US military officials said Monday they destroyed command posts of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as well as Iranian air defense and missile launch sites, in the Middle Eastern war that broke out over the weekend.
President Donald Trump suggested Monday that the United States would retaliate “soon” after its embassy in the Saudi capital Riyadh was struck by two suspected Iranian drones.
The Israeli military said Tuesday that it had “destroyed” the south Beirut office of Al-Manar TV, which is affiliated with Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah.
The United States has urged its citizens across the Middle East to leave the region using available commercial transportation, due to serious safety risks.
The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah said just after midnight on Tuesday that its rocket and drone attack on Israel was a “defensive act”.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards threatened to burn any ship attempting to transit the strategic Strait of Hormuz, after the Islamic Republic announced its closure following the start of the US-Israeli attack against it.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio voiced support Monday for toppling Iran’s Islamic authorities but said it was not the objective of the US and Israeli war against Tehran.
The United States hit more than 1,250 targets in the first 48 hours of the war against Iran, the US military said Monday — up from more than 1,000 during the first day of the conflict.
Three US warplanes were mistakenly shot down by Kuwait air defenses late on Sunday night, the US Central Command said, an incident that occurred during active fighting against Iranian attacks.
Israel’s military said Monday it struck a senior Hezbollah operative in Beirut, with the defense minister saying the Lebanese group’s chief Naim Qassem is “a marked target”.
