While Trump acts as if he has all the time in the world, it's important to end the war before Israelis and the Gulf states run out of patience – and interceptors
While Trump acts as if he has all the time in the world, it's important to end the war before Israelis and the Gulf states run out of patience – and interceptors
06:00 AM • March 19 2026 IST
As Thursday, the war's 20th day, approached, Israel and the United States expanded their attacks on Iran's energy industry. On Wednesday, the Israel Air Force struck gas fields in southern Iran in the largest bombing of its kind since the beginning of the war. The move, which according to Israeli sources was carried out in full coordination with the Americans this time, appears to be an attempt to increase pressure on the Iranian regime with the hope of bringing it to breaking point.
Earlier this week, the IDF also said it had killed the commander of the “Imam Hussein Division” in Beirut, a week after taking out his predecessor.
In the letter, Amir Saeid Iravani said the UAE’s decision to allow its territory to be used for the strikes constituted "an internationally wrongful act that entailed state responsibility."
FBI probing counterterror chief who quit over Iran war, reports say The FBI has opened an investigation into a senior US counterterrorism official who quit in protest of the Iran war for allegedly leaking classified information,
Fire erupts after drone hits second Kuwait oil refinery A fire erupted at a second refinery owned by Kuwait's national oil company after a drone attack, the information ministry said. "One of the operational units of the Mina Abdullah ref