The war between the United States, Israel and Iran has entered second week, with attacks continuing across Iran and other countries in West Asia. Meanwhile, Israel is also carriying out more strikes on Lebanon.
Iran oil sites targeted: Israel struck energy facilities in and around Tehran late on Saturday night in one of the most significant escalations since the war began. An official confirmed strikes on five oil plants, while the Iranian foreign minister said a water desalination facility was also hit, adding that the US has "set a precedent."
IDF reports first casualties: Israel's military said two of its soldiers were killed in combat in southern Lebanon -- the first Israeli troops to have died since fighting flared with Iran's Lebanese proxy Hezbollah.
Lebanon toll climbs: Israeli strikes on Lebanon have killed 394 people in the past week, including 83 children and 42 women, the country's health minister said.
Khamenei successor: Iran's clerical body tasked with choosing the country's next supreme leader has agreed on a candidate but the name is yet to be announced, members said.
UAE tugboat sinks in Strait of Hormuz: Three Indonesian crew members are missing after a UAE-flagged tugboat 'Musaffah 2' caught fire after an explosion and sank in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday, according to Jakarta's foreign ministry.
Iran's Gulf barrage continues: Bahrain on Sunday said an Iranian drone attack had damaged one of its water desalination plants. Kuwait, UAE and Saudi Arabia reported intercepting missiles and drones, while a Pakistani driver was killed in Dubai. Kuwait's national oil company announced a "precautionary" cut to its crude production after fuel tanks at the international airport were targeted in a drone attack.
Israel strikes Lebanon: Israel has struck southern Lebanon and Beirut again early Sunday and killed 12 more people, hours after four people were killed in another attack on a hotel.
'Will hit Iran harder': US President Donald Trump refused to spell out the conditions for sending American ground troops to Iran after earlier warning that the Islamic Republic would be “hit very hard”, adding that Iranian officials would be targets.
'Can fight intense war' for six months: Iran can fight an intense war against the United States and Israel for at least six months, the Revolutionary Guards said in a statement on Sunday. IRGC also said it targetted over 200 US and Israeli bases in the region.
Several airstrikes have shaken neighborhoods in Tehran’s east and southwest. Israel’s military has confirmed a new wave of strikes.
The United Arab Emirates’ Dubai media office said late Saturday that debris from an aerial interception fell onto a vehicle in the Barsha area and killed an “Asian driver.”
This brings the number of people killed in the UAE since the war began to four. Authorities have said all were foreign nationals.
The United Arab Emirates’ Dubai Media office said Saturday that falling shrapnel from interception of projectiles from Iran caused a minor damage to the facade of a tower in Dubai Marina, an area with many luxury high rises. There were no injuries reported.
The number of people killed by Israeli strikes in Lebanon since Monday has risen to 294, with another 1,023 wounded, Lebanon’s health ministry said.
It was not clear how many of them were civilians. Tens of thousands more have been displaced.
Air defence systems intercepted rockets fired at the US embassy in Baghdad, security sources told AFP.
"Four rockets were launched... toward the embassy," a security official said, adding that air defences intercepted three, while one fell in an open area in the embassy's airbase.
Two other security sources confirmed the rocket attack, with one saying that all rockets were downed, including the one that fell in the airbase.
on Iran since Israel and the United States started the war against Tehran a week ago.
Military spokesman Brigadier General Effie Defrin said that roughly 7,500 munitions had been dropped on targets in Iran during the operation.
Separately, Israel's military said Saturday evening that it had begun a new "wave of strikes" in Tehran.
Ankara on Saturday warned Tehran against any attempts to fire towards Turkish territory just days after NATO intercepted a ballistic missile launched from Iran heading towards Turkey.
"We are not a country that is easily provoked," Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told journalists in Istanbul.
"We spoke with our friends in Iran and said if this was a missile that lost its way, that's one thing. But if this is going to continue... our advice is: be careful, don't let anyone in Iran embark on such an adventure."
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has warned US President Donald Trump that if he seeks escalation, Iran’s armed forces are prepared.
Araghchi said in a statement that Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s openness to de-escalation within the region had been “immediately killed” by Trump’s misinterpretation of Iran’s capabilities.
Trump’s “week-long misadventure has already cost the US military $100bn, in addition to the lives of young soldiers”, he said, adding that the cost would be transferred to the US populace.
He accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of duping the US into fighting its wars, adding that it was a “war of choice” pursued by “Israeli-Firsters”.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday that Israel would continue its war with Iran "with all our force", and alongside the United States had almost total control of Iranian skies after a week of strikes.
"We have a systematic plan to eradicate the Iranian regime and achieve many other objectives," Netanyahu said in a televised address.
US and Israeli strikes hit an oil depot in Tehran on Saturday, Iranian state media said, marking the first reported attack on the Islamic republic's oil infrastructure.
"An oil depot in southern Tehran was targeted by the US and Zionist regime," the official IRNA news agency said.
The depot was in an area close to a key oil refinery but the ILNA news agency reported that the refinery's facilities "were not damaged in the military attacks".
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The war between the United States, Israel and Iran has entered second week, with attacks continuing across Iran and other countries in the Middle East. Israeli army is carriying out more strikes on Lebanon.
Donald Trump says he’ll hit Iran harder: US President Donald Trump warned in a Truth Social post that more Iranian officials will be targets, saying, “Today Iran will be hit very hard!,” while noting an apology by Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian earlier in the day to neighboring nations over Tehran’s attacks.
Iran says it has right to defend itself: Iran’s Foreign Ministry has said in a statement that responding to the US and Israel’s “brutal military aggression” is the country’s inherent right to self-defence.
It said that Tehran would continue to take action “until the aggression stops or until the United Nations Security Council fulfils its duty by identifying the aggressors.”
Qatar, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates all reported they intercepted missiles and drones on Saturday evening from Iran. The attacks underlined the limited powers exercised by the theocracy’s leaders over the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, which controls the ballistic missiles targeting Israel and other countries.
'Disarm Hezbollah': Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz on Saturday warned Lebanese President Joseph Aoun that his country would pay a "very heavy price" if it fails to disarm Hezbollah.
Evidence suggests the deadly blast at an Iranian elementary school was likely a U.S. airstrike: The Feb. 28 strike produced the highest reported civilian death toll since the war began, prompting staunch criticism from the United Nations and human rights monitors. The U.S. has not accepted responsibility but said it was investigating the matter.
Iran apologises: Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian apologised on Saturday to neighbouring countries for attacks launched during the Islamic republic's war with Israel and the United States. He further said that the neigbours won't be targeted unless attacks are launched from them.
Flight operations: Dubai airport said Saturday it was partially resuming services shortly after it suspended operations.
The death toll continues to rise: At least 1,230 people in Iran, more than 200 in Lebanon and around a dozen in Israel have been killed, according to officials in those countries. Six U.S. troops have been killed.
“President Pezeshkian expressed openness to de-escalation within our region, provided that our neighbors’ airspace, territory, and waters are not used to attack the Iranian People”, Iran’s foreign minister says on X.
Earlier today, Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said neighbouring countries would no longer be targeted unless an attack originates from there.
Iran’s “gesture to our neighbors was almost immediately killed by President Trump”, Araghchi continued.
Iran was hit with attacks shortly after the president’s statement was released, which triggered a wave of strikes targeting what it said were US assets in neighbouring Gulf nations.
Lebanon’s Hezbollah says it carried out several attacks targeting cities in northern Israel on Saturday.
In a series of statements, the group said it launched a swarm of drones targeting the coastal city of Nahariya at about 1:40pm local time (11:40 GMT).
Later in the evening, the group said it targeted the city again, first with what it described as a rocket-propelled grenade at about 8:00pm local time (18:00 GMT), followed by a rocket barrage 15 minutes later.
Earlier, Hezbollah also said it carried out a drone attack targeting the city of Kiryat Shmona.
A Pakistani man was killed in Dubai when debris from an aerial interception fell on his vehicle in the Barsha area, authorities have confirmed.
Dubai’s media office also said that authorities had dealt with an incident involving debris falling “onto the facade of one of the towers in the Dubai Marina area, as a result of a successful aerial interception, and no injuries resulted from the incident”.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps said it had targeted a US military base in the marina.
سقوط شظايا صاروخية على أحد الأبراج في منطقة دبي مارينا بدولة الإمارات مساء السبت، ما تسبّب في تصاعد ألسنة الدخان. pic.twitter.com/aGCekfzo2n
— قناة الجزيرة (@AJArabic) March 7, 2026
Abbas Araqchi says he is in constant contact with his Saudi counterpart and Saudi officials.
Saudi officials said they were fully committed to not letting their territory, water and airspace be used against Iran, he said in an interview relayed by his Telegram channel.
Turkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has spoken by phone with Nechirvan Barzani, president of the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government, to discuss the latest developments in the region.
According to a statement from the Turkish presidency, the two leaders discussed the trajectory of the escalating conflicts in the Middle East.
Erdogan said Turkiye stands with Iraq during what he described as a critical period and warned against developments that could push the region into a prolonged crisis.
He also said Ankara was closely monitoring movements by “organisations and affiliated groups”.
The call comes amid reports that some Kurdish armed groups in the region may be coordinating with US forces in relation to the conflict with Iran.
Erdogan added that Türkiye was working intensively to help end the conflicts in the region and return to negotiations.
Lebanon’s Hezbollah says it targeted the Israeli naval base in the city of Haifa with a barrage of missiles.
In a statement, the group said the attack was carried out at about 8:00pm local time (18:00 GMT).
The Secretary-General of the Iranian National Security Council, Ali Larijani, said that the US thought it could execute a short war in Iran, and that it thought it could sow chaos by assassinating Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and other leadership, but that both of those assumptions have been proven incorrect.
He said that Iran’s leaders have warned separatist groups against moving against the government, and that Iran’s people are united in the face of the US-Israeli war.
Larijani dismissed US President Trump’s desire to choose future Iranian leadership as foolish, and reiterated the Iranian government’s position that its neighbours would not come under fire as long as they do not allow their territory to be used to attack Iran.
Saudi Arabian Oil Company Aramco diverted some oil shipments to the Red Sea port of Yanbu to ensure safety and continuity of supply, Saudi state-run Al Ekhbariya TV reported on Saturday.
“We are closely following developments to take appropriate decisions to restore operations to its normal status when the circumstances stablise,” the channel said.
A drone has targeted a US military base near Erbil International Airport in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq
Al Jazeera’s correspondent on the ground reported anti-aircraft fire after several explosions were heard. Air defences appeared to be engaging the drone.
There was no immediate comment from US or Iraqi officials.
The United Arab Emirates’ minister of state for defence affairs, Mohamed bin Mubarak bin Fadhel Al Mazrouei, has held talks with several defence ministers following what the UAE described as Iranian attacks on the country.
According to the UAE’s Ministry of Defence, the discussions focused on strengthening defence partnerships and expanding areas of joint military cooperation.
Defence ministers took part in the discussions from South Korea, Greece, Italy and France.
The families of Iranian embassy staff left Saturday, along with teachers and students from an Iranian school and a number of other Iranians residing in Lebanon, Iran’s foreign ministry said in a statement.
It said the move was made “due to the current security situation in Lebanon as a result of the brutal attacks launched by the Zionist entity against the country, and out of concern for the safety and security of our citizens residing in Lebanon.”
It said that consular services will continue for Iranians remaining in Lebanon.
Days earlier, the Israeli military issued a warning to “representatives of the Iranian terrorist regime still in Lebanon to leave immediately before they are targeted.” On Friday, an Israeli strike landed near the Iranian embassy in Beirut.
Iran’s military spokesperson threatened that if Israel strikes the embassy in Lebanon, Iran will consider Israel’s embassies in the region to be legitimate targets.
A spokesperson for Saudi Arabia’s Defense Ministry said late Saturday that a drone was intercepted and destroyed east of Saudi Arabia’s capital of Riyadh.
Top Iranian security official Ali Larijani has spoken in an address carried by state media. He asserted that “our leaders are united on this issue and have no disagreements with one another. We have no divisions among ourselves in fighting Israel and the United States.”
He spoke after President Masoud Pezeshkian apologized for attacks on “neighboring countries” but other Iranian officials suggested that war strategy would not change.
Iran remains without a supreme leader.
Larijani also said the three-member leadership council overseeing Iran has requested that “arrangements be made to convene the Assembly of Experts to choose the next supreme leader of the country.” He did not say when.
Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that Kurdish fighters in the region are willing to assist in efforts to topple the Iranian government, but their involvement would make the conflict more complicated.
“The war is complicated enough without having, getting the Kurds involved,” Trump said.
The head of Iran’s National Security Council says that “a number” of US soldiers have been captured since the start of hostilities one week ago.
He did not specify how many were captured or the circumstances of their capture.
US President Donald Trump attended the return Saturday of the bodies of the first six US soldiers killed during the escalating war with Iran.
Trump, wearing a white "USA" baseball cap and accompanied by several Cabinet members, saluted as each flag-draped case was carried from a military transport plane at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, where the remains of US troops killed overseas are returned to American soil.
The troops were killed last Sunday when a drone struck a key US command center in Kuwait, a day after the United States and Israel launched a sweeping military campaign against Iran.
Trump stopped short of confirming reports that U.S. intelligence officials believe Russia has provided Iran with information to target U.S. troops and assets in the Middle East. But the president suggested it was of little consequence if Moscow is found to be assisting out Iran.
“If you take a look at what’s happened to Iran in the last week, if they’re getting information, it’s not helping them much,” Trump said.
The president also waved off a question about how Russia assisting Iran in such a matter with impact his view of the U.S.-Russia relationship.
“They’d say we do it against them,” Trump responded. “Wouldn’t they say that we do it against them?”
The Ukrainian military has been assisted with U.S. intelligence to help defend against incoming missiles from Russia, and also to help Kyiv hit certain Russian targets.
US President Donald Trump has claimed “it was Iran” who bombed the elementary school in Minab in which at least 165 people were killed.
He was asked by a reporter if the US bombed the school while at Dover Air Force Base on Saturday.
Trump also said said that there was no indication that Russia is helping Tehran, and that he doesn’t want the Kurds “to go in” to Iran.
He added that the US wants “to pick a president in Iran that is not going to lead that country into war.”
The U.S. president, facing an electorate now dealing with rising gas prices, downplayed the need to use the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve but said he’ll use it at the ‘appropriate time.”
“We will start at the appropriate time, which is basically a gut instinct,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One Saturday. “We will start filling up these strategic reserves.”
Trump said “we’ve got a lot of oil” and the issue of gas prices will “get healed very quickly.”
The reserve - a supply of oil that the U.S. government can tap in case of emergencies - held more than 415 million barrels as of the end of last month, up from about 395 million barrels at this time in 2025.
Hezbollah says it carried out attacks targeting northern Israel and Israeli troops near the Lebanon border this evening.
In a statement, the group said it launched a rocket salvo towards the Israeli coastal city of Nahariya at about 10:40pm local time (20:40 GMT).
Hezbollah also said its fighters fired artillery at Israeli forces after what it described as an attempted advance by Israeli troops near the Lebanese border village of Aitaroun at about 8:40pm local time (18:40 GMT).
Lebanon’s National News Agency and our correspondent on the ground report that the Israeli army has carried out a “violent” attack on the Haret Hreik neighbourhood.
The Israeli army announced a short while ago that it had begun attacking targets in the area.
Elsewhere, in southern Lebanon, the Health Ministry says that two people were killed in an Israeli air strike on the town of Kafr Rumman in the Nabatieh area.
A spokesman from US Central Command (CENTCOM) has denied Iran has captured any US soldiers, after the head of Iran’s National Security Council said it had.
“The Iranian regime’s claims of capturing American soldiers are yet another example of its lies and deceptions,” the spokesman told Al Jazeera Arabic.
Trump said on Saturday that the UK is giving serious thought to sending two aircraft carriers to the Middle East, but that the US does not need them for its war on Iran.
“That’s OK, Prime Minister Starmer, we don’t need them any longer — But we will remember,” he said on Truth Social. “We don’t need people that join Wars after we’ve already won!”
The administration of Donald Trump has bypassed congressional review to approve the sale of more than 20,000 bombs to Israel worth about $650m, according to US officials.
The State Department said Secretary of State Marco Rubio had determined that an emergency existed, allowing the administration to waive the usual congressional review process.
Officials said Israel will also purchase a further $298m worth of munitions through direct commercial sales.
A United Nations report published in December 2024 said similar heavy munitions had likely been used by Israel in densely populated areas of Gaza during its war against Hamas.
The president said Saturday that the U.S. retains significant leverage over Iran and isn’t looking to negotiate with its remaining leadership.
“We’re not looking to settle,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One. “They’d like to settle. We’re not looking to settle.”
Steve Witkoff, one of his top envoys in talks with Iran, said the Tehran leadership did not seem “very amenable” during negotiations before the U.S. launched strikes.
“They told me and Jared, we’re not going to give you diplomatically what you couldn’t take militarily,” said Witkoff, referring to fellow negotiator and presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner. “So you know, I think they’re going to need a change of attitude.”
During the gaggle with reporters, Trump repeatedly described the ongoing U.S. operations in Iran as an “excursion” and said issues such as rising gas prices and the safety of Americans would be improved once the conflict ends.
Several drones struck three different areas in Sulaymaniyah in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, in the country’s east, local media reported. One person was killed in one of the attacks, according to an official with one of the Kurdish Iranian dissident groups.
Two drones hit a building in the Sulaymaniyah city center, an area that houses offices and commercial buildings, including a United Nations compound. Live footage shared by local outlets showed a building engulfed in flames, while another video appeared to show air defenses engaging drones overhead.
Three other drones targeted Force 70, a Peshmerga unit of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan headed by Bafel Talabani, son of former Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and a senior Kurdish political leader. One drone also fell near Sulaymaniyah International Airport. No casualties were immediately reported.
Separate drones targeted positions of the Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan, killing one person, according to an official with the group, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak with the press.
Israel’s military confirmed striking several fuel storage complexes in Tehran on Saturday night.
Associated Press video showed a glowing horizon over Tehran, followed by pillars of flame and billowing smoke.
The Iranian state news agency said an oil storage facility was targeted in the strikes. It is among the first times a civil industrial facility has been targeted in the war.
The Israel Defense Forces said Iran was using the fuel tanks to supply its military.
Iran state media in response threatened to hit oil refineries in the northern Israeli city of Haifa.
Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidi met with ambassadors from several non-European Union states, as well as ambassadors from the United States, Brazil and Turkey, urging continued diplomatic pressure to stop the Iran war.
The Saturday evening meeting was followed by a second meeting with ambassadors of Iraq, Jordan, Egypt and the Gulf Coordination Council states, the Oman Foreign Ministry said. The Gulf Coordination Council includes Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman.
Al-Busaidi told the ambassadors that the “highest priority” should be given to “intensifying political and diplomatic pressure to stop the war, contain its repercussions and address its challenges to security, stability and the safety of peoples,” the ministry said.
Saudi Arabia's defence ministry said Sunday it had intercepted and destroyed 14 drones that entered the kingdom's airspace, as Iran presses on with attacks across the Gulf.
Eight drones were intercepted in the country's airspace and a further six were intercepted and destroyed "east of Riyadh", the ministry said in separate posts on its official X account.
Bahrain’s Ministry of Interior said early Sunday that missile fragments fell onto a road in Manama, injuring one person and causing damage to several shops, prompting civil defense teams to secure and evacuate the affected areas.
The ministry also said Iran targeted a facility near Mina Salman, a seaport in Manama, where civil defense is working to control a fire that broke out following the strike.
Local media is reporting that an Israeli drone has struck a room in a hotel in Beirut’s Raouche district, a major seaside tourist area in the Lebanese capital with no notable Hezbollah presence.
The strike hit the Ramada Hotel, popular with tourists and business travelers, and was heard by residents nearby.
There was no immediate word on casualties. Israel did not immediately say who it targeted.
This is the second strike targeting a hotel since the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah reignited earlier this week, after the Iran-backed group launched rockets and drones toward northern Israel, prompting Israeli retaliatory strikes across Lebanon that have killed hundreds.
US President Donald Trump says he refuses to disclose the conditions for sending ground troops into Iran.
Gulf nations reported on Sunday missiles and drone attacks, while Iran vowed to press on with strikes against neighbouring countries as the regional war entered its second week.
Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait all reported new attacks, after loud explosions were heard in Dubai and Bahrain's Manama a day earlier, and Kuwait's national oil company announced a "precautionary" cut to production.
Qatar's defence ministry said on Sunday that the country was targeted a day earlier by 10 ballistic missiles and two cruise missiles fired from Iran, but most of them were intercepted and caused no casualties.
President Donald Trump said Saturday that it was inconsequential if Russia has provided Iran with information to help Tehran target US military personnel and assets in the Middle East as the week-old war rages.
“If you take a look at what’s happened to Iran in the last week, if they’re getting information, it’s not helping them much,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One as he flew to Miami, where he's spending the rest of the weekend.
“They’d say we do it against them,” Trump responded. “Wouldn’t they say that we do it against them?”
The Israeli military said it carried out a "precise strike" in Beirut on Sunday, targeting commanders from Iran's Revolutionary Guards operating in Lebanon.
Israeli forces "conducted a precise strike targeting key commanders" in the Guards' Quds Force, its foreign operations arm, the military said in a statement, accusing the unidentified commanders of planning "terror attacks against the State of Israel and its civilians."
US President Donald Trump said Saturday that he did not want the Kurds to launch an offensive against Iran.
"We're not looking to the Kurds going in," he told reporters in a briefing aboard Air Force One. "We're very friendly with the Kurds, as you know, but we don't want to make the war any more complex than it already is."
Trump had told Reuters news agency Thursday that he would be "all for" an offensive by Iranian Kurdish fighters in support of the US-Israeli war against the Islamic republic.
Israel struck energy facilities around Tehran late on Saturday night, with Israeli media reporting that about 30 large oil storage tanks at Iran’s largest refinery were targeted in one of the most significant escalations since the war began.
Footage showed major fires at the Shahr-e Rey oil refinery south of Tehran, one of Iran’s largest refining complexes, and an explosion at the Fardis oil depot in Karaj, a city west of the capital.
A source in Iran’s Oil Ministry told Fars News that three depots in Kouhak and Shahran in Tehran, as well as Karaj, were struck by Israeli fighter jets.
The attacks come as Israeli officials openly call for crippling Iran’s energy sector, arguing it would cripple Tehran’s economy and help topple the government.
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The Saudi Defense Ministry says its forces downed three drone in Riyadh.
Earlier Sunday, the ministry said it destroyed a drone aimed at Riyadh’s diplomatic quarter where foreign missions, including the US Embassy, are located. Another drone was destroyed in the kingdom’s vast Empty Quarter desert as it headed toward the Shaybah oil field.
Flight-spotting platform, Flightradar24, says flights headed to the Saudi capital of Riyadh have been diverted or are returning to their points of origin over the last few hours.
China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi called on major powers to “play a constructive role” and for an immediate end to military actions.
Yi said during a press briefing on Sunday in Beijing that “this is a war that shouldn’t have happened, and is one that doesn’t bring any benefit to anyone.”
Iran can fight an intense war against the United States and Israel for at least six months, the Revolutionary Guards said in a statement carried by the Fars news agency on Sunday.
"The Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran are capable of continuing at least a 6-month intense war at the current pace of operations," said Guards spokesperson Ali Mohammad Naini, according to Fars.
The Guards, Iran's elite force, also said they had targeted "more than 200" locations related to American and Israeli bases and facilities across the region.
Kuwait says two border guards have been killed as country is hit by missiles and drones. The Interior Ministry identified them as Lt. Col. Abdullah Imad Al-Sharrah and Cap. Fahd Abdulaziz Al-Majmoud.
In a statement, the ministry said they were killed “while performing their national duty.” The statement didn’t elaborate on the circumstances of their deaths. The two were the latest war-related deaths in Kuwait since the US-Israeli conflict with Iran erupted on Feb. 28. Two troops and a child were killed last week.
One person was killed in Dubai on Saturday after debris from an "aerial interception" fell on a vehicle, authorities said.
"Authorities confirm that debris from an aerial interception fell onto a vehicle in the Al Barsha area, resulting in the death of an Asian driver," authorities said without providing additional details.
Kuwait's military said air defence systems were intercepting missile and drone attacks on Sunday, as Iran continues its strikes across the region.
"Kuwaiti air defences are currently engaging hostile missile and drone attacks," the military said in a post on X, adding that explosion sounds were the result of interceptions by air defence systems.
The United Arab Emirates said its air defence systems were intercepting missiles and drones launched from Iran on Sunday.
"UAE air defences are currently responding to incoming missile and drone threats from Iran," the defence ministry said in a post on X, adding sounds of explosions were a result of the systems "intercepting missiles and drones."
Iran has warned Israel and the US of consequences after several key oil refinieries were targeted around Tehran late on Saturday. A water desalination plant was also targeted by Israel.
Responding to the attacks, Iran's Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi warned the US and said it had "set a precedent" thorugh the "dangerous move."
"The US committed a blatant and desperate crime by attacking a freshwater desalination plant on Qeshm Island. Water supplies for 30 villages has been impacted. Attacking Iran’s infrastructure is a dangerous move with great consequences. The US set this precedent, not Iran," the minister said in a post on X.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said his country "will be forced to respond" to any attack or invasion attempt from a neighbouring country, in remarks aired by state TV on Sunday.
If Iran's enemies "try to use any country to attack or invade our land, we will be forced to respond to that attack. Responding does not mean we have disputes with that country or wish to harm its people -- we would be responding out of necessity," said Pezeshkian.
Falling missile debris injured three people and damaged a university building in Bahrain on Sunday, the interior ministry said, as Iran pressed its air campaign against neighbouring Gulf states.
"As a result of the blatant Iranian aggression, 3 people were injured and material damage was inflicted on a university building in the Muharraq area after missile fragments fell," the ministry said in a statement, referring to an island area northwest of Manama.
Israel has struck southern Lebanon and Beirut again early Sunday and killed 12 more people, the Lebanese health ministry said, as the war in the Middle East keeps escalating.
Israeli officials said the strikes targeted commanders of the Lebanese branch of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised “many surprises” for the next phase of the conflict.
Bahrain's interior ministry said on Sunday an Iranian drone attack had damaged a water desalination plant as Iran intensified retaliatory attacks on US assets in the Gulf region.
"The Iranian aggression randomly bombs civilian targets and causes material damage to a water desalination plant following an attack by a drone," the ministry said in a statement.
Earlier Iran said a US strike launched from a military base in Bahrain, hit a water desalination plant in Tehran. Reacting to the attack, Iran's Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi warned the US and said it had "set a precedent" thorugh the "dangerous move."
The United States and Israel hit five oil facilities in overnight strikes in and near the Iranian capital, an official told state TV.
"Last night, four oil depots and a petroleum products transport centre in Tehran and the Alborz were attacked by enemy aircraft," the CEO of the National Iranian Oil Products Distribution Company Keramat Veyskarami told state TV.
He added that the five facilities "were damaged" but the "fire was brought under control."
Human Rights Watch has called for an investigation into the US-Israeli attack on a primary school in southern Iran that killed at least 160 people, many of them schoolchildren.
"Those responsible for an unlawful attack should be held to account, including prosecutions of anyone responsible for war crimes," Sophia Jones, open source researcher of HRW's Digital Investigations Lab, said, reported Al Jazeera.
"A prompt and thorough investigation is needed into this attack, including if those responsible should have known that a school was there and that it would be full of children and their teachers before midday," Jones added.
Three Indonesian crew members are missing after the United Arab Emirates-flagged tugboat Musaffah 2 sank in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday, Jakarta's foreign ministry said in a statement.
"One Indonesian survivor is currently receiving burn treatment at a hospital in the city of Khasab, Oman. The other three Indonesians are still being searched for by the local authorities," the ministry said Saturday.
Before it sank, the Musaffah 2 experienced an explosion that caused it to catch fire, the statement said, adding that an investigation is ongoing by local authorities.
Explosions hit Iran's central Yazd province on Sunday, state media reported, as war raged with the United States and Israel.
It was not immediately clear what was hit in the strikes but the official IRNA news agency said the blasts occurred on the periphery of Yazd city.
Earlier explosions were reported in other parts of the country including the Iranian capital Tehran and the central Isfahan province.
The Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) has warned civilians to take precautions, saying rain could become toxic after explosions at oil facilities. caused by Israeli attacks late on Saturday, reported Al Jazeera.
Such rain could cause chemical burns to the skin and damage to the lungs, the IRCS said.
Fuel distribution in the Iranian capital has been "temporarily interrupted" after US and Israeli strikes on oil depots in and near the city, an official said on Sunday.
"Due to damage to the fuel supply network, distribution has been temporarily interrupted," said Tehran's governor Mohammad Sadegh Motamedian, as quoted by the official IRNA news agency.
"The problem is being resolved," he added.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Sunday that they had launched missiles towards the Israeli cities of Tel Aviv and Bersheeva, as well as an airbase in Jordan.
"The 28th wave of the Operation Honest Promise 4 was launched by the next-generation missiles of the Guards aerospace force against the areas of Beersheva, Tel Aviv, and the Al-Azraq airbase," the Guards said in a statement, according to state TV.
More than 100 Iranians, including some diplomats, were evacuated from Beirut overnight on a Russian plane, a Lebanese official told AFP on Sunday.
"A total of 117 Iranians, including diplomats and embassy staff, were evacuated on a Russian plane that left Beirut overnight from Saturday to Sunday," the official said on condition of anonymity.
The evacuation comes after Lebanon's government on Thursday banned any activity by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps -- a main backer of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.
Israeli strikes on Lebanon have killed 394 people in the past week, including 83 children and 42 women, the country's health minister said Sunday.
Rakan Nassereddine also said at a press conference that nine rescue workers were among the dead, condemning attacks on medical teams and ambulances.
A previous toll announced on Saturday by the minister had put the number of dead at 294 since Lebanon was drawn into the regional war last Monday between Iran, Israel and the United States.
Pope Leo XIV on Sunday called for an end to the violence in the Middle East, saying he prayed that the “roar of bombs” would cease as the war triggered by Donald Trump–backed US-Israeli air strikes on Iran entered its ninth day, reported AFP.
Speaking at the end of the Angelus prayer, the US-born pontiff said news from the region “continues to arouse deep dismay”.
He warned that the conflict risked spreading further across the region, including to Lebanon, amid growing violence and instability.
“I pray that the roar of the bombs may cease, the weapons may fall silent, and a space for dialogue may open in which the voices of the peoples may be heard,” he said.
At least 10 explosions were reported over Israel's commercial hub Tel Aviv on Sunday, according to AFP journalists, following the Israeli military's announcement that it had detected new missiles launched from Iran.
"A short while ago, the IDF identified missiles launched from Iran towards the territory of the State of Israel. Defensive systems are operating to intercept the threat," the military said.
In a separate media briefing, military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani said Iran's "firepower has dropped dramatically all across the region, not only towards Israel".
Blasts were heard in the UAE capital of Abu Dhabi, witnesses told AFP, as Iran continued to press its attacks across the Gulf region.
Abu Dhabi has weathered regular attacks for over a week since Tehran began its retaliatory campaign in the region after the US and Israel launched an aerial war against Iran.
The Arab League's secretary-general said that Iranian attacks on several member states were "reckless", urging Tehran to reverse what he called a "massive strategic mistake".
Addressing an emergency videoconference of Arab foreign ministers in Cairo, Ahmed Aboul Gheit said the strikes "cannot be justified under any pretext or excuse", and repaid peace efforts by Gulf countries with "treacherous rockets and drone strikes".
Israel's military said that two of its soldiers were killed in combat in southern Lebanon, the first Israeli troops to have died since fighting flared with armed group Hezbollah.
"Master Sergeant Maher Khatar, aged 38, from Majdal Shams, a soldier from the Combat Engineering Corps in the 91st division, fell during combat in southern Lebanon," a military statement said, adding that a second soldier was killed in the same incident.
Iran's foreign minister said Sunday that the Iranian people, not Donald Trump, will elect their new leader.
"We allow nobody to interfere in our domestic affairs. This is up to the Iranian people to elect their new leader," Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told NBC's "Meet the Press," after Trump on Thursday asserted he should have a role in picking Iran's next supreme leader.
Israel struck the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh in southern Lebanon on Sunday, Lebanese state media reported, amid the new war between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah.
The state-run National News Agency said that "enemy warplanes launched two raids on the Ain al-Hilweh camp in Sidon".
Several explosions were heard on Sunday in various parts of the Iranian capital, AFP journalists said, on the ninth day of the war with the United States and Israel.
It was not immediately clear what was targeted, with clouds of smoke still covering the Tehran skyline following overnight targeting of oil depots in and near the city.
Local media have reported the latest blasts.
Iran's foreign minister said Sunday that its missiles cannot reach the United States as he defended strikes that have hit Gulf neighbors during the war in the Middle East.
"It is Americans who started this war against us, attacking us, and we are defending ourselves. So it is obvious that our missiles cannot reach the US soil," Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told NBC's "Meet the Press."
The United States will spare Iran's energy infrastructure as it wages war with Israel against the Islamic Republic, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Sunday.
With oil prices rising dramatically, he told CNN that disruptions to the petroleum and gas industry will be short lived -- "worst case, that's a few weeks. That's not months."
US President Donald Trump said Sunday that Iran's next supreme leader "is not going to last long" if Tehran does not get his approval first.
"He’s going to have to get approval from us," Trump told ABC News. "If he doesn’t get approval from us he’s not going to last long."
His comments came as the Iranian clerical body responsible for choosing the successor to slain supreme leader Ali Khamenei was reported to have voted and would soon announce a name.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and US President Donald Trump held a call on Sunday about the war in the Middle East, the UK government said in a statement.
The pair discussed the United States' use of British air bases "in support of the collective self-defence of partners in the region", according to Downing Street's readout of the call.
A projectile killed two people and injured 12 more in Saudi Arabia's Al Kharj governorate south of Riyadh, the kingdom's civil defence said on Sunday, as Iran continued to launch missiles and drones at its Gulf neighbours.
The civil defence agency said an Indian and a Bangladeshi national were killed by an unspecified "military projectile" that hit a residential area, according to the statement, which did not mention Iran by name.
Al Kharj governorate is home to a massive air base and has been targeted repeatedly over the past week as Tehran struck the Gulf after Israel and the US launched a campaign against the Islamic republic.
Lebanon's social affairs minister said on Sunday that more than half a million people had been registered as displaced since the outbreak of the new war between Israel and Hezbollah.
In a press briefing, Haneen Sayed said that the total number of people who registered their names on a website affiliated with the ministry reached 517,000, including 117,228 people in government shelters.
Iran's military warned on Sunday it would target oil sites in the region if Israel continued to strike energy infrastructure in the Islamic republic.
"The governments of Islamic countries are expected to warn the criminal America and the savage Zionist regime of such cowardly, inhumane actions as soon as possible," Ebrahim Zolfaghari, a spokesman for Iran's central military command, told state TV.
"Otherwise, similar measures will be taken in the region, and if you can tolerate oil at more than $200 per barrel, continue this game."
