Pakistan announces US-Iran talks 'in coming days'
Pakistani Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar made the announcement on Sunday.
President Donald Trump announced "major combat operations" against Iran on Feb. 28, with massive joint U.S.-Israeli strikes attack targeting military and government sites, officials said.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was among those killed in Tehran on the first day of strikes, with his son Mojtaba Khamenei later chosen to succeed him. Iran has responded with missile and drone attacks targeting Israel, regional U.S. bases and multiple Gulf nations. Iran is also attempting to block some shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.
Israel is also intensifying its long-running strike campaign against the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia in Lebanon and expanding its ground operations in the south of the country.
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Key Headlines
- Netanyahu announces expansion of Lebanon 'security zone'
- Lawmakers 'having a lot of conversations about what could happen next' regarding US troops in Iran: Rep. Scalise
- Ghalibaf says Iran is 'waiting' for arrival of US troops
- 3,461 people killed in Iran by US-Israeli strikes, HRANA says
- IDF prioritizing Iranian weapons, nuclear sites, spokesperson says
Iran internet blackout enters day 24, NetBlocks says
Iran's nationwide internet blackout entered day 24 on Monday, according to the internet monitoring group NetBlocks.
The blackout has now been in place for more than 552 hours, NetBlocks said in a post to X on Monday, describing the outage as "the most severe registered in any country."
"International connectivity remains unavailable to the general public while authorities maintain a selective whitelist for global access," NetBlocks said.
4 Gulf states report fresh Iranian drone, missile strikes
Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Kuwait all reported fresh Iranian attacks on Monday.
The UAE Defense Ministry said in a post to X that its forces intercepted an unspecified number of Iranian missiles and drones. In Abu Dhabi -- one of the country's seven constituent emirates -- the official government media office said one Indian national was injured by "debris falling in the Al Shawamekh area following the successful interception of a ballistic missile."
The Saudi Arabian Defense Ministry said its forces intercepted several Iranian drones over the country's eastern region on Monday. Iran also fired two ballistic missiles toward the Riyadh region, the ministry said, one of which was intercepted and the other of which fell in an uninhabited area.
Bahrain's Defence Force said in a post to X on Monday morning that it had intercepted another 32 Iranian drones and two ballistic missiles.
In Kuwait, the Defense Ministry said in a post to X in the early hours of Monday that air defenses were responding to "hostile missile and drone attacks."
Iran threatens to lay mines across Persian Gulf if land invasion launched
In a statement issued on Monday and published by the semi-official Fars news agency, Iran's Defense Council threatened to deploy naval mines across the "entire Persian Gulf" in response to any land invasion.
The council issued the statement ahead of the potential arrival of a force of U.S. Marines in the region.
"Any attempt by the enemy to target Iran's coasts or islands will, naturally and in accordance with established military practice, lead to the mining of all access routes" in the "Persian Gulf and along the coasts," the council said.
-ABC News' Joe Simonetti
Israel launches new wave of strikes in Tehran
The Israel Defense Forces said in a post to X on Monday that it had launched "a widespread wave of attacks" against Iranian government infrastructure in the capital Tehran.