Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian has said that Tehran will no longer target neighbouring countries, unless an attack originates from there, as the US-Israeli war on Iran enters its second week.
Despite the formal announcement, attacks on Gulf countries including the UAE and Qatar continued overnight and into the morning. Dubai International Airport was targeted overnight, leading to a suspension of flights.
Meanwhile, Israel has announced multiple waves of attacks on Iran as residents of Tehran and major cities across the country reported hearing constant sounds of explosions from missile strikes and interceptions. The death toll in the country has surpassed 1,300.
Israel has also intensified its attacks on Lebanon, with an overnight strike on the town of Nabi Chit killing at least 16 people and injuring dozens more.
Hezbollah has said it engaged in fighting with Israeli soldiers on the ground in eastern Bekaa amid reports of Israeli forces attempting a landing operation along the border between Lebanon and Syria, as Tel Aviv looks to push further inside Lebanese territory.
A loud blast was heard near the U.S. embassy in Oslo early on Sunday, Norwegian police said.
It was not immediately clear what caused the blast or who was involved, the Oslo police department said in a statement.
"The police are in a dialogue with the embassy and there are no reports of any injured persons," the statement said.
Israeli airstrikes on several targets in southern Lebanon on Saturday killed eight people, according to a toll released by the health ministry.
Lebanon's state-run National News Agency reported that a series of Israeli airstrikes had targeted more than 20 towns and villages in southern Lebanon.
"Six people were killed by an Israeli airstrike on the town of Kherbet Selm," the health ministry reported. A second strike killed at least two people in Kfar Rumman near the city of Nabatiyeh, it added.
US President Donald Trump evoked Saturday the idea of sending ground troops into Iran to secure the country's stockpiles of enriched uranium, as part of efforts to dismantle Tehran's nuclear program.
"At some point maybe we will. That would be a great thing," he told reporters during a briefing aboard Air Force One.
"We haven't gone after it, but it's something we could do later," he said.
Some critics of the US-Israeli war on Iran, launched last Saturday, have said air strikes alone are unlikely to achieve the stated goals of destroying Iran's military capacity and preventing it from developing a nuclear bomb.
Asked about the use of ground troops in general, Trump did not rule it out, saying: "Could there be? Possibly, for a very good reason -- it'd have to be a very good reason."
"And I would say if we ever did that, they would be so decimated that they wouldn't be able to fight at the ground level," he said.
Australia will consider a request by Gulf states for assistance against Iranian drone and missile attacks, Foreign Minister Penny Wong said Sunday.
Speaking to national broadcaster ABC, Wong said "we've had many countries which are non-participants have been attacked by Iran through this... we have been asked for assistance".
Asked whether that meant assistance in protecting them from Iranian drone and missile attacks, Wong said "correct".
"We will work through that in accordance with the position I have outlined, which is, we are not participating in offensive action against Iran, and we've made clear we would not participate in any ground troop deployment into Iran," she said.
The United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran last week that killed its supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and triggered a war in the Middle East.
Iran responded with drone and missile strikes targeting Israel as well as Gulf states like the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Qatar.
The attacks have forced busy Gulf hubs, including Dubai and Doha, to suspend flights, leaving passengers stranded around the world.
Australia backed the US-Israeli strikes as necessary to prevent Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
It has a small military presence in the Middle East -- around 100 personnel, many stationed at the Al Minhad base in the UAE.
Officials have said Canberra has no plans to take part in any military action against Iran.
But the country has close military ties with the United States.
As of last month, around 70 Australian military personnel are currently serving on American nuclear submarines, Canberra has said.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said that three Australian personnel had been on board a US submarine when it sank an Iranian ship on Wednesday.
The personnel were on the submarine as part of training arrangements under AUKUS, a multi-decade defence pact with Britain and the United States, Albanese said.
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.
Explosions were heard on Saturday night in Iraq's capital Baghdad and in the city of Erbil in the autonomous Kurdistan region, AFP journalists reported.
The cause of the loud bangs in Baghdad was still unknown, but a witness near the fortified Green Zone, which houses the US embassy, reported seeing air defences activated over the area.
Several drones have been intercepted near Baghdad airport since the start of the war in the Middle East.
In Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan region, an AFP journalist reported hearing the sound of a drone followed by at least three loud bangs.
Since the start of the war, drones have repeatedly been intercepted over the city of Erbil, which is also home to a major US consulate complex.
Iran's security chief Ali Larijani said on Saturday that the United States and Israel were seeking to break the Islamic Republic apart.
"Their issue was... the fundamental disintegration of Iran," said Larijani in a pre-recorded interview broadcast on state TV.
On February 28, the US and Israel launched strikes on Iran that killed its supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and triggered a war in the Middle East.
Iran responded with drone and missile strikes targeting Israel as well as US interests across the region.
He said the US was seeking to replicate in Iran a scenario similar to Venezuela, where interim president Delcy Rodriguez has cooperated with him under threat of violence after Washington ousted her boss, Nicolas Maduro.
"I think the most important problem the Americans have is that they do not understand the context of West Asia, especially Iran," said Larijani.
"Their perception was that it would be like Venezuela -- they would strike, take control, and it would be over --but now they are trapped."
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 IRNA news agency reported that the refinery's facilities "were not damaged in the military attacks".
Strikes hit another oil depot in northwestern Tehran, according to an AFP journalist who saw flames and smoke rising from the site.
On 28 February, the US and Israel launched strikes on Iran that killed its supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and triggered a war in the Middle East.
Iran responded with drone and missile strikes targeting Israel as well as US interests across the region.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday that Israel would continue its war on Iran "with all our force".
"We have a systematic plan to eradicate the Iranian regime and achieve many other objectives," Netanyahu said in a televised address.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Saturday 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.
The Israeli military said Saturday that it had carried out around 3,400 strikes 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.
Hezbollah on Saturday said on Telegram is launched new strikes on Israel, targeting the Tel Hashomer base southeast of Tel Aviv with a "specialised missile".
Israel's military said on Friday that a "firing component" launched by its navy 'unintentionally' struck a fuel truck belonging to a United Nations agency in Gaza the previous day, an incident that prompted the agency to publicly call for a full investigation.
The United Nations Office for Project Services, which oversees fuel distribution in the war-battered Gaza Strip, said that the empty fuel truck was struck on Thursday around 5 a.m. from the direction of the sea, causing damage to the vehicle. There were no injuries.
"Our teams are taking extraordinary risks every day to keep humanitarian operations and life-sustaining services running," UNOPS Executive Director Jorge Moreira da Silva said in a statement, calling for an investigation into the incident.
"They should not have to do that under fire," he said.
Israel's war on Gaza has killed over 70,000 Palestinians since it started in October 2023. International rights groups have determined that the war amounts to genocide and have documented many examples of the Israeli army targeting aid-seekers and distribution sites.
More than 150 Iranian nationals, including diplomats and their families, left Lebanon on Saturday, a senior Lebanese security source told Reuters, after an Israeli military spokesperson threatened "representatives" of Iran in Lebanon.
The security source said they were being flown to Russia on a Russian plane, and that another 20 Iranians had left on Friday following the start of a new war between the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah and Israel.
An Israeli military spokesperson on Tuesday told representatives of the Iranian government "still in Lebanon to leave immediately before they are targeted."
The United States on Saturday condemned Iran's drone strikes earlier this week on an Azerbaijan border region, describing the attack as a "needless escalation" of aggression by Tehran during the Middle East war.
The State Department said Thursday's "unprovoked drone attack" targeted an airport and school in Azerbaijan's exclave of Nakhchivan bordering Iran, and that innocent civilians were injured.
"These strikes are a flagrant violation of Azerbaijan's sovereignty and a needless escalation of Iran's aggression," State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott said in a statement, adding that attacks on American partners in the region "are unacceptable and will be met with resolute US support for those partners."
A member of Iran's Assembly of Experts said Saturday the body would meet within a day to choose the country's next supreme leader, Iranian media reported.
"With divine assistance, this session will occur within the next twenty-four hours," said Hossein Mozafari, one of the assembly's 88 members, cited by the Fars news agency.
The statement came a week after the killing of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a US-Israeli attack.
Mozafari also urged Iranians to "refrain from any speculation and the spreading of rumors regarding this matter" as the assembly has not yet convened for a session.
Lebanon's social affairs minister said on Saturday that 454,000 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 454,000, including 112,525 people registered in government shelters.
Sayed urged remaining displaced people to register their names with the authorities, with Israel this week having warned residents of Beirut's densely populated southern suburbs and hundreds of square kilometres of southern Lebanon to evacuate.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps said on Saturday it had struck the United States' Juffair base in Bahrain, adding that it had been used to attack an Iranian desalination plant earlier in the day.
"In response to the aggression of American terrorists from the Juffair base against the Qeshm desalination plant, this American base was immediately struck by precision-guided solid-fuel and liquid-fuel missiles of the IRGC," the Guards said on their website.
Saudi Arabia said a missile that had targeted one of its air bases fell "in an uninhabited area" on Saturday as Iran continued its strikes across the Gulf.
"A ballistic missile fell in an uninhabited area after being launched towards Prince Sultan Air Base," the defence ministry said.
An Israeli settler shot dead a 27-year-old Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.
The man was killed in the village area of Masafer Yatta, near the Palestinian city of Hebron, according to the Health Ministry and the official Palestinian news agency WAFA.
The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the incident.
Masafer Yatta is among the sites where Palestinians have been increasingly displaced by settler violence that has risen sharply over the past two years, according to the United Nations.
Two Palestinian brothers were shot dead by an Israeli on Monday near the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.
An Iranian attack on Saturday caused a fire in Bahrain's capital of Manama, damaging a house and other buildings, the interior ministry said without specifying if there were casualties.
"The Iranian aggression caused a fire and material damage to a house and several surrounding buildings in Manama," the ministry said. "Civil Defence is taking the necessary measures to extinguish the fire."
A strike targeted a military base belonging to the former paramilitary coalition Hashed al-Shaabi in northern Iraq on Saturday, two Hashed sources told AFP.
"An airstrike, likely American, hit a Hashed base south of the city of Mosul," an official said. Another source confirmed the strike took place.
The Hashed al-Shaabi, or the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), is an alliance of factions now integrated into the regular army that also includes powerful Iran-backed groups.
The United Arab Emirates will emerge "stronger" after the Middle East war, the president told Abu Dhabi TV in a rare address on Saturday, as Iran continued its retaliatory strikes across the Gulf.
The UAE "is in a period of war", Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan told the TV channel, but "we will emerge stronger".
Israel's military renews its forced evacuation order for residents of Beirut's southern suburb, threatening a new attack on an area housing hundreds of thousands of people on the grounds of targeting Hezbollah.
The U.S. State Department said on Friday it has approved a sale worth $151.8 million to Israel for munitions and munitions support, without submitting it for congressional review.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio determined an emergency existed that required an immediate sale to Israel, the State Department said, with the announcement coming a week after the U.S. and Israel started their attacks on Iran.
Israel had requested 12,000 BLU-110A/B general purpose, 1,000-pound bomb bodies, the State Department said in a statement. The principal contractor will be Repkon USA, located in Texas, it said.
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Iran's hardline judiciary chief said the Islamic republic would continue targeting regional neighbours offering its enemies "points... used in agression against our country".
"Evidence from Iran's armed forces shows that the geography of some countries in the region is openly and covertly at the disposal of the enemy," said Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, who is also a member of the interim leadership council.
"The heavy attacks on these targets will continue," he added.
Qatar said on Saturday it had intercepted a missile, shortly after AFP journalists heard explosions and sirens sounding in central Doha.
"Armed forces intercepted (a) missile attack which targeted (the) State of Qatar," the defence ministry said.
Israel's military on Saturday struck three buildings in the suburbs of the southern city of Tyre after issuing forced evacuation orders, Lebanese state media said.
AFP footage showed thick plumes of black smoke rising from buildings that Israel alleged Hezbollah was using.
Lebanon's state-run National News Agency reported that "Israeli warplanes attacked the three buildings that it had identified and threatened".
Israel's military on Saturday ordered residents in a district of Lebanon's Tyre to evacuate ahead of strikes, and reiterated a demand for people to leave the area south of the Litani river.
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Several explosions were heard on Saturday in the Qatari capital Doha, AFP journalists reported, as Iran continued its retaliatory strikes across the Gulf.
AFP journalists said they also heard sirens sounding in central Doha.
Loud explosions were heard Saturday in Bahrain's capital Manama, two AFP journalists reported, as Iran continued its retaliatory strkes across the Gulf.
One of the journalists said they heard at least five blasts in the city.
The United Arab Emirates has issued a new nationwide warning for an incoming missile attack, activating air defences.
The United States has started using British bases for certain operations against Iran during the Middle East war, the UK government announced on Saturday.
Britain's defence ministry said the US had begun using the military sites for "specific defensive operations to prevent Iran firing missiles into the region".
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer annoyed US President Donald Trump for initially refusing to have any role in the US-Israeli war with Iran, which started a week ago, on 28 February.
He later agree to a US request to use two British military bases for a "specific and limited defensive purpose".
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Israel's military said on Saturday it had struck 16 Iranian aircraft at Tehran's Mehrabad International Airport, which it said was a key hub for the Islamic republic's Revolutionary Guards.
"Overnight, the Israeli Air Force... completed a broad wave of strikes across Tehran and on military infrastructure located at the 'Merabad Airport' in Tehran", it said in a statement.
"16 aircraft of the 'Quds Force' unit of the IRGC were precisely dismantled", it said, referring to the branch of Iran's Revolutionary Guards that oversees its foreign operations.
The military accused the Guards of using Mehrabad International Airport, one of two that serve the capital, to send cash and weapons to its proxies in the Middle East, including Lebanon's Hezbollah.
"Also targeted were several Iranian fighter jets that posed a threat to Israeli Air Force aircraft operating in Iranian airspace", the statement added.
Earlier on Saturday, Israel's military said more than 80 fighter jets completed a wave of strikes on Iranian military sites, missile launchers and other targets in Tehran and central Iran on the same day.
"Over 80 Israeli Air Force fighter jets... completed an additional wave of strikes targeting infrastructure belonging to the Iranian terror regime," the military said in a statement.
In one of the biggest raids announced by Israel since the regional war began on February 28, the statement said that jets hit a military academy belonging to the Revolutionary Guards which "was being used as an emergency asset".
It said the facility was being used for military operations, making it "a lawful military objective".
Other targets included an underground command centre and missile storage facility as well as launch sites, "in order to reduce the scope of fire directed at the territory of the State of Israel", the statement said.
When Israel joined the United States in a massive wave of strikes on Iran at the start of the war, the Israeli military said 200 fighter jets took part in the raids, calling it the largest in the air force's history.
Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi accused the United States on Saturday of attacking a desalination plant on a Gulf island, saying it had set a precedent.
"The US committed a blatant and desperate crime by attacking a freshwater desalination plant on Qeshm Island," said Araghchi in a post on X.
"Water supply in 30 villages has been impacted. Attacking Iran's infrastructure is a dangerous move with grave consequences. The US set this precedent, not Iran."
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Saturday they have targeted "separatist groups" in Iraq's Kurdistan region, as the war against Israel and the United States entered its second week.
An official from an exiled opposition group in Kurdistan told AFP that drones struck positions belonging to three Iranian Kurdish parties without causing casualties.
The Revolutionary Guards said in a statement carried by Tasnim news agency that "three locations of separatist groups in the Iraqi region (of Kurdistan) were hit... this morning."
"If separatist groups in the region make any move against Iran's territorial integrity, we will crush them," the Guards added.
Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region hosts camps and rear bases operated by several Iranian Kurdish militant groups that have repeatedly come under Iranian fire since the war began.
Tehran threatened to target "all the facilities" of Kurdistan if militants were allowed to enter the Islamic republic.
The Iraqi government and the autonomous region said Friday that Iraq must not be a launchpad for attacks against neighbouring countries, following reports that militants might attempt to cross into Iran.
Iraq's border guard commander Mohammed Sukar said Saturday that the Iraq-Iran border is secure, and there have been no infiltration attempt to Iran, according to the Iraqi News Agency (INA).
The Israeli military has carried out an airstrike on the Lebanese town of Yater, in the Bint Jbeil District, according to local media.
The United States has completed over a dozen charter flights and evacuated thousands of Americans from the Middle East since last week, the U.S. State Department said on Saturday.
Kuwait's national oil company on Saturday announced a cut to its production of crude due to Iranian attacks and threats to the Strait of Hormuz, a key transit point for Gulf hydrocarbons.
"In light of the ongoing aggression by the Islamic Republic of Iran against the State of Kuwait, including Iranian threats against safe passage of ships through the Strait of Hormuz, KPC (Kuwait Petroleum Corporation) has implemented a precautionary reduction in crude oil production and refining throughput as part of its risk management and business continuity strategy," it said, adding that it would be "reviewed as the situation develops".
Tunisian authorities detained several pro-Palestinian activists Friday as tensions mounted around an international campaign preparing a new humanitarian flotilla to challenge Israeli restrictions and bring aid to Gaza, organizers said in a statement.
Tunisian media reported that Tunisia’s National Guard financial crimes unit opened an inquiry into suspected money laundering, fraud and the alleged misuse of funds collected through donations to the flotilla campaign.
The probe reportedly targets several managers and members of the flotilla steering committee, with certain members taken into custody as authorities verify the origin and management of donation funds. Tunisian authorities didn't publicly comment on the detentions.
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Lebanon's health ministry on Saturday said Israeli attacks on the country had killed almost 300 people since the start of the war with Hezbollah this week.
In a statement, the ministry said that "the death toll from the Israeli aggression, from dawn on Monday... has risen to 294 martyrs and 1,023 wounded".
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said its forces have targeted a Marshall-islands flagged oil tanker on Saturday in the Gulf as the war with Israel and the United States raged.
"An oil tanker with the trade name 'Louise P' with the flag of the Marshall Islands, one of the assets of the terrorist America, was hit by a drone in the middle of the Persian Gulf," the Guards said on their website Sepah News.
Turkey is considering the deployment of F-16 aircraft to Cyprus, a Turkish defence ministry source said on Saturday.
The person said such a move was one of the steps being considered amid the phased planning underway to ensure the security of the breakaway Turkish Cypriot state in the north of the island, as conflict spreads in the region.
Lebanese Shi'ite militant group Hezbollah on Saturday warned residents of a northern Israeli city near the border with Lebanon to evacuate and head south.
Hezbollah did not specify what action, if any, it planned to take against the city, which lies only a few kilometres from the border.
"Warning. All residents of Kiryat Shmona are asked to evacuate immediately. Head south," it said in a statement.
Lebanon was pulled into the widening US-Israel war with Iran on Monday after Hezbollah, an Iranian-aligned group, fired rockets and drones into Israel. Israel responded with heavy strikes across Lebanon's south, east and near Beirut.
Lebanese health ministry says six people have been killed, including four children, in an Israeli raid on the village of Chmistar in the Bekaa Valley.
Renewed explosions heard in central Tehran, according to Iranian state-affiliated Mehr news agency.
The death toll from Israel's strikes on Nabih Chit has risen to at least 41 people, with some 40 other people injured, according to Lebanese health officials.
Jordan accused Iran on Saturday of directly targeting sites in the kingdom, firing 119 missiles and drones in the week since US-Israeli strikes triggered a regional war.
Jordanian military spokesman Brigadier General Mustafa Hayari told a news conference that 108 of the projectiles had been intercepted.
"These missiles and drones were targeting vital installations inside Jordan and were not passing through our territories," he said.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday condemned an attack a day earlier on a UN base in southern Lebanon that seriously wounded three Ghanaian UN peacekeepers.
The Lebanese president has accused Israel of targeting them and the UN peacekeeping force has said it will investigate.
"The secretary-general condemns the incident on Friday March... in Al Qawzah, southwestern Lebanon, amidst heavy firing," Guterres's spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.
"The secretary-general underscores that the safety and security of UN personnel and property must be respected at all times, and that those responsible must be held accountable. The inviolability of UN installations must be respected by all."
The attack occurred during an exchange of fire between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah.
The international UN peacekeeping force has acted as a buffer between Israel and Lebanon since 1978.
On Friday, the UN demanded swift investigations into waves of fatal Israeli strikes across Lebanon.
Dujarric said the UN urged the parties to the conflict "to de-escalate immediately and fully adhere to their obligations under (UN) Security Council resolution 1701".
The UN resolution was designed to end a conflict in 2006 between Israel and Hezbollah. It served as the basis for a ceasefire agreement in 2024 between Hezbollah and Israel.
Sri Lanka will treat Iranian sailors rescued from a torpedoed frigate according to international law, a minister said Saturday, following reports Washington was pressuring Colombo to not repatriate them.
Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath told a conference in New Delhi that Sri Lanka was caring for 32 sailors from the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena under Colombo's international treaty obligations.
The frigate was sunk by a US submarine on Wednesday just off Sri Lanka's southern coast.
Sri Lanka sent its navy to rescue survivors and recover 84 bodies.
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The UAE's defence ministry says it has intercepted 15 Iranian ballistic missiles and 119 drones since early Saturday, adding that three people have been killed and 112 other people sustained minor injuries since the start of attacks.
The Israeli military has issued additional forced evacuation orders for residents in eastern parts of Lebanon's Tyre city, ahead of planned strikes.
Lebanon's military said on Saturday that a soldier was moderately wounded by gunfire coming from Syria a day prior in the country's northeast.
"A Lebanese soldier sustained moderate injuries as a result of gunfire from the Syrian side targeting a Lebanese army post in the Qasr-Hermel area," the military said, adding that "soldiers at the post returned fire".
"An investigation is underway to determine the circumstances of the incident in coordination with the relevant Syrian authorities."
On Friday, Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa informed him that Syrian troop building along the border with Lebanon was "solely aimed at strengthening border control and maintaining internal Syrian security", and that similar measures were taken on the border with Iraq.
Trump warns in a social media post that more Iranian officials will be targeted in the war, saying "Today Iran will be hit very hard!"
Israel's Defence Minister Israel Katz warned the Lebanese government on Saturday to disarm Hezbollah or "pay a very heavy price."
"We (ISRAEL) have no territorial claims against Lebanon, but we will not accept a situation where what existed for many years — firing from Lebanese territory toward the State of Israel — is renewed," Katz said in a statement. "Therefore we are turning and warning: act and take action before we act even more."
The war with Iran could leave consumers and businesses worldwide facing weeks or months of higher fuel prices even if the week-old conflict ends quickly, as suppliers grapple with damaged facilities, disrupted logistics, and elevated risks to shipping.
The outlook poses a wider global economic threat, as well as a political vulnerability for U.S. President Donald Trump leading into the midterm elections, with voters sensitive to energy bills and unfavorable to foreign entanglements.
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IRGC has begun its 25th wave of attacks, launching missiles towards US and Israeli targets, according to state-affiliated Mehr News Agency.
Israel's military said Saturday it had carried out an operation in Lebanon to find remains of airman Ron Arad, but failed to uncover any trace of the navigator missing since 1986.
"As part of IDF activities in Lebanon, IDF special forces operated overnight in an attempt to locate findings related to the missing navigator Ron Arad. No IDF injuries were reported," the Israeli army said in a statement.
"No findings related to him were located at the search site."
Turkey’s intelligence agency asked its British counterpart MI6 last month to take a larger role in protecting Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa after recent assassination plots, according to five people familiar with the matter.
After this story was published, Turkey denied that its intelligence agency MIT had made any such request to MI6.
The request highlights efforts by foreign allies to shore up a country still shaken by sporadic violence 15 months after the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad, with the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran now rattling the wider region.
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The United Nations special coordinator for Lebanon on Saturday urged Lebanon and Israel to enter talks to negotiate an end hostilities after the outbreak of a renewed Israel-Lebanon war.
"As bad as things are today, they are set to get even worse," Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert said.
"Talks between Lebanon and Israel can be the game changer needed to save future generations from going, time and again, through the same nightmare".
In December, Lebanese and Israeli civilian representatives engaged in their first direct talks in decades as part of a meeting of a committee monitoring the November 2024 ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.
Lebanon was engulfed by the expanding Middle East war on Monday, after Hezbollah fired missiles at Israel to avenge the death of Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei in US-Israeli attacks on Iran.
Iran's army said Saturday its navy had launched a wave of drone attacks targeting Israel as well as US bases in the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, as the regional war raged into its second week.
"The Iranian Navy targeted American bases and occupied territories with a massive wave of drone attacks," the army said in a statement carried by the official IRNA news agency.
It said the targets included the UAE's Al-Minhad base and another in Kuwait, as well as a "strategic facility" in Israel.
Later, the Revolutionary Guards said their forces also targeted Al-Dhafra air base in the UAE.
"In this attack, the American terrorists' air warfare centre, satellite communication centre, early warning radars, and fire control radars were hit," the Guards said in a statement, according to Tasnim news agency.
War across the Middle East erupted after the United States and Israel launched airstrikes on Iran on February 28, killing the Islamic republic's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Iran has since responded with drone and missile attacks against Israel as well as US interests in the region.
Qatar's aviation authority said Friday the Gulf state would partially reopen to limited air traffic after it closed its airspace at the start of a retaliatory Iranian missile and drone campaign following US-Israeli strikes.
"Qatar Civil Aviation Authority announces the partial resumption of air navigation in the State of Qatar, through designated navigational contingency routes with limited operational capacity," the body said.
"This phase includes the operation of a limited number of flights designated for passenger evacuation, in addition to the operation of air cargo flights," it added.
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Iran's IRGC says it carried out another "massive" drone attack targeting the US Al-Dhafra Air Base in the UAE, claiming to have hit satellite communications centres, early warning radars and fire control radars at dawn.
At least 63 people have been killed in Isfahan since the beginning of US-Israeli strikes last week, Isfahan's Deputy Governor has said.
Explosions were heard and air raid sirens sounded in Jerusalem on Saturday, AFP journalists said, as the US-Israeli war with Iran entered a second week.
At least three explosions were heard, while over the past 24 hours at least six air raid alerts have been issued across Israel.
Israel's military said Saturday it had struck alleged Hezbollah targets in Lebanon's south and east, killing commanders from the Lebanese armed group, and hitting military sites including command centres.
The Israeli military said it had "completed an additional wave of strikes targeting rocket launchers, weapons storage facilities, and additional military sites belonging to the Hezbollah terrorist organisation in various areas in southern Lebanon and in the Beqaa valley".
"Additionally, yesterday, commanders of Hezbollah's 'Radwan Force' and two 'Radwan Force' command centres were struck in the area of Majdal Sel, in southern Lebanon", the military added, without identifying casualties from Hezbollah's elite fighting unit.
Israel's military said more than 80 fighter jets completed a wave of strikes on Iranian military sites, missile launchers and other targets in Tehran and central Iran on Saturday.
"Over 80 Israeli Air Force fighter jets... completed an additional wave of strikes targeting infrastructure belonging to the Iranian terror regime," the military said in a statement.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Saturday they were waiting for US forces to escort ships through the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic waterway where traffic remains strangled as the regional war rages.
"We are waiting for their presence," said Guards spokesman Ali Mohammad Naini, after the US energy secretary announced the Navy was preparing to escort ships through the strait "as soon as it's reasonable to do it".
"We recommend that before making any decision, the Americans remember the fire of the American supertanker Bridgeton in 1987 and the oil tankers that were recently targeted," Naini said, according to Fars news agency.
Israeli and US attacks on a central Iranian province killed at least eight people on Saturday, a provincial official said, as the regional war entered its second week.
"Eight citizens, including a woman, were martyred in these terrorist attacks," said Akbar Salehi, a security official at the governor's office in Isfahan province.
The New Arab could not independently verify the toll.
"American and Zionist regime fighter jets attacked areas of Isfahan city and seven other cities in the province," Salehi said, according to the Tasnim news agency.
He added that "80 houses were severely damaged" in the city of Isfahan as well as the Lenjan and Borkhar areas.
The foreign ministers of the Arab League will hold an emergency meeting on Sunday to discuss Iranian attacks on several of the group's members, the bloc's assistant secretary-general told AFP.
The meeting, which will be held via videoconference, was requested by Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Jordan and Egypt, Hossam Zaki said.
US and Israeli forces launched a massive air campaign against Iran on February 28. Iran has retaliated with strikes against Israel and Gulf countries.
Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit had earlier condemned the Iranian attacks, saying they are "fully reprehensible" and "not only a blatant violation of international law and the UN Charter, but also an assault on the principles of good neighbourliness".
He added that the attacks "create an unprecedented state of hostility between Iran and its Arab neighbours".
"This is a grave Iranian strategic mistake, which I hope they will rectify by halting these attacks immediately."
Iran’s president said Saturday that a demand by the United States for an unconditional surrender is a "dream that they should to take to their grave".
President Masoud Pezeshkian made the statement in a prerecorded address aired by state television.
He also apologised for Iran’s attacks on regional countries, insisting that Tehran would halt them and suggesting they were caused by miscommunication in the ranks.
The comments came as intense Iranian fire targeted the Gulf Arab states early Saturday as Israel and the United States kept up their airstrikes targeting the Islamic Republic. There were repeated attacks Saturday morning on Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
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Dubai International Airport says it has "partially resumed" operations after an earlier suspension caused by what authorities said was debris from a downed drone.
People are urged not to travel to the airport unless flights are confirmed by airlines.
Saudi Arabia's Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman urged Iran to "avoid miscalculation" on Saturday, following missile and drone launches against the kingdom.
In a series of statements, the Saudi defence ministry said it had thwarted repeated missile launches at an air base which houses US military personnel and drone attacks at a major oil field.
Iran is pressing attacks across the Gulf, a week since US-Israeli strikes against Iran triggered a regional war.
Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil exporter, reported at least two drone attacks earlier this week that targeted the Ras Tanura refinery in the east.
Prince Khalid posted on X after meeting with Pakistan's military chief that the pair had "discussed Iranian attacks on the Kingdom and the measures needed to halt them".
"We stressed that such actions undermine regional security and stability and expressed hope that the Iranian side will exercise wisdom and avoid miscalculation," he added.
The defence ministry earlier posted on X that "a ballistic missile launched towards Prince Sultan Air Base" southeast of the capital Riyadh was "intercepted and destroyed".
The official Saudi Press Agency later reported another missile attack at the same base, saying it was also intercepted, quoting a defence ministry spokesperson.
The news agency also reported at least 17 drone attacks targeting the Shaybah oil field near the Emirati border. The drones were "intercepted and destroyed", it said.
In a separate incident, two drones were intercepted east of Riyadh, according to the defence ministry.
Israel's military began a new wave of air strikes on the Iranian cities of Tehran and Isfahan, it said Saturday, as the US-Israeli attack against the Islamic republic entered its second week.
"The IDF has begun a broad wave of strikes toward infrastructure of the Iranian terror regime in Tehran and Isfahan," a military statement said.
The military said earlier Saturday that 80 fighter jets had completed another wave of strikes on Tehran and central Iran.
A loud blast was heard near the U.S. embassy in Oslo early on Sunday, Norwegian police said.
It was not immediately clear what caused the blast or who was involved, the Oslo police department said in a statement.
"The police are in a dialogue with the embassy and there are no reports of any injured persons," the statement said.
Iran's military called on its neighbour Azerbaijan to "expel the Zionists" from its territory on Saturday in order to preserve its security, a day after Baku accused Tehran of plotting attacks on its territory.
Israel is a close ally of Azerbaijan's and a key arms supplier, while Tehran has long accused Israel of using Azerbaijani territory for intelligence operations.
"We declare to Iran's neighbouring country, the Republic of Azerbaijan, as a Muslim country, to expel the Zionists from that country in order to prevent the spread of insecurity in the region and not to endanger the security of its people and Islamic Iran," a military spokesman said in a statement.
Azerbaijan on Friday said it had foiled a series of planned Iranian terrorist attacks on its territory, including on a key oil pipeline, a synagogue and Jewish community leaders.
Iran did not comment on the accusations.
On Thursday at least four drones crashed into Azerbaijan's exclave of Nakhchivan, including one that hit an airport, with Baku blaming Tehran.
Tehran denied the allegation and accused Israel of trying to stage a provocation.
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