CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 8, 2025--
Coeur Mining, Inc. (“Coeur” or the “Company”) (NYSE: CDE) today provided an update on the 2025 exploration program at its Palmarejo gold-silver complex located in southwest Chihuahua, Mexico, which marks its largest exploration campaign since 2012 with approximately 68,000 meters of diamond drilling by eleven drill rigs across its extensive 300 km 2 land package of which only 3% has been explored to date.
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The program has successfully identified numerous resource growth opportunities that represent mine life extension opportunities through a balance of near-mine and district-scale exploration focused on four primary objectives:
Key Highlights 1,2,3
San Miguel
La Unión
“Following a 75% increase in Palmarejo’s inferred mineral resources last year, our 2025 program has generated additional discoveries and leaves the operation well positioned for further mine life extensions,” said Mitchell J. Krebs, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer. “The 2025 commencement of drilling in the underexplored areas located on the large land position we have now consolidated immediately to the east of Palmarejo represents a major step in Palmarejo’s expansion efforts. With a 300 km 2 total land package that is just 3% drilled, we are only scratching the surface of the next phase of Palmarejo’s potential growth and development. Brownfields exploration will remain a critical component of our capital allocation strategy going forward given the high returns these investments can generate at existing operations such as Palmarejo.”
For a complete table of all drill results, please refer to the following link: https://s201.q4cdn.com/254090064/files/doc_downloads/2025/12/2025-12-08-Exploration-Update-Appendix-Final.pdf. Please see the “Cautionary Statements” section for additional information regarding drill results.
NEAR-MINE EXPLORATION – PALMAREJO MAIN DISTRICT
The 2025 near-mine exploration program focused on step-out drilling around near-mine veins to support inferred resource ounce additions and support long-term mine life extensions, to build on the success of the 2024 program.
Hidalgo Corridor
Since its discovery in 2019, Hidalgo has become Palmarejo’s second largest reserve after the Guadalupe deposit, which has been mined since 2014. The 2025 drilling campaign has continued to demonstrate significant growth potential along the Hidalgo, Libertad, and San Juan vein trends which represent northwest extensions of the Independencia system that lie closer to the Palmarejo mill and processing facility.
Step-out drilling northwest along the Hidalgo and Libertad trends successfully extended mineralized zones by approximately 500 meters and 300 meters, respectively. Multiple high-grade vein structures and splays have been intersected, which are expected to contribute to inferred resource growth.
In addition, drilling along the San Juan trend extended mineralization along an approximately 150-meter strike, where the newly defined veins and splays exhibit grades and widths comparable to those found in the Independencia and Guadalupe systems. Collectively, the Hidalgo Corridor has now been drilled over a total length of 1.55 miles (2.5 kilometers) and remains open along strike and down dip.
Initiated in 2023, the ongoing expansion drilling program along the Hidalgo Corridor continues to deliver encouraging results and is expected to justify additional underground development to support further drilling, resource expansion, and reserve additions.
Independencia Sur
The Independencia Sur vein represents the southeastern extension of the Independencia Norte vein, which is the primary source of production at Palmarejo. The target lies adjacent to underground infrastructure – a key advantage for future mine development – along the southeastern continuation of the Guadalupe – La Nación system.
Following its acquisition from Fresnillo in 2024, Coeur has undertaken detailed mapping, relogging of historic drill core, and conducted validation drilling to confirm previous results. The 2025 drill program consists of 26 kilometers of diamond drilling and is designed to establish a compliant mineral resource estimate.
Drilling from both surface and underground platforms has been conducted along a 2.5-kilometer strike length, confirming and refining the known vein geometry. The program successfully intersected five new veins drilled over strike lengths ranging from 300 meters to 800 meters, three of which represent parallel splays in the hanging-wall of the Independencia Sur system. Broad zones of breccia and quartz-calcite veins hosted in rhyolite porphyry returned the highest grades along contact zones with basalts.
Highlights include intercepts of up to 19.7 feet grading 0.11 oz/t gold and 10.79 oz/t silver (6.0 meters at 3.6 g/t gold and 370 g/t silver); Hole VIDH-181. Drilling from the La Nación underground workings targeting an undrilled 150-meter gap between the Independencia Sur and Independencia Norte veins successfully connected the two structures as shown in Figure 2, which will be infill drilled in early 2026 to support near-term reserve additions.
EAST PALMAREJO EXPLORATION
Coeur’s 2025 exploration program marked the commencement of drilling in East Palmarejo, a large, underexplored area located outside the Franco-Nevada gold stream area of interest and centered around the historic mining town of Guazapares. Most of the known deposits and occurrences of gold and silver are located along two bifurcating northwest-trending fault zones called the San Miguel – San Isidro and the San Antonio – La Unión trends some ten and eight kilometers in length respectively, as seen in Figure 3. These trends are sparsely drilled and continued exploration is expected to produce additional discoveries.
Prospectivity within the unexplored Camuchín – Escondida Zone, a 4-kilometer-wide area between the Palmarejo main trend and the San Miguel – San Isidro trend, was underscored by the discovery of the Camuchín trend where 2025 drilling confirmed mineralization over 900 meters, further supporting the Zone’s potential.
San Miguel
During 2025, Coeur commenced drilling at San Miguel for the first time, with initial results confirming potential for high-grade gold and silver. Mineralization is hosted within a series of steep southwest-dipping hydrothermal breccias and epithermal veins developed along the contact between rhyolitic tuffs and basalts. Approximately 400 meters of its defined strike length is characterized by historic colonial-era surface workings.
The program was designed to validate historical drilling undertaken by Paramount Gold and Silver Corp. from 2007 to 2011 and confirm the continuity and grade of mineralization. Coeur completed 17 diamond drill holes totaling 6,075 meters, which extended the deposit by 90 meters along strike and 100 meters down dip (current length and dip of the deposit are now 1.3 kilometers and 360 meters, respectively).
The near-surface mineralization remains open along strike to the northwest, southeast and at depth, indicating strong potential for resource growth. The San Miguel trend has been mapped on surface for four kilometers and forms part of a broader mineralized corridor extending southeast through San Isidro to Sota de Oro where it merges with the north-northwest-trending corridor that hosts the La Unión and San Antonio deposits, as shown in Figure 3. The Company plans to continue drilling scout and step-out holes along both trends in 2026 to test for extensions of the system.
La Unión
Gold and silver mineralization at La Unión is hosted within steeply dipping zones of stockwork veining and hydrothermal breccias in rhyolitic tuffs and andesites. The deposit is within a broad north-northwest-trending structural corridor extending for more than eight kilometers, linking the San Antonio prospect to the north and the La Carmela vein system to the south.
Coeur completed 16 diamond drill holes totaling 6,064 meters testing a strike length of approximately 1,050 meters. The program was designed to validate historical drilling and refine structural interpretations. Assays from two holes have been received to date, including 72.9 feet at 0.19 oz/t gold and 0.74 oz/t silver (22.2 meters at 6.7 g/t gold and 26 g/t silver) in LUDH-088, as shown in Figure 3, supporting the broad widths of the near-surface mineralization observed in historical drilling. This drilling also extended the deposit down dip by 170 meters to 290 meters. Assays from remaining holes are pending.
Mapping and previous drilling at La Unión outlined a 1.8-kilometer structure which remains open along strike and at depth. Follow-up drilling is planned to expand mineralization both northward toward San Antonio and southward towards Carmela.
Camuchín
The Camuchín discovery represents a major new mineralized trend located between the Palmarejo mine and San Miguel – approximately six kilometers northeast of Palmarejo and 2.8 kilometers southwest of San Miguel. Mapping and geochemical sampling in 2024 led to the identification of the northwest-trending Camuchín – Escondida fault-vein system, marking the first known mineralization within the previously untested 4-kilometer-wide gap between the Guazapares and Palmarejo mining trends, now known as the Camuchín – Escondida trend.
To date, Coeur has completed 21 diamond drill holes, with mineralization intersected in 14 holes drilled over a strike length exceeding 900 meters. Mineralization remains open to the southeast, where surface mapping suggests several kilometers of potential strike extension.
The discovery of Camuchín, together with the high-grade results from San Miguel and La Unión, demonstrate that Coeur’s ongoing district-scale exploration program is successfully unlocking the untapped potential of East Palmarejo, establishing a strong foundation for future resource growth and mine life expansion across the Palmarejo complex. A target generation program is currently underway utilizing recent regional geophysical surveys, geology and geochemistry.
“Coeur’s multi-pronged exploration strategy at Palmarejo is delivering strong results,” said Aoife McGrath, Senior Vice President, Exploration. “From near-mine to regional-scale programs, we’re enhancing mine-life visibility and future operational and financial flexibility. We see significant upside and expect continued strong returns on our exploration investment.”
About Coeur
Coeur Mining, Inc. is a U.S.-based, well-diversified, growing precious metals producer with five wholly owned operations: the Las Chispas silver-gold mine in Sonora, Mexico, the Palmarejo gold-silver complex in Chihuahua Mexico, the Rochester silver-gold mine in Nevada, the Kensington gold mine in Alaska and the Wharf gold mine in South Dakota. In addition, the Company wholly-owns the Silvertip polymetallic critical minerals exploration project in British Columbia.
Cautionary Statements
This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of securities legislation in the United States and Canada, including statements regarding exploration efforts and plans, exploration expenditures and investments, drill results, resource delineation, expansion, upgrade or conversion and mine life extension. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause Coeur’s actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Such factors include, among others, the risk that anticipated additions or upgrades to reserves and resources are not attained, the risk that planned exploration programs may be curtailed or canceled due to budget constraints or other reasons, the risks and hazards inherent in the mining business (including risks inherent in developing large-scale mining projects, environmental hazards, industrial accidents, weather or geologically related conditions), changes in the market prices of gold, silver, zinc and lead and a sustained lower price environment, the uncertainties inherent in Coeur’s production, exploratory and developmental activities, including risks relating to permitting and regulatory delays (including the impact of government shutdowns), ground conditions, grade and recovery variability, any future labor disputes or work stoppages, the uncertainties inherent in the estimation of mineral reserves and mineral resources, continued access to financing sources, government orders that may require temporary suspension of operations at one or more of our sites and effects on our suppliers or the refiners and smelters to whom the Company markets its production, changes that could result from Coeur’s future acquisition of new mining properties or businesses, the loss of any third-party smelter to which Coeur markets its production, the effects of environmental and other governmental regulations, the risks inherent in the ownership or operation of or investment in mining properties or businesses in foreign countries, Coeur’s ability to raise additional financing necessary to conduct its business, make payments or refinance its debt, as well as other uncertainties and risk factors set out in filings made from time to time with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Canadian securities regulators, including, without limitation, Coeur’s most recent reports on Forms 10-K and 10-Q. Actual results, developments and timetables could vary significantly from the estimates presented. Readers are cautioned not to put undue reliance on forward-looking statements. Coeur disclaims any intent or obligation to update publicly such forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Additionally, Coeur undertakes no obligation to comment on analyses, expectations or statements made by third parties in respect of Coeur, its financial or operating results or its securities.
The scientific and technical information concerning our mineral projects in this news release have been reviewed and approved by a “qualified person” under Item 1300 of Regulation S-K under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (“SK 1300”), namely our Vice President, Technical Services, Christopher Pascoe. For a description of the key assumptions, parameters and methods used to estimate mineral reserves and mineral resources for Coeur’s material properties included in this news release, as well as data verification procedures and a general discussion of the extent to which the estimates may be affected by any known environmental, permitting, legal, title, taxation, sociopolitical, marketing or other relevant factors, please review the Technical Report Summaries for each of the Company’s material properties which are available at www.sec.gov.
Notes
The ranges of potential tonnage and grade (or quality) of the exploration results described herein are conceptual in nature. There has been insufficient exploration work to estimate a mineral resource. It is uncertain if further exploration will result in the estimation of a mineral resource. The exploration results described in this news release therefore do not represent and should not be construed to be an estimate of a mineral resource or mineral reserve.
Figure 3: Map showing portion of East Palmarejo that includes Camuchín, San Miguel, and La Unión trends and key drill intercepts
Figure 2. Palmarejo main district showing location of Hidalgo Corridor and Independencia Sur with key drill intercepts
Figure 1: Map of Palmarejo Main and East Palmarejo showing main vein trends
As the war in the Middle East intensifies, U.S. President Donald Trump said that the U.S. has “the capability to go far longer" than its projected four-to-five-week time frame for its military operations against Iran.
Across Tehran, the sound of explosions rang out through the night and into the early morning hours Tuesday, as the U.S. and Israel have continued to pound Iran since killing its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday.
Tehran and its allies have hit back against Israel, neighboring Gulf states, and targets critical to the world’s production of oil and natural gas.
The intensity of the attacks and the lack of any apparent exit plan set the stage for a prolonged conflict with far-reaching consequences. Israel and the U.S. have given conflicting answers about what exactly the war’s objectives are or what the endgame might be.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu late Monday defended the decision to go to war, contending in an interview on Fox News Channel’s "Hannity" that Iran was rebuilding “new sites, new places” that would make “their ballistic missile program and their atomic bomb program immune within months,” without providing evidence.
Satellite photos analyzed by The Associated Press showed limited activity at two nuclear sites in Iran before the war, with analysts saying it was likely Tehran was trying to assess damage from American strikes in June and possibly salvage what remained there.
Here is the latest:
The Kremlin said Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin will convey the Gulf leaders’ concern over the Iranian strikes on their territory to Iran.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Putin will “make every effort to facilitate at least minor easing of tension.”
He noted that after Monday’s calls with the leaders of the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, Putin will convey their “deep concern about the strikes on their infrastructure” to Tehran.
A senior Hezbollah official says that after more than a year of abiding by the ceasefire as Israel’s strikes continued on Lebanon, the group’s patience has ended, leaving it with no option “but to return to resistance” and fight an open war with Israel.
Mohamoud Komati said Tuesday that Hezbollah exercised patience since a ceasefire ended the Israel-Hezbollah war in November 2024, hoping the government’s diplomatic efforts would yield positive results in ending Israeli strikes.
In the comments released by Hezbollah’s media office, Komati blasted the Lebanese government for calling Hezbollah’s actions illegal and demanded it hand over its weapons, saying it did not act to stop Israel’s airstrikes that continued on almost daily basis for nearly 15 months.
“The Zionist enemy wanted an open war, which it has not stopped since the ceasefire agreement,” Komati said. “So let it be an open war.”
Saudi Arabia has condemned in the strongest terms Iran’s drone strike that hit the U.S. embassy in the Saudi capital, Riyadh.
“The brutal Iranian behavior … will push the region into further escalation,” the Saudi Foreign Ministry said in a statement, which reiterated the nation’s right to protect Saudi territories and interests, including “the option of responding to the aggression.”
The Saudi Defense Ministry said the U.S. embassy came under attack from two drones early Tuesday.
Footage aired by the Saudi-owned satellite news channel Al Arabiya showed fire damage on one part of the roof of U.S. Embassy in Riyadh after the drone attack.
Sirens sounded in Bahrain on Tuesday afternoon as a new Iranian attack was expected.
China, a major importer of oil and natural gas from the Mideast, has called on all sides to stop the fighting and ensure ships can pass safely through the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran has attacked several ships in the the narrow strait through which a fifth of all oil traded passes, sending oil and gas prices soaring.
“China urges all parties to immediately cease military operations, avoid escalating tensions, safeguard the safety of shipping lanes in the Strait of Hormuz and prevent greater impacts on the global economy,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said in Beijing.
The Israeli military said Tuesday it has struck Iran’s presidential office and the building of the country’s Supreme National Security Council.
It said the airstrikes happened overnight.
“In addition, the gathering site of the regime’s most senior forum responsible for security decision-making was targeted, as well as the institution for training Iranian military officers and additional key regime infrastructure,” it added.
Iran did not immediately acknowledge the strikes.
The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog said Tuesday that Iran’s Natanz nuclear enrichment site sustained “some recent damage” during a U.S.-Israeli airstrike campaign, though it said there was “no radiological consequence expected” from it.
The International Atomic Energy Agency said the damage was focused on “entrance buildings” to the underground portion of the atomic site.
Natanz earlier came under attack by the U.S. in the 12-day Iran-Israel war in June.
The IAEA said it saw “no additional impact” detected at Natanz’s fuel enrichment plant, which is buried underground.
Nuclear material is still believed to be buried at the plant alongside damaged and destroyed centrifuges. However, the IAEA has not been allowed to visit any of the attacked sites by Iran since that war.
Airstrikes by the United States and Israel have killed at least 787 people in Iran since the start of the war, the Iranian Red Crescent Society said Tuesday.
The organization offered the toll in a message on X.
Israel’s military said Iran launched missiles at the country and it was working to intercept them.
The Israeli military struck a building in a southern suburb of Beirut housing Hebzollah’s TV and radio station, causing heavy damage.
The strike after midnight Monday came after a warning by the Israeli military to evacuate the building. Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV was interrupted for about an hour before the station resumed its programs.
During the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war, Al-Manar TV and al-Nour Radio station were both struck but continued broadcasts from secret locations.
Cypriot officials say France will dispatch a warship to Cyprus to help bolster the country’s anti-drone defenses after a Rashed drone struck a British military base on the east Mediterranean island.
France also will send additional land-based, anti-drone and anti-missile systems to the country, officials confirmed Tuesday.
Germany also responded positively to a request to send a warship, according to three officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not permitted to provide details publicly.
The equipment will arrive in Cyprus as soon as possible, they said
The French military did not respond immediately to a request for information from The Associated Press.
The drone struck the British base, RAF Akrotiri, shortly after midnight Monday and caused only minor material damage to an aircraft hangar. Another two drones were intercepted by British warplanes around midday Monday after they were scrambled from the air base, officials said.
Greece has sent four F-16 fighter jets to Cyprus while two of its state-of-the-art frigates are on their way.
A fire broke out in an oil industrial facility Fujairah, one of the seven emirates of the United Arab Emirates, as forces intercepted a drone attack, authorities said.
No casualties were reported.
The government media office in Fujairah said the drone was intercepted and that shrapnel landed in the Fujairah Oil Industry Zone.
The office said the fire was put down and operations resumed.
At least five people were killed or wounded in airstrikes in Iran’s western city of Hamadan, the state-run IRNA news agency reported.
Strikes also were reported across other cities, including Isfahan and Shiraz.
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said the Lebanese army is evacuating some of its positions along the border with Israel.
The agency said the troops are redeploying to other posts.
The report comes after Israel’s military said it is conducting operations inside Lebanon along the border with Israel.
Israel’s army said Tuesday that Iran’s firepower has been weakened.
Army spokesman Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani said Israeli and U.S. attacks on Iran have “limited significantly” Iran’s ability to fire.
Shoshani said Israel has been going after Iran’s missile launchers and have taken out dozens of them.
Iran has fired hundreds of missiles but it’s hard to tally the total amount with Iran also striking other countries, he said.
The pace of missiles being launched at Israel has slowed since the first two days of the war.
Shoshani said the slowdown also could be partly attributed to Iran understanding the war could go on for longer than they had thought and they are trying to pace themselves.
Iran has started the process of returning Iranian pilgrims from the shrine cities of Mecca and Medina, state media said Tuesday.
Alireza Enayati, Iran’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia, said the process of returning 9,000 Iranians currently in the cities of Mecca and Medina began Monday.
In a report carried by the Iranian judiciary’s Mizan news agency, Enayati said the departure is taking place in the same manner as during the 12-day war between Israel and Iran in 2025. Iranian pilgrims will leave Saudi Arabia through Saudi–Iraqi border crossings and return to Iran from Iraq.
The announcement came during the Muslim holy month of Ramada and a widening that has seen Iran target sites in Saudi Arabia.
The U.S. ambassador in Israel told Americans there that the best way to leave is through Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.
Mike Huckabee said in a social media post early Tuesday that the embassy was receiving lots of evacuations requests as embassy staff “are sheltering in place.”
“There are VERY LIMITED options,” he wrote. “Not sure when Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv will reopen.”
He advised Americans to take buses to Egypt’s resorts of Sharm el-Sheikh and Taba in southern Sinai, describing that route as “best.”
The U.S. State Department evacuations of non-emergency personnel and family reached six nations on Tuesday with the inclusion of the United Arab Emirates.
The UAE, home to Dubai and Abu Dhabi and long considered a safe corner of the Middle East, has been dragged into the Iran war with interceptions and attacks.
The other countries include Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan. Kuwait and Qatar.
The U.S. Embassy in Abu Dhabi also warned there could be militant attacks in the UAE as well.
“Terrorists may attack with little or no warning and may target tourist locations, transportation hubs, shopping areas, government facilities, places of worship, and in particular locations associated with the Jewish and Israeli communities,” it added.
A camp for Iranian Kurdish opposition in the semiautonomous region of Kurdistan in northern Iraq was attacked Tuesday morning, an official said.
A missile and drone hit the Azadi camp in Irbil and slightly injured one person, according to Kareem Parwizi, a senior official with the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran.
Oman said a drone hit a fuel tank at its port in Duqm on Tuesday.
The state-run Oman News Agency said no one was hurt in the attack.
Duqm has been a key resupply route for the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, which is operating in the Arabian Sea.
The Israeli military says one of its divisions is operating inside southern Lebnaon and took positions on several strategic points close to the border.
The Arabic language spokesperson of the Israeli military posted on X that the troops’ move inside Lebanon is part of its efforts to bolster the forward defense system and create an addition layer of security.
The military said that at the same time the air force is conducting strikes against Hezbollah infrastructure in the area to thwart threats and prevent infiltration attempts into Israel.
The Israeli operations inside Lebanon came after a long night of airstrikes on southern Lebanon and Beirut’s southern suburbs.
The Israeli military says there are no immediate plans to deploy ground troops in Iran.
Asked about the possibility of sending in ground forces, spokesman Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani told reporters it is “not very likely.”
Thailand is intensifying security around the U.S., Israeli and Iranian embassies as the conflict in the Middle East intensifies.
Public broadcaster Thai PBS quoted the head of the National Security Council, Chatchai Bangchua, describing the additional measures as he said authorities would also monitor sites linked to the countries.
Thailand depends heavily on tourism and is one of Asia’s most-visited countries, attracting more than 32 million foreigners last year. It is a popular destination for Americans, Israelis and citizens of Gulf countries and before recent airspace closures received dozens of direct flights from the Middle East each week.
The Israeli military says soldiers are “operating in southern Lebanon’ as it continues strikes against Hezbollah.
In a statement, it said the troops are positioned at a several points near the border in what it described as a “forward defense posture” as it battles Hezbollah militants.
It says the deployment is part of a broader effort to increase security for residents in northern Israel near the border with Lebanon. It has also beefed up troops and air defenses in the area.
The army says there are no plans to evacuate Israeli residents of border areas.
Israel has been occupying five positions in southern Lebanon since a November 2024 ceasefire ended more than a year of fighting with Hezbollah. Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani says the new deployment is in addition to those five positions, with the aim of preventing attacks on Israeli border towns.
The U.S. State Department added Kuwait and Qatar to the evacuation list from its Mideast diplomatic outposts.
The U.S. Embassy in Kuwait is shutting down as the Middle East is grabbed in a widening war.
The embassy said in a social media post Tuesday that it is closing “until further notice” due to the war.
Iran on Tuesday held a mass funeral ceremony for 165 people killed in what it described as an attack on a girls’ school in the southern city of Minab.
Iranian state television showed thousands of people filling a public square. Men waved the Islamic Republic flag while largely standing apart from women draped in black chadors.
From the stage, a women who said she was the mother of “Atena” held up a printed image of portraits that she called “a document of American crimes.” She added, “They died in the way of God.”
The crowd erupted into chants of “Death to America,” “Death to Israel” and “No surrender.”
U.S. Central Command spokesperson Capt. Tim Hawkins said he was aware of reports that a girls’ school was struck and officials were looking into them.
An Israeli military spokesperson said Sunday he was not aware of any Israeli or U.S. strikes in the area.
Qatar Airways said it would remain grounded Tuesday over the war.
Amazon said Monday that two of its data centers in United Arab Emirates were hit by drones, while a drone strike near one of its facilities in Bahrain “caused physical impacts to our infrastructure.”
The tech giant said on its website that the strikes have caused structural damage and gotten in the way of power getting to infrastructure. The company did not say who was responsible for the strikes.
“We are working to restore full service availability as quickly as possible, though we expect recovery to be prolonged given the nature of the physical damage involved,” Amazon said.
Iran is continuing to threaten shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Perisan Gulf through which a fifth of all oil traded passes.
Brig. Gen. Ebrahim Jabbari, an adviser to the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, issued the threat on Iranian state television on Monday.
“The Strait of Hormuz is closed. Anyone who wants to pass, our devotee heroes in the IRGC navy and the army will set those ships on fire,” he said. “Don’t come to this region.”
The Israeli military said Tuesday it was conducting “simultaneous targeted strikes against military targets in Tehran and Beirut,” without elaborating.
The U.S. State Department said it added Iraq to the evacuation list from its Mideast diplomatic outposts.
The U.S. State Department on Tuesday ordered the evacuation of non-emergency personnel and family in Bahrain and Jordan.
The State Department announcement online said the decision came “due to safety risks.” The department has urged Americans across the Mideast to leave over the ongoing war with Iran.
The U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia acknowledged coming under attack from Iranian drones Tuesday and urged Americans to avoid the diplomatic post for the time being.
The Saudi Defense Ministry earlier Tuesday said the embassy was attacked by two drones.
Across Iran’s capital, the sound of explosions rang out throughout the night into the early morning hours.
Witnesses described hearing aircraft overhead as well.
It wasn’t immediately clear what had been hit.
Iranian state television early Tuesday read a statement from the country’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, saying that it launched a missile and drone attack targeting an air base in Bahrain.
Israeli airstrikes hit the Lebanese capital Tuesday morning.
The Israeli military said it was targeting “Hezbollah command centers and weapons storage facilities in Beirut.”
Hezbollah also said it launched drones targeting an Israeli air base.
The Israeli military said it downed two drones.
Tokyo has told Japanese shipowners to have their ships stay away from the Persian Gulf to ensure the safety of their crew members.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara told reporters Tuesday that the Transport Ministry has notified the Japanese Shipowners’ Association to do the utmost to protect crews on board the ships in the region.
Kihara said those already in the Gulf are urged to lie at anchor where it is safe to do so.
On Monday, Japan’s Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi met with Iranian ambassador to Japan Peiman Seadat and conveyed Japan’s consistent stance that Iran must stop attacks on neighboring countries and other actions destabilizing the region.
Motegi also noted the importance of ensuring safety in the Strait of Hormuz, which is key to Japan’s energy security.
Iran’s top diplomat early Tuesday sought to turn the tables on the United States, describing it as entering “a war of choice on behalf of Israel.”
After Trump urged Iranians to take over their government, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi made the same call to Americans.
“Shedding of both American and Iranian blood is thus on Israel Firsters,” Araghchi wrote on X. “American people deserve better and should take back their country.”
This partially redacted image from video provided by U.S. Central Command shows a complex of structures in Iran being struck by missiles fired by U.S. forces on Sunday, March 1, 2026. (U.S. Central Command via AP)
President Donald Trump walks past Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as he exist the East Room of the White House following the Medal of Honor ceremony, Monday, March 2, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Rescue workers carry a dead body in a plastic bag from a building that was hit by Israeli strike, in Jnah neighborhood, south of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, March 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
A poster of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed during the ongoing joint U.S.-Israeli military campaign, and the late Iranian Revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, right, lays on a motorcycle amid debris left by a strike in Tehran, Iran, Monday, March 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Plumes of smoke from two simultaneous strikes rise over Tehran, Iran, Monday, March 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohsen Ganji)
