Everything we know on day 4 of US and Israel’s war with Iran
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One person inside Iran says "every part" of the capital has been hit. Elsewhere, Israel says ground troops will advance in Lebanon, and Iranian strikes continue in the region.
With the war against Iran underway, and the U.S. military as a powerful ally, the Israeli government is seizing its chance to move against other adversaries.
In the pre-dawn hours of Monday morning, Hezbollah opened a new front in the US-Israeli war against Iran when it launched “missiles and a swarm of drones” at a military base in northern Israel.
Lebanon was pulled deeper into the war in the Middle East on Tuesday as the Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah launched missiles at Israel for a second consecutive day and Israel sent troops into the south and carried out waves of air strikes.
Newsweek has created a list recording every country where a strike has been reported in the U.S.-Iran conflict.
The escalation of hostilities between the two sides began on Monday, when Hezbollah fired a volley of rockets at Israel in retaliation for the killing of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Iran had long backed Hezbollah along with other proxy militias it cultivated to project power throughout the region.
Iran and Iranian-backed militias fired missiles at Israel while Israel and the United States pounded targets in Iran as the war expanded.
The Trump administration has defended the war on Iran by arguing that the Middle Eastern country posed a significant threat to the United States. Officials argued that Iran was nearing the development of a nuclear weapon and ballistic missiles capable of reaching U.S. territory.
The U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran continue. Meanwhile Iran is retaliating, firing missiles Israel, but also U.S. allies in the Gulf like Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and even air bases Cyprus,
Russia has condemned U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran and urged an immediate stop to the campaign and a return to diplomacy. In a Telegram post on Saturday, Russia’s Foreign Ministry called the