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Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis say they have fired missiles at two more vessels in the Red Sea, causing damage to the ships.

The US Secretary of State's number priorities are to secure the release of Israeli hostages and a ceasefire in Gaza.

The United States is being accused of destabilising the Middle East after dozens of strikes on targets in Iraq and Syria.

The United States intends to launch further strikes at Iran-backed groups in the Middle East, the White House national security adviser has warned, after hitting Tehran-aligned factions in Iraq, Syria and Yemen over the last two days.

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says his country and its allies will not hesitate to defend the flow of free commerce through the Red Sea, where the Houthis have been targeting vessels. 

John Lyons describes the significance of the United States taking military action against Iraq and Syria.

Iran-backed militia have stepped up attacks in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and the Red Sea. International Crisis Group's Iran director, Ali Vaez, says that each militia group has its own unique relationship with Iran. 

President Joe Biden says the United States has launched strikes in Iraq and Syria against facilities linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guard.

The US military says the US carried out retaliatory air strikes in Iraq and Syria against more than 85 targets linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guard and the militias they back.

Fears of regional escalation are growing as the Israel-Gaza war drags on, with data showing political violence has increased across the Middle East. These are the four main hotspots.

The world is waiting to see what the US will do next after vowing to respond to an Iran-backed drone attack that killed three American troops and injured dozens more in Jordan.

As US troops are killed in a drone strike on a military base in Jordan, Israeli citizens block humanitarian aid from entering Gaza.

The Baluch rights group Haalvash says the victims were Pakistani labourers who lived at a car repair shop where they worked in Saravan in Sistan-Baluchestan province in the south-east border area. 

The latest round of attack and response in the Middle East threatens to push the region into a broader war that has a common element ... Iran.

After weeks of missile strikes, air raids and terror attacks in seven countries, a series of misjudgements by Iran is upending its strategy of fighting its wars in other countries.

Global Islamic politics researcher Greg Barton says Iran has consistently avoided a full-scale war but has 'one card' left to play.

Iran's accusation has heightened fears of the war in Gaza spreading into a wider conflict, prompting a plea from the chief of the United Nations.

A series of reported strikes in Syrian capital Damascus killed five members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, according to the group. 

Both Middle Eastern nations have signalled a desire to cool tensions, after tit-for-tat strikes that saw 11 people killed between the two states. 

The deadly strikes have reportedly killed four children and three women in Iran. It comes days after Iran struck Pakistan, with both countries alleging they were targeting militant hideouts.

Pakistan has launched air strikes on Iran, allegedly targeting separatist militants and killing at least nine people, in an attack that has further raised tensions in the region.

The US hit Houthi anti-ship ballistic missiles in its latest strikes against the group's targets in Yemen, after the rebels continued attacks in global shipping lanes. 

Iran's Revolutionary Guards says it hit a headquarters of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, in the Kurdish region of Iraq.

The Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah says US actions in the Red Sea are harming the security of shipping, with the area becoming a "theatre of fighting".

Yemen's Houthi rebels vow fierce retaliation for US and British strikes against them, further raising the prospect of a wider conflict in a region already beset by Israel's war in Gaza.