One week in: Visualizing the evolution of the US-Israeli war with Iran

One week in, the US-Israeli war with Iran has expanded in scope significantly. Strikes have been reported in more than a dozen countries across the region since the United States and Israel first attacked Iran on February 28, according to a CNN analysis of strike data from The Institute for the Study of War with AEI’s Critical Threats Project.

Strikes have killed at least 1,230 people in Iran, according to the state-affiliated Islamic Republic News Agency, surpassing the death toll from the US-Israeli strikes in June 2025. Casualties are climbing across the region, including six US service members who died in an Iranian strike in Kuwait.

President Donald Trump said more US casualties are “expected” in the conflict that he estimates could take four or five weeks, adding he has “no time limits on anything.” Trump wrote Friday that there would be no deal with Iran without “unconditional surrender.”

“Iran is not the same country it was a week ago,” Trump told CNN in a brief phone interview on Friday. “A week ago they were powerful, and now they’ve been indeed neutered.”

Key sites destroyed across Iran’s capital

Satellite images show significant destruction of many Iranian facilities across Tehran.

Note: All imagery from March 3, 2026.

Source: Vantor

Middle East countries across the region, including US allies, continue to intercept incoming strikes, though some have occasionally broken through air defense systems. Iran is seeking to degrade those air defenses by destroying US-made radars that detect missiles and drones, satellite images in the Arabian Peninsula suggest.

Strikes felt across the Middle East

During the first week of the US-Israeli war with Iran, the broadening conflict has spread to more than a dozen countries in the region.

Strike data, via The Institute for the Study of War with AEI’s Critical Threats Project, are categorized by date according to Eastern Time.*