{"id":202491,"date":"2026-03-05T16:25:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T16:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/which-countries-are-involved-in-the-iran-us-war-what-to-know-usa-today\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T16:25:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T16:25:13","slug":"which-countries-are-involved-in-the-iran-us-war-what-to-know-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/which-countries-are-involved-in-the-iran-us-war-what-to-know-usa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Which countries are involved in the Iran-US war? What to know. – USA Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

The war between the United States and Iran continues to escalate and pull in other Middle Eastern countries and beyond into the conflict, which launched when the U.S. and Israel began strikes on Iran early Feb. 28<\/a> in a campaign that\u00a0killed the nation’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei<\/a>, and dozens of top officials and hit more than 1,250 targets inside the country.
While the war began specifically between the U.S., Israel and Iran, other countries are entering the conflict as it becomes more geopolitically complicated. While some Middle Eastern U.S. military bases have been targets of strikes, other countries and U.S. allies are defending against drone attacks, including France, the United Kingdom, and Greece.
Here’s what we know about which countries are involved with the conflict.
More countries have quickly gotten involved with the war following the initial strikes on Feb. 28. Multiple areas in the Middle East, including Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Bahrain, Saudia Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar, have been targets or intercepted attack drones, missiles and bombers.
As previously reported by USA TODAY<\/a>, Air Force Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said U.S. allies in the Middle East have been shooting down missiles and drones with precision, while Iran fired more than 500 missiles and launched 2,000 drones indiscriminately.
Jordanian air defenses intercepted a cluster of one-way attack drones headed to Oman, Caine said. Bahrain\u2019s air defense forces shot down an in-bound drone heading toward the capital of Manama\u2019s maritime infrastructure, to protect their shipping lanes. Saudi Arabia\u2019s Patriot batteries stopped a salvo of ballistic missiles aimed at energy facilities. The United Arab Emirates neutralized multiple drones targeting Abu Dhabi\u2019s industrial zone. Qatari fighters shot down two Iranian bombers.
\u201cTogether these nations are helping to defend themselves and project power as required against the enemy,\u201d Caine said.
Attacks have also hit some of those countries’ cities and U.S. bases<\/a> including in Iraq, Bahrain, and Kuwait, where four American soldiers were killed in an unmanned aircraft attack on March 1 on Port Shuaiba, Kuwait. All four were with a Des Moines Army Reserve unit. U.S. military officials are investigating the attack.
Multiple European countries have also joined the fray, including the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Greece, after drones struck the British Royal\u00a0Air\u00a0Force Akrotiri base<\/a> in Mediterranean Cyprus. The U.K.<\/a>,\u00a0France<\/a> and Greece pledged to deploy forces following the attack, including anti-missile and anti-drone\u00a0systems as well as air defenses and warships.
Following the attack, the Britian Ministry of Defense confirmed March 3 that forces shot down<\/a> multiple\u00a0drones in Iraqi, Jordanian, and Qatari airspaces.
President\u00a0Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0said the strikes from the U.S. and Israel were intended to eliminate “imminent threats” from Iran and prevent the country from obtaining a nuclear weapon.\u00a0
The military action also aims to give\u00a0Iranians a chance to topple their rulers, Trump said previously. He added to reporters on March 3 that ‘most of the people we had in mind are dead,’<\/a> in reference to potential Iranian leaders slotted to take over the country following Khamenei’s death.
Trump has warned Americans the war could last for weeks and pledged there’s more firepower on the way beyond the initial action. The U.S. advanced its efforts Wednesday as a U.S. submarine\u00a0sank an Iranian warship<\/a> with reports of at least 80 people killed, officials said.
Contributing: Bart Jansen and Michael Loria, USA TODAY<\/em>; Reuters<\/em>
Kate Perez covers national trends and breaking news for USA TODAY. You can reach her at kperez@usatodayco.com or on X @katecperez_.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The war between the United States and Iran continues to escalate and pull in other Middle Eastern countries and beyond into the conflict, which launched when the U.S. and Israel began strikes on Iran early Feb. 28 in a campaign that\u00a0killed the nation’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and dozens of top officials and hit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":202492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-202491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}