The Israeli army announced that its air force attacked more than 400 targets in Iran today, reported Agence France-Presse, quoted by BTA.
"On Friday, more than 400 targets were attacked in several areas of Iran, including ballistic missile launchers and warehouses for Iranian drones", said a statement from the press service of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), quoted by TASS.
The message notes that "during the strikes, an Israeli fighter jet intercepted a truck carrying an Iranian air defense system". "After detecting the truck, the Israeli air force struck it and destroyed the system," the IDF added.
Israel said that the Lebanese Shiite movement "Hezbollah" fired 70 rockets at Israeli territory today, Agence France-Presse reported.
"In recent days, hundreds of rockets and drones have been fired" at Israel, and since today "around 70 rockets have been fired since midnight" towards Israeli territory, Israeli army spokesman Nadav Shoshani said.
Since the start of the Israeli offensive against the Islamist movement on March 2, "we have carried out 26 waves of strikes, during which we attacked more than 500 targets in Lebanon and eliminated more than 70 terrorists from "Hezbollah", the Israeli spokesman explained.
Iran last night attacked residential areas in Bahrain with seven drones, said Brad Cooper, head of the US Naval Forces Central Command, quoted by Reuters.
The United States will respond to Iranian attacks on civilians in the Middle East, Cooper added.
According to him, Tehran has attacked 12 countries since the US and Israel attacked the Islamic Republic.
Meanwhile, an Iranian military spokesman said, quoted by IRNA reported that Tehran had launched strikes against US military units in Bahrain.
Facility of an Iranian Kurdish opposition group was attacked by drones in Iraqi Kurdistan on Monday, the latest in a series of such attacks, DPA reported, citing a local official.
Six drones loaded with explosives attacked a camp of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran on the outskirts of Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, causing powerful explosions, the local official said. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
Meanwhile, a drone struck an office of the same group northeast of Erbil, causing no casualties, witnesses said.
Iranian forces have already attacked Kurdish groups in Iraq.
US President Donald Trump has expressed support for Kurdish opposition forces to launch a potential offensive in Iran, amid reports that Washington is encouraging Iranian Kurds to rebel against the Iranian leadership.
Iraq has said it will not allow its territory to be used as a launching pad for attacks on neighboring countries.
Authorities in the autonomous Kurdistan region of Iraq have also said they will remain neutral in the ongoing war between the US and Israel with Iran.
Germany is withdrawing more Bundeswehr troops from the Middle East, a German military spokesman told Reuters. The seventh day of US-Israeli strikes on Iran, which have prompted Iranian retaliation.
Military personnel included in the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon are being withdrawn due to the security situation in the region, the spokesman said.
The Bundeswehr has already significantly reduced its personnel at the military base near the city of Erbil in northern Iraq.
The RND media group (Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland - RND) said that German soldiers who were stationed in Bahrain have already returned home. RND added that preparations are currently underway to withdraw German forces from Kuwait. Soldiers and staff from the German embassy in Baghdad are being relocated to Jordan, the media added.
A German military spokesman declined to comment on the information.
There are about 500 German soldiers in the Middle East. The majority of them are in Iraq and Jordan.
German Foreign Minister Johann Wadeful warned that the war with Iran and its consequences could lead to a new wave of migration to Europe, DPA reported.
"The situation created by the war is in some ways extremely dramatic", Wadeful said at a meeting in Berlin with his Dutch counterpart Tom Berendsen. He stressed that it was important to take measures so that the many internally displaced people in the region do not become a new wave of refugees heading for Europe.
The German government intends to limit the humanitarian crisis and will therefore allocate an additional 100 million euros for humanitarian aid. According to him, the situation in Lebanon is already worsening, with many people being forced to flee their homes. "Our goal is to provide assistance on the ground throughout the region", he added.
Vadeful also said that the German government does not plan to supply air defense systems to countries that have been attacked by Iran. "Our top priority remains Ukraine", he stressed. Most of Germany's air defense systems, including the Patriot systems, have already been provided to Kiev to protect it from Russian attacks.
Russia is providing Iran with intelligence, including data on the location of American warships and aircraft in the Middle East, the Washington Post reported, citing three officials.
It is not entirely clear how much Russian support for Iran is. However, the newspaper said that the Iranian military's ability to detect American forces on its own has been severely weakened after the United States and Israel carried out strikes on targets in Tehran last week. Since then, the conflict has escalated. Iran has responded to the attacks, and tensions have gradually spread to neighboring countries as Tehran seeks to make the United States, Israel and their allies pay a heavy price for its actions.
The U.S. military said six reservists were killed in Kuwait after a drone crashed into a U.S. military facility in the port of Shuaiba. Trump and other senior U.S. officials have warned that the conflict is likely to result in more U.S. military casualties.
"The Iranian regime is under intense pressure. Their ballistic missile retaliatory strikes are decreasing with each passing day, their naval forces are suffering serious losses, their production capacity has been destroyed, and their allied groups are barely putting up any resistance," said White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly.
The Kremlin announced that Russia is maintaining a dialogue with representatives of the Iranian leadership, but did not provide details in response to the question of whether Moscow is providing assistance to Tehran.
The conflict is also unexpectedly proving to be economically beneficial for Russia, as it has led to a significant increase in demand for Russian oil and gas. This supports Russian exports, which in recent years have been severely affected by sanctions imposed due to the war in Ukraine, the publication notes.