A SERIES of loud explosions were heard across Gulf cities on Monday as the conflict between the US, Israel and Iran spilled further across the Middle East.
Blasts were reported in Jerusalem, Dubai, Abu Dhabi in UAE, Doha in Qatar, and Manama in Bahrain on the third day of a conflict that has plunged the region into chaos.
As the American and Israeli airstrikes continued, top Iranian security official Ali Larijani vowed on X that “we will not negotiate with the United States.”
Meanwhile, Israel launched a wave of missile and drone attacks on Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs of Beirut in Lebanon on Monday and ordered evacuations.
Smoke was also seen rising from the vicinity of the US embassy in Kuwait, according to witnesses, and the US consulate urged Americans to “not come to the embassy”.
Three American troops have been killed and five are seriously injured, the US military said, confirming its first casualties in the conflict.
President Donald Trump has suggested the conflict with Iran could go on for the next four weeks after the US president earlier said that operations are “ahead of schedule”.
Israeli strikes on Lebanon have killed 31 people and injured 149, according to Lebanon’s health ministry, as Israel refused to rule out the possibility of a ground invasion.
Image provided (Missiles fired by US Military on Hezbollah controlled suburbs of Beirut as Iran, Israel and US war escalates).
