Visualizing the US-Israeli war with Iran and retaliation in maps and charts
By Lou Robinson, Renée Rigdon, Rosa de Acosta, Janie Boschma, Matt Stiles, Soph Warnes, Rhyannon Bartlett-Imadegawa, Henrik Pettersson, Gillian Roberts, Annette Choi, Amy O’Kruk, CNN
(CNN) — War in the Middle East continues to accelerate after the United States and Israel attacked Iran on February 28, and Tehran retaliated with strikes against several of its neighbors, including US-allied Gulf states. Israel and Hezbollah are also trading blows in the expanded conflict.
CNN is tracking the war in maps and charts.
Strikes in the Strait of Hormuz
Iran intensified attacks Wednesday on vessels in the Strait of Hormuz — a crucial connection point in oil shipping routes for the entire world — after the United States destroyed multiple Iranian naval ships near the strait on Tuesday.
Shipping activity has fallen off dramatically since the war began on February 28.
Thousands of ships are stuck waiting for the strait to reopen, while the number of new ships arriving has fallen off dramatically.
Implications of shipping disruptions in Strait of Hormuz
Iran controls the north side of the strait, where about one-fifth of daily global production typically flowed through before the current conflict, according to the US Energy Information Administration.
Oil prices have surged, hiking gas prices when Americans are already struggling with affordability.
The AAA national average for regular gasoline has surged to the highest average gas price of either of Trump’s two terms in the White House.
See the strikes across the region
CNN is tracking the US-Israeli strikes across Iran, and Tehran’s retaliatory attacks on US military bases and consulates, Israel and other targets across the region.
US and Israeli military air strikes killed numerous members of the Iranian leadership, including the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Iran has since selected Khamenei’s son — Mojtaba Khamenei — as the new supreme leader.
Strikes have killed more than 1,300 people in Iran, according to Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations and at least 687 in Lebanon, according to Lebanon’s Minister of Information Paul Morcos. Lebanese authorities said more than 450,000 people inside the country are registered as displaced.
A look at some of the damage across the region
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Trump administration is investigating a strike that, according to Iranian state media, killed at least 168 children and 14 teachers at a girls’ elementary school in southern Iran. Footage has emerged that appears to show a US missile targeting the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps naval base adjacent to the school.
Iran’s top official said Tehran “will not negotiate” with the United States, as Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Dan Caine said March 4 that the US will start striking “progressively deeper” into Iran.
Trump acknowledged there could be more US casualties as the conflict escalates. At least six US service members were killed in Kuwait in a direct hit on a makeshift operations center at the civilian port of Shuaiba on Sunday morning local time, a source familiar with the situation told CNN. A seventh US soldier died from injuries sustained last week in Saudi Arabia.
The conflict has damaged air hubs, and civilian infrastructure, rocked densely populated areas and disrupted oil shipments.
Internet access disrupted across Iran
The people of Iran have been in a near-total internet blackout since the air strikes started. Internet shutdowns have previously been a go-to tactic for the regime, with a previous period of inactivity recorded in January during anti-government protests.
Flight disruptions
As of March 10, at least 21,000 flights scheduled to depart from major airports in 10 countries have been canceled since the conflict began, data from Flightradar24 shows. A wide corridor of Middle East airspace has remained empty, though some area airports’ departing flights are slowly starting to tick up.
—CNN’s Jake Tapper, Christian Edwards, Karina Tsui, Tim Lister, Gianluca Mezzofiore, Lauren Kent, Billy Stockwell, John Towfighi, Sophie Tanno and Adam Pourahmadi contributed to this report.
The-CNN-Wire
™ & © 2026 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.
This story has been updated with additional developments.
