Welcome to our live coverage of day 14 of the Iran war, as US-Israeli attacks pound Tehran and the Islamic retaliates with strikes targeting Israel, the Gulf states and commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
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France’s President Emmanuel Macron says a French soldier was killed in the autonomous Iraqi region of Kurdistan on Thursday, after Iranian drones and missiles targeted a base in the Erbil region. The attack also wounded several other service members.
Macron slammed Tehran over the attacks, calling them “unacceptable” and stressing that attacks on Iran “cannot justify” such responses which spiral the broader region into the war and orchestrate more chaos and instability.
Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia says its defence forces have intercepted more than two dozen drones over its airspace, after Iran’s new Supreme Leader vowed to continue attacks on Gulf Arab countries that host US bases.
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8:21 GMT+1
Israeli army says launched new ‘broad wave’ of strikes in Tehran
The Israeli military said it launched a new wave of strikes in Tehran on Friday morning, on the 14th day of its joint campaign with the United States against the Islamic Republic.
“The IDF has just begun a wide-scale wave of strikes targeting infrastructure of the Iranian terror regime across Tehran,” the military said.
8:17 GMT+1
Israel issues missile warning
The Israeli Defence Forces issued a warning on Friday morning that Iranian missiles were detected headed to the country, announcing that air defences actively targeting the fire.
8:16 GMT+1
Trump issues new threat to Iran’s ‘deranged scumbag’ leaders
US President Donald Trump issued a new threat online to Iran, writing in a post on his own social media platform, Truth Social: “Watch what happens to these deranged scumbags today.”
Trump shared the post on Friday, adding that “Iran’s Navy is gone, their Air Force is no longer, missiles, drones and everything else are being decimated, and their leaders have been wiped from the face of the earth.”
“They’ve been killing innocent people all over the world for 47 years, and now I, as the 47th President of the United States of America, am killing them,” Trump wrote. “What a great honour it is to do so!”
8:09 GMT+1
Missile alert in Dubai
A missile alert sounded on mobile phones of residents in Dubai on Friday morning as authorities warned that air defences were engaging against incoming Iranian fire.
8:08 GMT+1
Saudi Arabia says its air defences downed nearly 50 drones in the early hours of Friday
Saudi Arabia’s Defence Ministry said early on Friday that its air defences had downed 10 more drones headed toward the kingdom’s eastern and central provinces, bringing the total to nearly 50 drones entering Saudi airspace over the span of a few hours on Friday.
The barrage represents a higher-than-usual number of aerial threats for the kingdom, which has seen sites including the US Embassy in Riyadh, oil infrastructure, and a military base hosting US troops targeted as the war in Iran intensifies.
7:53 GMT+1
Israeli strikes hit new areas not previously targeted in Beirut, killing one person
An Israeli strike hit a car in Jnah, a coastal neighbourhood in southwestern Beirut, killing one person, the Lebanese health ministry said early on Friday.
A separate strike targeted an apartment in the Nabaa neighbourhood, leaving it engulfed in flames, according to reports circulating on local media.
Nabaa, on Beirut’s northern outskirts within the densely populated Burj Hammoud district, is home to a sizable Armenian community. No casualties were immediately reported.
It was the first time such an area has been struck in this conflict or during the 2024 war between Hezbollah and Israel.
Following the strikes, the Israeli army said it had targeted a Hezbollah member in Beirut
Both neighbourhoods are far from the southern suburbs of Beirut, which the Israeli military has declared unsafe and issued evacuation notices for.
7:49 GMT+1
58 injured in Israel amid attacks launched by Iran and Hezbollah
Israel’s ambulance service said some 58 people were wounded in a missile attack on Zarzir, a city around 100 kilometres north of Jerusalem near the border with Lebanon, amid attacks launched from Iran and its Lebanon-based proxy, Hezbollah.
Officials said one person was in moderate condition and 57 sustained very minor injuries from glass shards.
Footage shared by the ambulance service from the impact site showed damaged cars and scattered debris. The Israeli military said it was operating with emergency services at the scene to clear debris.
Hezbollah said early on Friday that it had fired several rocket salvos toward northern Israel and Israeli troops in southern Lebanon.
7:46 GMT+1
Macron slams Iran’s ‘unacceptable’ attacks across the region after strike kills French soldier in Iraq
A French soldier was killed in an attack in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region, President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday, confirming the first French military death in the Middle East war.
Since US-Israeli strikes on Iran last month engulfed the Middle East in war, multiple attacks attributed to pro-Iranian factions have targeted the region where foreign forces are based as part of an international anti-jihadist coalition.
The member of the armed forces “died for France during an attack in the Erbil region of Iraq,” Macron posted on X, adding that several soldiers were also wounded. He did not say who was behind the attack.
“The war in Iran cannot justify such attacks,” Macron said, calling the strike “unacceptable”.
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