NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT 3/13/2026*NEWSDUMP FRIDAY*POWELL SUBPOENAS QUASHED*US BOMBS BAGHDAD*24 SHIPS SAILED STRAIT*'DEALS' WITH IRAN*13 US DEAD*INTENSE AIR ATTACKS IRAN*THOUSANDS OF MARINES ON WAY*8,700 ISRAELI AIR ATTACKS*PAKISTANI AIR ATTACKS AFGHANISTAN*
(SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING WITH FINAL POSTING LIKELY IN THE 9PM-11 PM WINDOW EASTERN US TIME, PERSONAL COMMITMENTS DURING DAY)
Iran War News in this summary but first...
LATE NEWS TONIGHT:
THE US HOUSE GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE CONDUCTNG A TRANSCRIBED INTERVIEW WITH A JAIL GUARD ON DUTY WHEN JEFFREY EPSTEIN DIED.
TOVA NOEL WILL BE INTERVIEWED ON MARCH 26TH....THE HILL USA
In the "West Bank" attacks by Israeli nationalist settlers on Palestinians and their supporters continuing during the Iran War.
Attacks Thursday night into Friday led to injuries from beatings. Video posted of settlers firing guns and burning down a chicken coop.
350 head of livestock said to have been stolen...Times Of Israel
Debris from an attacking Ukrainian drone igniting a fire at an oil refinery in southern Russia's Krasnodar Region...RIA Novosti Russia (Translation Prompt)...
ISRAEL REPORTED TO BE PLANNING A MAJOR GROUND INVASION OF THE SOUTHERNMOST PARTS OF LEBANON.
THE AREA SOUTH OF THE LITANI RIVER CONSIDERED A STRONGHOLD OF THE IRAN-ALIGNED HEZBOLLAH MOVEMENT USED TO ATTACK ISRAEL...BARAK RAVID AXIOS-CHANNEL 12 ISRAEL "X"
Cuba's Communist ruler Miguel Diaz-Canel confirming talks with the United States on his country's future.
US President Donald Trump has threatened a change of government in Cuba.
But a Cuban diplomat in the US says changing the country's political system is not negotiable...Politico
A FEDERAL DISTRICT JUDGE QUASHING SUBPOENAS IN A TRUMP JUSTICE DEPARTMENT CRIMINAL PROBE OF US FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD CHAIRMAN JEROME POWELL.
DISTRICT JUDGE JAMES BOASBERG SPEAKING OF 'ESSENTIALLY ZERO EVIDENCE' TO SUPPORT THE SUBPOENAS.
BOASBERG CLAIMING THE SUBPOENAS WERE POLITICAL DESIGNED TO GET MR. POWELL TO YIELD TO THE WISHES OF PRESIDENT TRUMP...ABC NEWS USA
TRUMP ADVISER RICHARD GRENELL LEAVING HIS POST AS DIRECTOR OF THE TRUMP-KENNEDY CENTER.
PRESIDENT TRUMP SPEAKING OF MR. GRENNELL DOING AN 'EXCELLENT JOB' AMID A STORM OF CONTROVERSY OVER ADDING MR, TRUMP'S NAME TO THE CENTER.
THERE WERE NUMEROUS BOYCOTTS OF THE CENTER WITH MR. TRUMP EVNETUALLY ANNOUNCING ITS CLOSURE FOR TWO YEARS OF RECONSTRUCTION WORK...THE HILL USA
IRAN WAR DAY 14 FINAL UPDATE
(SOME ADDITIONS TO THIS SECTION LIKELY BEFORE 11 PM EASTERN US TIME)
US AIRSTRIKES IN BAGHDAD TONIGHT AIMED AT IRAQI GROUPS ALIGNED WITH IRAN...OSINTdefender "X"...
LATE TONIGHT IRAN LAUNCHING A MISSILE ATTACK ON ISRAEL.
ROCKET FIRE AND DRONE INTRUSIONS INTO NORTHERN ISRAEL FROM LEBANON IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE MISSILE FIRE.
SAUDI ARABIA SAYS IT SHOT DOWN SIX ATTACKING IRANIAN DRONES.
THE 'WALL STREET JOURNAL' REPORTING FIVE US REFUELING PLANES DAMAGED IN AN IRANIAN ATTACK ON A SAUDI AIRBASE.
13 MEMBERS OF THE US MILITARY KILLED SO FAR IN THE IRAN WAR WITH 10 SERIOUSLY WOUNDED AND 200 OTHERS LESS SERIOUSLY WOUNDED...(WALL STREET JOURNAL)...Faytuks News "X"
SEVERAL NATIONS INCLUDING INDIA, ITALY AND FRANCE SAID TO BE SEEKING DEALS WITH IRAN ON MOVEMENT OF OIL THROUGH THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ.
ALONGSIDE THAT REPORT IS THE REPORTING OF 'MARINE TRAFFIC' SAYING THAT AT LEAST 24 VESSELS INCLUDING 10 'SHADOW FLEET' VESSELS TRANSITED THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ IN THE LAST SEVEN DAYS...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)...
INTENSE AIR ATTACKS UNDERWAY TONIGHT IN IRAN, US PRESIDENT TRUMP SPEAKING OF OBLITERATION OF MILITARY TARGETS ON IRAN'S KHARG ISLAND.
MR, TRUMP THREATENING TO HIT OIL INFRASTRUCTURE ON THE ISLAND.
BUT THE MILITARY SITES ON THE ISLAND ARE BELIEVED LINKED TO IRAN'S ABILITY TO LAUNCH ATTACKS IN THE STRAIT OR HORMUZ.
US MILITARY REINFORCMENTS MOVING INTO THE IRAN WAR INCLUDING THOUSANDS OF US MARINES AND B-2 STEALTH BOMBERS...JERUSALEM POST
A major drug trafficking kingpin arrested in Bolivia and turned over to the United States.
Uruguayan national Sebastian Marset taken into custody in the city of Santa Cruz in a major operation involving hundreds of police officers.
Marset with a two million dollar US bounty on him. A federal indictment says he operated a drug-trafficking operation that moved cocaine from South America to Europe...AFP France-CBS News USA
PAKISTAN SAYS TWO DRONES WERE DOWNED OVER ITS CAPITAL CITY OF ISLAMABAD.
THE DRONES APPARENTLY ORIGINATING FROM AFGHANISTAN SAID TO HAVE BEEN CARRYING EXPLOSIVES.
THIS FOLLOWS PAKISTANI AIR ATTACKS ON AFGHANISTAN REPORTED ON LATER IN THIS SUMMARY...DAWN PAKISTAN
In the Netherlands one local municipality has collected five million euros ($5.724 million) in penalties because of asylum seeker overcrowding.
A scheme to pay the local government on days when there are more than 2,000 migrants at the Ter Apel facility has paid out the maximum amount allowed under a court ordered deal...NOS Netherlands (Translation Prompt)
SWEDEN'S LIBERAL PARTY AGREEING TO BRINGING THE ANTI-MASS IMMIGRATION SWEDEN DEMOCRATS INTO THE NEXT GOVERNMENT.
THE LIBERALS CHANGING THEIR VIEW AHEAD OF THE SEPTEMBER 13TH ELECTION IN SWEDEN WITH THE PARTIES OF THE LEFT LED BY THE SOCIALISTS HOLDING A LEAD IN THE POLLS...REUTERS
(NEWS COMMENT, ANALYSIS)
PAKISTANI AIR ATTACKS ON AFGHANISTAN IN THE LAST 24 HOURS INCLUDING THE CAPITAL CITY OF KABUL.
FUEL TANKS DESTROYED AT THE KANDAHAR AIRPORT IN AFGHANISTAN.
THE CONFLICT INVOLVING THE TWO NATIONS BORDERING IRAN ON ITS EAST BEGAN JUST BEFORE THE ISRAELI AND US ATTACKS ON IRAN TWO WEEKS AGO.
PAKISTAN CITING TALIBAN TERRORISM IN ITS TERRITORY.
PAKISTAN'S MILITARY LEADER FIELD MARSHAL ASIM MUNIR COURTED BY US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP IN THE PAST YEAR INCLUDING LUNCH WITH THE PRESIDENT AS THE WHITE HOUSE LAST SUMMER.
MR. TRUMP IN RECENT MONTHS DEMANDING US ACCESS TO AFGHANISTAN'S BAGRAM AIR BASE CITING ITS PROXIMITY TO CHINA...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
The markets today.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average down 119.38 points or .26 percent.
The NASDAQ down 206.62 points or .93 percent.
In New York this evening the price of oil closing at 99 dollars 30 cents a barrel up three dollars 57 cents or 3.93 percent...Marketwatch
IRAN WAR DAY 14
(UPDATING POSSIBLE)
773 KILLED IN ISRAELI AIR ATTACKS IN LEBANON.
UN SECRETARY GENERAL ANTONIO GUTERRES APPEALING FOR 325 MILLION DOLLARS IN HUMANITARIAN AID FOR LEBANON.
CHINA DONATING 200,000 DOLLARS TO IRAN'S RED CRESCENT SOCIETY FOR HUMANITARIAN RELIEF IN IRAN.
ISRAEL SAYS IT HAS CONDUCTED 8,700 AIR ATTACKS SINCE THE WAR BEGAN. 7,600 OF THEM IN IRAN AND 1,100 IN LEBANON.
US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP REMAINS COMMITTED TO OVERTHROWING THE CURRENT IRANIAN GOVERNMENT BUT HE EXPECTS THAT TO TAKE A LONG TIME.
HE DESCRIBES IT AS A 'BIG HURDLE TO CLIMB'.
SIX CREW MEMBERS OF A US REFUELING PLANE KILLED IN A CRASH IN IRAQ LAST NIGHT.
THE MISHAP LINKED TO A MID-AIR COLLISION WITH ANOTHER REFUELING PLANE,..(TIMES OF ISRAEL)
MORE ROCKET FIRE FROM LEBANON INTO ISRAEL TODAY.
A TURKISH SHIP ALLOWED TO PASS THROUGH THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ WITH IRANIAN PERMISSION.
ISRAEL ATTACKING A DEMONSTRATION IN TEHRAN MARKING 'JERUSALEM DAY' ('QUDS DAY'). CASUALTIES REPORTED.
THIS IS A PROTEST OF ISRAEL'S OCCUPATION OF THE EASTERN PART OF JERUSALEM SITE OF THE AL AQSA MOSQUE.
ISRAEL ATTACKED A BRIDGE IN SOUTHERN LEBANON TODAY PROMISING MORE ATTACKS AS IT SEEKS TO DESTROY THE HEZBOLLAH MOVEMENT.
ISRAEL PRESSURING THE LEBANESE AUTHORITIES TO GO TO WAR AGAINST HEZBOLLAH TO ACHIEVE THAT GOAL.
MISSILE FRAGMENTS DISCOVERED OVER SOUTHEASTERN TURKEY NEAR US MILITARY FACILITIES FOLLOWING A MISSILE SIGHTING LAST NIGHT AND THE SOUNDS OF EXPLOSIONS.
THREE MISSILES SAID TO HAVE BEEN INTERCEPTED OVER THAT PART OF TURKEY.
TWO DEATHS REPORTED IN THE IRANIAN ATTACKS ON QATAR.
THE US MILITARY SAYS THAT FOUR WERE KILLED IN THE CRASH OF REFUELING PLANE IN WESTERN IRAQ LAST NIGHT. THE SEARCH FOR REMAINING CREW MEMBERS CONTINUES.
THE CRASH SAID NOT TO HAVE BEEN CAUSED BY FRIENDLY OR HOSTILE FIRE.
The US sanctions on purchases of Russian oil are loosened for the next month.
The decision comes amid skyrocketing oil prices and oil shortages linked to the Iran War.
South Korea's government imposing a price-cap system for fuel. The government setting maximum prices for oil products supplied by refineries to gasoline stations and distributors. South Korea heavily dependent on Middle East oil...Yonhap News Agency South Korea
AUSTRALIA RELEASING SIX DAYS OF REGULAR GASOLINE RESERVES AND FIVE DAYS OF DIESEL FUEL RESERVES. THOSE RESERVES PART OF AUSTRALIA'S EMERGENCY STOCKPILE...ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA
Israel's military legal system dropping charges against five soldiers accused of raping and violently abusing a Palestinian prisoner.
The military advocate general citing a lack of key evidence in the case with the alleged victim having been sent back to Gaza.
He also said the conduct of senior officials had also prejudiced the case.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu describing the accused men as 'heroic warriors'...The Guardian UK
THE NETHERLANDS INTERVENING IN THE GENOCIDE CASE AGAINST ISRAEL BEFORE THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE.
THE NETHERLANDS AND ICELAND FILING LAST MINUTE OPINIONS ON THE ICJ CASE BROUGHT BY SOUTH AFRICA OVER ISRAEL'S TREATMENT OF PALESTINIANS IN GAZA.
THE DUTCH OPINION STATES THAT FORCED DISPLACEMENT OF CIVILIANS, DELIBERATE TARGETING OF CHILDREN AND STARVATION ARE ELEMENTS OF GENOCIDE...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
A 98-year-old federal appeals court judge suing her fellow judges before the US Supreme Court.
Judge Pauline Newman of the US Appeals Court for the Federal Circuit suspended from taking on new cases over concern for her mental fitness...The Hill USA
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