Here are the latest developments in the Middle East war:
Iran military spokesperson says US is negotiating with itself, state media
The United States is negotiating with itself, an Iranian military spokesman said according to state media on Wednesday, a day after US President Donald Trump said Tehran wants to make a deal to end the war in the Middle East.
A 15-point plan aimed at putting an end to the conflict was drafted by Washington and sent to Tehran, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday.
"Has the level of your inner struggle reached the stage of you negotiating with yourself?" Ebrahim Zolfaqari, spokesperon for the unified command of Iran's armed forces, Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, taunted the US leadership.
"People like us can never get along with people like you."
Zolfaqari said US investments and pre-war energy prices would not return as long as Washington does not accept that regional stability is guaranteed by Iranian armed forces.
Reuters
Iranian representatives have told the Trump administration they have a high bar for returning to negotiations on a ceasefire deal, with the IRGC pressing demands including the closure of all US bases in the Persian Gulf and reparations for attacks on Iran, the Wall Street Journal…
— Iran International English (@IranIntl_En) March 25, 2026
IRGC targets US bases
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they had fired missiles and drones at military bases hosting US forces in Kuwait, Jordan and Bahrain, as well as targets in Israel, according to a statement carried by Iranian state broadcaster IRIB.
AFP
Oil prices drop
Brent crude oil, the global market benchmark, was down 6.3 percent at $97.90 per barrel at around 0200 GMT.
Benchmark US oil contract, West Texas Intermediate, was down 5.2 percent at $87.52.
AFP
Fire at Kuwait airport
Drones hit a fuel tank and sparked a fire at Kuwait International Airport, the Gulf state's civil aviation authority said on Wednesday, as Iran presses on with its attacks in the nearly four-week regional war.
Citing preliminary information, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation said in a statement posted online that the attack had caused only "limited" damage and no casualties.
Firefighters were working to bring the blaze under control, said agency spokesman Abdullah Al-Rajhi.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said in a statement carried by state broadcaster IRIB that they had launched missiles and drones at military bases hosting US forces in Kuwait, Jordan and Bahrain as well as targets in Israel.
AFP
The Pentagon has ordered Maj. Gen. Brandon R. Tegtmeier and about 2,000 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division’s Immediate Response Force to deploy to the Middle East to give President Trump additional military options near Iran, including a possible seizure of Kharg Island,…
— Iran International English (@IranIntl_En) March 25, 2026
Deadly strikes on Lebanon
Lebanese state media reported that Israeli strikes killed at least six people in a town and a Palestinian refugee camp in the southern Sidon area, and three more in another town.
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military, which earlier warned of an imminent attack on Beirut's southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold that has been targeted multiple times during the war.
AFP
Strait of Hormuz transit
Iran has said "non-hostile vessels" can transit the Strait of Hormuz, according to a statement released to the International Maritime Organization.
AFP
Missiles target Israel
Israel's military said air defences responded to missiles launched from Iran, with blasts heard late Tuesday in Jerusalem and over the city of Jericho in the occupied West Bank.
AFP
Iraq summons US, Iran diplomats after deadly strikes
Iraq said it would summon the US charge d'affaires and the Iranian ambassador after deadly strikes blamed on their countries, as Baghdad granted targeted former paramilitary groups the "right to respond".
AFP
Iran says strike hit Bushehr nuclear plant
The UN nuclear watchdog said Iran had informed it that "another projectile hit the premises" of the Bushehr nuclear power plant on Tuesday, without damaging it.
AFP
Trump says Iran gave US 'gift'
US President Donald Trump said he was upbeat about a negotiated deal with Iran after its surviving leadership gave him a "very big present" related to the Strait of Hormuz, "worth a tremendous amount of money".
He earlier said negotiations to end the Middle East war were under way "right now," adding that Tehran wants to make a deal "so badly".
AFP
US to deploy 82nd Airborne: media
The United States is planning to send some 3,000 soldiers from its elite 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East to support operations against Iran, US media reported.
AFP
Hezbollah backs Iran diplomat
Hezbollah called Lebanon's decision to expel the newly appointed Iranian ambassador a "national and strategic sin", and demanded authorities "immediately reverse" the move.
AFP
China, France encourage talks
China's top diplomat Wang Yi told his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi in a phone call that "talking is always better than to keep fighting," after Tehran denied Trump's claim that negotiations had taken place.
Separately, French President Emmanuel Macron called on Iran to "engage in good faith" in talks to end the war, after a call with his Iranian counterpart, Masoud Pezeshkian.
AFP
Islamabad talks offer
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said Islamabad is prepared to host negotiations to stop the US-Israeli war with Iran, after mounting speculation it could act as a mediator.
AFP
Iran arrests
Iranian authorities said that 466 people have been arrested, accused of seeking to destabilise the country through their online activity.
AFP
Iran security chief
Iran named a former Revolutionary Guards commander, Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, as head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, succeeding Ali Larijani, who was killed last week in an Israeli strike.
AFP
