President Donald Trump said on Tuesday (March 3) that the U.S. military had been successful against many Iranian naval and air targets, saying "Just about everything has been knocked out." He made his comments in the Oval Office ahead of a meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. Trump, answering questions from reporters, said he ordered the attack against Iran because, "if we didn't do it, they were going to attack first, I felt strongly about that," as negotiations over Iran's nuclear programme stalled.

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WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES (MARCH 3, 2026) (UNRESTRICTED POOL - Access all)

1. GERMAN CHANCELLOR FRIEDRICH MERZ AND U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP SITTING IN OVAL OFFICE

2. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. PRESIDENT, DONALD TRUMP, SAYING:

"We’ll obviously be talking a little bit about Iran today, and he's been helping us out. We've been very nice, actually. And that is coming along, as you see very well. They have no Navy - that's been knocked out. They have no Air Force - that's been knocked out. They have no air detection that's been knocked out. Their radar has been knocked out, and just about everything's been knocked out. So we'll see how we do. But we're doing very well. We have a great military."

The U.S. military on Tuesday (March 3) identified four American soldiers killed in the early days of the war with Iran.

The U.S. Army Reserve troops, assigned to the 103rd Sustainment Command in Des Moines, Iowa, were Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35, of Winter Haven, Florida; Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42, of Bellevue, Nebraska; Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39, of White Bear Lake, Minnesota; and Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20, of West Des Moines, Iowa.

The soldiers were killed on March 1, 2026, at the Port of Shuaiba, Kuwait, during a drone attack.

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3. STILL IMAGE OF U.S. ARMY RESERVE SGT. 1ST CLASS NICOLE AMOR, 39, OF WHITE BEAR LAKE, MINNESOTA POSING IN A PHOTOGRAPH IN HER UNIFORM

4. STILL IMAGE OF U.S. ARMY RESERVE SGT. DECLAN COADY, 20, OF DES MOINES, IOWA POSING IN A PHOTOGRAPH IN HIS UNIFORM

5. STILL IMAGE OF U.S. ARMY RESERVE CAPTAIN CODY A. KHORK, 35, OF WINTER HAVEN, FLORIDA POSING IN A PHOTOGRAPH IN HIS UNIFORM

6. STILL IMAGE OF U.S. ARMY RESERVE SGT. 1ST CLASS NOAH TIETJENS, 42, OF BELLEVUE, NEBRASKA POSING IN A PHOTOGRAPH IN HIS UNIFORM

On Tuesday (March 3), the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) released a video of reported strikes on mobile launchers in Iran.

Reuters was not able to independently verify the location and the date when the video was filmed. No older version of the video was found posted online before Tuesday (March 3).

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7. VARIOUS OF REPORTED STRIKES ON LAUNCHERS IN IRAN

The building housing Iran's Assembly of Experts, tasked with choosing a leader to replace Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was flattened by an air attack in the city of Qom, south of Tehran, Iranian news agencies said on Tuesday (March 3).

Eyewitness footage showed the destroyed building and debris on the ground.

Reuters confirmed the location as Qom, Iran, from the road layout, buildings and trees, which matched satellite imagery of the area. The destroyed building was confirmed as the Secretariat of the Assembly of Experts. The exact date could not be verified. However, Iran’s state agencies reported the building was destroyed in a strike and no older version of the video was found posted online before Tuesday.

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QOM, IRAN (RELEASED MARCH 3, 2026) (ORIGINALLY SHOT IN PORTRAIT) (SOCIAL MEDIA - No resales / No archive / News use only)

8. VARIOUS OF DESTROYED BUILDING OF THE SECRETARIAT OF THE ASSEMBLY OF EXPERTS / VOICE SAYING (Farsi) "This is the building of the Assembly of Experts, in Resalat street"

Eyewitness footage showed a large plume of smoke rising over the U.S. consulate in Dubai on Tuesday (March 3).

Reuters verified the location from the building and trees, which match the file and satellite imagery of the area. The building seen in the video has been confirmed as the U.S. Consulate in Dubai.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters that a parking lot was hit. Date and location were also verified by original file metadata.

Authorities said they had put down a limited fire in the vicinity of the consulate due to a drone strike and no injuries were reported, Dubai's media office said on Tuesday.

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (MARCH 3, 2026) (ORIGINALLY SHOT IN PORTRAIT) (VIDEO OBTAINED BY REUTERS - No resale / No archive) (NIGHT SHOTS)

9. SMOKE RISING FROM U.S. CONSULATE IN BACKGROUND AS PEOPLE LOOK ON, TAKE PHOTOGRAPHS

Light traffic was seen on the roads of Tehran on Wednesday (March 4) morning, ahead of a ceremony for late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Iranians are to bid farewell to Khamenei in a ceremony on Wednesday at 10 p.m. (1830 GMT) at Tehran's Imam Khomeini prayer ground, state media reported.

The ceremony will last for three days and the funeral procession will be announced when it is finalized, it said.

TEHRAN, IRAN (MARCH 4, 2026) (WANA - No use BBC Persian / No use VOA Persian / No use Manoto / No use Iran International / No use Radio Farda)

10. DRIVING SHOT OF CARS ON ROAD

11. POSTER SHOWING IRAN'S FORMER SUPREME LEADER AYATOLLAH ALI KHAMENEI READING (Farsi): “His God is alive”

12. TRAFFIC ON ROAD

13. CARS DRIVING PAST POSTER SHOWING KHAMENEI

Israeli troops and artillery were deployed near the border with Lebanon on Wednesday morning (March 4) as the U.S.-Israeli air war against Iran entered its fifth day.

Since Monday (March 2), the Israel-Lebanon border area has seen a sharp escalation in fighting after Lebanon's Hezbollah fired drones and missiles at Israel. Since then, the Iran-aligned group has launched further rockets, and Israel has carried out waves of air strikes across Lebanon and sent troops into the south.

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14. ISRAELI ARTILLERY DEPLOYED NEAR LEBANON BORDER

15. VARIOUS OF ISRAELI SOLDIERS, ARTILLERY NEAR LEBANON BORDER

Plumes of dark smoke billowed over a residential area in Baabda, as explosions rocked Beirut's southern suburbs on Wednesday (March 4).

Footage showed thick smoke rising from the struck areas, with sounds of gunfire and a view of planes taking off from the nearby Beirut-Rafic Hariri International Airport.

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16. AUDIO OF EXPLOSION IN AREA NEAR BEIRUT-RAFIC HARIRI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, SMOKE BILLOWING (0738GMT)

17. VARIOUS OF EXPLOSION HITTING, SMOKE BILLOWING / AUDIO OF EXPLOSION

18. PLANE TAKING OFF FROM BEIRUT-RAFIC HARIRI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (0710GMT)

In Hazmieh, Lebanon, people cleared the debris on Wednesday (March 4) following an Israeli strike that left buildings damaged.

State news agency NNA also reported several Israeli strikes early on Wednesday, including one on a hotel and another on an apartment in eastern Lebanon.

Lebanon's health ministry said on Tuesday (March 3) that Israeli strikes had killed at least 50 people and wounded 335 since the latest escalation began.

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19. VARIOUS OF DAMAGED BUILDING FOLLOWING ISRAELI STRIKE

20. PEOPLE SITTING NEXT TO DAMAGE, USING PHONES

21. PEOPLE CARRYING BELONGINGS AND WALKING

Smoke was seen rising from the oil industry zone in Fujairah, a major bunkering hub in the United Arab Emirates, on Wednesday (March 4), as the country continued to grapple with the escalating Iran conflict.

Ship refuelling at Fujairah has slowed after a fire broke out at the port on Tuesday (March 3), market sources told Reuters, while demand at other refuelling hubs including Singapore is set to rise.

FUJAIRAH, UAE (MARCH 4, 2026) (REUTERS - Access all)

22. DRIVE-BY SHOT OF BLACK SMOKE RISING

23. POINT OF VIEW FROM MOVING VEHICLE OF SMOKE RISING IN DISTANCE

24. VARIOUS OF SMOKE RISING IN THE DISTANCE

Traffic flowed along Dubai’s highways on Wednesday (March 4) as the five-day-old conflict kept residents on edge.

Iran's retaliatory strikes, launched in response to a joint U.S.-Israeli assault on Iran, landed across every major state in the Gulf, including the UAE.

Long-time resident, Abdulrahman Tassadaq, said they have never experienced anything like this.

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25. TOWERS IN DUBAI SKYLINE

26. TRAFFIC ON HIGHWAY

27. (SOUNDBITE) (English) UAE RESIDENT, ABDULRAHMAN TASSADAQ, SAYING:

"The first night was kind of really scary because it was very unusual. I've lived here for twenty-two years and we never thought this would happen. We never experienced something like this. And now we hear blasts once in a while, and it's kind of getting normal because nothing really has happened around us."

28. VARIOUS OF TRAFFIC ON HIGHWAY

At least 101 people were missing and 78 wounded after a submarine attack on an Iranian ship off Sri Lanka's coast, sources in Sri Lanka's navy and defence ministry told Reuters on Wednesday (March 4).

The navy dispatched a rescue mission after a distress call from an Iranian ship, a defence ministry spokesperson said.

Sri Lanka's Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath told parliament that at least 30 people were rescued from the 180-crew Iranian frigate.

Herath added that the injured sailors were taken to a hospital in the island's south.

(0712-IRAN-CRISIS/SHIP-SRI LANKA-FILE)

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29. VARIOUS OF IRANIAN WARSHIP IRIS DENA DOCKED

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30. AMBULANCES CARRYING EVACUATED SAILORS FROM IRANIAN WARSHIP IRIS DENA LEAVING NAVAL BASE

People in Tehran picked through debris and prayed in the streets on Wednesday (March 4) after what Israel's military said was a new wave of broad-scale strikes in the Iranian capital.

As new explosions rang out in Tehran, huge crowds of mourners were expected in the streets later on Wednesday to grieve the elder Khamenei, 86, killed by Israeli forces in the first assassination of a nation's top ruler by airstrike. (0775-IRAN-CRISIS/TEHRAN-AFTERMATH)

TEHRAN, IRAN (MARCH 4, 2026) (WANA - No use BBC Persian. No use VOA Persian. No use Manoto. No use Iran International. No use Radio Farda)

31. DAMAGED BUILDING

32. DAMAGED POLICE CAR AMONG RUBBLE

33. PERSON TAKING NOTES NEAR DAMAGED SITE

34. MAN REPAIRING WINDOW

35. DAMAGED CAR

36. MAN WALKING PAST MOTORCYCLE UNDER RUBBLE

37. TWO MEN LOOKING THROUGH DEBRIS

38. IRANIAN FLAG RAISED OVER RUBBLE