Strikes, attacks, interceptions, deployments, and security incidents.
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The Israeli military said its strikes in recent days caused extensive damage to key naval cruise missile production sites in central Tehran. It also said it hit the Underwater Research Center in Isfahan, which it called Iran's only facility making submarines and support systems for the navy.
Iraq's Defense Ministry said an airstrike followed by aircraft cannon fire hit the Habbaniyah military clinic in Anbar province, killing seven service members and wounding 13; it did not name the attacker. An Iraqi police source told Al Jazeera the strike targeted positions of the Popular Mobilization Forces, and Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani ordered the U.S. charge d'affaires summoned and a complaint filed with the UN Security Council.
Kuwait's civil aviation authority said Iranian drones hit a fuel depot at Kuwait International Airport early Wednesday, starting a fire, while the National Guard said it intercepted six drones. Iran's Revolutionary Guard said it had fired missiles and drones at Israel and at bases hosting U.S. forces in Kuwait, Jordan and Bahrain.
U.S. officials said part of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division, including a battalion of the 1st Brigade Combat Team and division commander Maj. Gen. Brandon Tegtmeier with his staff, would deploy in the coming days; AP's sources put the force at about 1,000 troops and a CBS source at fewer than 1,500.
Defense Minister Israel Katz said the military will control a security zone in southern Lebanon up to the Litani River, that residents who fled north of the river will not return until northern Israel is secure, and that Israel will apply "the Rafah and Beit Hanoun models" by destroying houses in border villages.
The Kurdistan Region's Peshmerga ministry said six Iranian ballistic missiles fired in two strikes hit the Area Command One headquarters in Soran, Erbil province, before dawn, killing six soldiers and wounding 30. Regional President Nechirvan Barzani called it "direct hostile aggression" against Iraq's sovereignty.
Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces said an airstrike on its command headquarters in western Anbar province killed 15 fighters, including Anbar operations commander Saad Dawai al-Baiji, and blamed the United States.
UNIFIL said a projectile hit a building inside its headquarters in Naqoura just before noon and that it believed it was fired by a non-state actor, after Hezbollah claimed attacks on Israeli forces in the town; it said fighting over the previous 48 hours had forced peacekeepers into shelters.
Israel struck the Qasmiyeh bridge near Tyre an hour after a military warning, after Defense Minister Israel Katz added all bridges over the Litani River to the target list, saying Hezbollah used them to move south. Lebanese President Joseph Aoun called the strikes "unjustified" and "a prelude to a ground invasion."
Iran's military said in a statement carried by Fars that if Iran's fuel and energy infrastructure is attacked, all energy, information technology and desalination infrastructure belonging to the United States and Israel in the region will be targeted.
In a Truth Social post Saturday night, Trump said that if Iran did not "FULLY OPEN, WITHOUT THREAT" the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours, the United States would "hit and obliterate" its power plants, "STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST!"
A second ballistic missile struck Arad, about 30 kilometers from the nuclear research center, injuring nearly 70 people, 10 of them seriously, and damaging at least 10 apartment buildings, three of which were destroyed. The military said interceptors engaged both the Dimona and Arad missiles but failed to bring them down.
A ballistic missile directly hit a building in Dimona, wounding dozens of people including a boy with shrapnel injuries, after Iran said it would target Israel's nuclear program in response to the strike on Natanz. The IAEA said no abnormal radiation levels had been detected.
Britain's Defense Ministry condemned Iran's "reckless attacks" after Iran fired missiles on Friday at the joint base, roughly 2,500 miles (4,000 kilometers) from Iran. The Wall Street Journal, citing U.S. officials, reported that two intermediate-range ballistic missiles were fired and that the attempt failed.
NATO's top commander, Gen. Alexus Grynkewich, confirmed the last personnel of NATO Mission Iraq left on Friday and that the non-combat mission, launched in 2018 and based mostly around Baghdad, will be run from Naples, Italy. The move followed Iranian attacks on British, French and Italian troops at bases in northern Iraq.
U.S. officials said the amphibious assault ship USS Boxer and two other amphibious ships left San Diego for the Middle East with Marines of the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, roughly 2,500 by AP's count and about 2,200 by CBS's. It is the second such unit sent since the war began and could take weeks to arrive.
Iranian state TV said Gen. Ali Mohammad Naini, spokesman for the Revolutionary Guard, was killed in an airstrike early Friday, after he issued a statement insisting Iran could still build missiles. Israel's military confirmed an overnight Israeli Air Force strike and said he was one of dozens of senior regime figures it had killed during the operation.
At his first in-person news conference of the war, Netanyahu said Israel alone struck the Asaluyeh gas complex and was holding off further attacks on the South Pars field because Trump asked it to. He also claimed Iran could no longer enrich uranium or produce ballistic missiles.
Part of an Iranian cluster warhead hit the Bazan oil refinery complex in Haifa Bay on Thursday afternoon, starting a fire, while Energy Minister Eli Cohen said crews were restoring power in parts of the north. No injuries were reported at the refinery and the Environmental Protection Ministry found no hazardous leak.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday's strikes would be the largest package of the war, with more than 7,000 targets hit so far, and said all 11 of Iran's small submarines were gone; Gen. Dan Caine said U.S. jets were striking deeper into Iran and had hit more than 90 targets on Kharg Island. A senior administration official told AP the Pentagon had asked the White House for $200 billion in additional war funding.
In a Truth Social post Wednesday night, Trump said Israel would make no more attacks on Iran's South Pars gas field but that if Iran attacked Qatar again the United States would "massively blow up the entirety" of the field. He said the U.S. "knew nothing" about Israel's strike, although a person familiar with the matter told AP Washington had been informed of the plan.
Iranian state TV told workers and residents to evacuate Saudi Arabia's Samref refinery and Jubail petrochemical complex, the UAE's Al Hosn gas field and Qatar's Mesaieed petrochemical sites and Ras Laffan refinery, saying they would be attacked within hours in response to the South Pars strike.
Defense Minister Israel Katz said Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib was killed in an overnight strike in Tehran and warned of 'significant surprises' on all fronts. President Masoud Pezeshkian confirmed the death, calling the killings of Khatib, Ali Larijani and Defense Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh cowardly assassinations.
Lebanon's Health Ministry said Israeli strikes on central Beirut since midnight killed 10 people and wounded 27, hitting the Basta, Zuqaq al-Blat and Bachoura areas, where one apartment building was flattened. Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV said its political programs director Mohammad Shari and his wife were among the dead.
U.S. Central Command said it used multiple 5,000-pound deep penetrator munitions on hardened Iranian missile sites along the coast near the Strait of Hormuz, saying the anti-ship cruise missiles there posed a risk to international shipping.
Magen David Adom said a man and a woman were killed by severe shrapnel wounds in Ramat Gan, east of Tel Aviv, after an Iranian barrage struck several sites in central Israel. The Revolutionary Guards said they fired Khorramshahr-4 and Qadr multiple-warhead missiles in revenge for Larijani's killing.
Israel said overnight strikes killed Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, and Gen. Gholamreza Soleimani, head of the Revolutionary Guards' Basij force, whom it said was hit in a tent used as a makeshift headquarters. Iran's Supreme National Security Council later confirmed Larijani was killed along with his son Morteza, his office chief and several guards.
Two Iraqi security officials said a drone struck the top floor of the Rasheed Hotel in the Green Zone, which houses diplomatic delegations and international organizations, causing damage but no casualties. Earlier Monday the Iran-backed Kataib Hezbollah announced the death of senior security official Abu Ali al-Askari, and strikes killed eight Popular Mobilization Forces fighters in Anbar.
The IDF said troops had begun 'limited and targeted' ground operations against key Hezbollah strongholds to build a forward defense zone; the Times of Israel said the 91st, 146th and 36th divisions were involved. Defense Minister Israel Katz said hundreds of thousands of displaced residents would not return south of the Litani until northern Israel was safe.
Israeli army spokesman Avichay Adraee ordered residents of Haret Hreik, Ghobeiry, Laylaki, Hadath, Burj al-Barajneh, Tahwitat al-Ghadir and Shiyah to leave immediately after a night of strikes on Beirut's southern suburbs. Lebanon's Health Ministry said at least 850 people, including 107 children, had been killed since March 2.