#International Tensions

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• 🇺🇸 Pentagon Officials Weigh Deployment of Airborne Troops for Iran War — 23/03/2026 [USA]

  The combat forces would come from a brigade of about 3,000 soldiers capable of deploying anywhere in the world within 18 hours.

  Related: #Military Strategy
• 🇺🇸 Emerging from latest blackout, Cuba says ready for any potential US attack — 22/03/2026 [USA]

  Trump, who cut off oil supplies to Cuba after abducting Venezuela's Maduro, has threatened to take over the nation.

  Related: #Infrastructure
• 🇺🇸 Cuban foreign minister: Military preparing for 'possibility' of aggression amid Trump threats — 22/03/2026 [USA]

  Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío on Sunday said the country's military is preparing for the “possibility” of aggression from the Trump administration.  “Our military is always ...

  Related: #Military Preparedness
• 🇺🇸 Cuba's deputy foreign minister says it is preparing for possible U.S. 'military aggression' — 22/03/2026 [USA]

  Cuba’s deputy foreign minister said that the nation’s military is involved in ongoing preparations for “the possibility of military aggression” from the U.S.

  Related: #Military Preparedness
• 🇺🇸 Trump weighing several options for deployment of ground troops in Iran — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  WASHINGTON — President Trump is weighing whether to send possibly thousands of U.S. troops into Iran as he looks for a way to achieve some of his key goals and end the war, according to the two curren...

  Related: #Military Strategy
• 🇺🇸 Pentagon prepares deployment options for Iran - CBS — 20/03/2026 [USA] Related: #Military Strategy
• 🇺🇸 Iran threatens world tourism sites — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  Iran on Friday threatened to target recreational and tourist sites globally as the nation continues building missiles nearly three weeks after the U.S. and Israel launched joint strikes on the Middle ...

  Related: #Security Threats
• 🇺🇸 U.S. fighter jet makes emergency landing after possible Iranian attack — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  U.S. military officials say an F-35 fighter jet was on a combat mission over Iran when it was forced to make an emergency landing at an undisclosed U.S. airbase in the Middle East. The pilot is in sta...

  Related: #Military Conflict
• 🇬🇧 Iran warns UK letting US use bases is 'participation in aggression' — 20/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Iran's foreign minister urges his UK counterpart Yvette Cooper to end cooperation with the US.

  Related: #Military Diplomacy
• 🇺🇸 Iranians burn Trump, Netanyahu effigies at warship victim rally — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  Iranians in Tehran burned effigies of Israeli PM Netanyahu and US President Trump.

  Related: #Political Protest
• 🇺🇸 Iran launches deadly barrage of cluster bombs at Israel — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  Iran launches deadly barrage of cluster bombs at Israel

  Related: #Military Conflict
• 🇺🇸 Netanyahu, Huckabee laugh about ticking Iranian names off of 'punch card' — 17/03/2026 [USA]

  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on Tuesday are seen laughing in a video about scratching off the names of Iranian leaders on a "punch card," while...

  Related: #Political Humor
• 🇺🇸 IDF says it’s planning for at least 3 more weeks of Iran operation — 15/03/2026 [USA]

  Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Sunday said it’s planning to continue strikes on Iran for at least three more weeks. “We have thousands of targets ahead,” IDF spokesperson Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin told ...

  Related: #Military Operations
• 🇺🇸 Zelensky: Russia providing Iran with Shahed drones used against US bases — 15/03/2026 [USA]

  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed that Russia provided Iran Shahed drones that were later used on U.S. bases. “First of all, Russia gave drones already, these Shaheds. They are using Iran...

  Related: #Military Cooperation
• 🇺🇸 Video shows projectile near Turkish base hosting US troops — 13/03/2026 [USA]

  Video shared on social media shows a projectile streaking across the sky near the Incirlik military base in Turkiye.

  Related: #Military Security
• 🇺🇦 US Warplane Down, French Soldier Killed In Iraq As Iran War Effects Spread — 13/03/2026 [Ukraine]

  A giant US refueling plane crashed in Iraq after an apparent midair collision, while a French soldier was killed in the country’s Kurdistan region as the 2-week-old US-Israeli war on Iran continued to...

  Related: #Military Conflict
• 🇺🇸 Bunker-busting bombs loaded onto US planes at UK airbase amid Iran war — 12/03/2026 [USA]

  The use of RAF Fairford by US forces highlights the UK's increasingly active role in the US-Israeli war on Iran.

  Related: #Military Deployment
• 🇬🇧 Hungary’s Orbán claims Ukrainians ‘threatened’ his family as election campaign ramps up — 12/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Prime minister makes claim as accusations mount that he is using row with Ukraine for political gain in run-up to elections</p><p>Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, has accused Ukrainians of p...

  Related: #Election Politics
• 🇺🇸 Old intel may be to blame for U.S strike on Iran school — 11/03/2026 [USA]

  Old intel may be to blame for U.S strike on Iran school

  Related: #Military Intelligence
• 🇺🇸 U.S. likely responsible for strike on Iranian school — 11/03/2026 [USA]

  Four sources familiar say a preliminary US Military investigation finds the US is likely to blame for that deadly strike on a school in Iran that killed 170 people, mostly children. NBC News' Courtney...

  Related: #Military Strike
• 🇺🇸 Outdated intelligence likely to blame for US strike on Iranian girls school — 11/03/2026 [USA]

  Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} > Defense &National Security Defense &National Security   The Big Story Outdated intelligence likely to blame for US strike on Iranian girls...

  Related: #Military Intelligence
• 🇺🇸 Oscars Increase Security After FBI Warns California Authorities of Possible Iran Drone Threat — 11/03/2026 [USA]

  The organizers of the Academy Awards say safety preparations are routine and robust after news of an FBI alert surfaced ahead of this year’s Oscars. The Oscars rolled out the red carpet earlier on Wed...

  Related: #Security
• 🇺🇦 Ukraine war latest: Russia blames UK for Storm Shadow strike on military plant, threatens 'new level' escalation — 11/03/2026 [Ukraine]

  Key developments on March 11: Russia blames UK for Storm Shadow strike on military plant, threatens &apos;new level&apos; escalation, destruction Ukraine hits Russian depots, air defenses in occu...

  Related: #Military Escalation
• 🇺🇸 Damage caused to buildings in Tehran following US-Israeli strikes — 11/03/2026 [USA]

  Video shows the destruction caused to buildings in Iran’s capital after a reported strike near Mehrabad airport.

  Related: #Military Conflict
• 🇬🇧 Inside the Russian explosives plot that targeted the UK — 11/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Aleksandr Suranovas, charged with carrying out an act of terrorism for Russia, speaks to the BBC.

  Related: #Espionage
• 🇺🇸 U.S. launches ‘most intense’ day of airstrikes yet against Iran — 10/03/2026 [USA]

  The Pentagon said Iran is “badly losing” the war as the U.S. has struck over 5,000 Iranian targets, with Iranian ballistic missile strikes down 90 percent. NBC News’ Garrett Haake reports.

  Related: #Military Conflict
• 🇺🇸 Trump threatens to escalate attacks on Iran as US military destroys 10 mine-laying boats — 10/03/2026 [USA]

  President Trump on Tuesday threatened to escalate U.S. attacks on Iran if it has put mines in the Strait of Hormuz amid reporting that it has done so. Trump, in a post on Truth Social, made the threat...

  Related: #Military Conflict
• 🇺🇸 Defiant Iran vows to keep fighting war with U.S. "as long as it takes" — 10/03/2026 [USA]

  Markets stem losses as Trump says Iran war will end "very soon," but Tehran says it's "prepared to continue attacking" indefinitely, and it won't let oil leave the Gulf.

  Related: #Geopolitical Conflict
• 🇺🇸 Trump: 'Nowhere near' US boots on ground in Iran — 09/03/2026 [USA]

  While President Trump has left the door open to putting boots on the ground in Iran, he told the New York Post on Monday he is “nowhere near” taking that step. “We haven’t made any decision on that. W...

  Related: #Military Policy
• 🇺🇸 Turkiye says Iranian ballistic missile intercepted by NATO air defences — 09/03/2026 [USA]

  Ministry of National Defence says no casualties or damage after missile shot down over southern city of Gaziantep.

  Related: #Military Defense