Places in this day's records
9 places · 2 events not on the map
Asaluyeh · Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant · Ceyhan · Mayfadoun · Ramat Gan · Ras Laffan Industrial City · Saida · Tehran · 1 more
18 March 2026
11 events recorded (3 confirmed), and 2 statements counted apart.
18 March 2026 in brief
Two people were killed in Ramat Gan by shrapnel from an Iranian missile attack, Al Jazeera reported, and Israel ordered residents of Tyre to leave in its widest evacuation order in southern Lebanon since 2006. [1][2] IOM counted more than 130,000 people crossing from Lebanon into Syria, and Iran's health ministry put the toll in Iran at 1,444 killed and 18,551 injured. [1][2][3] Israel struck Iran's South Pars gas field, and Iranian missiles then hit Qatar's Ras Laffan LNG hub, where QatarEnergy reported extensive damage, as Brent rose to $108.60. [1][2] President Pezeshkian confirmed that Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib had been killed in an overnight attack, and the IAEA said Iran reported a strike on the Bushehr nuclear plant site that caused no damage. [1][2] Qatar expelled Iran's military and security attaches, and German chancellor Friedrich Merz said Berlin would have advised against the war. [1]
New count
1,444
killed, Iran
Ministry of Health of Iran · by its own count
as of 18 Mar · 2 other counts this day
Said
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Iran's political system remained strong, blamed the US for the war, denied that Iran targets civilians and warned that US forces across the Gulf made escalation unavoidable.
Government of Iran
18 Mar · to a foreign audience
Reported by Al Jazeera
Open
Market
$118.09
Brent crude, per barrel
+66% on the average of the 30 days before the war ($70.95).
18 Mar · US Energy Information Administration
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Said: 2 statements, not counted as events
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Government of Germany: German chancellor Friedrich Merz said Berlin would have advised against the war; he said Tehran bears responsibility but that the US and Israel had shown no convincing plan.
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Government of Iran: Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Iran's political system remained strong, blamed the US for the war, denied that Iran targets civilians and warned that US forces across the Gulf made escalation unavoidable.