Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they would not allow “one litre of oil” to be shipped from the Middle East if US and Israeli attacks continue, prompting a warning from US President Donald Trump that the US would hit Iran much harder if it ‌blocked exports from the vital energy-producing region.

A woman alleged to have fired an assault rifle at the luxury Los Angeles home of Rihanna was being held by police on Monday.

Oil prices tanked and equities rallied following a wild day of swings that came after US President Donald Trump said the US-Israel war on Iran would be ending earlier than thought.

Israel’s first responders said shrapnel killed a man in central Israel as several blasts rocked the area, shortly after the military detected new missile launches from Iran.

Iranians living ‌abroad could have property confiscated and face other legal penalties if they express ‌support for the United ⁠States and Israel, the Iranian prosecutor ⁠general’s office said.

Rihanna’s Los Angeles home was hit by gunfire on Sunday.

Iran on Monday named Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his father, Ali Khamenei, as supreme leader, signalling that hardliners remain firmly in charge, as the week-old US-Israeli war with Iran pushed oil above $100 a barrel.

President Donald Trump suggested on Saturday the United States would hit Iran “very hard” and threatened to expand strikes to include new targets.

The US State Department approved the “emergency” sale of 12 000 bomb casings to Israel on Friday as the countries engage Iran in an escalating Middle East war.

Donald Trump has stressed that any deal with Iran must result in the country’s “unconditional surrender”, setting maximalist war objectives for the United States.

Israeli air strikes left behind massive destruction in Beirut’s southern suburbs on Friday morning, with the Israeli military saying it had destroyed Hezbollah targets.

US President Donald Trump encouraged Iranian Kurdish forces in Iraq to launch attacks against Iran as the Middle East conflict widened, with Azerbaijan warning it would retaliate for being targeted by Iranian missiles.

Pop superstar Britney Spears was released from police custody Thursday morning after being arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated near Los Angeles.

One of the top officials overseeing President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, will leave her role, Trump said on ‌Thursday, a major staffing move that raises questions about the direction of the ⁠Republican president’s immigration agenda.

As tensions rise across the Middle East, Kenyans fear economic shocks, disrupted exports and risks to the more than 400 000 Kenyans working in Gulf states.

US President Donald Trump on Thursday insisted he should have a role in picking Iran’s next supreme leader after the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, whose son he said he found unacceptable.

A Pakistani man accused of planning to kill US President Donald Trump told jurors on Wednesday that he did not willingly work with Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps to devise the plot, media said.

A second Iranian warship was heading toward Sri Lanka’s territorial waters, a day after a US submarine destroyed an Iranian frigate, killing at least 87 sailors, a minister told parliament.

Leaders in Israel and the United States have indicated that the conflict against Iran could continue for weeks.

Israeli strikes hit a Beirut hotel and residential complex in Lebanon’s east, Lebanese state media said, as Israel announced broad strikes in response to Hezbollah missile and drone launches.

The US military identified four of the first American soldiers ‌killed in the war against Iran as the Trump administration warned the intensifying conflict would lead to more American casualties.