Here are the latest developments in the Middle East war:
Iran’s military said Israel was behind a recent strike on Kuwait’s desalination plant.
Rockets fired overnight targeted an Iraqi military base inside the Baghdad airport complex, which also houses a support centre for the US embassy, Iraq’s defence ministry said.
A spokesman for the Iranian foreign ministry said Iran was not seeking nuclear weapons but the issue of whether to remain part of the non-proliferation treaty was under review in parliament.
Spain’s left-wing government has closed Spanish airspace to US planes carrying out missions against Iran in addition to denying Washington use of its bases, the defence minister said.
Iran said its envoy to Lebanon would remain, despite being ordered out of the country.
“Our ambassador... will continue his work as Iran’s ambassador in Beirut and remains present there,” foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei told a weekly press briefing, adding that the embassy in Beirut remains “operational”.
Lebanon’s foreign ministry accused him of making statements “interfering in Lebanon’s internal politics”.
An Israeli strike killed a Lebanese soldier and wounded several others when it hit an army checkpoint in the country’s south, a Lebanese military official said, in the first direct attack on a military post since the start of the war.
The Israeli military said a soldier was killed a day earlier in combat in southern Lebanon, bringing to six the number of troops killed since fighting with Iran-backed Hezbollah erupted in early March.
The American University of Armenia said it was moving all classes online over Iranian threats to target US universities in the region.
Iranian made the warning after saying US-Israeli strikes had destroyed two Iranian universities.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky hailed as “historic” deals that Kyiv signed last week with Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
The contents of the deals have not been made public, but Zelensky has said they include Ukrainian expertise in downing drones.
Syria’s military said a large-scale drone attack targeted its bases near the border with Iraq, in the latest such incident since the outbreak of the war.
It was not immediately clear who had launched the attack.
Iran confirmed on Monday that Revolutionary Guards commander Alireza Tangsiri had been killed, days after Israel said it targeted him in an air strike.
A statement carried by the Guards’ Sepah News website said Tangsiri “succumbed to severe injuries” from the attack.
Israel’s military said it had struck dozens of weapons production sites including a long-range surface-to-air missiles manufacturing line in Iran’s capital Tehran.
Iran has restored electricity in parts of the capital and nearby areas after strikes damaged power grids and briefly disrupted supply, the deputy energy minister said.
US President Donald Trump has threatened to strike Iranian power stations if Tehran does not negotiate a peace deal, before repeatedly extending a deadline to do so.
A strike hit Beirut’s southern suburbs on Monday, AFPTV footage showed, after Israel ordered people in the Hezbollah stronghold to leave.
The strike was the first since Friday in the area, which is now largely deserted following Israeli attacks. The Israeli military said it was striking Hezbollah targets in Beirut.
Indonesia confirmed that one of its peacekeepers was killed in Lebanon, after the United Nations force said a projectile hit one of its positions.
The Indonesian foreign ministry said “indirect artillery fire” near the town of Adchit al Qusayr killed one of its peacekeepers and wounded three others.
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