Brest, Brittany, July 13, 2007. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, Pool, File)
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[2026-03-02 21:54 UTC+10:00] [Military] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-03-02 21:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: In Guinea-Bissau, the country’s two principal opposition parties have made a public appeal for dialogue with the military junta that seized power in a coup in late November 2025, seeking a way out of the ongoing political crisis.
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[2026-03-02 21:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel's military said on Monday there was no reason to launch a ground invasion of Lebanon "imminently" following exchanges of fire between Israel and Hezbollah overnight.
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[2026-03-02 21:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel's military claimed on Monday it "precisely struck" a senior Hezbollah operative in Beirut, with the defence minister saying the Lebanese group's chief Naim Qassem is "a marked target".
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[2026-03-02 20:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Oil prices have risen sharply, and stocks have slid as United States and Israeli attacks on Iran and retaliatory strikes against Israeli and US military installations in the Middle East have disrupted the global energy supply chain.
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[2026-03-02 20:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Local Spain
Snippet: Spanish Foreign Affairs Minister José Manuel Albares said Monday that the military operation launched by the United States and Israel against Iran “is not about democracy”, stressing that American military bases on Spanish soil are not being used.
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[2026-03-02 20:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Congregants at the Ahlul Bait Foundation of South Africa - an association of Shia Muslim communities - gathered in Cape Town to pay their respects to Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed by US-Israeli military operations in Iran.
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[2026-03-02 19:48 UTC+10:00] [World / Middle East] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
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[2026-03-02 19:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Monday they had launched missile strikes on an Israeli government complex in Tel Aviv as well as security and military centres in Haifa and an attack on east Jerusalem.
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[2026-03-02 19:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Saudi Arabia on Monday denied reports that claimed the country was lobbying US President Donald Trump to strike Iran, saying that the nation has been "consistent in supporting diplomatic efforts to reach a credible deal with Iran".
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[2026-03-02 19:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force base of Akrotiri in Cyprus has witnessed a suspected Iranian drone attack overnight, the island’s president and the British Ministry of Defence said, after Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the UK would allow the United States to use its bases to attack Iran.
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[2026-03-02 19:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Several military jets crashed in Kuwait on Monday, with all pilots ejecting safely, the country’s defence ministry said. At least one of the aircraft was believed to be an American-made F-15, according to preliminary reports.
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[2026-03-02 19:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Saudi Arabia on Monday denied reports that claimed the country was lobbying US President Donald Trump to strike Iran, saying that the kingdom has been supporting efforts to reach a deal with Tehran.
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[2026-03-02 19:01 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: South Korea is heightening its emergency response posture as tensions escalate in the Middle East, with the government convening a series of high-level meetings to assess the impact on Korean nationals and national security.
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[2026-03-02 16:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A military jet believed to be an F-15 crashed in Kuwait, with the pilots ejecting safely, according to preliminary reports.
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[2026-03-02 16:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: More from Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran’s National Security Council.
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[2026-03-02 16:13 UTC+10:00] [Cyprus] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Apparent attack on RAF Akrotiri took place hours after the UK agreed to let the US use British military bases to attack Iran’s missile sites
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[2026-03-02 16:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Israel’s military released footage of what it said was a strike on the headquarters of the Iranian leadership in Tehran on Sunday. The footage was released after a large explosion had rocked Iran’s capital as the Israeli military said it was targeting the “heart” of the city.
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[2026-03-02 15:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: China adds Japanese entities to export control list, turning up heat on TokyoBeijing has also added 20 Japanese firms and institutions to a watch list for the export of goods with potential military applications.
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[2026-03-02 15:44 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) -- Israeli forces launched strikes on Lebanon including the capital Beirut on Monday, the military said, after Tehran-backed militant group Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel in retaliation for the killing of Iran's supreme leader.
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[2026-03-02 15:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: BEIRUT, Lebanon — Israeli forces launched strikes on Lebanon including the capital Beirut on Monday, the military said, after Tehran-backed militant group Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel in retaliation for the killing of Iran's supreme leader.
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[2026-03-02 14:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Britain’s Ministry of Defence said a suspected drone struck its military base at Akrotiri in Cyprus around midnight, causing no casualties, adding that the incident is under investigation.
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[2026-03-02 13:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel’s military said it was striking Hezbollah targets across Lebanon after the group fired a rocket barrage toward northern Israel.
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[2026-03-02 12:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Satellite imagery is giving the world some insight into the scale of destruction inside Iran and across the region after a weekend of heavy military bombardments by the US, Israel and Iran.
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[2026-03-02 12:51 UTC+10:00] [Iran] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Israel and the US have launched a barrage of missile strikes on Iran, supported by a vast American armada that has been building up in the region. The strikes have killed Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who had ruled since 1989, and as Iran retaliated the situation unravelled quickly with Tehran firing on Israel and several other gulf states that have US military bases.
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[2026-03-02 12:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: A poll conducted in the hours after the United States and Israel launched a major military operation against Iran, sparking regional retaliation, shows dismal approval for the strikes from the US public.
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[2026-03-02 12:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON, D.C. — Israeli and American authorities spent weeks tracking the movements of senior Iranian leaders, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, sharing information that allowed the strikes to be carried out in a surprise daylight attack, according to an Israeli military official and a person familiar with the operation.
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[2026-03-02 12:12 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: A group of gamblers who won up to $3 million after betting on the deadly strikes on Iran have raised questions about whether they had access to knowledge about the attack before it happened.Several bets were placed on American crypto-based trading platform Polymarket on Saturday predicting the US and Israel would carry out military action on Iran later that day.Many of these accounts were created as recently as last month, with some of their bets reaching $US150,000 ($211,955).LIVE UPDATES: Trump
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[2026-03-02 12:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel’s military on Sunday said it was attacking multiple locations across Lebanon, after Hezbollah said it had struck Israel with rockets and drones.
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