The Israel-Iran conflict has exploded into a chaotic multi-front war, with Israel confirming the targeted killings of top Iranian figures Ali Larijani and Revolutionary Guard commander Gholam Reza Soleimani in overnight precision strikes—hard blows to Tehran’s power core amid internal unrest.
Iran hit back hard, firing waves of multi-warhead missiles and drones at Israeli cities and Gulf infrastructure to overload defenses, while Hezbollah ramps up rocket barrages on northern Israel and Israeli raids pound central Beirut, killing civilians and forcing mass evacuations in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley towns like Sahmar and Yahmar.
Neighbors are reeling—Kuwait downed seven drones at dawn, Qatar intercepted a missile, a drone sparked fires at the US Embassy in Baghdad, and Saudi Arabia blocked a ballistic threat near a US base. Over a million displaced, mostly in Lebanon, face crumbling healthcare as nuclear fears grow after a projectile struck near Iran’s Bushehr plant, though no catastrophe yet. Fears mount of a long, bloody regional meltdown.
