Center East conflict stay: Lethal strike on Ramada resort in central Beirut

[ad_1] 08/03/2026 - 03:33 Trump rejects settling Iran conflict, raises prospect of killing all its potential leaders US President Donald Trump stated he isn't concerned with negotiating with Iran and raised the chance that the Iran conflict would solely finish as soon as Tehran not has a functioning army or any remaining management in energy.

Talking to reporters aboard Air Pressure One on Saturday, Trump stated the air marketing campaign may make negotiations a moot level if all potential leaders of Iran are killed and the Iranian army is destroyed.

"In some unspecified time in the future, I do not assume there can be anyone left possibly to say 'We give up,'" Trump stated.

08/03/2026 - 03:27 New strikes gentle up the night time sky in Tehran

The Iran conflict exploded additional late Saturday as pillars of flame rose above an oil storage facility in Tehran, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised “many surprises” for the subsequent part of the week-old battle.

Israel's army confirmed that it hit the gas storage services in Tehran. Movies confirmed the horizon glowing in opposition to the night time sky above Tehran.

It gave the impression to be the primary time a civil industrial facility has been focused within the conflict. State media blamed “an assault from the US and the Zionist regime” on the facility that provides the capital and neighbouring provinces within the north.

08/03/2026 - 03:10 President Trump doesn’t need Kurdish fighters to enter Iran conflict He advised reporters aboard Air Pressure One which he’s dominated out having Kurds be part of Iran conflict.

Trump says Kurdish fighters in area are keen to help in efforts to topple the Iranian authorities, however there involvement would make the battle extra difficult.

“The conflict is difficult sufficient with out having-- getting the Kurds concerned,” Trump stated.

08/03/2026 - 03:09 Trump: ‘We’re not trying to settle’ with Iran The president stated Saturday that the US retains important leverage over Iran and isn’t trying to negotiate with its remaining management.

“We’re not trying to settle,” Trump advised reporters on Air Pressure One. “They’d prefer to settle. We’re not trying to settle.”

Steve Witkoff, one among his high envoys in talks with Iran, stated the Tehran management didn't appear “very amenable” throughout negotiations earlier than the U.S. launched strikes.

“They advised me and Jared, we’re not going to offer you diplomatically what you couldn’t take militarily,” stated Witkoff, referring to fellow negotiator and presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner. “So you understand, I feel they’re going to want a change of angle.”

Through the gaggle with reporters, Trump repeatedly described the continuing US operations in Iran as an “tour” and stated points comparable to rising fuel costs and the security of Individuals could be improved as soon as the battle ends.

08/03/2026 - 03:08 Israeli drone strike hits resort in central Beirut An Israeli drone struck a room early Sunday in a resort in Beirut’s Raouche district, a serious seaside vacationer space within the Lebanese capital with no notable Hezbollah presence, native media reported.

The strike hit the Ramada Lodge, fashionable with vacationers and enterprise vacationers, and was heard by residents close by.

The Lebanese well being ministry stated the strike killed 4 individuals and wounded 10. Israel didn't instantly say who it focused.

That is the second strike focusing on a resort because the battle between Israel and Hezbollah reignited earlier this week, after the Iran-backed group launched rockets and drones towards northern Israel, prompting Israeli retaliatory strikes throughout Lebanon which have killed a whole lot.

In a separate incident on Wednesday, an Israeli strike hit the Consolation Lodge within the Hazmieh space of Beirut, a predominantly Christian suburb east of central Beirut.

08/03/2026 - 03:06 Iran unleashes barrage of missiles and drones Qatar's defence ministry stated Iran had fired a dozen missiles on the nation on Saturday as Tehran continued its strikes throughout the Gulf.

Six ballistic missiles have been intercepted, it stated, whereas two fell within the nation's territorial waters and two landed in an "uninhabited space." It additionally stated it intercepted two cruise missiles.

Saudi Arabia stated it had intercepted a drone assault focusing on the diplomatic quarter in Riyadh, reporting no casualties or injury, whereas Kuwait stated gas tanks on the nation's worldwide airport have been focused by Iranian drones.

08/03/2026 - 03:05 Netanyahu vows to proceed conflict with Iran with 'all our drive' Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated Israel would proceed its conflict with Iran "with all our drive" as a part of "a scientific plan to eradicate the Iranian regime."

The "second of fact" was coming for the Iranian individuals, he stated, and Israel needed to assist liberate them from the "yoke of tyranny".

He added that US and Israeli air strikes had secured "virtually full management of the airspace" over Tehran.

Israel's army stated earlier it had carried out round 3,400 strikes on Iran because the begin of the conflict per week in the past.

08/03/2026 - 03:05 Tehran oil depots hit US and Israeli strikes hit an oil depot in Tehran, Iranian state media stated, the primary reported assault on Iran's oil infrastructure.

The depot was near a key oil refinery however the ILNA information company stated the refinery's services weren't broken.

Strikes additionally hit a depot in northwestern Tehran, in accordance with an AFP journalist who noticed flames and smoke rising from the location.

Individually, Israel stated it hit 16 army plane belonging to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in in a single day strikes on Mehrabad airport, in Tehran.

08/03/2026 - 03:03 Human Rights Watch says strike on Iranian faculty have to be investigated as conflict crime Human Rights Watch launched an announcement Saturday saying that the strike on an Iranian faculty that killed dozens of kids in Minab in southern Iran on 28 February have to be investigated as a conflict crime.

The Iranian authorities has blamed the US-Israeli coalition for the assault however neither nation has claimed accountability.

“A immediate and thorough investigation is required into this assault, together with if these accountable ought to have recognized {that a} faculty was there and that it will be full of kids and their academics earlier than noon,” stated Sophia Jones, a researcher for HRW. “These liable for an illegal assault ought to be held to account, together with prosecutions of anybody liable for conflict crimes.”

On Saturday, Trump accused Iran of being behind the lethal faculty explosion regardless of proof suggesting it was most definitely a US airstrike.

08/03/2026 - 02:55 Kuwait airport, Saudi Arabia focused as Iran presses Gulf assaults Gulf nations reported on Sunday missiles and drone assaults, whereas Iran vowed to press on with strikes in opposition to neighbouring nations because the regional conflict entered its second week.

Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait all reported new assaults, after loud explosions have been heard in Dubai and Bahrain's Manama a day earlier.

Kuwait's nationwide oil firm introduced a "precautionary" lower to its crude manufacturing, because the nation's army stated Sunday it had responded "to a wave of hostile drones that penetrated the nation's airspace".

Gasoline tanks at Kuwait's worldwide airport have been focused in a drone assault, the army added.

It known as the drone assault "a direct focusing on of significant infrastructure".

08/03/2026 - 02:53 Lebanon says Israeli strike on Beirut resort kills 4 Lebanon's well being ministry stated Sunday that an Israeli strike on a resort in central Beirut killed at the least 4 individuals and wounded 10 others.

An AFP photographer on the bombarded seafront resort noticed one room with shattered home windows, whereas safety forces cordoned off the realm.

The Israeli army earlier introduced it had "begun an extra wave of strikes in Beirut", however stated it was focusing on the Lebanese capital's southern suburbs, a stronghold of Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah.