Here are the latest events in the Middle East war on Saturday:
- Israel tallies strikes -
Israel's military said Saturday it had carried out around 3,400 strikes on Iran since the start of the war a week ago.
Earlier Saturday evening, it announced a fresh wave of strikes on Tehran, and an AFP journalist there reported massive explosions in the south of the city.
- Turkey warning -
Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan warned against efforts to spark a civil war in Iran. "This is the most dangerous scenario," he told journalists.
Fidan also warned Iran over the ballistic missile launched from Iran towards Turkey earlier the week and intercepted by NATO.
"If this was a missile that lost its way, that's one thing. But if this is going to continue... our advice is: be careful, don't let anyone in Iran embark on such an adventure," he said.
- Explosions in Iraq -
Explosions were heard on Saturday night in Iraq's capital Baghdad, AFP journalists reported, including rockets fired at the US embassy, which were intercepted.
AFP journalists also reported explosions in the city of Erbil.
- Iran to choose new supreme leader -
A member of Iran's Assembly of Experts said Saturday the body would meet within a day to choose the country's next supreme leader, Iranian media reported.
- Trump hails war progress -
US President Donald Trump told Latin American leaders at a Florida summit: "We're doing very well in Iran, and you see the result."
Repeating his claim that Iran had been close to having a nuclear weapon, he added: "They're crazy and they would have used it. So we did the world a favour."
Earlier, in a post on his Truth Social Platform, he warned the United States would hit Iran "very hard" and threatened to expand strikes to include new targets.
- IRGC aircraft targeted -
Israel said it hit 16 military aircraft belonging to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in overnight strikes on Mehrabad airport, in Tehran.
The airport was hit as part of a wave of Israeli strikes on the Iranian cities of Tehran and Isfahan. Israeli and US attacks around Isfahan killed at least eight people, a provincial official said.
- Strike hits base near Mosul -
A strike, thought to be American, hit a military base of the former paramilitary coalition Hashed al-Shaabi in northern Iraq Saturday, two Hashed sources told AFP.
The factions of the Hashed al-Shaabi, or the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), which include pro-Iranian elements, are now integrated into the regular army.
- Qatar intercepts missile -
Qatar's defence ministry said Saturday its forces intercepted a missile, shortly after AFP journalists heard explosions and sirens sounded in central Doha.
- US uses UK bases -
Britain's government said the US had started using UK bases -- one in England, the other the Diego Garcia base in the Indian Ocean -- for operations against Iran.
Its defence ministry said the US flights from the bases were for "specific defensive operations to prevent Iran firing missiles into the region".
- Iran targets Iraqi Kurdistan -
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they were targeting "separatist groups" in Iraq's Kurdistan region, which hosts bases operated by several Iranian Kurdish militant groups and which lies across the border from Iran's own Kurdish region.
- Israeli orders evacuation -
Israel's military on Saturday warned the remaining residents of Beirut's southern suburbs, where Hezbollah holds sway, to evacuate immediately in an Arab-language post on X.
Earlier Israel ordered residents in a district of Lebanon's southern city of Tyre to evacuate ahead of strikes, saying it would "soon" target Hezbollah sites there.
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz warned Lebanon to disarm Hezbollah -- which has joined in Iran's retaliation against Israel -- or "pay a very heavy price".
- Saudi warning -
Saudi Arabia's Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman urged Iran to "avoid miscalculation", following missile and drone launches against the kingdom.
In a series of statements, the Saudi defence ministry said it had thwarted repeated missile launches at an air base which houses US military personnel and drone attacks at a major oil field.
- Iran apology -
Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian said his country would not surrender to Israel and the United States and apologised to neighbouring countries for Iran's attacks.
"No more attacks will be made on neighbouring countries and no missiles will be fired unless an attack on Iran originates from those countries," he said.
- Oil tanker targeted -
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Saturday they had targeted another oil tanker in the Gulf with a drone.
The Guards earlier said they were "waiting" for US forces to escort ships through the strait.
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