IRAN - Iran’s terrorist Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) claimed on Wednesday that they had targeted 85 allegedly “American military facilities,” in reality launching sweeping bombing campaigns against neighbors Kuwait and Bahrain. The IRGC’s aggression follows Iran bombing various vessels attempting to navigate the Strait of Hormuz, reportedly ships linked to Qatar and Saudi Arabia. The Iranian regime’s attacks prompted US Central Command (CENTCOM) to resume targeted strikes on Iran’s terrorist infrastructure to protect free navigation in the strait, which the IRGC used as its reasoning for bombing Kuwait and Bahrain.

USA - The US-brokered interim ceasefire with Iran is now over. President Donald Trump made the declaration Wednesday, telling reporters at the NATO defence summit in Ankara, Turkey: “These are evil, sick people,” before describing Tehran’s negotiators as scum and a cancer that needs to be excised. A clearly angry Trump further added he didn’t “want to deal with them any more” after launching overnight strikes on the totalitarian Islamic republic after it attacked commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, as Breitbart News reported. Trump said he would speak to businessman-turned-negotiator Steve Witkoff and his son-in-law Jared Kushner, who have been dealing with the Iranians, but insisted it was up to Tehran to return to the table.

USA - President Trump confirmed Wednesday that he’s taking the old Air Force One back to the US from Turkey but deflected questions about security concerns regarding the new Qatari-donated model. Trump said the new $400 million Air Force One would be sent home through Europe so soldiers could see it, but he acknowledged he is Iran’s “Number 1 target” when asked about the switch-up. “I’m Number 1 on the kill list for Iran,” Trump told the crowd at his press conference in Ankara before leaving the NATO summit.

USA - Trump hauntingly predicts his violent DEATH: 'That's the way it goes'. Donald Trump mused about his mortality on Wednesday, telling world leaders that Iran could assassinate him in a revenge plot. The President declared at the NATO summit in Turkey: 'They [Iran] want to take out the US leader - me. I'm on every list. I'm on every single one of their lists, and so far I guess I've been a little bit lucky, but that maybe doesn't last very long, because that's the way it goes,' Trump continued. His warning came as hardline lawmakers in Tehran openly called for missiles to be fired at his location at the summit. Earlier this week, mourners at Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's funeral placed a death bounty on Trump.

USA - Donald Trump derailed what was supposed to be a show of unity during the NATO summit in Turkey as he raged at allies, renewed demands to take over Greenland and declared the Iran ceasefire 'over'. This week's NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, was meant to be a show of strength and unity, but Donald Trump derailed the two-day event with rage-filled remarks and simultaneously reignited conflict in the Middle East. The US president didn't hold back as he reiterated his frustration at NATO on Wednesday, complaining that member countries "have not treated us right," calling out France, Germany, Italy and the UK specifically, before describing Spain as a "bad partner".

USA - Trump continued his demands to take over Greenland on Wednesday, claiming the US needs to gain ownership of it for security reasons. His renewed insistence on claiming the semiautonomous territory of Denmark has upended the NATO summit in Ankara, which was meant to be a show of strength and unity. “Greenland is very important to the United States, but it’s not important to Denmark,” Trump argued, as he met with Rutte on the second day of the summit. He continued, “We need it for protection of the world, not just the United States.”

FRANCE - The judges ruling on Marine Le Pen’s fight to overturn her ban from running for president have not decided the future of France – but the hard-Left will. The court has cut the time for which Ms Le Pen is ineligible for public office, freeing her to run in April. However, she will have to wear an electronic tag – having previously insisted that she would not run if she were forced to wear one. Hours later, she said she would appeal the decision and declared she would run for president. “Tonight, I am a candidate ‌in the presidential ‌election,” she said in a ⁠prime-time interview on TF1 TV. Confronted with a “battle of the extremes”, polls suggest French voters will choose Ms Le Pen’s party, no matter who its candidate is.

ISRAEL - The 1994 peace treaty signed by Amman and Jerusalem required Israel to supply Jordan with 50 million cubic meters of water annually, an amount doubled in a 2021 commitment that expired in 2025. Jerusalem’s refusal to extend a water agreement with Amman until it changes its rhetoric on Israel will likely be interpreted as a “stab in the back” after the support Jordan gave Israel during the Iran war, Dr Ronen Yitzhak, an expert in Israeli-Jordanian relations from the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday. Israel reportedly conditioned the supply of the additional volume on Jordan moderating its rhetoric toward Israel – which grew increasingly hostile over the course of the Israel-Hamas War – and restoring full diplomatic ties.

HAITI - Haiti is experiencing an unprecedented crisis, at least since the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse in July 2021. Since then, armed gangs have steadily expanded their control, paralyzing institutions, infrastructure, and essential services. According to the United Nations Secretary-General's Special Representative for Haiti, Carlos Ruiz Massieu, about 1.5 million people have been forced to flee their homes because of gang violence. In addition, at least 1,600 people have been killed over the past three months. Haiti has been facing an unprecedented crisis since at least the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse in July 2021. Since then, armed gangs have steadily expanded their control, bringing institutions, infrastructure, and essential services to a standstill.

DUBAI - The US military attacked Iran early Wednesday after it said Tehran struck three ships in the Strait of Hormuz, part of an American effort that also revoked the Islamic Republic’s ability to openly sell crude oil in the world market. Iran immediately warned Washington it would “take whatever measures it deems necessary,” raising the risks that an interim agreement in the war halting fighting could break down, putting the wider Middle East again at risk of a wider conflict. Bahrain, home to the US Navy’s 5th Fleet, sounded its missile alert sirens Wednesday morning after the American attack on Iran. The attacks on shipping and the resulting strikes on Iran came during the days-long funeral for Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed February 28 in the war’s first moments at age 86. The funeral, which ends Thursday, had been thought to be a period of lower tensions — though mourners have repeatedly called for the killings of US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.