Thursday, March 26, 2026

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT 3/26/2026*NEWSDUMP THURSDAY*MORE US GROUND TROOPS?*ISRAEL'S MILITARY STRETCHED*ISRAELI NATIONALIST KILLS PALESTINIAN*3.2 MILLION WAR REFUGEES IN IRAN*OIL TANKER FROM RUSSIA ATTACKED NEAR TURKEY*CHINA CALLS FOR 'TRULY MEANINGFUL AND SINCERE PEACE TALKS'*FMR. ISRAELI PM CALLS ON WORLD COURT TO 'SAVE PALESTINIANS'*HIGHER FUEL COST=POSTAL RATE HIKE*

 


                        (SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING)




                           News of the Iran War but first...



                     LATE NEWS TONIGHT:



THE 'WALL STREET JOURNAL' REPORTING THAT THE US DEPARTMENT OF WAR IS CONSIDERING SENDING 10,000 MORE US GROUND TROOPS TO THE IRAN WAR.



THIS IN ADDITION TO MARINES AND 82ND AIRBORNE DIVISION SOLDIERS ALREADY ON THE MOVE...REUTERS-TIMES OF ISRAEL




       IRAN WAR DAY 27 FINAL UPDATE



SIX KILLED IN AN ATTACK ON IRAN'S HOLY CITY OF QOM.


ISRAELI ATTACKS ON IRAN LATE TONIGHT INCLUDING THE CITIES OF TEHRAN AND ISFAHAN.


HEZBOLLAH FIRED 100 ROCKETS INTO NORTHERN ISRAEL LATE TONIGHT.


KUWAIT INTERCEPTING TWO DRONES LATE TONIGHT...


               AL JAZEERA QATAR BLOG




IN WASHINGTON DEMOCRATS IN THE US SENATE BLOCKING A HOUSE PASSED BILL TO FUND THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY.


THE VOTE 53 TO 47 SHORT OF THE 60 VOTES NEEDED TO MOVE THE LEGISLATION FORWARD.


PRESIDENT TRUMP NOW EXPECTED TO DECLARE A STATE OF EMERGENCY SO TRANSPORTATION SECURITY AGENCY WORKERS AT US AIRPORTS CAN BE PAID...THE HILL USA




"The government is sending the army into a multi-front war without a strategy, without the necessary means and with far too few soldiers"


The comments of Israel's opposition leader Yair Lapid.   They are said to echo the views of Israel's Chief of Staff Lt. General Eyal Zamir.


Zamir is said to have told Israel's security cabinet:



             "the IDF is on the verge of collapse"...



Underlying the comments of both men controversial issues inside Israel like drafting Ultra-Orthodox men into military service and extending the tours of duty of reservists called to serve.

General Zamir telling the security cabinet that he would like to see the age for mandatory service in Israel's military raised...


     AFP France-Daily Sabah Turkey (Türkiye)





THE UNITED STATES MAY DIVERT MILITARY AID FOR UKRAINE IN ORDER TO FUEL THE IRAN WAR.


THE WASHINGTON POST REPORTING THIS CITING THREE SOURCES.


ONE ITEM BEING SENT TO UKRAINE NOW NEEDED IN THE MIDDLE EAST AIR DEFENSE INTERCEPTOR MISSILES...THE HILL USA 




FEDERAL AUTHORITIES SAY A MAN PLANTED A BOMB IN A SECLUDED AREA NEAR THE VISITOR CENTER OF MCDILL AIR FORCE BASE IN FLORIDA.


THE MAN'S SISTER HELPED TO COVER UP WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE TWO SUSPECTS FLEEING TO CHINA.


THE SUSPECTS IDENTIFIED AS ALEN ZHENG AND HIS ANN MARY ZHENG.


US ATTORNEY IN MIDDLE FLORIDA GREGORY W. KEHOE SAYING THERE IS CURRENTLY NO EVIDENCE ANY FOREIGN COUNTRY WAS INVOLVED.


MCDILL AIR BASE IS THE HEADQUARTERS OF US CENTRAL COMMAND CURRENTLY IN CHARGE OF THE IRAN WAR...CNN USA MEZHA UKRAINE



In Israel a Palestinian man shot dead, three others wounded by a Jewish nationalist "settler".


The attack occurred as Palestinians gathered near an illegal outpost established by the nationalists who support Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria ("The West Bank").


A suspect arrested by police with an investigation opened...Times Of Israel



IN FEDERAL COURT IN NEW YORK A JUDGE REJECTING THE REQUEST OF VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT NICOLAS MADURO AND HIS WIFE CILIA FLORES FOR DISMISSAL OF CHARGES.


LAWYERS FOR MADURO ALSO ARGUING THE VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO PAY FOR HIS LEGAL DEFENSE...NBC NEWS USA



Tonight US President Donald Trump messaging a notion of 'talks' with Iran that are 'going very well'.


Trump speaking of a new deadline for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz the date April 6th...Israel National News



THE EUROPEAN UNION STEPPING UP ITS INVESTIGATION INTO ONLINE PORNOGRAPHY NOW PROBING 'SNAPCHAT'.


EU INVESTIGATIONS ALREADY UNDERWAY INTO OTHER PLATFORMS INCLUDING 'PORNHUB'...BLOOMBERG-LUXEMBOURG TIMES




At least 24 killed in a bus accident in central Bangladesh.  The bus attempting to turn onto a ferry when it went into a river instead. 


There were about 50 passengers on the bus a search continues at the scene of the accident...NOS Netherlands (Translation Prompt)



A TANKER CARRYING OIL FROM RUSSIA CAME UNDER DRONE ATTACK IN THE BLACK SEA 24 KILOMETERS FROM THE ENTRANCE OF TURKEY'S BOSPHOROUS STRAIT.


NONE OF THE CREW WOUNDED BUT DAMAGE WAS CAUSED TO THE TANKER.


IT WAS BRINGING OIL FROM RUSSIA TO ISTANBUL...TASS RUSSIA



The markets today.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average down 469.38 points or 1.01 percent.  

The NASDAQ fell 521.74 points or 2.38 percent.

At 439 pm New York Time the price of oil 93 dollars 58 cents a barrel up three dollars 26 cents or 3.61 percent...Marketwatch



                      IRAN WAR DAY 27

                                           (UPDATED WHEN ABLE)



THREE WOUNDED IN A HEZBOLLAH ROCKET ATTACK ON NORTHERN ISRAEL.



THE UNITED NATIONS ESTIMATES 3.2 MILLION PEOPLE IN IRAN HAVE BEEN DISPLACED BY THE WAR.


IN LEBANON THE NUMBER OF DISPLACED PEOPLE ESTIMATED TO BE MORE THAN ONE MILLION PEOPLE.




TWO KILLED IN THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES BY MISSILE SHRAPNEL IRAN FIRING 15 MISSILES AND 11 DRONES AT THE UAE ALL INTERCEPTED BY DEFENSES.




THE LEADER OF THE IRANIAN-ALLIED HOUTHI MOVEMENT IN YEMEN SAYING THE HOUTHIS COULD ENTER THE WAR.



US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP DEMANDING THAT IRAN 'GET SERIOUS' OR ELSE.


ISRAEL SAYS IT KILLED THE COMMANDER OF IRAN'S NAVY.



"create conditions for starting truly meaningful and sincere peace talks"



CHINA'S FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKEMAN LIN JIAN SPEAKING ABOUT THE IRAN WAR TODAY AND CHINA'S WISHES FOR ACTIONS TO END THE WAR.



THE US-ISRAEL AIR ATTACKS WIDENING TO IRAN'S SMALLER CITIES AND CITIES IN THE EASTERN PART OF THE COUNTRY.


AN IRANIAN MISSILE ATTACK ON CENTRAL ISRAEL WITH SOME DAMAGE AND AT LEAST TWO WOUNDED.


A MEETING IN RIYADH OF THE GULF COOPERATON COUNCIL (GCC) THE ORGANIZATION OF GULF ARAB STATES.


THOSE NATIONS MOVING TOWARDS OPEN INVOLVEMENT IN THE WAR...AL JAZEERA QATAR




"If law enforcement authorities in Israel do not fulfill their duty, 

perhaps international legal authorities will do what is necessary to save the Palestinians and us from the criminal acts being committed by Jewish terrorists right in front of all our eyes"



Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert supporting International Criminal Court intervention in nationalist violence against Palestinians.


There have been increasingly violent attacks in the days before and after the Iran War began in Judea and Samaria.


Mr. Olmert comparing these attacks to those directed against Jews in Europe more than a century ago...Times Of Israel



STATES OF EMERGENCY IN THE NORTHERNMOST PARTS OF NEW ZEALAND'S NORTH ISLAND DELUGED BY HEAVY RAINS.


RAINFALL IN EXCESS OF 200 MILLIMETERS (EIGHT INCHES) HAS BEEN RECORDED...ONE NEWS NEW ZEALAND BLOG



The US Army loosening its rules for recruits.   The new maximum age to join the Army is 42 instead of 35.


Waivers will no longer be required to recruits who have a single conviction for marijuana possession or possession of drug paraphernalia...The Hill USA




THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE ANNOUNCING AN EIGHT PERCENT RATE INCREASE FOR RETAIL AND COMMERCIAL PACKAGE SERVICES.


THE INCREASE LINKED TO THE COST OF GASOLINE FOR POSTAL SERVICE VEHICLES DUE TO THE IRAN WAR...



In Kenya police finding a mass grave containing 32 bodies at a private cemetery.


Many of the bodies children and the remains of unborn children (fetuses).


Two suspects under arrest.


At least 13 of the bodies linked to a hospital.   The owner of the cemetery denying any involvement in the mysterious burials...NOS Netherlands (Translation Prompt)

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