The war has roiled global ⁠markets and oil ​prices have hit multi-year highs

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian yesterday rubbished US President Donald Trump’s surrender demand as warring parties stepped up attacks and the war entered its second week.

"Today Iran will be hit very hard!" Trump posts on his Truth Social media platform

Targets include American bases and occupied territories

Dubai airport, the world's busiest for international traffic, said Saturday it was partially resuming services shortly after it suspended operations

Israel and the United States launched strikes against Iran on February, 28 killing the Islamic republic's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and triggering a regional conflict

Emirates has been operating ​limited services from Dubai and ⁠Abu Dhabi through safe air corridors.

Emirates said it is monitoring the situation closely and adjusting operations accordingly.

Russia is providing Iran with targeting information that includes locations of US warships and aircraft in the Middle East, the Washington Post reported on Friday, citing three officials familiar with the intelligence

Footage on social media and photos provided by news agencies showed Mehrabad Airport on fire

The price hike comes at a politically sensitive time for President Donald Trump as midterm elections approach, hitting voters hard.

Trump said it would be 'wonderful' if Kurds launch insurgency

Iran's president says countries have begun mediation efforts

The US-Israel war on Iran and Tehran's retaliatory attacks across the Gulf region have upended the world's energy and transport sectors, virtually halting activity in the Strait of Hormuz

Driven by a tightening of US sanctions in the lead up to the ouster of leader Nicolas Maduro.

Here are the latest events in the Middle East war

With its supreme leader killed and its war machine under relentless US pressure, Iran now stands largely alone - its longtime partners Russia and China offering nothing more than diplomatic condemnations and expressions of concern.

Emirati airlines resumed some flights to global cities from the war-hit Gulf yesterday, but a Lufthansa jet that was headed to the region diverted over safety fears and an Air France repatriation flight was forced to turn back due to missile fire.

US military investigators believe it is likely that US forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls’ school that killed scores of children on Saturday but have not yet reached a final conclusion or completed their investigation, two US officials told Reuters.

Iran has spent decades and billions of dollars preparing foreign proxy fighters like A J, a commander in a pro-Iranian paramilitary group in Iraq, for a moment just like this. Since the US and Israel went to war on the Islamic Republic a week ago, A J has been awaiting marching orders from Tehran.