The Israeli military said it had seized areas of southern Lebanon on Tuesday in its escalating conflict with the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia, as the State Department closed its embassies in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait after drone attacks and urged Americans to depart immediately from 14 Middle East countries.

In the pre-dawn hours of Monday morning, Hezbollah opened a new front in the US-Israeli war against Iran when it launched “missiles and a swarm of drones” at a military base in northern Israel.

Newsweek has created a list recording every country where a strike has been reported in the U.S.-Iran conflict.

With the war against Iran underway, and the U.S. military as a powerful ally, the Israeli government is seizing its chance to move against other adversaries.

The Trump administration has defended the war on Iran by arguing that the Middle Eastern country posed a significant threat to the United States. Officials argued that Iran was nearing the development of a nuclear weapon and ballistic missiles capable of reaching U.S. territory.

The U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran continue. Meanwhile Iran is retaliating, firing missiles Israel, but also U.S. allies in the Gulf like Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and even air bases Cyprus,

The Trump administration and its allies in Congress are presenting a shifting new justification for the U.S. attack on Iran.

A Christian women's group from Snowflake, Arizona, was stranded in Jerusalem while a Surprise church group planned to evacuate from northeast Israel.