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March 5, 2026, 3:04 a.m. ET23 minutes ago

Yan Zhuang and Leily Nikounazar

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Iran on Thursday denied Turkey’s claim that it had fired a missile toward Turkish airspace, as countries in the region and beyond grappled with a widening conflict that began with U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran six days earlier.

 

On Wednesday, Turkey said that NATO shot down a missile that was heading toward Turkish airspace.

 

An attack on Turkey, a NATO member that shares a 300-mile border with Iran, could mark a major escalation and could activate the alliance’s mutual defense clause, potentially drawing its 32 member states into the war. So far the United Kingdom, France and Greece have said they are deploying military assets to the region only to defend their citizens and interests.

 

Separately, a torpedo launched from a U.S. Navy submarine sank an Iranian frigate in the Indian Ocean near Sri Lanka on Wednesday, marking the first time a U.S. submarine had fired a torpedo at an enemy ship in combat since World War II, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said. Sri Lankan officials said on Thursday that their navy had rescued more than 30 people, recovered more than 80 bodies and was still searching for dozens of people.

 

Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s foreign minister, on Thursday accused the United States of an “atrocity at sea,” saying on social media that the Iranian frigate had been struck in international waters without warning. “Mark my words: The U.S. will come to bitterly regret precedent it has set,” he said.

 

In Washington, the House was expected on Thursday to vote down a motion to rein in President Trump’s war powers, a day after the Senate rejected a similar measure in a vote split almost entirely along party lines.

 

Mr. Hegseth told reporters on Wednesday that American and Israeli warplanes would soon gain total control of Iranian airspace, allowing them to pick off targets and deliver “death and destruction all day long.”

 

Overnight, the Israeli military announced a another wave of strikes on Tehran and on Hezbollah in Lebanon. Officials in Qatar said residents who lived near the U.S. Embassy in Doha were being evacuated as a precautionary measure, and Saudi Arabia’s Defense Ministry said its forces intercepted and destroyed several drones over the country.

 

Here’s what else we’re covering:

 

Supreme leader: Iran’s top clerics are considering their choice to replace the country’s slain supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in an airstrike on Saturday. Mojtaba Khamenei, a son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, appears to be a front-runner to succeed his father. Read more ›

 

Market rally: Stocks across most of Asia rallied on Thursday, a day after tumbling over fears around the region’s heavy reliance on imported oil and gas. The turnaround illustrates the hair-trigger reactions of investors around the world who are trying to assess the immediate and possible long-term effects of the strikes on Iran and the repercussions around the Persian Gulf, where much of the world’s oil and gas is produced. Read more ›

 

China’s oil exports: Officials from China’s top economic policy agency told Chinese companies on Thursday to suspend exports of refined oil, according to Guo Shiying, a senior executive at a state-owned investment firm. China, the largest buyer of Iranian oil, will send a special envoy to the Middle East to help conduct conflict mediation efforts, its foreign ministry earlier said.

 

Americans killed: Six U.S. service members have been killed in the conflict. The Defense Department on Wednesday night released the name of a fifth American killed in an Iranian attack on Sunday, and released the name of another soldier believed to have died in the same incident. The department on Tuesday had released the names of the other four killed. Read more ›

 

Evacuations: The White House press secretary said that 17,500 Americans had returned safely since the start of the war, and the U.S. State Department ordered more employees to leave their posts at embassies and consulates in four countries, after facing criticism for not doing enough to facilitate evacuations.

 

Death toll: The Red Crescent Society, Iran’s main humanitarian relief organization, said the death toll had risen to 787 since the start of the U.S.-Israeli attacks. The bombing of a girls’ elementary school in Iran killed at least 175 people. Dozens of people in Lebanon also have been killed, according to the Lebanese health ministry, in Israel’s retaliatory strikes against Hezbollah.