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On 6 Mar 2026 U.S. intelligence revealed that since the war’s start on 28 Feb, Russia has been feeding Iran satellite and other data to hit U.S. ships, aircraft and bases, marking the Kremlin’s first concrete operational involvement in the conflict.
Between 3–5 March 2026 Washington and Jerusalem quietly funneled weapons to Kurdish militias on the Iran-Iraq border while President Trump personally solicited Barzani, Talabani and other Kurdish leaders for a coordinated ground attack against Iranian forces expected within days, signalling a shift from air strikes to proxy insurgency.
On 5 March 2026, the U.S. Navy acknowledged that one of its submarines sank Iran’s frigate IRIS Dena 40 km south of Galle, Sri Lanka, killing 87 sailors and marking Washington’s first wartime torpedo sinking of an enemy ship since World War II.
Within 48 hours of Hezbollah’s first rocket salvos following the 2 March assassination of Iran’s supreme leader, Israel shifted from airstrikes to a declared ground advance across the border, ordering 53 Lebanese villages emptied and seizing new positions north of the Blue Line.
On 3–4 March 2026, the US- and UK-sanctioned LNG carrier Arctic Metagaz was hit by naval drones near Malta–Libya waters, exploded, and sank—marking the first total loss of an LNG tanker, with all 30 Russian crew rescued.
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.”
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