New Israel, Iran attacks reported across region

PARIS - New strikes were reported on Tuesday across the Middle East, including Israeli bombardment on Lebanon and a drone attack on the US embassy in Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh.

The conflict started with US and Israeli strikes on Iran over the weekend, which sparked retaliatory Iranian attacks across the region, and showed no sign of abating as it entered its fourth day.

A series of overhead explosions were heard from Jerusalem on Tuesday, AFP journalists reported, after the Israeli military said it had detected fresh missiles launched from Iran and was "operating to intercept the threat".

Loud explosions rocked Iran's capital as the war entered its fourth day. 

The blasts were heard in northern Tehran, but it was not immediately clear what was hit, AFP journalists said. Iranian media also reported explosions in Karaj city, outside of Tehran, as well as the central city of Isfahan.

The Israeli military said it had carried out air strikes on Iran's presidential office and the National Security Council building in Tehran.

The Iranian Red Crescent said that more than 780 people have been killed nationwide since the US and Israeli strikes began. 

AFP was not in a position to verify the figure.

Debris from a drone interception caused a fire at an oil industry zone in the city of Fujairah on Tuesday in the United Arab Emirates, authorities said, adding operations had resumed once the fire was contained.

Drones also targeted an Omani port, hitting a fuel tank, state media reported, saying the damage had been contained "without any human casualties".

Also on Tuesday, drone strikes blamed on Iran hit a camp hosting Iranian Kurdish fighters and family members in northern Iraq, a local official and an exiled opposition group said.

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