Kuwait’s interior ministry says several energy and water facilities suffered severe damage after a drone strike, with fires breaking out at some of the attacked sites.
Karoline Leavitt said discussions would continue on whether Lebanon might be included in a wider ceasefire arrangement, but the U.S.-Iran truce did not cover it.
Al Jazeera says its Mubasher correspondent Mohammed Wishah was killed in a strike on a vehicle in west Gaza City, with Gaza’s civil defence also reporting one other fatality.
Beijing said a week of informal meetings in Urumqi produced a commitment by Afghanistan and Pakistan to avoid actions that would worsen their conflict.
Israel and the Trump administration rejected Pakistan’s assertion that a two-week truce extended to Lebanon, where a major wave of Israeli air strikes killed at least 182 people, according to Lebanese officials.
The U.S. embassy in Riyadh is warning Americans to think twice about joining this year's Hajj, citing security risks and travel disruptions linked to the regional war.
CBS News reports the U.S. president described negotiations with Iran as heated, with diplomatic pressure mounting before a deadline tied to the Strait of Hormuz.
Saudi Arabia briefly shut the road link to Bahrain after warnings about Iranian attacks, a sign that the Iran conflict is now shaping daily movement across the Gulf as well as military and energy policy.
China and Russia have blocked a UN Security Council resolution intended to coordinate defensive efforts to protect navigation, underscoring divisions over how to respond to attacks on shipping.
The vice president said the war with Iran would conclude very soon and that Washington had largely achieved its military objectives, according to a regional news report.
Lebanon's National News Agency said an Israeli drone strike on Deir al-Zahrani in the Nabatieh region killed one person during a day of heavy attacks in southern Lebanon.
Lebanon's National News Agency said an Israeli strike in Zebdine killed one person, amid a wider day of attacks and an expanded Israeli ground offensive in southern Lebanon.
Donald Trump said the U.S. and Iran had agreed to a two-week ceasefire tied to reopening the Strait of Hormuz, while fighting in Lebanon and market volatility continued.
Turkish authorities said a gun battle near the Israeli consulate building in Istanbul left three attackers dead and two police officers injured, with investigators treating it as a terror-related incident.