Iran war LIVE: Iran launches new wave of missiles against Israel; sirens sound in Bahrain, Kuwait

A leading scholar and professor at a science university in Tehran has been killed, alongside his two children, in a US-Israeli attack targeting his residence north of the Iranian capital, according to local media. Iran's English-language news channel Press TV identified the victim as Saeed Shamaghdari, who teaches at the engineering department of the Iran University of Science and Technology. According to Press TV, his son, Mohammad, and daughter, Reyhaneh, were also killed in the attack.

The US Embassy in the northwest African nation of Mauritania has issued an elevated threat notice for US citizens and embassy staff based in the country, citing a recent threat against the embassy. Possible targets include the embassy building in the capital, Nouakchott, and places where American citizens are known to congregate, the notice said.

Japan will release another part of its strategic oil reserves from Thursday, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Tuesday, after Tokyo began to tap stockpiles last week. "In order to secure 'the necessary amount for the whole of Japan' ...we will release the state (oil) reserve from 26th March this week," she said in a post on X.

A commander in the Popular Mobilization Forces, Saad Dawai al-Baiji, was killed along with several others in an airstrike that targeted its command headquarters in the western province of Anbar, the Shiite group said in a statement early Tuesday. The PMF, which is formally placed under the control of the Iraqi military but in practice still operates with significant autonomy, accused the US of carrying out the strike.

The Israeli military says more missiles have been launched from Iran towards Israel’s territory. In a statement, the military said air defence systems are operating to intercept the attack.

Kuwait's energy ministry said early Tuesday that seven high-voltage power lines were damaged by shrapnel from air defense operations, causing partial outages in several areas. Crews are working to restore electricity, the statement added.

Saudi Arabia’s Defense Ministry said early Tuesday that it destroyed at least 19 drones in the kingdom’s oil-rich Eastern Province.

Bahrain activated its missile alert sirens early Tuesday as Kuwait said its air defenses were trying to shoot down incoming fire.

A semiofficial Iranian news agency close to Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard reported early Tuesday that two energy sites had been struck by airstrikes. The report by the Fars news agency appeared timed to call into question comments by US President Donald Trump, who extended his deadline for Tehran to halt its attacks that have effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf. Trump had threatened to strike Iranian power plants. Fars claimed an attack struck natural gas infrastructure in Isfahan, while another "targeted" a gas pipeline for the Khorramshahr power plant. Neither Israel nor the US had claimed strikes in the area on Monday, though both countries don't always acknowledge their attacks. It also wasn't immediately clear if those sites had been specifically targeted or damaged in strikes hitting other sites in the area.