US President Donald Trump said he had asked China to delay his summit with President Xi Jinping by around a month while he deals with the war in the Middle East.
Around 200 US military personnel have been wounded in seven countries across the Middle East since the start of the US-Israel war against Iran, a US military spokesman said.
Israel’s army said Tuesday it had launched a “wide scale wave of strikes” in the Iranian capital Tehran, as well as strikes against Hezbollah in the Lebanese capital Beirut.
A Palestinian civilian was killed on the outskirts of the Emirati capital Abu Dhabi when a missile hit their car on Monday, authorities said, as Iran pressed on with strikes on the Gulf following US-Israeli attacks.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Monday that Tehran had shown it was ready to take the war with Israel and the United States as far as necessary.
The war in the Middle East started by US-Israeli strikes on Iran has “nothing to do with NATO” and is “not NATO’s war”, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s spokesman said Monday.
Israel’s military said on Monday it had launched a broad wave of strikes on the Iranian cities of Tehran, Shiraz and Tabriz, more than two weeks into the US-Israeli war against the Islamic Republic.
Beijing said it is in talks with Washington over a visit by US President Donald Trump expected this month.
Iran’s foreign minister said Israeli strikes on Tehran fuel depots constituted “ecocide” due to the long-term risks to residents’ health.
Donald Trump said an upcoming summit in Beijing with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping could be delayed, as the US president seeks help in reopening the Strait of Hormuz amid the Iran war.
