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On 4 March 2026 NATO air- and missile-defence assets in the eastern Mediterranean intercepted and destroyed an Iranian ballistic missile before it could cross into Turkish airspace, averting the Alliance’s first direct hit from Tehran.
On 4 March 2026, a U.S. attack submarine fired a single Mk-48 heavyweight torpedo that destroyed Iran’s frigate IRIS Dena in international waters south-west of Sri Lanka, ending an 81-year stretch without a U.S. combat torpedo sinking.
On 5 March 2026 a U.S. nuclear attack submarine sank Iran’s Moudge-class frigate IRIS Dena in international waters south of Sri Lanka, killing at least 87 crew and marking Washington’s first acknowledged submarine combat sinking since 1945.
On 22-23 Feb 2026, UK Defence Secretary John Healey publicly said he aims to send British troops to Ukraine as part of a future ‘coalition of the willing,’ while Russian media confirmed that stalled U.S.–Ukraine–Russia peace talks are expected to reconvene in Geneva within days.
On 25 Feb 2026, Narendra Modi delivered a landmark speech in Israel’s Knesset pledging post-October-7 solidarity and deeper bilateral cooperation; minutes later he received the unprecedented “Speaker of the Knesset Medal.”
At the Workers’ Party congress that closed on 26 Feb 2026, Kim Jong Un rewrote Pyongyang’s playbook by codifying South Korea as an "eternal hostile state," threatening its "complete destruction," yet offering to "get along" with Washington if the U.S. accepts North Korea’s nuclear status.
On 24 Feb 2026 in Kyiv, Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said the EU will still deliver the agreed €90 billion loan to Ukraine even after Budapest blocked the formal approval vote.
On 24 Feb 2026—exactly four years after Moscow’s invasion—more than a dozen European leaders convened in Kyiv and, amid stalled EU loans, openly revived plans to channel roughly €200 billion in immobilized Russian central-bank funds toward Ukraine’s war damages and reconstruction.
Six independent sources say Iran and China have essentially wrapped up negotiations for CM-302 supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles, a first-tier capability Tehran lacked until now, just days before Washington’s 10-day ultimatum on Iran’s nuclear work expires.
For the first time, President Trump publicly tied a 10-15-day deadline to Iranian nuclear talks while confirming he is weighing a pinpoint military strike, backing the threat with two carrier strike groups now in theater.
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