The conflict between the United States, Israel and Iran expanded into Monday, with nations and groups throughout the region now having some involvement. The Pentagon on Monday announced that more troops would head to the Middle East, amid reports that President Trump declined to rule out sending ground troops into Iran.
Retaliatory strikes in the region
Since the first attacks by Israel and the United States on Saturday, Iran has responded with retaliatory strikes aimed at Israel and at U.S. interests in the region, including U.S. facilities in Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. Officials in Jordan and Saudi Arabia said that they had intercepted Iranian attacks. Iranian proxy forces in Lebanon and Iraq also joined the fray, broadening the conflict.
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Iran struck a base housing American troops in Kuwait on Sunday, killing three U.S. service members. The fatalities were the first for the United States, and an additional five service members were “seriously wounded.” Several others suffered injuries in the attack.
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An Iranian strike on Sunday also killed at least nine people in Beit Shemesh, an Israeli city about 18 miles west of Jerusalem. Nearly 30 others were wounded. It amounted to the worst casualty event in Israel since the conflict started.
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A missile struck the headquarters of the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet in Manama, Bahrain, on Saturday.
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A drone struck Kuwait’s main airport on Saturday, according to state news media and footage verified by The New York Times.
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Four people were killed in Syria on Saturday after an Iranian missile struck a building in the industrial zone in the southern city of Sweida, according to a Syrian state news agency. The missile was most likely intended for Israel, as Sweida is close to territory controlled by Israel.
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Hezbollah, an Iran-allied militia based in Lebanon, fired rockets into Israel, prompting Israel to bombard the militia’s strongholds outside Beirut.
Strikes in Tehran
Major explosions have targeted Tehran, the Iranian capital, with chaos erupting in the streets. It is one of the heaviest hit cities in Iran.
The strike on the high-security compound of Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader on Saturday, resulted in his death and extensive damage, visible in satellite imagery.
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A strike on Saturday also hit 72nd Square, a residential area in the Narmak district in northeastern Tehran, where Iran’s former president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is known to reside. That strike appeared to hit Hedayat High School, killing two students, according to the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency.
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Another strike on Saturday hit an area near Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence.
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American strikes on Sunday destroyed the headquarters of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, according to a U.S. Central Command official.
Strikes on Iran outside Tehran
The United States and Israel have also struck major cities outside of Tehran.
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At least 175 were killed in a strike on Saturday that hit the Shajarah Tayyebeh school, a girls’ elementary school in the southern town of Minab, according to Iranian health officials and state news media. It appears to be one of the worst mass casualty events of the American-Israeli bombing campaign so far. Videos verified by The Times show that the school is adjacent to a naval base belonging to Iran’s most powerful military force, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps.
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At least 18 civilians were killed in Lamerd, a city in southern Iran, according to Iran’s state news agency. The report said the strikes hit a sports complex and a hall adjacent to a school, among other sites.
Reporting by Malachy Browne, Ashley Cai, Lazaro Gamio, Samuel Granados, Josh Holder, Malika Khurana, Blacki Migliozzi, Pablo Robles, Helmuth Rosales, Raj Saha, Elena Shao, Daniel Wood and Karen Yourish.
Additional reporting by Devon Lum, Christiaan Triebert, Erika Solomon and Ismaeel Naar.
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