Israel has not given assurances to the Biden administration that targeting Iran’s nuclear facilities is off the table in retaliation for the Iranian ballistic missile strikes earlier this week, a top State Department official told CNN on Friday.

Former President Donald Trump urged Israel to take out Iran's nuclear facilities while bashing President Joe Biden's warning of restraint in the ongoing conflict.

Iran has a large nuclear technology centre on the outskirts of Isfahan, its second-largest city. It includes the Fuel Plate Fabrication Plant, which Iran insists is for peaceful scientific exploration,

Biden is among the last of the old-school U.S. congressional lawmakers who were reared in the post-Holocaust period where an emerging Israel struggled for its survival against greater Arab powers and won. It seemed a noble cause, and Biden frequently has expressed his undying love for the “Jewish state.”

Israel is expanding its bombardment of the Hezbollah and Hamas militant groups in Lebanon, hitting Beirut’s southern suburbs with a dozen airstrikes and striking a Palestinian refugee camp deep in

About 250 Americans and their families have left Lebanon aboard U.S.-arranged flights, Biden officials said Thursday, as they seek to provide assistance to U.S. citizens in the Middle Eastern country.

Israel has sworn it will retaliate for Iran's missile barrage on Tuesday, which involved more than 180 ballistic missiles and was largely thwarted by Israel's air defense systems.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei led Friday Prayer for the first time in years, delivering a sermon during a memorial service in Tehran for Hezbollah’s leader.