The United States and its Arab allies on Sunday condemned Iran for launching a wave of strikes on Gulf states hosting US troops in response to a US-Israeli attack.
Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group said on Monday it launched rockets and drones at Israel overnight in retaliation for the killing of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
US President Donald Trump said Sunday that he had a shortlist of three names to lead Iran after he launched a war to topple Tehran’s ruling clerics.
The US Central Command announced that three service members have been killed in action and five are seriously wounded as part of Operation Epic Fury, marking the first US casualties since the military operation against Iran began on Saturday.
The Israeli military on Sunday said it had destroyed roughly half of Iran’s missile stockpiles in the previous war in June 2025, adding the Islamic republic had been producing dozens of surface-to-surface missiles each month.
CIA intelligence indicating Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would attend a meeting of top Iranian officials helped guide strikes in a US and Israeli attack that killed Iran’s supreme leader, the New York Times reported Sunday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday slammed the United States and Israel’s killing of Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei in as a “cynical violation” of morality and law.
Lebanese militant group Hezbollah vowed Sunday to confront the United States and Israel over their strikes on the group’s key backer Iran.
The Israeli military has reported the killing of the Iranian Chief of Staff Abdolrahim Mousavi in Tehran, along with 40 other high-ranking military commanders, in its strikes based on precise intelligence information.
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said Sunday that the killing of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in US and Israeli strikes was a “declaration of war against Muslims”.
