Blast Rocks Tehran After Israeli Threat

Lebanon says Israeli strike on Beirut seafront kills 8

An Israeli strike on central Beirut's seafront killed eight people early on Thursday, Lebanon's health ministry said, another attack in the heart of the capital, as Iran-backed Hezbollah launched more missiles at Israel.

The Israeli military said separately it had carried out strikes on Beirut's southern suburbs overnight against Hezbollah, which had announced a major new operation against Israel.

Iran Parliament speaker says Persian Gulf will ‘run with the blood of invaders’

Iran’s Parliament speaker said Thursday that any invasion of Iran’s islands will “make the Persian Gulf run with the blood of invaders.”

It wasn’t immediately clear what prompted Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf’s comments, which again escalate the rhetoric surrounding the ongoing Iran war.

Iran holds three islands it took from the United Arab Emirates before its formation in 1971.

Italian base hit by missiles or drones

Missiles or drones hit Italy’s Camp Singara in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, late Wednesday, Italian authorities said.

There were no injuries reported.

“The type of threat is still being ascertained, whether it was a drone or a missile, and it hit the Italian base and caused some damage to the base’s infrastructure and equipment,” Colonel Stefano Pizzotti, commander of the Italian National Contingent, told Italian news channel Sky TG24. 

Israel launches airstrikes on Iran

Israel says it has launched another “wide-scale” round of airstrikes across Iran.

Mosque set afire in occupied West Bank

Israeli settlers graffitied the name of a synagogue on a mosque outside Nablus and set it ablaze, the village of Duma and the Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Religious Affairs said Thursday.

The ministry called the attack part of a “systematic increase in attempts to burn mosques.”

Kuwait reports damage after drone attack on airport

Drone strikes caused damage at Kuwait's international airport, authorities said Thursday, after the facility came under fire again during Iran's attacks against the Gulf.

"The civil aviation announces that Kuwait International Airport was targeted by several drones, resulting only in material damage," authorities said in a statement, adding that there were no casualties.

2 drones target Dubai

Two Iranian drones targeted Dubai on Thursday without warnings from authorities.

The Dubai Media Office, which issues statements on behalf of the city-state’s government, reported a “minor drone incident” in its al-Badaa neighborhood, saying no one was hurt.

Iran Sets Three Conditions to End War With US, Israel

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has outlined three conditions that he said could lead to an end to the ongoing conflict involving Iran, the United States and Israel.

US intelligence says Iran regime not at risk of collapse: Report

Iran’s attacks on Mideast shipping and energy infrastructure send oil prices soaring

Unrelenting Iranian attacks on shipping traffic and energy infrastructure pushed oil above $100 a barrel Thursday, as American and Israeli strikes pounded the Islamic Republic with no sign of an end to the war in sight.

Iran hit a container ship off the coast of Dubai, caused a blaze near Bahrain’s international airport, targeted a major Saudi oil field with a drone and forced Iraq to halt operations at all of its oil terminals after attacking its port of Basra on the Persian Gulf.

Iran flouted a U.N. Security Council resolution from the previous day demanding that it halt strikes on its Gulf neighbors with new attacks also reported in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.