Tracy Mumford

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From the New York Times, it's the headlines.

I'm Tracy Mumford.

Today's Monday, March 2nd.

Here's what we're covering.

The United States and Israel struck more than 2,000 more targets in Iran yesterday, not letting up on the assault that's taken out the country's senior leadership and set off a wave of violence across the Middle East.

Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed Saturday, along with several high-level military leaders.

In retaliation, Iran has fired a barrage of missile attacks at Israel and at U.S.

military bases in the region.

One strike killed three U.S.

soldiers at a base in Kuwait.

President Trump acknowledged the U.S.

toll in a short address yesterday, saying their deaths would be avenged.

And he called on the remaining Iranian military and the country's Revolutionary Guard to surrender or be killed.

My colleague Zolan Kano-Youngs spoke with Trump yesterday and asked the president how long he thought the operation in Iran could last.

Trump told him it could go on for four to five weeks.

Iran's retaliatory strikes have killed at least nine people in Israel.

And across the Gulf, four others were killed and more than 100 injured after Iran fired missiles and drones at cities including Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Doha, which had been considered safe havens in the volatile region.

Iran's foreign minister said yesterday in an interview with ABC it would keep fighting.

Inside Iran, the toll of the attacks is not yet clear.