Launching weapons from within their territory forces adversaries to look not only outward but also inside for threats, one expert said.

Russia is prepared to continue to work to resolve issues surrounding Iran's nuclear programme, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says rising global oil prices following Israeli strikes on Iran will strengthen Russia by increasing its oil revenues, aiding its war effort in Ukraine.

Israeli emergency services have said at least two people were killed in the strikes and dozens of people are injured.

Israel pinpointed Iranian commanders in their homes and killed them, some with drone strikes launched from inside Iran — an echo of what Ukraine recently achieved inside Russia. How far the nuclear programme has been set back won’t be clear for a while.

President Trump vetoed a plan presented by Israel to kill Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to a U.S. official familiar with the matter.

Iran and Israel targeted each other with airstrikes early on Saturday after Israel launched its biggest-ever offensive against its longtime foe in a bid to prevent it from developing a nuclear weapon.

Israel's surprise attack on Iran had an obvious goal of sharply disrupting Tehran's nuclear programme and lengthening the time it would need to develop an atomic weapon. But the scale of the attacks,