Israel continues attacks in Tehran, Beirut, Iran hits military targets in Israel, US base

The Israeli military has killed Abu al-Qassem Babayian, who had recently been appointed the head of Iran's Supreme Leader's military office, according to a statement released by the Israeli Defense Ministry on Sunday, reported Xinhua.

The appointment comes just days after his predecessor was killed in the exchange of fire triggered by U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran starting on Feb. 28, according to the statement.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz was briefed on Babayian's killing during a situation assessment with army chief Eyal Zamir and other senior officers.

Meanwhile, Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said on Sunday it has launched the 28th wave of its attacks against targets in the Israeli cities of Tel Aviv and Beersheba, as well as the Al-Azraq airbase in Jordan, using a new generation of its missiles.

In a statement published on its official news outlet Sepah News, the IRGC said the missiles used in the attacks belong to its Aerospace Division, adding the infrastructure at the Al-Azraq airbase, which is "the biggest and most active base of the U.S. aggressive fighter jets," was targeted several times.

It noted that the military targets in Tel Aviv and Beersheba were hit by the Kheibar missiles equipped with ultra-heavy warheads.

In another statement earlier in the day, the IRGC said its Ground Force hit with its precision-guided missiles the positions of "separatist groups" near the country's northwestern border as well as a U.S. troops' base in Camp Arifjan in Kuwait.

Meanwhile, the Iranian army said Sunday its air force and navy have launched drone attacks toward targets in the Israeli cities of Haifa and Tel Aviv, as well as U.S. bases and military centers in Camp Arifjan.

Meanwhile, Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters on Sunday urged Muslim states in the region to prevent U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iranian fuel and energy facilities, warning that Tehran would respond with similar actions if strikes continue.

Spokesman Ebrahim Zolfaghari made the remarks after several fuel storage facilities in Tehran and neighboring Alborz province were hit in U.S. and Israeli strikes on Saturday night, causing temporary fuel supply disruptions and raising health and environmental concerns, the Iranian Students' News Agency reported.

Zolfaghari accused the United States and Israel of "brutally" attacking Iran's energy infrastructure and public service centers, in addition to killing civilians. He said Muslim states in the region should warn Washington and Jerusalem against taking such "cowardly and inhumane actions" to prevent the spread of conflict.

"Otherwise, similar actions will be taken in the region. If you can tolerate oil prices above $200 per barrel, keep playing this game," Zolfaghari added.

Meanwhile, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Sunday that it killed five senior commanders of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force in a precision strike in Beirut.

The overnight attack, carried out by the Israeli navy, targeted the commanders while they were meeting at a hotel in central Beirut, the IDF said. The Quds Force's Lebanon Corps serves as a key liaison between Hezbollah and Iran, and the targeted commanders were allegedly coordinating militant activity across Lebanon from a civilian hotel, the IDF said.

Lebanese media said the strike hit the Ramada Hotel in the Raouche area, a popular tourist district near the landmark Pigeon Rocks along the Mediterranean coast. The hotel was also housing displaced people who fled fighting elsewhere in Lebanon, and some were seen leaving in fear of further attacks.

This was Israel's first strike in central Beirut since the start of its new war against Hezbollah.

Lebanon's Health Ministry said the death toll from clashes with Israel has risen to 394, including 83 children and 42 women. Nine rescue workers have also died. The figure marks a sharp increase from Saturday, when the ministry reported 294 fatalities.

7th US service member killed

U.S. Central Command said on Sunday that the seventh U.S. service member has been killed amid the strikes against Iran, which the United States and Israel launched on Feb. 28.

"Last night, a U.S. service member passed away from injuries," the command said in a post on X. "The service member was seriously wounded at the scene of an attack on U.S. troops in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on March 1."

"This is the seventh service member killed in action during Operation Epic Fury. Major combat operations continue," said the command.

On Saturday, the bodies of the first six U.S. soldiers were returned to the United States.

At least 1,332 Iranian civilians, including women and children, have been killed and thousands more injured since the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran launched on Feb. 28, Iran's UN ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani said Friday.

2 killed 12 injured in Saudi Arabia

A "military projectile" struck a residential area in Saudi Arabia's Al-Kharj governorate on Sunday, killing two people and injuring 12, the Saudi Civil Defense said.

The two killed were Indian and Bangladeshi nationals, while the 12 injured were Bangladeshi residents, the authority said, adding that the incident also caused material damage.

The residential site belongs to a maintenance and cleaning company, it said.

Attempts to target civilians constitute a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law, the authority added.

UAE-flagged tugboat sinks in Strait of Hormuz

Three Indonesian crew members were missing after a UAE-flagged tugboat caught fire and sank in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday, Antara News Agency reported on Saturday, citing a statement from Indonesia's Foreign Ministry.

The Musaffah 2 tugboat exploded before sinking in the waters between the United Arab Emirates and Oman, according to the statement.

Four Indonesian crew members were on board, one of whom survived and is receiving treatment for burns at a hospital in Oman.

The statement said that authorities in the UAE and Oman are conducting search and rescue operations and investigating the cause of the incident.

104 killed, 32 wounded in US attack on frigate in Indican Ocean

Iran's military said on Sunday that 104 people were killed and 32 others injured when the United States attacked the Iranian Navy's Dena frigate in international waters.

In a statement on its website, the military condemned the "inhumane" assault, calling it a "cowardly" and "brutal" attack by the U.S. Navy. The frigate, which had 136 crew members on board, was returning from the International Fleet Review 2026 and Exercise Milan when it was struck.

The army said the U.S. targeted the vessel hundreds of miles from the conflict zone without warning, violating international humanitarian and maritime law. The frigate was torpedoed and sunk by the Los Angeles-class submarine USS Charlotte in the Indian Ocean on Wednesday.

The incident follows Feb. 28 joint strikes by Israel and the United States on Tehran and other Iranian cities, which killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, some of his family members, senior military commanders, and civilians. Iran responded with multiple waves of missile and drone attacks against Israeli and U.S. bases in the Middle East.

Sri Lanka to grant 1-month free visas to rescued Iranians

Sri Lanka will grant free one-month visas to sailors rescued from Iranian vessels, allowing them to remain in the country under humanitarian protection, a senior official of the country said on Sunday.

Ananda Wijepala, Sri Lanka's Minister of Public Security and Parliamentary Affairs, said the visas would be granted to 32 surviving crew members of IRIS Dena, which was sunk by a U.S. submarine on Wednesday, as well as more than 200 on board IRIS Bushehr.

He said decisions regarding the Iranian sailors are in accordance with international conventions and maritime laws applicable to Sri Lanka, and are not aimed at supporting or harming any country.

US, Israeli attacks on Iran violate international law: Swiss defense chief

Swiss Federal Councillor and head of the Federal Department of Defense, Civil Protection and Sport Martin Pfister said in an interview published Sunday that the United States and Israel violated international law by attacking Iran.

In the interview with Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger published on the newspaper's website, Pfister voiced concern over the escalating situation in the Middle East.

He said the Swiss Federal Council believes that the attacks on Iran violated international law because they breached the prohibition on the use of force, and called on all parties involved to halt violence and protect civilians.

Pfister added that Switzerland has in recent years worked to keep communication channels open between the United States and Iran, but "unfortunately, it is part of reality that such efforts do not always succeed."

Before the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, Iran and the United States held two rounds of indirect talks in Geneva, Switzerland, on Feb. 17 and Feb. 26 respectively.

40 killed in Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon

At least 40 people were killed and an unspecified number wounded early Sunday in Israeli airstrikes targeting dozens of homes, government institutions and shops in southern Lebanon, according to Lebanese security and official sources.

Lebanon's official National News Agency said Israeli warplanes carried out a dawn airstrike on the town of Sir al-Gharbiyeh in the Nabatieh district, hitting a three-story building and killing 19 people.

Civil defense and ambulance teams were still working to clear rubble and retrieve bodies, the agency said.

Sources from Lebanon's Internal Security Forces and the Lebanese Civil Defense told Xinhua that Israeli warplanes and drones carried out 23 airstrikes during the early morning hours on towns and villages across southern Lebanon.

According to the Public Health Emergency Operations Center, an Israeli strike on the village of Khirbet Selm in the Bint Jbeil district killed six people and wounded five others, while another strike on the village of Teffahta killed five.

National News Agency also reported that three people were killed in an airstrike targeting a cafe in Jbal El Botm, four were killed in a strike on Qana, and three others died in a strike on Aaitit.

Meanwhile, the Islamic Resistance, the armed wing of Hezbollah, said in several statements that it had targeted Israeli forces and repelled attempts to advance "in response to the aggression that targeted dozens of Lebanese cities and towns, including Beirut's southern suburbs."

The death toll from Israeli attacks on Lebanon since dawn Monday and Saturday afternoon has risen to 294, with over 1,000 people injured, according to public health data out of Lebanon on Saturday.

Hezbollah said it launched rockets from Lebanon toward Israel early Monday for the first time since a ceasefire was declared on Nov. 27, 2024.

Meanwhile, the Israeli army said it had launched an "offensive military campaign" against Hezbollah, carrying out airstrikes across multiple areas in Lebanon and ground incursions near the border, while warning residents to evacuate areas south of the Litani River and Beirut's southern suburbs.

2 Israeli soldiers killed in S. Lebanon

The Israeli military said on Sunday that two soldiers have been killed in southern Lebanon, marking the first acknowledgment of military casualties by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) since its Feb. 28 attacks on Iran.

Israel's state-owned Kan TV News reported that the two IDF soldiers were inside a D9 engineering vehicle operating near a defense post along the border in Lebanese territory when Hezbollah militants fired an anti-tank missile or mortar shell at them.

Meanwhile, altogether five people were injured by Iranian missile fire in Israel on Sunday, according to the country's national emergency service MDA and media reports.

A 40-year-old man was seriously wounded in Tel Aviv as a result of a missile fired from Iran toward central Israel, MDA reported.

Israel's Channel 12 News reported that it was a cluster missile, parts of which hit 21 locations in the Tel Aviv metropolitan area. As a result of the hits, a 25-year-old man was also moderately injured, and three others were lightly injured, MDA added.

The development came amid heightened regional tensions following joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran starting on Feb. 28, to which Iran responded with missile and drone attacks on Israel and U.S. assets across the Middle East.